
STATE ESPORTS Livestream: The Ridge View High School ESPORTS team plays this morning at 8:55 versus Dike New Hartford. This is a link for the livestream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msp-sO55MsM

UPDATE: GH/SC Upper Elementary Track & Field Day in Early is CANCELLED due to wet grounds and cold temperatures.

Ridge View Industrial Tech News: On Wednesday the 7th of May, approximately 40 students in the Industrial Tech programs loaded up their projects and attended the NW Iowa Industrial Tech fair held at NICC in Sheldon. Students displayed their projects and had them judged among the other projects. While the judging was taking place, the students watched as some of their fellow Raptors ran their Junk Yard War vehicles around a couple different tracks competing for top honors. First run went well though they did not finish in the top spot.
On Friday the 9th of May. We again loaded up the trailer with the top finishers from NICC and headed to SE Polk High School with 7 of the award winning students from the NICC competition and these students displayed the 12 to 13 top places at the State competition for their peers.
Here is a run down of the NICC Finishers:
Cabinet & Furniture-making projects: Division A1-Aubrey Wagner, Division A2-Cole Ronfeldt, Division A3-Carter Padavich, Tyler Friedrichsen, and Brayden Blum
Metal Welding projects: Division C2-Blake Myrtue, Division C3-Quinton Wittrock
Furniture Restoration: Division G-Landyn Peterson
Cutting Boards: Division I1-Lucas Heilman
Crafts: Division J1-Brock Conover and Maddox V ela, Division J2-Caleb Hagen
Manufacturing-Router: Division P3-Cody Wunshel and Chayse Hansen
Overall Best of Show (all categories): Carter Padavich
Best of Show Beginner/1st Year (all categories): Aubrey Wagner
Best of Show-Manufacturing: Cody Wunschel
Here is the State Competition results:
Best of Show: Carter Padavich with his dresser
Best of Show: Aubrey Wagner with her coffee table
1st Place: Landyn Peterson with his refinished door
2nd Place: Brock Conover with his Cornhole boards
Congratulation to all!!! #CLAWSUP

RAPT NATION: Baseball games are on as scheduled with a JV 5:30 start, followed by the varsity game.

Best of luck to our Esports team: Jeremiah Hughes, Valeria Torres-Najera, Corbin Smith, Aubrey Wagner, Jared Friedmann, Aiden Stevenson, Anna Jacobson and Coach Pacza as they take off tonight to compete at STATE tomorrow in Marshalltown! We will be rooting you all on! #CLAWSUP

The State Golf apparel online store is now open!!!! Please follow the link below to order yours today! The store will close tomorrow, May 21st at noon.
https://www.walloffame247.com/ridge-view

Schaller-Crestland Elementary 5th Grade Wax Museum: Just a sampling of all the wonderful 5th grade presentations today in Early. Thank you to all who came to support our 5th graders show off their learning! What a variety of inspirational people!










We are celebrating our Esports, Boys and Girls Track teams, and Boys Golf team today by giving them a send off as they head to their state competitions over the next week! Parents are welcome to join us in the South Gym at 3:05 as we celebrate our students!! Bring your Raptor Pride!
#CLAWSUP

The GH & SC Upper Elementary track meet on Tuesday 5/20 is postponed to Wednesday 5/21, weather permitting. Times will stay the same. Please watch social media for further updates. SC 5th grade Wax Museum is still today from 9-11

ELITE ALERT: Congratulations to the Ridge View HS Boys Golf Team on qualifying for the State Golf Meet in Waterloo next week. The Raptors won the District golf meet by shooting a score of 320 . The Raptors were led by Kellen Clausen claiming the District Champion Medalist title by shooting a 68. #CLAWSUP #GoRaptors


Attention Upper Elementary Parents: A reminder tomorrow is the upper elementary track and field day. A decision for a possible postponement will be made by 8 a.m. tomorrow morning. Stay tuned!

ATTENTION RAPTOR FANS: Tonight's baseball game at home against Storm Lake has been postponed due to weather conditions. A makeup date will be decided at a later time.
#CLAWSUP

SC Elementary - "Who Done It?" 4th & 5th grade TAG
The students looked over different characteristics of fingerprints to understand fingerprint patterns. We took fingerprints from some of the teachers, dusted the "crime scene" where Mrs.Kinney's favorite pen went missing and lifted the prints with lifting tape. The students then compared the crime scene prints to the teachers prints by discovering the fingerprint patterns to solve who the criminal was in this crime. For this crime, the students figured out it was Mrs.Salmon who stole Mrs.Kinney's favorite pen.



Schaller-Crestland K-3 Field Events. It was a windy day but they played through!






Thursday- All School Trip Reminder


Busy day for the Galva-Holstein Elementary. The day started with the 5th graders presenting their wax museum and ended with a very windy lower elementary track meet. Fun was had by all!











Congratulations to the Ridge View State Track Qualifiers!
Boys:
High Jump Carter Todd
4x800 Kellen Jensen, Talan Witzke, Cole Jochims, Jack Todd
4x200 Lucas Heilman, Kellen Jensen, Adam Stephan, Jack Todd
4x400 Kellen Jensen, Zach Kolpin, Adam Stephan, Jack Todd
Girls:
3000 & 1500M Runs Addy Tesch
Distance Medley Gabi Mason, Cora Tesch, Arissa Kretlow, AddyTesch
Shuttle Hurdle Cora Tesch, Lillian Whitmer, Reese Hawthorne, Gabi Mason
Order your state tshirts here: https://1800tshirts.chipply.com/rvstatetrack2025/?action=viewall








It's a GREAT day to be a Raptor! Our boys and girls track teams have events moving on to state track next week in Des Moines!! We don't have official results until later this morning/early this afternoon, but we wanted to get our STATE TRACK order apparel weblink out there for our fans to order! Please click the link below to order - the online store will close Sunday, May 18th at midnight! #CLAWSUP
https://1800tshirts.chipply.com/rvstatetrack2025/

Tickets for tonight's district track meet at Sheldon must be purchased online at the link below!
https://www.iahsaa.org/tickets/
Best of luck to our District Track Athletes!!
#CLAWSUP

Congratulations to the Ridge View Boys golf team for placing 1st at sectionals yesterday! Ty Clausen was second place medalist and Gavin Vohs was 4th place medalist. On to the next round!
