KOSCIUSKO COUNTY — Noon tomorrow, Friday, Aug. 26, is the deadline to file for a seat on one of six area school boards. Boards with positions up for election this year include Warsaw Community Schools, Wawasee Community School Corporation, Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation, Triton School Corporation, Whitko Community School Corporaiton and Wa-Nee Community Schools. Those …read more.

BOURBON — Triton Elementary School has been awarded the Project Produce Grant through the Chef Ann Foundation for the 2016-2017 school year. Grant funds can be used to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables for all students to try. Triton plans to use the funds for “Lunchtime Adventures With Farrah Fruit and Reggie Veggie.” The program …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Triton High School seniors, Tanner Senff and Nicholas Harker, are shown in Mr. McPherson’s chemistry lab. The seniors are nearing the end of their years at Triton. Graduation will be June 5.

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 — After reading “Deep Sea Danger,” a play by Judy Freed, students in Ms. McFarland’s sixth-grade English classes at Triton Elementary School wrote and acted out their own plays, complete with homemade props. The plays were a way to write a problem-solution essay. The students were …read more.

By Donna Burroughs Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Triton Community School Corporation held Grandperson/VIP Day Friday, Oct. 9. More than 500 guests joined Triton Elementary School for lunch and snapshot of students’ classrooms and learning environments. “I am so proud of TES students and staff  as they displayed Trojan Pride by showing outstanding …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Firefighters from the Bourbon Fire Department took time from their busy schedule to visit Triton Elementary School to help students learn about how to be safe in fire emergencies. Participating firefighters included Robert Firestone, Shawn Meinert, Paul Martin, Doug Eyrich, DJ Lindsey and Lane Stevens. They wanted to …read more.

By Donna Burroughs Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — Dawn Slein, biology teacher at Triton Jr.-Sr. High School, had her students research and create posters on Google Drive about insects. The students then linked a QR code to the posters and placed them in the hall for everyone to scan and learn about the …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — David Bremer, NIPSCO, recently presented Tom McFarland, Triton School Corporation business manager, a check for $2,708 as a rebate from the recent lighting project at Triton Jr.-Sr. High School.

By DONNA BURROUGHS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation BOURBON — In honor of Football Homecoming Friday, Oct. 2, Triton Jr.-Sr. High School, Bourbon, held a school spirit week of several special dress up days. Wednesday, Sept. 30, was Wacky Wednesday.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation The junior high school students from Triton Triton Junior-Senior High School had a 3-D cell model to make for Mrs. Jackson’s science class. There were many winners. Mr. Chobanov’s choice winners were Haley Hooley and Alyxa Viers and Mr. Ross’s choice winners were Hayley Hooley, Maria …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Fifth graders at Triton Elementary School spoke with a robotic engineer from Istanbul. They were able to speak with him through Google Hangouts and connect real life with what they are learning from Project Lead The Way.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation After reading, “The All American Slurp,” a story about understanding and appreciating other cultures, Mrs. McFarland’s sixth grade reading class at Triton Elementary School put their weekly skill of comparing and contrasting into a real world situation by comparing and contrasting chopsticks and forks. They decided they’d …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintedent, Triton Community School Corporation Triton Elementary celebrated pajama day on Thursday, April 23. PJ day helped remind students to relax and get plenty of rest before taking the state ISTEP tests the week of Monday, April 27 through Friday, May 1. Good luck to Triton Elementary.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation The Triton Junior-Senior High School chapter of Future Farmers of America held their annual banquet on Sunday, April 19. A delicious meal was catered by Amish Acres and then a celebration of the FFA activities throughout the year and special awards were presented.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Triton sixth grade students traveled to Shaumberg, Ill., in March and enjoyed a very educational show by immersing themselves in the tale of the middle ages at Medieval Times. The show was complete with a hearty meal and exciting action. Triton students were invited to a …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Triton High School seniors and teacher interns Rachel Chickering and Courtney Slone attended the Marshall County Reading Council banquet in March and were honored to have their picture taken with Indiana Superintendent, Glenda Ritz.

