Congrats to Cayden Trautt and Keegan Johnson for their performances in the Arkansas Scholastic Chess Championship in North Little Rock today. Cayden placed 8th and Keegan 14th in the state individual high school chess tournament!
The Lady Cougars fell 8-1 to Mount Vernon-Enola in the semifinals of the 2A-2 District Tournament on Friday. Katie Orf led the Lady Cougars with a hit and a run scored. Quinn Johnson started on the mound, going 1 and 1/3 innings, giving up 3 hits, 5 runs, 1 strikeout, and Megan McBride followed on the mound, going 4 and 1/3 innings, giving up 5 hits, 3 runs, 5 strikeouts.
Congrats to the Cougars and Lady Cougars for qualifying for the 2A Central Regional Tournament at South Side Bee Branch. Both teams will play next Thursday in the opening round. The Lady Cougars will play Bigelow at 12:30 and the Cougars will play Bigelow at 3.
Canceled due to the weather.
All students at Izard County School District will once again receive FREE meals and school supplies during the 2024-2025 school year!
⚾️District Schedule Updates🥎
Baseball is on schedule to start at 10:00. Softball has been pushed back an hour. Lady Cougars are scheduled to play at 12:45 or earlier. Their game will begin immediately following the 11:00 softball game.
⛈️ Rainy Weather Updates ⛈️
4/27 Sr Class golf tournament fundraiser has been canceled!
1) Boys district baseball game time for Friday has been moved up to 10 AM.
2) Girls softball district game on Friday has been moved up to 12:45 (or earlier). It will begin immediately following the 11 AM softball game.
3) We will reschedule Clark Sanders for 7-12th grade baseball and softball photos one day next week.
4) Stay tuned - we will add more schedule changes as they are made available.
ICC students ages 10 and up, here is a great opportunity for you! Class will take place on Tuesday and Thursday, April 30 and May 2 (3:30-7:30 PM). Parents may also take the class.
Check out what our ICC After School Program students from grades 5-8 have been up to! 🌟 In recent weeks, they've dived into the science of sound by using the GarageBand app on iPads to create their own music beats. Plus, they've embarked on a Citizen Scientist journey, gathering crucial data on insect populations in Izard County. But that's not all—our young innovators have identified pollution as a critical problem and are now channeling their creativity into designing and engineering robots aimed at tackling this environmental challenge. Stay tuned to see how their projects evolve!
The Cougars were able to survive the Quitman Bulldogs by a score of 7-6. At the plate, the Cougars were led by Porter Burton going 2-4 with a double and an rbi. Cash Arnhart, Xander McCandlis, and Caden Wisemen each had rbi doubles as well. Justin Brewer and Noah Mosley also had a hit apiece.
Cash Arnhart got the start on the mound going 6.2 innings to earn the win. He scattered 7 hits, 6 runs (2 earned), and 3 walks while striking out 10. Xander McCandlis came in to strike out the last batter of the game and earn the save. The Cougars now advance to the district semifinals against South Side Bee Branch Friday at 1:00.
❗️Jr. High track meet for today, 4/25 has been canceled due to the weather❗️
The Cougars defeated the Quitman Bulldogs, 7-6, to advance to the semifinals of the 2A-2 District Tournament, and clinch a spot in next week's regional tournament. Game stats will be posted later.
The Lady Cougars run-ruled the White County Central Lady Bears, 11-0, to advance to the semifinals of the 2A-2 District Tournament and clinch a spot in next week's regional tournament. The Lady Cougars were led by Megan McBride with 3 hits, including a double, 2 RBIs, 2 runs scored. McBride also went the distance on the mound, throwing a no-hitter over 5 innings, with 9 strikeouts. Hollie Johnson added 2 hits, 3 RBIs, 2 runs scored, Makensie Yancey, 2 hits, 2 runs scored, Quinn Johnson, a hit, 2 RBIs, 2 runs scored, Katie Orf, a hit, 2 RBIs, Willow Warden, a hit, 2 RBIs, Tinlee Bailey, a hit, 2 runs scored, and Trinity Gaskins, a run scored.
Good luck to our Cougars and Lady Cougars, playing their first games in the 2A-2 District Tournament on Wednesday!
Officially committed to play softball at Williams Baptist University, beginning fall 2025. Congrats to ICC junior, Megan McBride!
All area students are welcome to attend, no charge!
⚾️ 2A-2 District Baseball Tournment Schedule ⚾️
Good Luck, Cougars!
🥎 2A-2 District Softball Tournment Schedule 🥎
Good Luck, Lady Cougars!
A good night's rest and being in attendance will help students do their best on this week's ATLAS testing. Good luck ICC 9th and 10th graders; we know you'll do great!
Parent testimonial shared during our recent STEM model site visit:
“I am a very policy and regulation minded and driven person. I thrive in rules and administering those rules evenly across the board. I am also one of those who knows just enough about things to be able to fix them or patch them well enough to get by. But I have never devoted any time to understanding why these things are done the way they are or why they operate as they do or figuring out a better, more efficient, alternative to the current standard. Nor have I ever had that desire. To say the least I am very much an “inside the box” person.
But my daughter is different. She is so far outside of the box, that she didn’t realize the box existed to start with.
She has an unrelenting need to know how and why, to learn, and to create.
She has a need to know why things are built the way they are and has a desire to figure out a way that will work better.
As human beings, if we are truly honest with ourselves, we know areas where we fall short. We know that we have weaknesses and at the very least some general idea as to what those weaknesses are.
I fall short in my ability to help her in these things. I am unable to help her better understand why things are designed the way that they are. But when she asks a question along the lines of how or why this machine was built this way, I am of no assistance at all and my typical response is limited to “because someone smarter than me decided that was the best way”. But she does not and can not accept that, she has to know and understand.
This program does that for her. It fills the void that I leave. STEM has enabled her to see beyond what I am capable of showing her, to expand her horizons far beyond what I am capable of.
Last year, our county fair had its first ever STEM division. I watched in amazement as my daughter built a dragosaur (dragon, dinosaur hybrid as she described it) with moving wings, head, neck, and mouth. She did this with string, cardboard, tape, and hot glue. Common household items that I never would have thought to do something like that with. Items that we probably all have in a junk drawer in our house or see as trash to be thrown out. But she saw past those individual items, she had a vision, and was able to make it a reality.
This year she has built a functioning gumball machine out of the same materials. She has built 2. The first one had flaws in the design, so she has built another with those flaws corrected and honestly it would not surprise me if she built another between now and the fair. Not because of needed improvements, but because she enjoyed doing it so much.
In both instances my little girl was so excited in the design and construction stages. Not to mention, her excitement when she would explain the process or design to her mother and I, which left both of us saying “oh, that’s cool sissy” and eventually having to say “you’ll just have to show me when you’re done” because she was way over our heads.
She loves figuring out how to do these things, how they work, figuring out the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics that make our everyday life function and figuring out how to make it better.
That is something that I am not capable of giving her. But the STEM program here at ICC fosters that. It enables her to mentally grow in ways that never cease to amaze me.
I know that we all think that our children are special. We all have those dreams or aspirations of them achieving greatness in some fashion. I am no different in how I view all four of my children, each of them with their very own personalities and aptitudes.
But this program has allowed her to think and grow in ways that are unbelievable to me.
The hard work, dedication, and faith that Mrs. Courtney, along with the rest of the staff at ICC, have put in her, through the STEM program, is allowing her to become more than a little girl with her daddy wrapped around her finger. But into a little girl with the power and knowledge to change our world for the better.
And that’s an opportunity that I fear she would have never had otherwise.” - Izard County Schools Parent
