Versailles High School

Versailles FFA Places 1st District 5 FFA Ag Sales Contest & Headed to State On Monday, Feb 12th the Versailles FFA placed 1st out of 22 teams in the District 5 FFA Ag Sales Contest at Marion Local High School. The Versailles FFA Ag Sales team consisted of Colin Batten, Jayna Luthman, Andrew Wuebker, and Paige Gehret. Individually Colin Batten placed 2nd overall and Paige Gehret placed 3rd overall in the contest out of 100 individuals. The District 5 Ag Sales contest consists of an online test, individual sales presentation and a team oriented sales presentation. Versailles FFA members sold trailers as part of their presentation which is the district and state topic of the year. Versailles FFA will advance to the state contest. The Versailles FFA would like to thank Ryan Langenkamp of Farm Credit-Versailles and Mark Schutt of Frenchtown Trailer Sales for helping coach and advise the team. Congratulations and Good luck at state! Photo: Versailles FFA 1st Place District 5 FFA Ag Sales consisted of (Left to Right) Jayna Luthman, Andrew Wuebker, Colin Batten, and Paige Gehret

Good evening Tigers. This is Superintendent Dave Harmon with a fun and exciting message of community engagement to the Versailles community. This evening we are proud to announce "The Versailles Voices Project" This is an open invitation to all Versailles stakeholders...Versailles staff, students, and community members. We want to hear from all perspectives on this. Below are a few examples of what will become posts which we will share regularly on our Social Media channels as well as the Versailles Schools app. We are looking for short quotes that you would love to share with the community as a whole about what you love about the School District as well as the greater Versailles community. There is not a "correct" format for your response. We just want the comments to be genuine and to come from your heart, but we've provided a few example "starters" to get you thinking about what this might look like for you, if you choose to participate. Click the link below to participate. Please Share so others can participate. Please encourage others to participate as well. Let's make this go viral! We can't wait to see where this goes! Click here: https://forms.gle/D8f7p542BNJEjAVj8

Sectional CHAMPS!!!

Versailles FFA places 3rd in District 5 Agriculture and Industrial Diagnostics CDE Contest Lucas Timmerman and Jeremiah Wagner represented the Versailles FFA in the District 5 Agricultural and Industrial Diagnostics Career Development Event (CDE) Contest on Friday, February 9th at Upper Valley Career Center. They placed 3rd in the district contest out of 22 teams. As part of the contest Lucas and Jeremiah took a written test and participated in 5 stations in which each piece of equipment they worked on had several malfunctions. Lucas and Jeremiah had 20 minutes to detect the problems and use diagnostics equipment to detect issues. A special thanks to Koenig Equipment in Greenville for hosting the District 5 contest and thank you to North Star Hardware and Implement for supplying tractors and technicians for the District 5 contest as well. Additional Versailles FFA members that participated in the online test and practices included: Trevor Luthman, Domonic Barga, Dylan Hemmelgarn, Ben Pitsenbarger, Carson Heitkamp, Levi Subler, Brandy Heitkamp, and Nathan Timmerman. A special thank you to Noah Shimp and Noah Barga for coaching the team and Koenig Equipment, North Star Hardware and Implement and Apple Farm Services for hosting the Versailles FFA for a practice. Photo: Team members Lucas Timmerman and Jeremiah Wagner placed 3rd in the district in the Agriculture and Industrial Diagnostics CDE Contest.

Link for today's State Duals https://www.versailles.k12.oh.us/o/vevs/page/athletics Also can be found on the NFHSNetwork.

Due to injuries, the JV girls basketball game today vs. WLS will only be 2 quarters. It will now start at 12:30 pm instead of 12:00 pm. Please adjust your schedules accordingly. It is also Teacher Appreciation. The varsity game will follow.

We are one day away from hosting the top 8 Division III wrestling teams in the state in the OHSWCA State Duals. You can see the bracket for more details. Back by popular demand with be commentary from Ryan Bergman and Nick Rhoades. Best in the State!

Public notice: The Versailles Board of Education has called a Special Board meeting for this coming Monday, February 12, 2024 at 7:00 pm for the purpose of conducting the Treasurer interview process.

The Varsity ONLY Girls Basketball game vs. New Knoxville on Thursday will tip at 6:00pm instead of the originally scheduled 7:00 pm. Sorry for the inconvenience.

UPDATE to the Special Meeting notice from yesterday. As the Board will already be meeting, we've added one regular item for business which will be addressed in open session. That being the sale of a district asset - specifically, the used Ford Escape that was publicly advertised. After the Board takes action on that single item, they will go into Executive Session. Prior message: This communication is to serve as public notice that the Versailles Board of Education intends to hold a Special Board of Education meeting on Monday, February 5, 2024.  The meeting will take place at 5:30 PM at the Versailles Board of Education office, 459 S. Center Street, Versailles, Ohio 45380.  The purpose of the meeting is to meet with the Board of Education’s consultant from the Educational Service Center who is running the search process regarding applicants for the open Treasurer position to evaluate applications.  At the meeting, the Board will enter executive session to consider the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion or compensation of a public employee or official, or the investigation of charges or complaints against a public employee, official, licensee, or regulated individual, unless the employee, official, licensee, or regulated individual requests a public hearing by division (G)(1) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code.  After conclusion of the executive session, it is possible that action will follow in open session.  

Congratulations to Head Wrestling Coach, AJ Bey for passing previous coach Bill Roll for all time wins!

