Triton Senior High School - Arts and Organizations

Arts and Organizations

In co-curricular areas, Triton High School has a successful and comprehensive theater program under the direction of Mr. John Schreiber, offering a fall high school play, a one-act competition play and a spring musical. For the fall play, 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 has performed in the state festival twice. Musicals have also run the range from Oklahoma, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to Man of La Mancha

The Triton High School band is an outstanding program. On average there are 80 high school students who 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. Triton High School choir also excels under the direction of Mr. Craig Anderson.

The 2003-2004 school year was the 1st year for Link Crew. Link Crew is a program to help freshmen and new students with their transition to high school. Link Crew is made up with about 20 juniors and seniors who 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 organize 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.