Happy School Nurse's Day! Thank you for your caring hands and healing hearts!
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to all of our wonderful educators in Allen County Schools! They go above and beyond every day and their dedication, love, and support truly makes Allen County Schools special. 🍎📖🏫
Today is School Lunch Hero Day! We want to thank the dedicated school nutrition teams for making the cafeterias and schools a better place to be! 🦸💥
Allen County Schools is so incredibly thankful for the hard work and dedication of our principals! Thank you for your leadership, commitment, and heart!
Lady Patriots Basketball welcomes back Coach Garry Dewitt!
Four Allen County-Scottsville High School seniors received prestigious awards during Class Night ceremonies on Saturday, April 26.
Houston Porter was selected for the Outstanding Senior Award. Emma Brown was presented with the Citizenship Award. Brenna Eaton and Dominic Vander Stroom received the Service to School and Community Award.
The Outstanding Senior Award is given to the senior who “has excelled academically, is socially accepted, shows leadership skills, is a good citizen, and is involved in school activities.” The AC-SH faculty selected Porter for the honor.
The Citizenship Award is presented to a senior who “must exhibit qualities of a good citizen---respect; honesty; integrity; and, concern for others. The student may be a leader or a follower, but must always be willing to accept their share of responsibility in any club or activity. The faculty based on her outstanding citizenship qualities selected Brown.
The Service to School and Community Award is based on the belief that “service to mankind is the very best work of life.” To be considered, a senior must be involved in both activities at school and participate in community activities that are not associated with the school. This year, a tie in voting by the faculty led to Eaton and Vander Stroom both receiving the award.
Months of work by students on a Project Based Learning project at the Allen County Career and Technical Center was capped off on April 22. Mrs. Kelsey Petty's Marketing students planned and promoted an Adam Calvert concert for the entire Allen County-Scottsville High School student body. The high-energy concert also allowed a few ACSH students to take part in the event. (photos by Don Meador)
Allen County-Scottsville volleyball coach Cameron Cook has been selected as a member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association 2025 Thirty Under 30 Awards. The Thirty Under 30 program recognizes up-and-coming coaches in different sectors of the sport who serve in a range of roles, from head coach to volunteer assistant to club director. Coach Cook was selected in the high school coaching sector. For more info, including Coach Cook's bio, visit http://bit.ly/4lJ93Dy
Allen County-Scottsville High School juniors Tyler Shaw and Tucker Stinson have been accepted for the 2025 Kentucky Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs (GSE). The three-week residential program brings together students from across the Commonwealth who aspire to enter the business/entrepreneur field following high school and college education.
The program’s website notes, “We bring teens from across the state into a three-week residential program, immerse them in a creative space and arm them with the tools needed to unleash their entrepreneurial spirits for the betterment of Kentucky.” GSE began in 2013 and gives participants an “authentic glimpse into entrepreneurship and continues to develop them along their entrepreneurial journey.”
GSE officials note that students are selected based on their work ethic, growth mindset, skills and talents, wiliness to take risks, their openness and flexibility and openness to new ideas.
Shaw and Stinson are among approximately 200 high school students selected from high schools across the state. The program will be held at the University of Kentucky from late June through mid-July.
Thank you to our Administrative Professionals who keep everything running smoothly, day in and day out!
Allen County-Scottsville High School juniors Katelyn Ausbrooks, Olivia Baird, Kennedy Carter, and James Fisher are 2025 Kentucky Governor’s Scholars. The foursome join rising seniors from across the Commonwealth for a summer of enhanced learning.
The Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program (GSP) allows selected students to spend five weeks taking college-level class work at selected Kentucky colleges and universities during the summer proceeding their senior year. GSP attendees participate in various college-level courses and experience college-life during their five-week stay.
GSP selections follow a lengthy process. Last fall, interested juniors completed GSP application packets. District selections were made in January. A GSP statewide committee then reviewed their application materials for statewide selection. The panel consists of college admission personnel, college and high school teachers, and education leaders from different areas of the state. Each committee member reads and scores only one of seven different sections.
The sections include academic achievement---consisting of ACT, PSAT, or SAT test score, grade point average, and difficulty of class load. The Student Profile sections includes extracurricular activities, voluntary or paid service, and honors and awards. The writing entry section of the application materials requires a 500-word essay. A sixth section area is based on a teacher recommendation which must be completed by a teacher who has had the student in class for a core academic subject in ninth, 10th, or 11th grade. The final section area is a based on a recommendation from a community leader in a role not associated with the applicant's school.
Ausbrooks, Baird, Carter, and Fisher will learn in May which college---Centre, Morehead State, or Murray State---they will attend when GSP begins in June.
We appreciate our bus drivers! 🚌
Come visit the ACS Greenhouse! 💐🌷
Happy Assistant Principals Week!
Have a great and safe Spring Break, Allen County Schools!
We're looking forward to finishing the year strong!
Libraries are the heart of a school - and librarians are the heart of the library!
We're thankful for our School Media Specialists! 📚📖
Students from ACIC 4th and 5th grade Fire Seekers had the opportunity to attend Robot Royale at Western Kentucky University. Student were able to fly drones, code and control different kinds of robots, explore different fields in computer science and technology, and even tour WKU. The event, hosted by Warren County Public Schools, set a record attendance this year with 424 students participating - including our own from Allen County!
Allen County Schools is thankful today, and every day, for all of those that keep our schools running effectively and efficiently!
Four Allen County-Scottsville Lady Patriots received awards following the conclusion of last week's District 15 basketball tournament. Winners were, from left, Riley Roy, All-Academic Team, Debora Patrick, All-District Tournament, Avery Morris, District 15 Player of the Year, and Aubrie Naiser, All-District Seasonal Team.
Four members of the Allen County-Scottsville Patriot basketball team earned All-District Awards last week at the conclusion of the District 15 tournament. Receiving awards, from left, Jackson Morris and Chase, All-District 15 Tournament Team and Jonah Hamby, All District Academic Team. Not pictured is All-District Seasonal Team member Kyler Pedigo.
Photos by Don Meador
SkillsUSA Club members from the Allen County Career and Technical Center (ACCTC) earned several awards during Regional competition in Bowling Green. The daylong competition asked 11 SkillsUSA members from ACCTC to demonstrate their automotive knowledge in several areas.
First place winners from ACCTC included Hunter Hewett Automotive MLR, Alexander Stamps in Automotive Service Technology and Welded Sculpture, Blake Walker and Braxton Rice in Megatronics and Danny Morris, Keegan Petty, and Andrew Woods in Welding Fabrication.
Gage Hale placed second in Job Interview. Caden Rogers captured third place in Automotive MLR.
Hewett, Stamps, Walker, Rice, Morris, Petty, Woods and Hale advance to SKillsUSA state Competition in Louisville March 24-27.
