Izard County STEM School

There's a lot to look forward to this week - including a performance by our K-2 Cougarettes at Tuesday night's games!
Go Cougars!

Reminder that students will be out of school on Monday, January 19, for Martin Luther King, Jr Day. This will also be a professional development day for our teachers.

It's GAMEDAY! The Cougars travel to Cotter for Friday night conference games against the Warriors. Junior Girls will begin at 4:30 followed by Jr. Boys, Sr. Girls, and Sr. Boys. We'll post a direct link to the livestream in the comments of this post at game time!

Good luck tonight, Cougars!
#CougarNation #CougarPride

Our Junior High Quiz Bowl team traveled to Ozarka College yesterday to compete in the NAESC Jr. High Tournament, and they finished the day as TOURNAMENT CHAMPS with an impressive 5–1 record! 🏆
Freshman Ian Bear was named the tournament MVP for his outstanding performance.

Great job to our JH Quiz Bowl Cougars and Charles Treat—we’re proud of the hard work, preparation, and Cougar pride you represented so well! 🐾📚

Thank you to EAST Students, Daniel Anderson and Jacob Smallwood (not pictured), for making Jr High Quiz Bowl trophies for today's tournament! They used Creality Print software to design the trophies and then 3D printed them. Next, they collaborated with IC Ag Metals class to engarve the plates. Thank you to Mike's Trophies for donating the plates for our students to get hands on experience engraving!

It's a HOME GAMEDAY and a great day to support our Cougars! The Jr. Girls will tipoff against Marshall at 4:30 with the Junior Boys and both Senior High teams to follow.

Let's go, Cougars!
#CougarNation

On Saturday, Mr. Phillips took a group of students to Paragould for Senior High All-Region tryouts, and it was a great day for our Cougars! 🎶

We’re proud to share that all three of our students qualified:
🎼 Mackenzy Stillman (10th grade) – 2nd Band, 1st Chair Flute
🎼 Gage Nielsen (10th grade) – 2nd Alternate
🎼 Owen Stasny (12th grade) – Qualifying score on Trumpet

Congratulations to these talented students on their hard work and success! We’re so proud of you! 👏🎺🎶

On Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, we proudly recognize our School Resource Officers for their service and dedication. Thank you to Officer Brett Stevenson and Officer Brian Gaskins for protecting our students, supporting our staff, and being positive role models in our school. We appreciate you today and every day!

We are thrilled to announce that Kish Pool and Olivia Stroud have been selected to present at the 2026 National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, June 22–25! 🎉 Their full workshop, “Dig It! Unearthing Learning Through Soil Stories,” will showcase hands-on, cross-curricular activities that connect soil to science, math, language arts, social studies, and more—all while meeting Arkansas Ag in the Classroom standards and National Agricultural Literacy Outcomes. From building soil profiles to testing plant health and writing “Soil Stories,” their interactive session will provide educators with practical strategies to bring agriculture, sustainability, and inquiry-based learning into classrooms from Kindergarten through high school. We are proud to have Kish and Olivia representing both Izard County STEM School and the state of Arkansas on a national stage! 

Our 6th graders just wrapped up their thermal energy unit with an Insulator Design Challenge! 🧪🌡️ Using only the allowed materials they built insulated cups to see which materials best kept the water cold the longest. It was awesome to watch them test and compare their designs to find what helped slow heat transfer the most! 💡📊 #STEM #EngineeringDesign

Congratulations to Billie Ice and Riley Rucker on their recent Microsoft PowerPoint Certifications! They completed preperation for this exam in IC STEM's Introduction to Business class.

Good luck to our Cougars' Bowling teams today!

The IC STEM Cougar Choir is hosting a Talent Show on Thursday, March 5 at 6:30 in the Fine Arts Building! See Mrs. Phillips to enter and for more information. Admission for audience will be $1

Izard County School will start conducting BMI (body mass index) screenings over the next couple of weeks. This is a mandatory screening in Arkansas for students in kindergarten, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10th grades. However, if you do not want your child to participate in this screening, they will need to bring a note signed by the parent with them to the screening.

Additionally, the scoliosis screening program will be conducted soon to screen 6th grade girls, 8th grade boys, and 8th grade girls. For more information on any of the upcoming screenings, please contact Nurse Tanna at 870-322-7229.

❄️📚 We hope you had a wonderful winter break! We look forward to welcoming everyone back and kicking off a great start to the new semester on Monday, January 5.

The 78th annual NEA tournament wrapped up yesterday in Jonesboro, and we're very proud to announce that we had two Cougars selected to the all-tournament teams. We're so proud of you, Olivia and Benaiah Spray!

#CougarNation

It’s National School Board Appreciation Month! Thank you to our school board members for your dedication, leadership, and service to our schools and students. We appreciate you!

🎉✨ Happy New Year from all of us at IC STEM School! We wish our students, families, staff, and community a safe, joyful, and successful year ahead.

Merry Christmas to all of Cougar Nation! Thank you for being such an important part of our community! 🎄❤️