Joining a nationwide celebration to raise awareness for Career and Technical Education Month®, or CTE Month, the Lakeside Lutheran TechEd department will host an open house during the Lutheran Elementary School Basketball Tournament at the Lakeside Lutheran campus this weekend.
On Saturday, Feb. 16, from 11-3 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 17, from 1-3 p.m., visitors to the school’s TechEd wing can tour the facilities and learn about TechEd and Ag Survey classes offered. Guests can examine equipment such as a laser, 3-D printers, CNC router, a variety of welders, a four-station Ironworker, metal bandsaw and updated woods equipment. With the assistance of trained high school students, elementary students will have the opportunity to weld with a MIG welder, build a wood keychain and see a 3-D printer in action.
The Lakeside FFA Alumni group plans to offer complimentary ice cream sundaes and root beer floats to visitors during the open house. Signs will help visitors find the TechEd department, located on the west end of the school.
According to the Association for Career & Technical Education® (ACTE®), the goal of technical education is to explore careers that are in high demand, pay high wages, and provide job satisfaction in a variety of careers from agriculture, to manufacturing, healthcare, information technology and STEM careers. Lakeside Lutheran offers a variety of classes for students to explore these careers, from Family and Consumer Science classes, Videography, Web Design, and Computer Programing, to the Tech Ed department itself, including classes in Woodworking, Construction, Metals Technology, Agriculture Survey, CAD, Small Engines and Advanced Career Tech. For more information, contact department head Jeff Meske at (920) 648-2321.
At the February 2018 Lakeside Lutheran TechEd department open house celebrating Career and Technical Education Month, elementary students had an opportunity to see up close how a MIG welder works.
“Occasionally, people “prophesy.” Whether commenting on an event or a person, sometimes their words come true.
Occasionally, human prophecies do come true.
We have been like Elijah many times. When we face seemingly impossible situations, we often despair and search for solutions anywhere else but with God.
Jeremy Nehls, class of 2018, was Lakeside’s first participant in the Wisconsin Youth Apprenticeship (YA) program. YA is designed for high school students who want hands-on learning at a worksite along with classroom instruction. Nehls worked at the Robert Schwandt Jr. and S.E. Schwandt Sr. Farms near Juneau. YA is part of a statewide School-to-Work initiative done under the supervision of the state’s Department of Workforce Development and serves a wide variety of career programs.
We broke the 1,000th-Warrior mark for visitors to the Lighthouse Youth Center of Milwaukee. This is the 12th year of a partnership that provides sophomore Warriors in Pastor Clark Schultz’s Word of God classes the opportunity to make new friends and enjoy new experiences. Pastor Jim Buske, LL class of ’93 and director at Lighthouse, visits his alma mater each year to present Warrior teens this opportunity to live their faith. On May 1, 2018, Lighthouse reported that Jacob Horta, class of 2020, was the 1,000th Lakeside Lutheran Warrior to step through the doors of under this program. 
On June 11, more than 500 Warrior family and friends packed the stands for the second year in a row to hear our A Cappella choir members sing the National Anthem to kick off a Brewers game, this year vs. the Chicago Cubs. Though the Brew Crew lost the battle that night, they proceeded to capture the NL Central title with a 96-67 season win-loss record (winning the tiebreaker game over the Cubs [95-68] in October).
Our “Nifty Fifties” script provider, Pioneer Drama Service, ran a contest for best photo submitted on its Facebook page in spring, as voted by its Facebook page visitors. Student photographer Taylor Wolfram, class of ‘19, snapped a great action pic of a dancing Donald (Isaiah Coleman, class of 2018). Our photo took 1st place (with 450 votes) and the LLHS drama department received a $200 gift certificate good for play materials, royalties, or books!
Four new full-time faculty members were installed at the start of the 2018-19 school year, the largest number at once since the 2000-01 school year. Mr. Justin Vanderhoof (second from left) teaches English and Geography and coaches football and track. Mrs. Hannah Uher teaches Science and coaches soccer and cross country. Mr. Nate Sievert teaches in the Math and Phy Ed departments and coaches basketball and track. Pictured at right, Pastor Michael Helwig teaches Word of God classes and directs Operation Go mission trips. We also welcomed back Word of God adjunct instructor Pastor Christopher Koschnitzke (leftmost in photo) for another year. 
The 2018-19 school year marked the inaugural year of our STEM Academy, a special program for students interested in taking engineering or biomedical sciences in their post-secondary education. STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, and the Academy is designed to add classes yearly as this first-year cohort ages through the school. The program is using Project Lead the Way (PLTW) curricula administered through Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). The first class includes 19 students enrolled in “Introduction to Engineering Design” (IED), facilitated by Academy Director Andrew Willems. Next fall, the second course in the series, “Principles of Engineering,” will be available. Successful performance in the high school courses earns students college credit at participating PLTW universities.
Our Capitol North Conference champs had the longest run in football program history through the WIAA playoffs this season, reaching the fourth round of the playoffs. They defeated Beloit Turner, River Valley, and Edgerton in consecutive Friday night playoffs before losing to eventual state champion Racine St. Catherine’s in the state semifinal on November 9. 
Some sweet icing was added when Head Coach Paul also received accolades from the Wisconsin State Journal: 
(That’s more than a quarter of our students.) The results are in and, according to math team advisor Todd Hackbarth, “God once again blessed Lakeside with incredible success!” Varsity Team #1 took first overall. Juniors Gil Haw took 1st and Trevor Geerdts placed 5th individually. JV Team #1 took first & JV Team #2 took third in Capitol North. Individually, sophomores Lydia Buxa placed 3rd and Ashley Grundman & Ella Butzine tied for 4th.
Lukas Heckmann, son of Matt and Amy Heckmann, Middleton, has signed to play for the University of New Orleans, often referred to locally as UNO, a medium-sized, metropolitan, public research university located on the New Orleans lakefront, and a Division I member of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), competing in the Southland Conference.
