Poudre High School
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Poudre High School, located at 201 Impala Drive, Fort Collins, Colorado
, is one of four public senior high schools in the Poudre School District
. The school serves approximately 1,900 students, and has a staff of about 135 faculty. It houses the rigorous International Baccalaureate (IB) program as well as many Advanced Placement (AP) classes.
PHS was founded in 1964 with blue and silver as its school colours and the Impala
as its mascot. The cornerstone of PHS was laid June 1, 1964 by the Grand Lodge Colorado, A.F. and A.M. The first class graduated from PHS in 1965 when the original building was 142000 square feet (13,192.2 m²), had 43 teaching stations and housed 1150 students from Fort Collins, Waverly, Loveland, Greeley, Wellington and LaPorte. After a major addition which opened in the fall of 1995 PHS increased in size to 275000 square feet (25,548.3 m²).
In the National Ocean Sciences Bowl
competition of 2006, this school, in a landlocked state, took second place in competition with many schools from coastal states, besting its previous third-place finish in 2004. Poudre High School competes in the Trout Bowl Regional Competition.
Poudre High School regularly competes in the National Science Bowl as well, competing regionally in the Rocky Mountain Science Bowl Region. In 2003, Poudre was the first high school nationally to compete in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, National Science Bowl, and National Science Olympiad
. In 2004 Poudre became the first school in the nation to place in the top ten in all three nationals: finishing with 3rd in National Ocean Sciences Bowl, 7th in National Science Olympiad, and 9th in National Science Bowl. In 2007, Poudre High School's Science Bowl took first place in the nation, winning a trip to Sydney, Australia to attend the Professor Harry Messel International Science School
.
In FIRST
Robotics, 2002, Poudre High School competed under the moniker Alpine Robotics as Team #159 at the Seattle regional competition. There they won the coveted Chairman's Award, which is given to the team that shows outstanding local participation and team spirit. Since the conception of this after school club, Alpine Robotics has successfully gone to nationals almost every year. More recently, in the 2010 FIRST Robotics competition, Breakaway, Team 159 earned the Outstanding Robot Design award.
Poudre's theatre program is recognized on the world level . Poudre was invited to attend the "Fringe" festival in Edinburgh, Scotland in the summer of 2006. However, due to lack of funding, the theatre students were unable to participate in the event. The Thespians also run an Improvisation Troupe, Playwrighting Club, and the "Theatre in the Classroom Program." The program continues to produce some of the highest quality plays and musicals in Colorado. Musical productions have included Seussical
(2008), Once Upon a Mattress
(2007),Oklahoma!
(2006 and 1995), 42nd Street
(2005), Damn Yankees
(2004), Crazy for You
(2003), Guys and Dolls (2002 and 1996), Carousel
and Pippin
(2000), Annie Get Your Gun
(1999), Anything Goes
(1998), and Fiddler on the roof
(1994), while recent plays have spanned from the French story of Cyrano de Bergerac
(2004), to Aristophanes' ancient Greek comedy The Birds
(2005) to the American classic, Our Town
(2006), into the realm of Brecht with The Caucasian Chalk Circle
(2007), and into the genre of melodrama
with Under the Gaslight (2008). In the summer of 2006, PHS housed an innovative new program called "Shakespeare in the Summer". This was a summer intensive open to all Poudre School District
students from grades 7-12 in which students studied and produced a Shakespearean piece under the guidance of a guest director.
Also in 2005, Poudre High School's cheerleading team won third place in the 5A co-ed division at CHSAA's annual cheerleading state competition held in Denver, Colorado
. The team later went on to again take third at a national competition in Las Vegas
, Nevada
. The team also placed in the top ten in later years at the CHSAA State competition with places as follows:
And we'll shout for you to win.
Poudre High will plow the foe right under,
Never, never to give in.
Silver, blue our colors shining brightly,
Guard them all well throughout the game.
Heads up, drive on, until we've won,
And then they'll know the victor's name.
Samantha Bearden:
Adrienne Carlile:
Katie Cover
Erin Rooney
Jennifer Sale
Cypress Staelin-Lefsky
Brendon Votipka:
Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With a 2010 census...
