Roosevelt Cross Country teams qualified for State at the District meet on Thursday in Council Bluffs!  See pictures from the meet at www.flickr.com/photos/gogerty

Goal for Roosevelt Seniors:  Get your college Applications by November 1! Staff at Roosevelt High put on their own caps and gowns for TRHS College Application Week

Congratulations to the Roughriders cross country teams! Roosevelt captured both the boys’ and girls’ team titles at the CIML Metro championship as well as the individual titles. Sophomore Abdisalan Omar was the top male runner and junior Megan …

The first of two evenings of parent conferences was last night.  If you could not come, please join us on Tuesday, October 22 between 4:00 PM and 8:00 PM.  Or, you can always email or phone teachers to …

 The Riders finished in 5th place at the State Tournament this past weekend with junior Aaron Wirt finishing in 3rd place!!!  Aaron led the entire field after shooting a 71 in Friday’s round.  He followed that up with …

Lifetouch will be taking picture retakes on October 22!  In the commons from 7:00 Am – 1:00 PM.

Congratulations to senior Lily Nellans and ’13 grad Nathan Leys. Roosevelt learned today that the current and former Debate Team members were named All Americans for 2012-13 by the National Forensic League, representing the top 25 national point leaders in debate out of more 120,000 students who participate across the nation.

Congratulations to our own Jeff Marks, a finalist for the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching! In fact, this is the second year in a row that two of Iowa’s three math finalists for the PAEMST award teach at DMPS. To learn more about Mr. Mark’s work and the award, click the above headline.

Congratulations Roosevelt Golf! The Roughriders golf team is heading to the State Tournament for the first time in 17 years after finishing first yesterday in the District Tournament. Team leaders were Willis Gaer (74), Aaron Wirt (75), Cooper Moore (75) and Joe Wandro (79). The State tourney is October 11-12 at the Hunters Ridge Golf Course in Marion.

Ms. Nsereko’s Environmental Science classes presented their zoo projects to Blank Park Zoo officials.  Students prepared zoo environments for an endangered species that they researched.  They described the particular needs of the animal and how their design met …