ESRI Product Engineer Jacob Lias, SFLS 8th grade class of 2003, shares how geographers are helping organizations like Johns Hopkins University tell the story of the COVID-19 pandemic through the art of digital map making.

Sioux Falls Lutheran School is pleased to announce that Miss Heather Miller is one of 79 teachers nominated for the 31st Annual 2019 Dr. John W. Harris Teacher of the Year award.

After just three short years with Bloomingdale’s in New York City, Emily Baney, SFLS class of 2003, was promoted to omni buyer of girls in October, 2018.

Sioux Falls native Lisa Griebel (Agar) was inducted into the Iowa State Athletics Hall of Fame in September, 2018. She competed in track and field during her time at ISU and is considered one of the greatest shot putters in the school’s history.

When Aaron Sailer, SFLS class of 2003, studied accounting at Concordia University Nebraska, he never expected to use his degree at a Lutheran school. In 2016, however, he joined the team at Concordia Lutheran Schools of Omaha as the director of finance.

Jill Ricke, SFLS class of 2012, served as a student coach with the Dakota Wesleyan University women’s basketball team during the 2017-2018 season. She helped the Tigers secure their first ever NAIA Division II Women's Basketball National Championship.

Kenzie Perry, SFLS Class of 2010, returned to South Dakota last summer to conduct impressive and important research on water quality near Hot Springs.

Last spring, Anna Shane, Bria Berg, and Kristina Pike, all of whom graduated from Sioux Falls Lutheran School in 2015, were inducted into the National Honor Society for World Languages. During their time at SFLS, the girls were part of a class that began studying Spanish in kindergarten. Today they are quick to credit their success with the language to that early exposure.

Before entering his senior year of college at Valparaiso University, Paul Flaten, SFLS class of 2010, is spending his summer as an intern at NASA.