, is one of four public senior high schools in the Poudre School District
Poudre School District
The Poudre School District is K-12 public school district in Larimer County in northern Colorado. The district operates and manages the public schools in the city of Fort Collins, as well as in the towns of Wellington and Timnath, and unincorporated communities of Larimer County including Laporte...
. The school serves approximately 1,900 students, and has a staff of about 135 faculty. It houses the rigorous International Baccalaureate (IB) program as well as many Advanced Placement (AP) classes.
PHS was founded in 1964 with blue and silver as its school colours and the Impala
Impala
An impala is a medium-sized African antelope. The name impala comes from the Zulu language meaning "gazelle"...
as its mascot. The cornerstone of PHS was laid June 1, 1964 by the Grand Lodge Colorado, A.F. and A.M. The first class graduated from PHS in 1965 when the original building was 142000 square feet (13,192.2 m²), had 43 teaching stations and housed 1150 students from Fort Collins, Waverly, Loveland, Greeley, Wellington and LaPorte. After a major addition which opened in the fall of 1995 PHS increased in size to 275000 square feet (25,548.3 m²).
Competitions and Extracurricular Activities
The Poudre Science Olympiad team has placed at the National level. Many of the members of Science Olympiad (2008-2009) are also in the IB program. They conduct research and participate in self-study programs in order to prepare themselves for the competition.In the National Ocean Sciences Bowl
National Ocean Sciences Bowl
The National Ocean Sciences Bowl is a national, high-school science competition sponsored by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program and managed by the which started in the 1970s. It uses a quiz-bowl format, with lockout buzzers and extended team challenge questions to test students on...
competition of 2006, this school, in a landlocked state, took second place in competition with many schools from coastal states, besting its previous third-place finish in 2004. Poudre High School competes in the Trout Bowl Regional Competition.
Poudre High School regularly competes in the National Science Bowl as well, competing regionally in the Rocky Mountain Science Bowl Region. In 2003, Poudre was the first high school nationally to compete in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, National Science Bowl, and National Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad is an American elementary, middle, or high school team competition which tests knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability. Over 6,200 teams from 49 U.S. states compete each year. Most teams compete in three levels of competition: regionals, states, and nationals...
. In 2004 Poudre became the first school in the nation to place in the top ten in all three nationals: finishing with 3rd in National Ocean Sciences Bowl, 7th in National Science Olympiad, and 9th in National Science Bowl. In 2007, Poudre High School's Science Bowl took first place in the nation, winning a trip to Sydney, Australia to attend the Professor Harry Messel International Science School
Professor Harry Messel International Science School
The Professor Harry Messel International Science School is a fee-free residential educational event for selected secondary students held for two weeks in July every two years and based at the University of Sydney in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia which has gained renown...
.
In FIRST
First
First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one.First or 1st may also refer to:* First , minor summit below the Schwarzhorn in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland* First , mountain in Bernese Alps in Switzerland...
Robotics, 2002, Poudre High School competed under the moniker Alpine Robotics as Team #159 at the Seattle regional competition. There they won the coveted Chairman's Award, which is given to the team that shows outstanding local participation and team spirit. Since the conception of this after school club, Alpine Robotics has successfully gone to nationals almost every year. More recently, in the 2010 FIRST Robotics competition, Breakaway, Team 159 earned the Outstanding Robot Design award.
Poudre's theatre program is recognized on the world level . Poudre was invited to attend the "Fringe" festival in Edinburgh, Scotland in the summer of 2006. However, due to lack of funding, the theatre students were unable to participate in the event. The Thespians also run an Improvisation Troupe, Playwrighting Club, and the "Theatre in the Classroom Program." The program continues to produce some of the highest quality plays and musicals in Colorado. Musical productions have included Seussical
Seussical
is a musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty based on the books of Dr. Seuss that debuted on Broadway in 2000. The play's story is a rather complex amalgamation of many of Seuss's most famous books. After a Broadway run, the production spawned two US national tours and a UK tour...
(2008), Once Upon a Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway...
(2007),Oklahoma!
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance...
(2006 and 1995), 42nd Street
42nd Street (musical)
42nd Street is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin, and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production, directed by an ailing Gower Champion and orchestrated by Philip J. Lang, won the Tony Award for Best Musical and became a long-running hit...
