Auditions for the Fall Semester for the Rolla Community Children’s Choir and the new RCCC Young Singers will begin today. Audition dates include today and Wednesday, continue on Aug. 26, 27 and Sept. 2, 3.

School begins Tuesday, but teachers are already back in class preparing for the new year.
Back-to-school technology training workshops for teachers are in session this week at Rolla High School to enhance classroom instruction and technology integration.
Brenda Spurgeon, Instructional Technology Facilitator for Rolla Public Schools, is a teacher of teachers.

In their first year of a law capping tuition increases, most Missouri universities are raising their tuition by nearly the maximum amount allowed during upcoming school year.

The base pay for first-year teachers at Newburg will increase from $24,579 to $26,579, according to Newburg Superintendent Mike Bumgarner, after the June School Board meeting.

At the regular June Rolla Board of Education meeting, the Board discussed options available for financing capital projects, identified by the 2007-08 Community survey.
Results from the survey determined that building new science classrooms and labs at the high school and completing updates to the current science labs ranked as the highest priority.

Young people looking for something interesting and educational this summer may want to stop in and see Elizabeth te Groen at the Newburg Children’s Museum.

Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean that nothing is happening in Rolla’s schools.
“Actually, this is the time of year I seem to be the busiest,” said Dr. Jerry Giger, superintendent. “This is the time we have to take care of the things that can’t be done when school is in session, like the renovations and construction projects.”

Both male and female first-place finishers of the 44th annual Optimist Club Oratorical Contest will advance to the Zone Competition.
Lacy Raper and Mitchell Brady, the female and male first-place finishers, respectively, earned that right as a result of their finishes during the local competition recently.

Rolla High School graduated 313 students Friday during its  Commencement ceremony at the Gale Bullman Multi-Purpose building. According to Dr. Roger Berkbuegler, principal of RHS, 227 of those seniors are headed off to college.

Students, families and staff from B.W. Robinson State School in Rolla, Ozark Hills State School in Salem, and the Gingerbread House in Rolla gathered at Lion’s Club Park on May 16, to participate in their Special Olympics Challenge Day.

The Kiwanis Clubs of Rolla are again sponsoring Project Graduation for Rolla High School students.  The party starts after the graduation ceremony at the Missouri S&T Bullman Multipurpose Building/Recreation Center at 10 p.m. Friday and goes all night long until 6 a.m. Saturday.

Most students look forward to this time of year with great anticipation. It’s time for summer vacation.

Dr. Roger Berkbuegler, principal of Rolla High School had no idea he was going to be honored like he was Tuesday afternoon.

More than $4.5 million in scholarships were awarded to graduating seniors at the 2008 RHS Awards Assembly on Tuesday.

It was graduation day Thursday at Newburg Elementary. Thirty-nine fifth-graders from Christy Campbell’s and Betty Gibson’s classes graduated after completing a 10-week program that could benefit them the rest of their lives — the Phelps County Sheriff’s Department DARE program.