By Alyssa Bissell
On October 13, a lucky selection of thirteen ladies from the high school got the opportunity for a fun-filled, yet informative field trip to Iowa State University in Ames. Iowa State’s whole purpose for this field trip was to invite young women from all across Iowa and other surrounding states, such as Minnesota, to a convention for their pure interest in science and engineering.
As the girls arrived early that morning, they were greeted with breakfast and soon sent off to their first “session.” Five sessions were given throughout the day, and each student was fortunate enough to attend the top five sessions of their choice. Each session was set up like a classroom. An instructor was there to explain and describe all of the possible fields that women who are interested in science and engineering could venture. These fields range from medicine to biology or even psychology.
Towards the end of the day, more fun activities were offered to the girls to introduce how entertaining careers in science and engineering could be.
“The glass blowing was awesome,” said sophomore Brooke Brommel. “ We even got to create and program our own robots.”
Students who attended gained much more knowledge of certain branches of science and engineering that they may have never even heard before, and they received much advice on how to start the career they are interested. The convention boosted much confidence and encouragement for more women to get involved into the science and engineering field.
Monday, November 21, 2011
New Fitness Equipment
By Ryan Deuel
The Interstate 35 Community School District has recently acquired some new fitness equipment that has been constructed outside of the high school gym. The new fitness equipment was obtained through a very generous grant of $2500 from the Greater Madison County Community Foundation.
The equipment will be put to very good use by the students and faculty members. Some of the Physical Education classes will be doing various exercises with it when the weather gets nicer and it begins to warm up outside.
“This new fitness equipment that we have gotten will allow more people in the community to become active and will give them an easy place to exercise,” commented high school senior, Colton Hurst.
The new equipment wouldn’t have been able to be used without the work of Lori Jones and the rest of the custodians that work in the school who were a very big part in the assembly of the equipment.
The Interstate 35 Community School District has recently acquired some new fitness equipment that has been constructed outside of the high school gym. The new fitness equipment was obtained through a very generous grant of $2500 from the Greater Madison County Community Foundation.
The equipment will be put to very good use by the students and faculty members. Some of the Physical Education classes will be doing various exercises with it when the weather gets nicer and it begins to warm up outside.
“This new fitness equipment that we have gotten will allow more people in the community to become active and will give them an easy place to exercise,” commented high school senior, Colton Hurst.
The new equipment wouldn’t have been able to be used without the work of Lori Jones and the rest of the custodians that work in the school who were a very big part in the assembly of the equipment.
National Honor Society
By Olivia Sulentic and Alyssa Bissell
Wednesday, November 16, ten new members were inducted into the Interstate 35 National Honor Society. NHS is an organization that encourages leadership, service, scholarship, and character.
Each year students with a GPA of 3.5 are invited to apply for membership into NHS. Thirty five applicants apply each year. They are required to fill out a packet that includes their leadership positions, extra-curricular activities, including sports teams, and clubs, community service activities, their work experience, awards, and recognitions.
This year the ten new members are sophomores: Valerie Bedwell, Forrest Beeler, Shandara Beener, Holly McKinney, and Jenna Sandquist. Juniors are Bailey Dixon, Caitlin Weeks, Jessica Deuel, and the seniors consist of Rachel Brownlee and Taylor Parish.
These new members will contribute to the current National Honor Society members’ activities such as helping the community with their annual blood drive and sales.
Wednesday, November 16, ten new members were inducted into the Interstate 35 National Honor Society. NHS is an organization that encourages leadership, service, scholarship, and character.
Each year students with a GPA of 3.5 are invited to apply for membership into NHS. Thirty five applicants apply each year. They are required to fill out a packet that includes their leadership positions, extra-curricular activities, including sports teams, and clubs, community service activities, their work experience, awards, and recognitions.
This year the ten new members are sophomores: Valerie Bedwell, Forrest Beeler, Shandara Beener, Holly McKinney, and Jenna Sandquist. Juniors are Bailey Dixon, Caitlin Weeks, Jessica Deuel, and the seniors consist of Rachel Brownlee and Taylor Parish.