(2005), Damn Yankees
Damn Yankees
Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League...
(2004), Crazy for You
Crazy for You
Crazy for You is a musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as "The New Gershwin Musical Comedy", it is largely based on the songwriting team’s 1930 musical, Girl Crazy, but interpolates songs from several other productions as well...
(2003), Guys and Dolls (2002 and 1996), Carousel
Carousel (musical)
Carousel is the second stage musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II . The work premiered in 1945 and was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline...
and Pippin
Pippin (musical)
Pippin is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto...
(2000), Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Get Your Gun (musical)
Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin and a book by Herbert Fields and his sister Dorothy Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley , who was a sharpshooter from Ohio, and her husband, Frank Butler.The 1946 Broadway production...
(1999), Anything Goes
Anything Goes
Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London...
(1998), and Fiddler on the roof
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...
(1994), while recent plays have spanned from the French story of Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life....
(2004), to Aristophanes' ancient Greek comedy The Birds
The Birds (play)
The Birds is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BCE at the City Dionysia where it won second prize. It has been acclaimed by modern critics as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds and for the gaiety of its songs...
(2005) to the American classic, Our Town
Our Town
Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives...
(2006), into the realm of Brecht with The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than its natural parents....
(2007), and into the genre of melodrama
Melodrama
The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions. It may also refer to the genre which includes such works, or to language, behavior, or events which resemble them...
with Under the Gaslight (2008). In the summer of 2006, PHS housed an innovative new program called "Shakespeare in the Summer". This was a summer intensive open to all Poudre School District
Poudre School District
The Poudre School District is K-12 public school district in Larimer County in northern Colorado. The district operates and manages the public schools in the city of Fort Collins, as well as in the towns of Wellington and Timnath, and unincorporated communities of Larimer County including Laporte...
students from grades 7-12 in which students studied and produced a Shakespearean piece under the guidance of a guest director.
Also in 2005, Poudre High School's cheerleading team won third place in the 5A co-ed division at CHSAA's annual cheerleading state competition held in Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
. The team later went on to again take third at a national competition in Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
, Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
. The team also placed in the top ten in later years at the CHSAA State competition with places as follows:
- 2006 - 7th Place
- 2007 - 9th Place
Poudre Fight Song
Poudre High will hit the line like thunder,And we'll shout for you to win.
Poudre High will plow the foe right under,
Never, never to give in.
Silver, blue our colors shining brightly,
Guard them all well throughout the game.
Heads up, drive on, until we've won,
And then they'll know the victor's name.
Kaleidoscope Magazine
- American Scholastic Press Association First Place with Special Merit - 2001-2006
- National Council of Teachers of EnglishNational Council of Teachers of EnglishThe National Council of Teachers of English is an American professional organization dedicated to "improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education...
Superior Award - 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 - ASPA Outstanding Art ("Marilyn" by Blake Barney) - 2004
- ASPA Most Outstanding High School Literary-Art Magazine - 2003, 2007
- ASPA First Place - 1998-2000
- NCTE Highest Award - 1998, 1999, 2000
- ASPA Second Place - 1997
- NCTE Excellent Award - 1997
Science Olympiad
- 12th place in nationals - 2010
- 12th place in nationals - 2009
- 4th place in nationals - 2008
- 9th place in nationals - 2007
- 12th place in nationals - 2006
- 12th place in nationals - 2005
- 7th place in nationals - 2004
- 6th place in nationals - 2003
- 5th place in nationals - 2002
Science Bowl
- 5th place in nationals - 2010
- 2nd place in regionals - 2009
- 1st place in regionals - 2008 (but unable to attend nationals due to a conflict with IB testing)
