Butler Community College hosted the annual 2026 Butler County Spelling Bee on Friday, February 6 in the R.D. Hubbard Welcome Center on the El Dorado campus. Samuel Riley of Andover Middle School was named champion for the second year in a row. A total of 25 contestants from Butler County elementary and middle schools competed, with Samuel correctly spelling "hydrophobia" in the sixth round to be…
Butler Community College hosted the annual 2025 Butler County Spelling Bee on Friday, February 7 in the R.D. Hubbard Welcome Center on the El Dorado campus. Samuel Riley of Andover Middle School was named champion. A total of 26 contestants from Butler County elementary and middle schools competed for eight total rounds. Samuel was the only student to advance to the Championship Round. …
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Butler Community College now offers Art in the Elementary Classroom, an online course starting this fall. With the development of this new course, students can now earn an Elementary Education associate degree fully online as of Fall 2025. Casi Short, art adjunct instructor, designed the course to suit the needs of Butler’s online learning population. Students will make art, interact with art…
Written by: Trisha Walls, Carey Chesire from Andover Middle School won the Sunflower State Spelling Bee on March 23 held in Salina at Kansas Wesleyan University. Chesire competed as one of nearly 100 elementary and middle school students. Chesire, an eighth-grade student who qualified for the State Bee by winning the Butler County Spelling Bee in February, correctly spelled the word “ahuehuete.” The ahuehuete, a cypress…
Butler Community College has released the full list of graduates for the 2024-2025 school year, including Order of the Gold and Order of the Purple honorees, members of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society and a special notation for first-generation students. To receive Order of the Gold, students must have earned a 4.0 GPA and completed 30 credit hours at Butler. In order to receive Order of the…, Notation Key:, ` denotes Order of the Gold ~ denotes Order of the Purple ^ denotes 1st generation student + denotes Early College Academy graduate * denotes Phi Theta Kappa membership
Butler Community College Criminal Justice student Kathryn Geier was one of seven college students from across the state to complete the Kansas Collegiate Law Enforcement Academy, hosted by the Kansas Highway Patrol May 19-23, 2025. This marked the seventeenth consecutive year that at least one Butler student participated in the Academy. Criminal justice students from community colleges and…
Butler Community College Chamber Singers will perform in “Mozart’s Coronation” at the Wichita Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday, October 28 at 7 p.m. This select ensemble of 35 singers will grace the stage at the First United Methodist Church for about 40 minutes during the mass choir and their solo performance. “The Butler Chamber Singers are one of the hardest-working groups of students I have had…, Quick details, What: Mozart’s “Coronation Mass in C” Chamber Singers with Wichita Symphony Orchestra Where: First United Methodist Church, 330 N Broadway St, Wichita, KS 67202 When: Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. Purchase Tickets: https://wichitasymphony.org/events/mozarts-coronation . Learn about theatre, art, instrumental/vocal music and mass communication scholarship opportunities available to all majors.
The Butler Community College Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Kim Trujillo and Brett Martinez, received an invitation to perform at the 2026 Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA) In-Service Workshop on Thursday, February 26, at Century II Convention Center in Wichita. Being chosen to perform at the workshop is the highest honor a performing ensemble can receive in the state. Over…, Members of the Percussion Ensemble (listed by hometowns):, , Arkansas City, Elizabeth Blatchford , Douglass, Nayara Sanchez , Harper, Dayne Easley , Lawrence, Thomas Kaufman , Mulvane, Cheyanne Bullard Loren Gonzalez , Potwin, Alexander Hendricks , Rosalia, Kianna Mantanona , Sedgwick, Daniel Hammond , Wichita, Lachlan Donaldson-Loescher Kate Grilliot Donte Melton Emmanuel Trice Jackson Wenger