These new members will contribute to the current National Honor Society members’ activities such as helping the community with their annual blood drive and sales.
All-State Choir
By Alyssa Bissell
Some of you may know sophomore Jenna Sandquist for her outstanding achievements in sports, 4H, and most importantly, her academics. Not only has she accomplished many honors and recognition in all of these categories in her two, short years of high school, but she has also taken on a new major accomplishment by letting out her incredible singing voice to the judges for All-State Choir.
Within the first month of school, Jenna already began preparing for All-State Choir by practicing nine different songs that were definitely not considered “easy” songs to learn. Some of them were even in a foreign language. After much preparation, she drove to Harlan on a Saturday morning and practiced six different cuts with fellow participant, senior Mariah Lewis. Mariah and Jenna first auditioned together in front of a single judge and waited an almost unending three hours to find out if they had made the second round.
“The scariest part was waiting to find out whether I made it or not. I was seeing girls around me very happy and some were crying, and I still had to wait at least an hour before I found out the results,” stated Jenna.
After much anticipation, they were called back for a second audition. As Jenna was the first up, she had only fifteen minutes to prepare three different cuts for the judges. Fortunately, it must have been enough for her because she successfully made it to All-State Choir as a Soprano 2 singer. For all of her fans who wish to come support her, Jenna will be performing at the concert held at Iowa State University on November 18th and 19th.
Some of you may know sophomore Jenna Sandquist for her outstanding achievements in sports, 4H, and most importantly, her academics. Not only has she accomplished many honors and recognition in all of these categories in her two, short years of high school, but she has also taken on a new major accomplishment by letting out her incredible singing voice to the judges for All-State Choir.
Within the first month of school, Jenna already began preparing for All-State Choir by practicing nine different songs that were definitely not considered “easy” songs to learn. Some of them were even in a foreign language. After much preparation, she drove to Harlan on a Saturday morning and practiced six different cuts with fellow participant, senior Mariah Lewis. Mariah and Jenna first auditioned together in front of a single judge and waited an almost unending three hours to find out if they had made the second round.
“The scariest part was waiting to find out whether I made it or not. I was seeing girls around me very happy and some were crying, and I still had to wait at least an hour before I found out the results,” stated Jenna.
After much anticipation, they were called back for a second audition. As Jenna was the first up, she had only fifteen minutes to prepare three different cuts for the judges. Fortunately, it must have been enough for her because she successfully made it to All-State Choir as a Soprano 2 singer. For all of her fans who wish to come support her, Jenna will be performing at the concert held at Iowa State University on November 18th and 19th.
Bah Humbug!
By Ellen Lupkes
“When I walk outside, it had better be snowing,” said Jessica Deuel, an Interstate 35 junior at the conclusion of Bah Humbug! on Friday, November 4. While the production was in the Interstate 35 Performing Arts Center (the high school gym) for only two nights, the play did an absolutely wonderful job of putting Scrooge and the audience in the holiday spirit.
Justin Pontier did very well and was very dedicated in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. With white hair and the face of an eighty year old man, Pontier left people wondering who is going to fill his role next year following his graduation in May.
Another outstanding performance is to be credited to Marie Bosworth, who played the role of Beth Cratchet. With the shyness and sweetness of a lamb, Marie pulled off the secretary vibe with glasses and sincerity.
Tanner Daniels led a cast of elementary students. Playing Tiny Tim, Daniels was very convincing from his costume all the way to his limp.
“For being so young I thought did a really good job,” said Staci Morris, a play goer.
In addition to these three, despite a lack of functioning microphones, the whole cast did a phenomenal job acting, singing, dancing, and speaking in old English accents.
“The hardest part was to be a ghost and English so for my part it was like a double accent, which made it more difficult. Another thing was to sing and dance while focusing on the double accent,” said Mariah Lewis, the ghost of Josie Marley.