We are proud to share that the Versailles Exempted Village School District was just notified that we are one of the 2023 AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award winners. "This honor recognizes the outstanding work your school is doing to engage more female students in computer science. Research shows that female students who take AP computer science are more likely to major in computer science in college compared with matched peers. Through your leadership in diversifying computer science education, you’re preparing your female students for the in-demand jobs of the future and giving them the opportunity to help solve some of society's most challenging problems. " Again, congratulations. Thank you for your commitment to expanding access to computer science education. Sincerely, Advanced Placement Program For further information: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/exam-administration-ordering-scores/scores/awards/ap-computer-science-female-diversity-award?SFMC_cid=EM1106807-&rid=406925061

The Varsity wrestling team earned the #1 seed in the District for the OHSWCA District Duals. Because of the seed, we are excited to be hosting the District Duals this Saturday. The winner of this District Dual Tournament will advance to the State Tournament the following Saturday back at Versailles High School. The District Dual Tournament will start at 10:00 am and be held in our JH Gymnasium. The other qualifying schools are #4 Brookville, #5 Legacy Christian, #8 Greeneview, and #9 Columbus Grove. With this being a non-Versailles event, we will not accept any Versailles passes. All tickets are $10 and can be purchased with cash at the door or online.

From Russia, Games are running 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Please plan accordingly as they plan to keep them moving.

Good evening Tigers, This is Superintendent Dave Harmon with a reminder about tomorrow, January 26, 2024. Friday, January 26, 2024 will be the 3rd and final full day staff professional development day as indicated on the district calendar. School will be closed for students as staff participate in a number of professional development opportunities. Thank you very much. Have a great evening and a wonderful weekend! As students have the day off tomorrow, consider coming out and supporting our Lady Tigers basketball team as they take on Delphos St. Johns this evening. 

In accordance with the district's policies on disposal of school property we have an obligation to make this vehicle which was purchased with public funds available to the general public. The district is disposing of a 2014 Ford Escape. This 4 cylinder, 4-door Escape seats 5. The vehicle was purchased used in July of 2017 and had 28,720 miles on it at that time. The purchase price at the time was $17,149. The district utilized this vehicle regularly as it now has 187,208 miles on it. The district is removing it from its fleet after it blew a transmission a few months ago. It has been regularly maintained by a mechanic to that point, and has relatively new tires on it. If you work on cars, this might be a nice little vehicle, but to be clear, the vehicle would need a new or rebuilt transmission if you wished to make it road worthy again. We have an obligation to accept the best responsible bid. To express interest in the vehicle please see the district's website or click this link: https://forms.gle/eYrapzivBdf2irmD7

Good evening Tigers, this Superintendent Dave Harmon with an important message regarding an upcoming change to the district's calendar. Due to the upcoming Solar Eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024 and the potential travel complications that many government agencies are anticipating, the district will not be in session on April 8. This will be considered a calamity day. As of 1/23/24 we’ve now used three of the five allotted days, the first being the State Championship Football game day, #2 being this past Friday (January 19, 2024) and the third being the upcoming April 8, 2024 Solar Eclipse day. Should we have further cancellations due to weather we have the ability to have 2 more calamity days before we would be required to start making up additional days. Should that come into play, we will, of course, communicate that out to the community. The school is working to obtain solar eclipse glasses for each of our students to offer protection and their ability to safely observe this very rare phenomenon. We will communicate how those will come home once we’ve obtained them. Further, the Darke County Libraries are also going to have solar eclipse glasses available for members of the community. Feel free to contact the Darke County Libraries for further information about their distribution plans. They do not have an unlimited supply of glasses, but certainly want to help their patrons to the degree they are able. For further information about the solar eclipse, feel free to go to https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/ and Darke County’s Solar Eclipse website at https://www.visitdarkecounty.org/total-solar-eclipse-2024

Special Schedule for Saturday's basketball games @ Russia Freshman Boys: 1:00 pm JV Girls: 2:30 pm JV Boys: 4:00 pm Varsity Girls: 5:30 pm Varsity Boys: 7:00 pm Ticket Prices: $8 students and $10 for adults. This is good for all day.

Good Sunday morning Tigers. Message from the Cafeteria/Food Service Department: Due to the snow day this past Friday and the popularity of the meal that day - we will be moving the menu from Friday to Wednesday, January 24, 2024. The menu for the rest of the week will remain the same. Wednesday, January 24, 2024's menu: Mac & Cheese (D, W) PB & J Pocket (P, W) Corn Cinnamon Applesauce Milk Thanks. Stay warm. See you tomorrow!

MAC Champs!! 🖤🧡 Congratulations to both the boys and girls teams for their first place finishes today! 🏆 TOP 3 RESULTS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS: FIRST PLACE 200 Medley Relay- Lydia Hecht, Ella Porter, Ava Shardo, Salimah Shardo 50 Free- Ava Shardo 100 Fly- Ava Shardo 100 Free- Dylan Dunn SECOND PLACE 200 Free- Salimah Shardo 200 IM- Lydia Hecht 200 Free Relay- Lydia Hecht, Lily cordonnier,, Salimah Shardo, Ava Shardo 100 Back- Lydia Hecht 400 Free Relay- Erin Frederick, Lily Cordonnier, Emma Meyer, Paige Holzapfel 200 IM- Michael Menke 50 Free- Dylan Dunn 100 Fly- Michael Menke 400 Free Relay- Daniel Waymire, Andrew Meyer, Ben Pitsenbarger, Dylan Dunn THIRD PLACE 100 Fly- Lilly Cordonnier 100 Fly- Daniel Waymire 100 Breast- Daniel Waymire