Earlville Community Unit School District 9

If you are unable to attend the band concert, you can watch the stream. Thank you ! http://Youtube.com/channel/UCe4gHBuzT12MfiZIlnvYwmA/live

I was asked to share this with all of our families.
share an exciting opportunity for your students to participate in our upcoming STEAM Camp, designed to inspire curiosity and creativity in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.
The camp will offer hands-on activities, collaborative projects, and engaging lessons that encourage problem-solving, innovation, and teamwork. Our goal is to provide students with a fun and enriching environment where they can explore new interests and build valuable skills that extend beyond the classroom.
We would love to invite students from your school to join us. Details are as follows:
Dates: June 15th-19th
Location: Mendota, Princeton, Peru, Ottawa, Streator
Grade Levels:
3rd-5th 9:00AM - 11:30AM
6th-8th 12:30PM - 3:00PM
Cost: free
You can find the registration portal on our OSF Innovation Events Website https://www.osfinnovation.org/events
Here are direct links:
Link to Register for 3rd-5th Grade Program: https://jumpsimulation.ungerboeck.com/prod/emc00/register.aspx?aat=4e427a4d306e56684169627544734f2b6f6d52483677705077716854554f5168742b586e62464d537873383d
Link to Register for 6th-8th Grade Program: https://jumpsimulation.ungerboeck.com/prod/emc00/register.aspx?aat=2b52626d724a7a65626e5438376a55324f42584c717949744c327a752f4133634472434e734b7a626874383d

Thank you Mrs. Harp for the prom pictures!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ziNpjL8sWYshd9DaxBCDmrGzfykxVxr4?usp=sharing

Stop by the drama club performance tonight! They will be performing at 5:30 pm in the Old Gym on the stage! The students have been working very hard on putting this performance together.

Blood Drive May 4, 2026 1 to 6 at the Lutheran Church

Stop by the AG shop tonight during Open House 5:30-7:30 Play FFA Trivia in the classroom Place Mother's Day floral orders Purchase FFA apparel Check out some of the activities that we do at contests throughout the year

This week as we celebrate "School Lunch Hero Week" we will celebrate a Earl Cafe staff member each day! Today we celebrate Deb

Red Raider Nation

Here is the link for this week's events.

Reminder--Monday is Spring Sport Picture Day

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QT9_2cWk3ms93G4yEiE00i34EulbbPyZcRt3c4pOjNo/edit?usp=sharing

JH/HS Newsletter- https://app.smore.com/n/4w7tp

Thank you to everyone who donated, the students had a lot of fun at post prom. Due to the donations the students were able to have fun at the Kalahari today and bounce houses and games last night for FREE

Red Raider Nation The HS Baseball game against Newark on Tuesday, 4/28 has been moved to Thursday, 4/30, in Leland at 4:30. The JV Baseball game on 4/30 has been moved to Somonauk.

On our last survey almost 50 students requested a bass fishing team. This is a great opportunity to get out to a fishing tournament! Better Fishing Association in Lasalle sponsors these two free events!

Huge D2E shoutout for our JH for going to a JH math contest for the first time! For our school our top students were: Ryder McWade was the top 7th grader Abe Munoz was the top 6th grader Helena Martin was the top 8th grader

Red Raider Nation

There are some changes to the HS Softball Schedule

The Double Header against Midland on 5/2 will only be one game at 10:00
The game against Parkview Christian on 5/12 has been canceled
The HBR game has been rescheduled for 5/15 in Earlville.

HS Red Raider Results

Earlville Softball defeated Yorkville Christian 17-6

Winning Pitcher--Addie Scherer 7 K's

Sam Knauf--3 Singles, 1 RBI, 1 Run
Addie Scherer--2 Singles, 1 Double, 2 RBI's
Savana Lawton--1 Single, 1 Double, 4 RBI's, 3 Runs
Audrey Scherer--1 Single, 1 Triple, 1 RBI, 3 Runs
Shelby Garbacz--1 Single, 2 RBI's, 2 Runs
Olivia McCandless--1 Single, 1 RBI, 1 Run

If you are going to the Kalahari (post prom) and want to ride the stand up surf. You need to pick up a parent permission form from the office.

Come support all the young entrepreneurs Monday night at Open House! They have put in a lot of hours creating a business plan, working on advertising, designing and making their products. This is an expansion of our Entrepreneurial Club. Next year it will be a class in the JH!

Huge D2E shoutout to our Senior Spotlight Mathieu Galante ❤️ We wish you the best of luck in the future, we know you are going to do amazing things! Way to be D2E ❤️🤍

School Lunch Hero Day is annually celebrated on the first Friday in May and highlights the cafeteria staff who prepare nutritious meals for our students. To really celebrate them, we are going to have dress-up days for the week. Join us in celebrating and encourage your students to follow the dress-up days too! Also, help spread the word that the lunches each day next week will be one of their top 5 favorites from the survey. Let's have a great week!

In previous years, Illinois Valley Community College’s Continuing Education Center has produced and shared an electronic version of IVCC’s summer youth enrichment catalog that can be shared with parents via your school website or other communication tool. Summer enrichment programs will resume June-July for ages 5 -12 and Teens ages 13-17. Virtual STEAM camp opportunities are also available for ages 8-11 and 11-14. Our 2026 Summer Electronic Catalog is now available, and registration is open. Attached to this email are the "Summer Ed'Venture Camp Schedule" & "Camps Offered in Ottawa" .pdf files. Please share these with your staff and district students. Teen Career Pathway Programs We are excited to announce the fifth year of career pathway experiences for ages 13-17. These include: GRIP: Stem Academy SPARK: Jr. Welding Academy SCRUBS: Healthcare Pathways YES, CHEF Teen Culinary Camp PLC Bootcamp GEAR UP! Jr. Truck Driver Training NEW for 2026: Build It, Code It, Compete: Teen Robotics Camp NEW for 2026! Expanded IVCC Camp Schedule in Ottawa! We have expanded offerings to offer technology camps at the IVCC Ottawa Center in the month of June. Programs include: ROBLOX Makers, Virtual Reality, Make Your First 3D Video Game and Python Programmers. We are also in our third year of offering camps at Nell’s Woodland focused on the arts, ecology and science. For a full list of classes visit https://www.ivcc.edu/summercamp For information, call (815) 224-0427 To register, visit https://www.ivcc.edu/enroll or call 815-224-0427. We look forward to Summer 2026. If you have any questions about IVCC’s summer programs, please do not hesitate to reach out.