“When I walk outside, it had better be snowing,” said Jessica Deuel, an Interstate 35 junior at the conclusion of Bah Humbug! on Friday, November 4. While the production was in the Interstate 35 Performing Arts Center (the high school gym) for only two nights, the play did an absolutely wonderful job of putting Scrooge and the audience in the holiday spirit.
Justin Pontier did very well and was very dedicated in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. With white hair and the face of an eighty year old man, Pontier left people wondering who is going to fill his role next year following his graduation in May.
Another outstanding performance is to be credited to Marie Bosworth, who played the role of Beth Cratchet. With the shyness and sweetness of a lamb, Marie pulled off the secretary vibe with glasses and sincerity.
Tanner Daniels led a cast of elementary students. Playing Tiny Tim, Daniels was very convincing from his costume all the way to his limp.
“For being so young I thought did a really good job,” said Staci Morris, a play goer.
In addition to these three, despite a lack of functioning microphones, the whole cast did a phenomenal job acting, singing, dancing, and speaking in old English accents.
“The hardest part was to be a ghost and English so for my part it was like a double accent, which made it more difficult. Another thing was to sing and dance while focusing on the double accent,” said Mariah Lewis, the ghost of Josie Marley.
I-35 Celebrates Our Textbook Athletes
By Mariah Lewis
Tension mounts as nerves are pushed considerably near the breaking point. It has come down to this; the final few moments of the contest. It is do or die, win or lose. The competition is one of great stamina and concentration. Does this scene sound like a championship basketball game, or perhaps a football or volleyball thriller? Maybe, but this scenario actually describes, in tremendous detail, the mood of a Knowledge Bowl match.
On November 2, the Interstate 35 Knowledge Bowl team participated in the preliminary Pride of Iowa Conference Championship competition (the final round will be held sometime in January) at Southwestern Community College. This competition consisted of twelve teams. The Roadrunners made their presence known by coming in second place, undefeated save only to the preliminary champion, Nodaway Valley. However, this competition did not determine the “official” conference champs but only the seeding for the final competition.
Interstate 35 certainly had its work cut out for it with only two veteran members returning to this year’s team, seniors Kaley Chicoine and Mariah Lewis. The rest of the team consisted of Knowledge Bowl newcomers, senior Alex Bertrand, junior Rachael Wiggins, junior Jake Peters, sophomore Paul Queck, and freshman Josh Hughes. The novices caught on in record time and all participants contributed greatly to the Roadrunners’ second place success.
Even though they may not run laps or do pushups, the Knowledge Bowl Roadrunners have the competitive edge of the best and brightest athletic team on the court or the field. The Interstate community proudly supports and applauds these conference crushers as one of our many talented teams.
Tension mounts as nerves are pushed considerably near the breaking point. It has come down to this; the final few moments of the contest. It is do or die, win or lose. The competition is one of great stamina and concentration. Does this scene sound like a championship basketball game, or perhaps a football or volleyball thriller? Maybe, but this scenario actually describes, in tremendous detail, the mood of a Knowledge Bowl match.
On November 2, the Interstate 35 Knowledge Bowl team participated in the preliminary Pride of Iowa Conference Championship competition (the final round will be held sometime in January) at Southwestern Community College. This competition consisted of twelve teams. The Roadrunners made their presence known by coming in second place, undefeated save only to the preliminary champion, Nodaway Valley. However, this competition did not determine the “official” conference champs but only the seeding for the final competition.
Interstate 35 certainly had its work cut out for it with only two veteran members returning to this year’s team, seniors Kaley Chicoine and Mariah Lewis. The rest of the team consisted of Knowledge Bowl newcomers, senior Alex Bertrand, junior Rachael Wiggins, junior Jake Peters, sophomore Paul Queck, and freshman Josh Hughes. The novices caught on in record time and all participants contributed greatly to the Roadrunners’ second place success.
