| Triton High School | |
|---|---|
| Type | High School, grades 9 - 12 |
| Location | Dodge Center, Minnesota, US |
| District | Dodge Center, West Concord and Claremont |
| Colors | maroon and gray |
| Mascot | Cobra |
Triton High School, located in Dodge Center, Minnesota was formed in 1990 when the communities of Dodge Center, West Concord and Claremont, combined to create one junior high school and one senior high school. Each town continued to operate separate elementary schools. The senior high school was housed in the former Dodge Center High School building and the junior high school was housed in the former West Concord High School building. The first class graduated in 1991.
Triton's mascot is the Cobra and colors are maroon and gray. School song is "I'm a Jayhawk," official rouser of the University of Kansas.
A bond referendum was passed in 1996 to build an addition to the senior high school building in Dodge Center, adding Triton Primary School and additional senior high school space.[1] Later, Triton relocated its Middle School from West Concord to Dodge Center and officially opened in the fall of 2009.
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Triton offers many successful programs. For example, Senior Seminar is a class taken in the final semester of high school. The class reinforces seniors' life skills such as financial planning and job interviewing techniques. This class must be passed in order for students to graduate. Through this class, students also complete a project wherein students must write a paper, complete a project, then present their findings to a board of faculty and community members.[2]
Pre Calculus is a class designed to challenge the upper grade levels at Triton. Throughout these two semesters, the class will cover functions and their inverses. It also teaches how they are used.
World Cultures is a course offered that helps students understand what culture is and the role culture plays in human history.
Theater Arts is a one-semester English elective where students study some of the classics of theatre. In the course students also learn the basics of play production and acting.
Music and Issues studies the history of music.
Applied Science is a science elective designed around Science Olympiad. Students participate in competition and contests designed around different concepts. Started in 2009, the Physics/Chemistry teacher wanted to provide a different approach to science education, while at the same time provide "strength training" for Science Olympiad team.
Physics is a science elective that helps students understand the world, and necessary for anyone that would like to pursue a future in science. This elective covers forces, motion, and energy.
Welding 2 is a class that uses TIG to weld stainless steel and aluminun, and is helpful in preparing students for future careers.
Accounting is a class that teaches students how businesses handle transactions and money.
In co-curricular areas, Triton High School has a successful and comprehensive theater program, offering a fall high school play, a one-act competition play, and a spring musical. For the fall, Triton has produced American classics such as Arsenic and Old Lace, Pulitzer-prize winners such as Skin of Our Teeth, and newer classics such as The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Since 1993, Triton's one-act has been named a "starring production" every year in the conference's annual one-act festival, has advanced to section finals in the Minnesota State High School League's one-act competition 16 out of 18 years, and has performed in the state festival twice. Musicals have also run the range from Oklahoma to Man of La Mancha[3]
The Triton High School band is an outstanding program. On average there are 80 high school students that participate in band. There are 15 instruments that are routinely played in this band. There are two different level bands for the high school students, symphonic band and concert band. Besides these two bands, Triton also has a jazz band and a pep band.
The 2003-2004 school year was the 1st year for Link Crew. Link Crew is a program to help freshman and new students with their transition to high school. Link Crew is made up with about 20 juniors and seniors that are leaders in the school. These student leaders host events all year with the freshmen to improve school spirit.
Math League is a fun competition where students go to other schools to compete with math questions. The math topics are algebra, geometry, trigonometry, algebra 2, and pre-calc.
E.A.R.T.H. stands for Environmental Awareness and Responsibility at Triton High. In E.A.R.T. H. students do all the recycling at Triton, adopt highways, do special things for Earth during Earth week, sponsor cell phone drives, and clean up the football stands after home games.
BPA: Business Professionals of America began in 2009 and became a new addition to Triton High School. BPA helps with practical skills related to business. Students in BPA compete in 60 different events.
There are many FFA (National FFA Organization) contests, ranging from animal judging to crop judging to mechanics. The FFA grows a garden in West Concord in order to sell the produce. They also show animals in the county fairs and the Minnesota State Fair.
Knowledge Bowl is actually a series of interdisciplinary contests where students compete in written and oral rounds by answering questions to all areas of learning. Questions test students' recall, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.
Triton has enjoyed successful athletics. The football team has a record of 172 wins and 51 losses from 1992 to 2009. They have won Minnesota state championships in 1994, 2000, and 2006.Triton has the state record of most points scored in a season; in 2006 they average 51.3 points a game[4].
The boys' basketball team has managed various tournament wins over the years. In 2008 they were Section Runner-Ups, and in 2009 they were 2AA Champions for the first time in school history.[5]
The girls' basketball team won the conference championship in 1991-92.
The girls softball team won the conference championship in 1991-92.[6]
The Triton wrestling team has had 22 wrestlers go to the state wrestling tournament, 33 different times[7]
In track Triton has managed to send someone to state every year except five of those years. In recent years, the track and field team has only had one year without a state competitor. In all, the Cobras have sent 42 athletes in 15 different events to the state meet.
Triton has offered boys golf since 1991 and girls golf since 1993. Triton’s had three people go on to state. [8]
Triton has offered dance line as a girl’s winter sport since 2008.