Versailles Exempted Village Schools

Congratulations to the following students who will represent their class as student council members for the 2024-2025 school year! Seniors: Colin Batten Emmit Demange Erin Frederick Landry Knore Ella Porter Ava Shardo Juniors: Paige Gehret Katey Litten Jayna Luthman Drew Meyer Ryan Pleiman Lauren Prenger Sophomores: Juliet Ahrens Greta Broering Rhylan Broerman Cale Demange Patrick McGlinch Maddox Stonebraker Freshmen: Liam Barga Gracyn Beasley Lily Bigelow Monica Evers Alexis Francis Samantha Knapke

Dear Parents and Families of High School Students, Staff, and members of the community, This is Superintendent Dave Harmon with an important message about the morning of Friday, April 26, 2024. We have advertised this several places, including in a message to High School families from Mrs. Stonebraker, as well as the fact that it has been shared in the newspaper, but we wanted to make one last effort to communicate to the families of students at the High School, staff, and general community members, that in an effort to educate and encourage teens to make good choices when getting in or behind the wheel of a vehicle, Versailles High School has arranged to present the Drive Smart Program. On Friday April 26th at 9:00am, a mock crash scene will be staged at the school. Students will be spectators and will witness the life-like events that occur after a drunk driving related crash. Police, Fire, EMS and others will arrive on scene in an attempt to rescue the victims of this staged, but very lifelike accident. In the final moments of the event, a parent speaker will discuss a real life scenario and will encourage our students to learn from this demonstration. Our goal is that students will make the right decision and never get behind the wheel while impaired or get in a vehicle with an impaired driver. If you prefer your child to not witness this event, please contact the high school office at 937.526.4427 ext 3000 or email Jacki Stonebraker at jacki.stonebraker@vtigers.org. A huge thank you to the Versailles Police, Fire & EMS, MVH Careflight, Darke Co Coroner’s Office, Bailey & Zechar Funeral Home, School Staff and Student volunteers for their time and effort put into this event.

Tomorrow - April 25th is "DNA day." Pictured is Mrs. Treon's Genetics class with their Recombinant DNA plasmids. The Genetics class is learning how to create Recombinant DNA and how to input a plasmid into bacteria cells. If all goes well, the bacteria will be able to do something it couldn't before.

Freshman Baseball @ Russia will start at 4:00 pm.

Good evening Tigers. This is Superintendent Dave Harmon with a reminder about tomorrow's schedule. Tomorrow, Friday, April 12, 2024, will be a 2-hour delay for staff professional development. Buses will arrive at your stops 2 hours later than your normal pick-up time. Thank you very much. Have a fantastic weekend.

Good evening, This is just a reminder that school will not be in session on Monday, April 8th, 2024 - the Solar Eclipse day - due to anticipated travel and communication issues. Please be safe, have fun, and enjoy this once in a lifetime opportunity to observe this phenomenon - but do it safely. NEVER look directly at the sun without the protection of the special solar eclipse glasses.

JV/Varsity BB and SB with New Bremen is canceled for this evening

All games and meets are cancelled for this evening. JH track practice is cancelled Softball practice is cancelled. Baseball practice will be at 3:30 in the Board Office Gymnasium. HS Track practice will be held in the HS Gymnasium

JV BB & SB at Versailles is cancelled for this evening. Varsity Softball at ME is cancelled Varsity BB at ME is ON. JH Track at SH will now start at 4:30.

The district bought Solar Eclipse glasses to provide to our students and staff and shortly after the shipment arrived, we were very graciously donated approximately 1500 eclipse viewing glasses from our wonderful community partner, Phelan Insurance. (Thank you Phelan!) As such, the district has about 1400 eclipse glasses that we would love to get into your hands so that anyone you know can participate in this viewing event safely. Please stop in at the Central office any day next week and pick up as many as you want for $1 each from Jodie Bohman! First come, first served. We are only hoping to make back what we spent on them. Please share so that anyone who wants them can get them.

Students have been designing and creating all year long. Check out this design, created by Lydia Bruns, for the football season. Videos like this can be found in the Yearbook by scanning QR codes. If you haven't reserved a 23-24 yearbook please do so soon, time is running out! https://youtu.be/oJ7asCAxOqc

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 4:45 PM, the Versailles Board of Education will hold their next Special Board of Education meeting in Executive Session for the purpose of interviewing Treasurer candidates.

Versailles Exempted Village School District Educational Aides for 2024-2025 School Year It is anticipated that based upon the needs of our students with physical, behavioral, and learning disabilities, Versailles Exempted Village School District will be hiring several Educational Aides for the 2024-2025 school year (and beyond). If interested, please send a cover letter, resume, application, and any other pertinent information (letters of recommendation etc) to: Sarah Rhoades, Director of Special Education Versailles Schools 280 Marker Rd. Versailles, OH 45380 Or sarah.rhoades@vtigers.org . Please indicate “Educational Aide Applicant” in the subject line of your email. Job description is here: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:022261cd-35cb-4b29-8950-1edd94ea36b7

All of our home baseball and softball games should be livestreamed on the NFHSNetwork. We also now have our spring rosters online: https://www.versailles.k12.oh.us/o/vevs/page/athletics so you can put a name to the jersey.

The varsity softball and baseball teams open up their season today. Varsity Sotball at home vs. Franklin Monroe 12pm/2pm. Watch live: nfhsnetwork.com JV baseball at home vs. Oakwood at 1pm. Watch live: nfhsnetwork.com Varsity Baseball vs. Oakwood at WSU at 5pm/7pm Good luck!

The Board of Education is publicly announcing that it will hold a Special Board meeting on Monday, March 25, 2024 at 7:00 at the Board of Education office where it will enter into Executive Session to evaluate and consider applicant materials for the Treasurer position. Also while in Executive Session, it will plan for upcoming contract negotiations.

This past Saturday the Versailles High School Drone team competed at the Trotwood-Madison Drone Competition. The Versailles students had an awesome day! Out of 28 teams, we finished 7th, 8th, and 9th. This success earned all three teams a spot in the final elimination tournament. Team 81834T, Patrick McGlinch, Luke Borchers, and Lance Keller, was a mere 4 points from making it to the finals. This team also won the Skills Competition! Between piloting and programming their drones, they were able to post the highest individual score out of all the teams at the competition.

Our next "Versailles Voices Project" participant is Rhylan Broeman. Rhylan is a member of the class of 2027 and one of the great young leaders at VHS. Thanks Rhylan for your submission! Lets keep this going. We appreciate and need your continued submissions to the Versailles Voices Project. Please consider submitting a response as we'd love to hear from you (and so does the community!) To do so, click the link below: https://forms.gle/D8f7p542BNJEjAVj8

Reminder- Versailles Versailles Exempted Village School District is on a two hour delay for tomorrow, Friday, March 15th, for staff development.

District Spring newsletter. Please contact Superintendent Dave Harmon at david.harmon@vtigers.org or Interim Treasurer Lori Koch at lori.koch@vtigers.org with any questions.