- 1st place in nationals - 2007
- 10th place (tie) in nationals - 2006
- 1st and 5th places in regionals - 2006
- 2nd and 5th places in regionals - 2005
- 9th place (tie) in nationals - 2004
National Ocean Sciences Bowl
- 7th place in nationals - 2010
- 2nd place in regionals - 2009
- 1st place in regionals - 2008
- 1st and 3rd places in regionals - 2007
- 2nd place in nationals - 2006
- 1st and 4th places in regionals - 2006
- 3rd place in nationals - 2004
FIRST Robotics
- Alpine Robotics Team 159
- 2010
- Outstanding Robot Design Award (Colorado Regional)
- 2008
- Regional Chairman's Award (Colorado Regional)
- 2007
- Regional Chairman's Award (Colorado Regional)
- Best Website Award (Colorado Regional)
- 2006
- Regional Chairman's Award (Colorado Regional)
- Radioshack Innovation In Control (Colorado Regional)
- 2005
- Regional Finalist (Colorado Regional)
- Delphi Driving Tomorrow's Technology (Colorado Regional)
- Daimler-Chrysler Team Spirit (Colorado Regional)
- 2004
- Regional Engineering Inspiration Award (Colorado Regional)
- Picked for Regional Finals (Colorado Regional)
- 2002
- Chairmans award at Seattle Regional
- Fourth in division at Nationals
- 2001
- Best Design Award at San Jose Regional
- 2010
Thespians
Christi Bailey- International Competition Qualifier in Solo Musical Theatre at the Colorado Thespian State Conference 2008
- Top Three in the Nation for Solo Musical Theatre at the International Thespian Festival 2009
Samantha Bearden:
- Winner of Monologue Contest, Critic's Choice Award, Colorado Thespian State Conference 2006
Adrienne Carlile:
- Winner of Costume Design, Critic's Choice Award, Colorado Thespian State Conference 2006
- Invited to International Fringe Festival in Scotland 2005
Katie Cover
- International Competition Qualifier in Solo Musical Theatre at the Colorado Thespian State Conference 2008
Erin Rooney
- International Competition Qualifier in Monologues at theColorado Thespian State Conference 2008
Jennifer Sale
- Play "Last Year" selected for the National Thespian Playworks Competition
Cypress Staelin-Lefsky
- International Competition Qualifier in Lighting Design at the Colorado Thespian State Conference 2008
Brendon Votipka:
- Play "Common Ground" selected for the National Thespian Playworks Competition, resulting in publication with Playscripts Inc.
Music Department
- The choir, band, and orchestra have played at Carnegie Hall
National recognition
- Poudre High School has been repeatedly ranked in the top 1000 US schools by Newsweek
- Poudre High School was the only American high school with students competing in nationals for Science Olympiad, Science Bowl, Knowledge Bowl and Ocean Bowl in 2010.
List of extracurricular activities
- Art Club
- Band
- Choir
- Colorguard
- Class Council
- National Forensics League Speech, Interp, & Debate Club
- Jazz Band
- Environmental Club
- FIRSTFirstFirst or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one.First or 1st may also refer to:* First , minor summit below the Schwarzhorn in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland* First , mountain in Bernese Alps in Switzerland...
Robotics Team 159Robotics Team 159Robotics Team 159 is a FRC Team based at Poudre High School in Fort Collins, Colorado in the United States. Alpine Robotics was founded in 1998, and since then has won the Chairman's Award at four regional tournaments....
http://www.alpinerobotics.com - Gay Straight Alliance
- IB Student Council
- Jazz Band I
- Jazz Band II
- Marching Band
- Maths Club
- Model U.N.
- Mock Trial
- National Ocean Sciences BowlNational Ocean Sciences BowlThe National Ocean Sciences Bowl is a national, high-school science competition sponsored by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program and managed by the which started in the 1970s. It uses a quiz-bowl format, with lockout buzzers and extended team challenge questions to test students on...
- National Science Bowl
- Pep Band
- Plays and Musical Productions
- Poudre Business Leaders (FBLA/DECA)
- Sign Language Club
- Science OlympiadScience OlympiadScience Olympiad is an American elementary, middle, or high school team competition which tests knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability. Over 6,200 teams from 49 U.S. states compete each year. Most teams compete in three levels of competition: regionals, states, and nationals...
- Student Council
- International Thespian SocietyInternational Thespian SocietyThe International Thespian Society is an honorary organization for high-school and middle-school theatre students located at more than 3,600 affiliated secondary schools across the United States, Canada, and abroad. The International Thespian Society was founded in Fairmont, West Virginia...