BOURBON — Triton Elementary School was recently awarded a robotics grant from the TechPoint Foundation for Youth. The grant will allow the school school to receive a free VEX IQ Robotics kit and to train one teacher to become a robotics educator. Triton has selected fourth-grade teacher Jenny Mevis, who applied for and was awarded the grant.

BOURBON — Students in Cindy Stichter’s algebra II honors class at Triton Jr.-Sr, High School recently completed a trigonometry activity. The students used homemade clinometers and trigonometry to estimate heights of trees, buildings, and signs.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Third graders at Triton Elementary School celebrated Earth Day in a special way this year. They participated in many earth friendly learning events about plants and how they are important to our world. Teams studied plant parts and how those parts work to help the plant, …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Students in Mrs. Cindy Stichter’s Algebra 2 class at Triton Jr.-Sr. High School rolled dice  to play ‘war’ and predict probability.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — After reading, “The All American Slurp” and discussing the big question, “How can we understand and appreciate cultural differences,” students in Mrs. McFarland’s sixth grade reading class at Triton Elementary School finished the week comparing and contrasting chopsticks with forks. The students came to a consensus …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Third graders at Triton Elementary School have been learning about natural resources and how they can be used to help us solve problems. Students worked to solve a potential “real world” problem where a local river was getting too low at times; which did not leave …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — The annual Triton Elementary School fun fair took place Thursday, March 24, with hundreds of Triton Elementary students attending. The staff provided family-friendly activities and, in the process, raised funds for student and classroom activities.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Second-grade students in at Triton Elementary School recently reviewed skills in reading while studying the story of Helen Keller. The class read many books and articles about Keller and had a lot of questions, as many of them have never met someone who is deaf …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — The Triton chapter of the National Honor Society held its induction of new members Tuesday, March 22. NHS officers for 2015-2016 conducted the ceremony, including Brooklyn Bitting, Alexis Miller, Brianna Nolin, Heather Stichter and Brooklyn Beatty. Current members in attendance were: Seniors: Cody Anderson, Dalton …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — The following students were recognized for showing pride in their daily work at Triton Elementary School for the month of January: Nicki Duff, Austin Kanczuzewsk, Josh Mullet, Keegan Best, Cayden Greer, Jenna Bules, Hannah Snyder, Kate Howell, Nate Schuler, Cohen Stayton, Sadie Cline, Emma Meece, …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent John Sadler, from the Shriners, visited Triton third graders as they prepare for their upcoming trip to the circus in Fort Wayne Friday, Jan. 22.   Sadler told the students that he has gone to the circus for 30 years now, and he shared how the Shriner Organization …read more.

BY DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent BOURBON — Students in Mrs. Strycker’s third grade class at Triton Elementary School have been learning about how light moves, creates heat, reflects and refracts. These science concepts were tied to reading about Antarctica and penguins, along with socials studies, as we discussed “rookeries” or communities of penguins and the …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent This is week three of “Art After School” at Triton. Thirty Triton Elementary School students worked hard to create their masterpieces. The event was a hit. Triton has some talented artists.

BOURBON — Project Tomorrow, the national education nonprofit group, announced the selection of both schools from Triton School Corporation as Speak Up Loud and Clear schools. Formerly known as Speak Up 200, Speak Up Loud and Clear is a collection of the top K-12 schools in the country that encourage and involve authentic student, parent and teacher ideas and views in the education planning and decision-making.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent Sixth grade science students in Teresa Watkins class at Triton Elementary School shared their design journals, states of matter models and completed a density answer page with their VIP visitors. They also enjoyed the book store, lunch and recess.  

Congrats to the 2015 Fall Homecoming Court at Triton Jr.-Sr. High School:

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent Eric Day, a two time cancer survivor and the author of the book “Stay Positive,” joined Triton Elementary School Monday, Sept. 28, at the annual Trojan PRIDE kickoff. Eric explained to students how he uses and has used PRIDE to spread his “Stay Positive” message. Each student from …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent BOURBON — Beth Styers, from Teachers Credit Union, is shown presenting a check for $1,000 to Triton Jr.-Sr. High School Principal, Bob Ross.  The money is used to purchase incentives (like ereaders, t-shirts, etc.) for the reading club program at Triton Jr.-Sr. High School.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent Third graders in Strycker’s class at Triton Elementary School have been learning about the scientific method where scientists begin with a purpose or question, research, put together a hypothesis; or a guess about what they think will happen, experiment, analyze and then draw conclusions. Students created mini scientific …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent Third graders in Strycker’s class at Triton Elementary School have been learning about the scientific method where scientists begin with a purpose or question, research, put together a hypothesis; or a guess about what they think will happen, experiment, analyze and then draw conclusions. Students created mini scientific …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent Mrs. Cathy Strycker’s third grade class at Triton Elementary School.  Mrs. Strycker shared the following: “Our class was very fortunate to be given an opportunity for a grant with an organization our Triton School Superintendent, Mrs. Donna Burroughs, shared with us called DonorsChoose.org.  “This summer I (Cathy Strycker) wrote …read more.

  By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent Alex Gaughan a fourth grade student at Triton Elementary School in Jenny Mevis’ class was doing some research on the stages of a butterfly’s life while his class was visiting the library.He enjoyed the close-up view under the magnifying glass!

By DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation The Triton High School Boys’ Baseball Team is celebrating their sectional championship after their game on Tuesday evening! The boys will play in the regional contest this Saturday.

By Donna Burroughs, Triton School Corporation Superintendent All third graders at Triton Elementary School were visited by Mandy Feehman and Joelle Schrader from the IAB Bank. The bank offers a program to help elementary children learn about saving money. During the program students were introduced to several terms such as income, delayed gratification, personal identification number …read more.

Four staff members are retiring from Triton School Corporation after more than 75 years of service.

By DONNA BURROUGHS,EdS Superintendent,Triton Community School Corporation Triton Elementary School Field day sponsored by 1st Source Bank and Ball Auction was an overwhelming success. A few raindrops would not stop our students and community from making this a great event. The students had a blast and the volunteers where outstanding. We could not ask for better …read more.

BY DONNA BURROUGHS, Triton School Corporation Superintendent Triton Elementary School fourth graders enjoyed listening to a civil war soldier (reenactor). What a great way to wrap up all that they have been learning about Indiana History this year!