The Bellefontaine Board of Education learned about two student trips during their monthly meeting Monday night.
Marketing teacher Katie Rychener touted the DECA Sports and Entertainment Marketing Conference set for Feb. 2-6 in Orlando, Fla.
Rychener said the trip will cost $1,100 per student. This includes four nights of accommodations, air travel, experience tickets and marketing tours. The DECA students will go to an Orlando Magic pro basketball game, Universal Studios and Disney World.
At least 12 students will attend the conference, which will reinforce concepts taught in the classroom.
Bellefontaine Middle School teacher Jordan Reser also detailed the eighth-grade trip to Washington, D.C., slated for May 16-19.
Reser, who’s the trip coordinator, said the trip will cost $705 per student. Approximately 150 eighth-graders plan to attend and the annual trek also includes a stop in Gettysburg, Pa.
Student fundraisers would pay for the trips.
The board will vote on both trips at their next meeting — 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, at the Bellefontaine High School Distance Learning Center.
Members also approved the baseball trip to Myrtle Beach in March. A total of 20 players and six coaches will be on the trip over spring break. The players will conduct fundraisers in the fall and winter.
Also during the meeting, the board approved a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bellefontaine Education Association to clarify terms and conditions of calamity days.
The agreement states that if the sixth canceled day of school occurs more than two weeks prior to the President’s Day recognition, that day will become an instructional day, with students and teachers in attendance.
In addition, the agreement spells out utilizing the March or May waiver day as instructional days in certain situations for making up calamity days, and requirements for teachers regarding logging time at home or at school in calamity day situations.
The board also approved a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bellefontaine Education Association to clarify terms and conditions for the sick leave bank during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In other action, the board:
• extended high school supplemental contracts to: Russ Hogue, head baseball; Henry Stolly, head boys basketball; Sean Egler, junior varsity boys basketball; Meghan Ashcraft, head girls basketball; Michelle Zedeker, assistant girls basketball; Brady Hiatt, Aaron LaBatt, head wrestling; Johnny Maurice, assistant wrestling; Jane Kline, Tammy Overholser, bowling, Sharon Lewis, head swimming; Chelsea Johnson, assistant swimming; Sharon Hodge, French Honor Society;
• extended middle school supplemental contracts to: Jeremiah Vigansky, seventh-grade girls basketball; Jason Cozad, eighth-grade girls basketball; Steve Oppy, assistant girls basketball; Mike Mosbarger, seventh-grade boys basketball; Tom Rose, eighth-grade boys basketball; Cam Mitchell, assistant boys basketball; Kyle Spence, head wrestling; Randy Crace, assistant wrestling;
• approved the following volunteer coaches: Mark Brunswick, boys basketball; Brad Rader, Randy Varner, girls basketball; Jeremy Ryan, Robbie Weikart, bowling; Kody Graham, swimming;
• accepted the resignations of Cari Arthur, food service worker, effective Sept. 21;
• approved the following Mercedes Johnson and Brandi Darst as new food service workers; and
• honored September seniors of the month Lily Turner and Palmer Neeld.