  By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Systems Triton High School AG seniors visited Triton Elementary fourth graders before spring break to teach them about animal safety, first aid and poisonous plants.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation In celebration of National Ag Day, Triton’s chapter of FFA celebrated with a special pancake and sausage breakfast at school. Several community members and school staff were invited to this tasty event.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation As part of the Bourbon Public Library’s celebration of local heroes, a photo of the Triton School Corporation bus drivers was featured. Bus drivers for Triton include: Laura Baker, Karen Meister, Maureen Lemler, Shannon Stevens, Larry Layman, Rich Walter, Davi Slabaugh, Claudia Senff and Bob Dodge.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation The Triton Jr. High School seventh and eighth grade band and choir each earned gold ratings at their contests the weekend of Saturday, March 14. The judges gave very positive comments about the students positive sound and behavior. Great job representing Triton schools, seventh and eighth …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation The fourth grade students at Triton Elementary School enjoyed a visit from Marshall County REMC last week. They had been studying electricity, circuits and different energy sources. What a great way to wrap up a week of ISTEP.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation The first week of March was spirit week at Triton Junior Senior High School. Teachers Christina Stout, April Leeper and Sam Willsey dressed as tourists as part of the festivities.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation In celebration of youth art month at Triton Junior-Senior High School, there is a display of artwork produced throughout the year in the art hallway/display case and front lobby at the high school. All work produced in the art department can be viewed on the Triton …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Triton High School wishes to publicly thank Oliver Ford for giving our school the opportunity to earn money with their “Drive For Your School” Fund Raiser. Many Triton School Organizations and programs and all of the students benefited from this kindness. The Library Media Center, for …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Students in third grade at Triton Elementary School have been learning about fossils. You know, those amazing leftovers from the past that can tell us so many things about what once lived in a particular area. Finding dinosaur bones can help us discover if the animals …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Third graders at Triton Elementary School have been working for over a month at learning how to do research and write an informative story from what we have discovered. Students were planning a trip to the Shrine Circus, so they were already reading about the circus. …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Students in Jill Finley’s kindergarten class at Triton Elementary school enjoyed showing off their funny hats this week. The students wore hats while studying the letter “H”, which they call “Mr. H”. They have a good time learning all about their letters.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation New business teacher at Triton Junior-Senior High School, Tracie Vermillion, has introduced Triton business students to the world of DECA competition. DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools and colleges around the globe. The Triton students …read more.

School buses filled with third and fourth graders and local law enforcement gather to caravan to the Mizpah Shrine Circus in Fort Wayne. It’s been a tradition for many, many years to take the third graders from the local schools to the Mizpah Shrine Circus in Fort Wayne. Wawasee Community School Corporation has been making …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Third graders at Triton Elementary School are beginning a new unit of study in science about earth materials. Students will be learning about minerals, rocks, fossils, and renewable and nonrenewable resources during their studies. As an introduction to minerals and rocks, they are reading about how …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Motivated Triton Elementary School students spend time each Tuesday afternoon learning a new language at the Triton Elementary Tech Spot. Triton students spend about 45 minutes working on a core lesson, grammar, speaking, and vocabulary. At the end of each session students are given the opportunity …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Students in Cathy Stryker’s third grade classroom at Triton Elementary have been learning about being healthy this semester. In class students had a chance to see just how effective hand washing can be in fighting germs that can make us sick. Students were sprinkled with glitter …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Triton High School sophomore Connor Sherwood received an honorable mention during the jurying of the Scholastic Art Awards. Her painting will be on displace at the South Bend Museum of Art through the month of February.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation The Triton Elementary Third Grade is happy to announce that they have a new guest joining them each week to help learn about eating healthy. Kathe Beehler is working as a youth food nutrition practitioner through the Marshall County Purdue University Cooperative Extension Office. Since it …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation A special convocation was held at Triton Elementary School recently to recognize special students with award T-shirts. Students in each grade were awarded T-shirts in two categories, Trojan Pride and  PE Students of the Month. Trojan Pride winners: Kindergarten- Janika Kemp First- Addison Hammond Second- Allie …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Kindergarden students in Jill Finley’s classroom at Triton Elementary have been working together on team projects. The project requires them to cooperate with one another and do some problem solving. These are important skills for the today’s workplace and these kids will be ready when they …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Each week when Triton Elementary School third graders go to library, they not only enjoy hearing stories, reading and picking out books to take with them to enjoy later; they also learn many things having to do with using computers in common sense ways. Denise Shafer, …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Third grade Triton Elementary students moved into their second unit of sound where they have tested various types of materials such as cloth, cardboard, plastic, newspaper, and paper to determine how those materials affect the volume of sound. Students used specially constructed boxes with sound generators to …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation The first and second grade students at Triton Elementary School entertained their families with a musical program on Tuesday, Dec. 2. The Christmas spirit was in the air. The music program was under the direction of Mollie Kintzel.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Advanced placement biology students in Dawn Slein’s class at Triton Junior-Senior High School have a lot of fun learning about science. The class designed their own “cell” to learn how the surface area to volume ratio affect diffusion rates in a contest. Courtney Slone won by …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation The Triton varsity girls’ basketball team raised funds for Marshall County’s “Ounce of Prevention” the week of Nov. 20 with their “Hoops for Hope” game against Plymouth. The students sold pink t-shirts for the game and had a “pink-out” at the Trojan Trench the night of …read more.