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The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school choirs and bands performed their spring concert at Olson Auditorium on Tuesday, April 15. In the attached video, the senior high band (grades 8-12) are performing the final song of the night, "Highlights from Aladdin" by Alan Menken (arranged by Michael Sweeney). The senior high band opened its portion of the concert with "Jurassic Park" by Sam Pottie. The next two songs included "On a Hymn Song of Philip Bliss" by David Holsinger and "At a Turkish Market" by William Owens. Additional coverage from the...
Technology director Kody Bertram provided an update at Monday's (April 14) Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board meeting at the high school. Included in his report was comments on the increasing use of artificial intelligence both on the staff and student side of education. In terms of ever-increasing use of Artificial Intelligence, Bertram said, "Including AI in education is increasing nationally and in our school district. Staff at B-B-E feel comfortable using it in their day-to-day work. It's...
The attached video will become a "live video" player on Tuesday, April 15 starting before 7 p.m. In this web player, you can watch the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa grades 6-12 choirs and bands performing their spring concert at the high school's Olson Auditorium. The entire concert, featuring middle school and senior high musicians, should last about 90 minutes. Additional concert coverage from this April 15 event will be published in the April 17 and April 24 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice...
Four members of the B-B-E speech team competed in the Section 5A meet in Annandale on Saturday, April 12. In the attached video, Tia Nelson is shown receiving her first-place medal in Great Speeches at the Sub-Section 5A-West meet held on April 4 at B-B-E high school. Nelson, Kora Martinez, Eliana Funes and Hailey Henderson all advanced past subsections to the section meet....
On Monday, March 24, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school and Community Education hosted a guest speaker who gave a specific address to student athletes. The information presented by Danielle Rancourt, registered dietician and sports dietician, was geared to teenagers but also adults regarding both nutrition and sleep habits. The attached video features Rancourt speaking that night at Olson Auditorium as she provided tips on how to create a proper diet for active teenagers. The March 27 and...
Note: this web article will be updated throughout Friday afternoon. Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's robotics team is competing at the Granite City Regional on Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5 in St. Cloud. The site is the River's Edge Convention Center by the Mississippi River. Altogether, this region tournament features 48 teams. The 2025 F.I.R.S.T. robotics competition is called Reefscape, and it is based on the principle idea of utilizing automated robots to clean and improve coral reef areas of...
Note: a video was added to this web article on Saturday night, April 5. Additional coverage will be published in the April 10 issue of the newspaper. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team has finished their qualification matches at the Granite City Regional in St. Cloud. After 10 matches played, they hold a 5-5 record going into the playoff alliance selection. For Day II on Saturday at River's Edge Convention Center, B-B-E's alliances went 1-2. They are on the board in 21st place...
On Friday, March 14, staff and students at Belgrade-Brooten-Elementary school celebrated the end of the third quarter of the 2024-2025 school year. The student body gathered in the main gymnasium for a Jaguar Pride party, which also included the announcement of the winners of P.E. teacher Austin Rambow's Heart Health Challenge. In the attached video, you can watch Principal Josie Dingmann announcing the class who won a special Jaguar Pride challenge with Ms. Freeman's elementary music classes....
On Friday, March 14, students and staff at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school hosted their third quarter Jaguar Pride party, which gave special recognition to students and classes while inviting all grades to play various games. In the last event of the party, Physical Education teacher Austin Rambow announced the top 6 fundraiser students for the recent Heart Heroes Challenge. This was held in association with the American Heart Association. In the attached video, fourth grader Decker...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team is already rolling with the punches for the Great Northern Regional in Grand Forks. The night before they departed B-B-E high school for the Alerus Center on Wednesday, March 12, Coach Reed Adrian found out that the region match schedule was greatly altered due to an impending snowstorm slated to arrive in the region on Saturday. Altogether, across Thursday and Friday this week, B-B-E's team will compete in 9 qualification matches: four on...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team is in Day II of the Great Northern Regional competition, which is held this week at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. This marks the fourth year that they are competing at this region competition. At the Great Northern Regional this year, they have 52 teams. In the first match of Friday, which was their fifth overall match of the Great Northern Regional, B-B-E's Blue Alliance fell in a close battle by a 115 to 97 score. They...
