School Pictures will be Thursday March 28!
The following students participated in a virtual Speech and Debate competition over the weekend: Faith Cotterman, Noah, Zevallos, Allie Klucewicz, Arabella Kirk, Caleb Chae, Hunter Bishop, and Jocie Palang.
Arabella Kirk placed fourth among 25 students in the Declamation event, while Noah Zevallos and Allie Klucewicz TIED for seventh place out of 70 students in the Just Talk event. We are so proud of our RMS Speech and Debate Team!
Additionally, we had an amazing speech and debate workshop with the FWBHS students, today! Our kids got to workshop their performance pieces, play some debate games, and pick the highschoolers brains about Speech and Debate competition. We are very proud of our middle schoolers! They showed up and showed out!
Thank you to the Speech and Debate coach, Ms. Brownsberger, and her amazing team at FWBHS for supporting our RMS team!!
Thursday, March 28, enjoy Panda Express and show this flyer, or use the online order code to support Ruckel.
Don't forget to enjoy chick fil a tomorrow!
This Tuesday is the third Tuesday of the month. Order your Chick fil A through the app and 10% will go to the Ruckel PTO.
Don't forget to mark Tuesday, April 23, on your calendar. Ruckel will be hosting a color run. More information coming after Spring Break.
Coming Soon!! The RMS Spring Book Fair will be held 15-19 April in the Media Center. Parents, please consider volunteering: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0F45AAA72CA75-book
Don't forget to visit Chick Fil A next Tuesday and support Ruckel PTO
Congratulations to Ruckel's star students of the week.
Don't forget to move your clocks forward one hour this weekend.
Mark your calendar for Tuesday April 23!
Congratulations to Ms. Harvey on being our teacher of the month the month, sponsored by security benefit.
Congratulations Ms. Koger on winning the award for Best Mannered Teacher.
Congratulations to our Ram Star of the week.
Incoming 6th graders for the 2024-2025 School Year, mark your calendars for March 5!
8th grade families
High School Information Night is Thursday, February 29th at 6:00 pm in the NHS Auditorium. Please attend this event to learn more about high school registration.
Don't forget, if you would like to donate to show teacher appreciation for all of our hard-working teachers, you can do so at the following link.
https://okaloosaschools.schoolcashonline.com/Fee/Details/1729/452/False/True
Save the date!
Congratulations to our Regional Science Fair winners
Adeleigh M Hannigan - What main chemical in sunscreen blocks UV light most? 3rd place Chemistry
Ainsley K Pearson - A Sweet Trap Special award SRC
Emily A Danaher - Effect of Water Temperature on Ocean Currents 2nd place Chemistry State Finalist Women in Geosciences
Christian J. Stickler - Oil Spill Cleanup Experiment Special Award from US Navy
Micah E Matherne - Tectonic Destruction 3rd place Engineering
Eva Stenstad - Fighting With Fractals: Identifying Invasive Species Using Geometric Patterns 1st place Mathematics and Computational Sciences State Finalist Special award John Fay Math MS 1st
Riley Cole - Fighting Fire With Sound Special award from Navy
Benjamin R. Nusimow - Mother Nature vs. Motherboard 2nd place Plant science Special award from Garnier Beach
Whitney K. Schlechter - Rooting Hormone vs. Nothing - Which is Better? 2nd place Plant science
Weston B Murray - Ground Effect 3rd place Engineering Special award for using Metrics
Okaloosa school's All-Star academic team is made up of 16 students from various high schools around the school district. They practice at Ruckel Middle School on Tuesday evenings with coaches Lisa Nall, Okaloosa Schools District Academic Team Coordinator, Julie Mosley and Michael Mosley (Rocky Bayou Christian School). They will compete at the Commissioner's Academic Challenge at Universal Studio's Orlando in April.