Even though they may not run laps or do pushups, the Knowledge Bowl Roadrunners have the competitive edge of the best and brightest athletic team on the court or the field. The Interstate community proudly supports and applauds these conference crushers as one of our many talented teams.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Football Season Comes to a Close
By Ryan Deuel
This past Friday the Roadrunner football team took on the Colfax-Mingo Tigerhawks for the last game of the 2011 s
eason. With any chance of the playoffs out of the picture, both teams came into the game with nothing to lose. The Roadrunners entered the night with a four and four record and two and four in district play, while the Tigerhawks were two and six record and a one and five record in district play.
The first half was an old fashioned shootout with the score at halftime being 41-20 in favor of the Tigerhawks. The opposing team opened the game up with a quick score on a 68 yard touchdown pass on the very first play from scrimmage. With their backs against the wall, the Roadrunners didn’t back down. After the Tiger hawks took a 14 to nothing lead Roadrunner return man Andrew Morris took the ensuing kick-off 85 yards for the first score of the game for the Roadrunners.
The first half was an air raid for both teams. Roadrunner quarterback Tommy Bregar threw for a
season high 363 yards with 21 completions on 33 passing attempts. He also threw for a season high four touchdown passes with only one interception. The ball was spread around fairly evenly on the night with Ryan Deuel having 133 receiving yards and three touchdowns on nine receptions for the night. Briar Vogel had seven catches for 130 yards and one touchdown on the night. The other big target for Bregar was senior tight end Tanner Bean who received four catches for 81 yards.
The Roadrunner rushing attack wasn’t to be denied although they didn't score any touchdowns on the night. They racked up a total of 146 yards with senior back Andrew Morris leading the charge with 65 yards of his own and an outstanding 8.1 yards per carry as he picked apart the Tiger hawk defensive front.
The second half was a defensive struggle for both teams when a total of only 19 points were scored as opposed to the 61 points in the first half. Briar Vogel led the defense with 16 total tack
les on the night. Andrew Morris and Joe Bedwell both recorded nine tackles for the defense.
The team looks to come back next year in hopes to make it to the playoffs and improve their record. The team has a big hole to fill next year with most of the offensive line needing to be replaced. The team’s starting quarterback is returning next year with one of his favorite targets returning as well.
This past Friday the Roadrunner football team took on the Colfax-Mingo Tigerhawks for the last game of the 2011 s
eason. With any chance of the playoffs out of the picture, both teams came into the game with nothing to lose. The Roadrunners entered the night with a four and four record and two and four in district play, while the Tigerhawks were two and six record and a one and five record in district play.The first half was an old fashioned shootout with the score at halftime being 41-20 in favor of the Tigerhawks. The opposing team opened the game up with a quick score on a 68 yard touchdown pass on the very first play from scrimmage. With their backs against the wall, the Roadrunners didn’t back down. After the Tiger hawks took a 14 to nothing lead Roadrunner return man Andrew Morris took the ensuing kick-off 85 yards for the first score of the game for the Roadrunners.
The first half was an air raid for both teams. Roadrunner quarterback Tommy Bregar threw for a
season high 363 yards with 21 completions on 33 passing attempts. He also threw for a season high four touchdown passes with only one interception. The ball was spread around fairly evenly on the night with Ryan Deuel having 133 receiving yards and three touchdowns on nine receptions for the night. Briar Vogel had seven catches for 130 yards and one touchdown on the night. The other big target for Bregar was senior tight end Tanner Bean who received four catches for 81 yards.The Roadrunner rushing attack wasn’t to be denied although they didn't score any touchdowns on the night. They racked up a total of 146 yards with senior back Andrew Morris leading the charge with 65 yards of his own and an outstanding 8.1 yards per carry as he picked apart the Tiger hawk defensive front.
The second half was a defensive struggle for both teams when a total of only 19 points were scored as opposed to the 61 points in the first half. Briar Vogel led the defense with 16 total tack
les on the night. Andrew Morris and Joe Bedwell both recorded nine tackles for the defense.The team looks to come back next year in hopes to make it to the playoffs and improve their record. The team has a big hole to fill next year with most of the offensive line needing to be replaced. The team’s starting quarterback is returning next year with one of his favorite targets returning as well.
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