On Thursday, February 27, prior to the home girls' basketball playoff opener, a total of 38 students in grades 4 and 5 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school performed the National Anthem at the high school gymnasium. A video from this performance is attached. To view a photo gallery of the students singing, click over to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's SmugMug gallery: https://shorturl.at/kfJbc. The B-B-E girls' basketball team was set to host Mille Lacs that evening in the...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team has been preparing for their 2025 season F.I.R.S.T. competitions since this year's challenge was unveiled on January 4. In the attached video, team members and Coach Reed Adrian are shown working on the robot's wiring at the high school shop on March 6. B-B-E's first of two robotics competitions this year is the Great Northern Regional, which is hosted by the Alerus Center in Grand Forks on March 12-15. The second is the Granite City...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa's FFA chapter hosted their first annual Milk Relay competitions on Wednesday, February 19. The event was part of recognition of National FFA Week, which was February 16-22 in schools across the country. The attached video features one relay competition in progress during lunch that day at the high school's main gymnasium. Additional activities took place during FFA week at B-B-E. On Thursday, the FFA hosted guest speakers at Olson Auditorium. The speakers were from Case...
Here's one video featuring turkey bowling that was held on Friday, February 21 in the Career and Technical Education wing of the high school. This was part of numerous activities held to recognize National FFA Week....
On Tuesday, February 11, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school held the 35th annual Sno-Daze coronation program at Olson Auditorium. The full program video is attached here. The coronation crowning takes place just after the 17-minute mark in the video....
For the first time in many years, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa speech team hosted a home meet at the high school with the first annual Jagtastic Speech Invitational this past Saturday, February 15. Year to year, the speech team occasionally hosts either conference or subsection meets, but this year the team gets two meets at home (subsections are in Belgrade on April 4). In the attached video, B-B-E seniors Tia Nelson and Kora Martinez were recognized during the awards ceremony that afternoon....
During the lunch periods on Wednesday, February 19 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school, the FFA chapter hosted a Milk Relay competition. The attached video features the Milk Relay taking place that afternoon. Additional National FFA Week coverage will be published in the February 27 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. The FFA hosted turkey bowling on Friday. Click over to the Jaguars Sports extended coverage blog to see a video featuring that event: https://bbejag...
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school's Olson Auditorium was the site of a terrific Sno-Daze coronation program on Tuesday, February 11. The coronation officially kicked off the 35th annual Sno-Daze week in Jaguar Country with students in grades 9-12 plus staff members, family and friends helping fill the seats as games were played along with the crowning of the King and Queen. The 35th annual B-B-E Sno-Daze King and Queen are Jack Lundberg and Emery Halvorson. The video attached here features...
A member of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Class of 2002 has passed away. Courtney Ann Mithaugen, age 40, died on Sunday, January 19, 2025 at Fairview Southdale Hospital, Edina. Memorial services will be held at St. Luke's Church, Faribault on Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. with a visitation at church one hour prior to the service on Saturday. Arrangements are being completed by Boldt Funeral Home, Faribault. Courtney Ann, the daughter of Michele (Lemcke) Mithaugen and Chip Mithaugen, she...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school jazz band, with students in grades 8-12, performed as part of the Holiday Christmas concert on December 16 at Olson Auditorium. They are featured in one of the attached videos; the senior high choir is featured in the other video. Also performing that evening were the middle school choir plus the middle school and senior high bands. Retired music teacher Maggie Harp provided piano accompaniment for the choir's songs....
On Monday, December 16, the 6th-12th grade music student at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school performed their Holiday Christmas concert at Olson Auditorium. The high school Jazz Band performed for the second time of the school year to lead off the band's portion of the concert that night. On October 28, the jazz band unveiled their talents to the public for the first time at the Halloween Spooktacular concert. In the attached videos, which you can toggle between as you wish, the jazz band is...
On Wednesday, December 4, the students in grades K-3 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa hosted their annual Christmas program at the school's main gymnasium. A packed crowd of parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and other friends and family were on hand! The attached video features the full program, which lasted just over 24 minutes....
A group of 16 theater students at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa combined multiple talents across a 2 1/2 month period in performing a masterful effort in the fall musical Lucky Stiff at Olson Auditorium. The fall musical was held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 15-16-17, at B-B-E high school. The attached video features a clip from the "Monte Carlo" scene early in Act I during the Sunday matinee performance. It includes seventh graders Eliana Funes as Rita LaPorta and Morgan Theis as Vinnie...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school board met in regular session on Tuesday this week (November 12) at the elementary media center. Highlights included a report by the building principals on changes implemented to the makeup of student report cards, a presentation by six FFA students on the National Convention they attended in October and announcing negotiations with the board's selection for the next superintendent. The National FFA Convention was held at Indianapolis from October 23 to 26, and...
