ELEMENTARY BOYS COOLING OFF AT RIVER COUNTRY WATER PARK IN MUSKOGEE.
Alumni Spotlight Alexis Lyons is a member of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and attended Jones Academy from 2014-2018. While at Jones Academy, she played basketball, softball, ran track and was a member of the Jones Academy BOTBALL robotics team and was a tutor. Alexis was chosen as an Oklahoma All-State, Oklahoma Native American All-State, OCA, OGBCA, and All Area Defensive Team in basketball.
She was a member of the National Honor Society, National Technical Honors Society, and Hartshorne Student Council. Alexis attended East Central University from 2018-2022 and earned her bachelor's degree in Kinesiology (Being a Jones Academy graduate, she received scholarships that supported her while at ECU) . While attending ECU she was a member of the Women’s Basketball Team (2018-2022) and the Deans Honor Roll (2019-2020). She was chosen for an internship at the University of Utah with the Native American Research and had two papers published. Alexis has modeled for the Teton Fashion Summit, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Winter Magazine, and the Pop Swap and Shop in Oklahoma City. She was chosen as a background actress for seasons two and three of Reservation Dogs and season one of Tulsa King. She is currently attending the University of Central Oklahoma and working on obtaining her Master of Athletic Training (Yakoke to the Chata Foundation that has funded her master's degree because she is a Jones Academy graduate). She has completed clinical rotations at Edmond Santa Fe and clinical rotations at UCO with hopes of obtaining an internship with the NBA or the NFL. Alexis plans to own a business in athletic rehab/gym in the future. She wants to continue to give back to the Native Community and help with tournaments, highlights, scouting, training, education, etc. We are so proud of you Alexis! Keep doing BIG things!
Back to school bash evening activities were a blast. Grilling, Foam Pit, Inflatables and pools were just a few of the things that went on during the evening party.
Back to school is in full swing with the library photo booth!
Welcome students and staff to a new school year at Jones Academy!
Jones Academy is being represented at the 23rd GCER Botball competition in St. Augustine, Fl. With leading by Coach Zach Duffy, Samuel and Fichik work hard at coding their robots to perform tasks to accumulate points among competitors from across the globe.
Hartshorne has released the 2023-2024 school calendar. Please check back regularly for changes as the year progresses.
Students and staff attended the UNITY (United National Indian Tribal Youth) Conference in Washington, DC and enjoyed site seeing around the U.S. Capitol.
Jones Academy UNITY Student Council is in DC!
Jones Academy UNITY Youth Council is off to Washington D.C. to attend the UNITY National Conference. This years theme is “Healing the Spirit of Native Youth”. We can’t wait to see what they learn and hear about their experience!
Jones Academy students participating in the summer work program at Jones Academy serve food at the Antlers Community Center today.
Jones Academy is now accepting applications for consideration of attendance. Info and application forms can be found at the following link.
https://www.jonesacademy.org/o/ja/page/admissions
Last week, Jones Academy hosted their first Open House Event. This was a day set aside for Choctaw Nation departments to come onto our campus for us to show and tell what we do. The day included Introductions of leadership, departmental presentations, lunch together in our cafeteria, and campus tours. Yakoke to everyone who attended!
Jones Academy 2023 Seniors took a trip to San Antonio, South Padre, Port Aransas and Corpus Christi. They spent 5 days sight seeing and relaxing at the beach.
Jones Academy travelled to Durant to celebrate the Education team within the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Corn hole, relay races, dunk tank, hula contest, limbo contest, and best luau dress were the games and events for the day. So much fun was had by all! Jones Academy took 1st and 2nd place in the relay race as well as other prizes throughout the day!
Jones Academy boys travelled to Collinsville Paintball Land to play paintball.
Jones Academy elementary boys spent the day at the Oklahoma City Zoo interacting with animals in the petting zoo.
Jones Academys' Junior Botball robotics team demonstrated their coding skills with their robots to perform challenges for the elementary school students and staff. Robotics is one of the computer science programs offered at Jones Academy for students. #kipr #botball #robotics
Senior Samuel Kaniatobe (pictured middle) was crowned the 2023 Hartshorne High School Band King this week! Congratulations Samuel!
Yakoke to Rachael Ranallo from KTC - McAlester for visiting with Jones Academy.
Students got an overview of programs offered at Kiamichi Tech - McAlester campus and general information about how to attend during high school.
Then they used iPads and Sphero Bots to do some basic block coding. Students were able to code the Bots to make a square. They had to discuss angles and how to make the Bot turn each corner. Once they figured out the angles we needed to use, they had to modify the code slightly to sharpen up the corners of the square. It was a fun activity that got them thinking about math on their day off.
