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Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018

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Happening NOW •Wrestling: Triangular with Dakota Valley and Vermillion 5 p.m. in gym •Band: Prism Concert 7 p.m. in auditorium

Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Hot ham and cheese sandwich, french fries, carrots •À la carte lines: French bread pizza, chicken fajita, chef salad, sandwiches

Group Meetings •Quiz Bowl: Team members will meet at 3:15 p.m. today in A-136. •Track and Field: Athletes will meet at 3:15 p.m. today A-118 or 7:45 a.m. Friday in A-146. Choose one meeting and bring your Chromebook. •Yoga Club: Members will meet at 7:20 a.m. Friday in A-159. •R&R Book Club: Members will meet to discuss “I’ll Give You the Sun” during fourth period Friday in the library. Members should let librarian Kerri Smith know if they cannot attend.

Other Reminders •Underclassmen: Should look for a yearbook survey in their school e-mail from principal Preston Kooima. Answer to win prizes! •Credit: Is now available for students with part-time jobs. See counselor Travis Sieber for more information. •Seniors: Visit your e-mail to vote for your 2018 Spinsters Royalty today. NOW Thursday Staff

Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Boer and Alyse Dockter Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sadie Goodhope Reporters . . . Brock Wulf and Mariah Jones Co-Editors-in-Chief . . . . . . . . Madi Forseth and Libby Nachtigal Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ MCT Campus High School Newspaper Service

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Quiz bowl team members again capture first place ‘Senior Squad’ wins at Tea Area event Monday

By Sadie Goodhope arrior quiz bowl team members captured First Place in the Tea Area High School Quiz Bowl Competition Monday in Tea. The “Senior Squad” consisting of seniors Noah Witt, Levi Rustand, Samantha King and Matthew Questad took another win to end their successful competition season. “We all get along really well and are close friends,” King said. “We’ve been on the team together for so long and we know each other’s strengths and weaknesses.” Coach Fred Reiner said the team will now host a friendly meet March 26 at WHS. “It is an after school contest that we are Photo by Fred Reiner currently preparing for and the match includes SENIORS—A quiz bowl team consisting of seniors all the local public schools,” Reiner said of the (L-R) Matthew Questad, Noah Witt, Samantha event that will end the year for the team. King and Levi Rustand won Monday in Tea.

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Wrestlers host triangular tonight

By Mariah Jones Warrior wrestlers will host the Dakota Valley Panthers and Vermillion Tanagers in a triangular tonight at WHS. Action will begin with a few JV matches featuring all three schools at 5 p.m. That will be followed by the WHS varsity vs. Dakota Valley. Next, the Panthers will take on Vermillion. Finally, the WHS varsity will face the Tanagers to wrap-up the night.

Tonight will be Senior Night for the team, as they recognize seniors Alex Stoneall, Brock Wulf and Brody Etrheim. Junior Tupak Kapeya said the team has been working very hard all season. “I’m hoping all the hard work from our last few practices will pay off,” Tupak said. “It’s sad that we are ending the season, but it has been a fun season with my teammates.” The matches tonight

are the final regular season matches for the Warriors. The Region Tournament is Feb. 16 at the Sanford Pentagon and the combined A and B State Tournament will be held Feb. 23-24 at the Premiere Center in Sioux Falls. Coach Lance Peters said that the team will be ready. “The guys are starting to put together multiple moves and our technique is coming together,” Peters said.

Band presents ‘Prism Concert’ By Rachel Boer Band members will present a concert at 7 p.m. tonight in the WHS auditorium. The concert will be a “Prism Concert.” Band director

Kiley Coyne said it will be interesting. “This concept began at the Eastman School of Music over 25 years ago,” Coyne said. “Like a prism that reflects light, we

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will present many different musical experiences in their purest form.” This will result in a non-stop, uninterrupted musical journey featuring solos

and duets from many talented musicians in a darkened auditorium with a spotlight on the performer. All applause is held until the very end of the concert.

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By Brock Wulf

Don’t get confused as winter sports wind down—it’s still winter! The Big Sioux-do-ku Fill all the blank squares in the game with the correct numbers. Every row, column and 3x3 subsection of nine numbers must include all digits 1 through 9 in any order.

“Augustana University’s student body and staff are made up of intelligent and hardworking individuals. The small classes make it easy to connect with professors and participate. The campus also offers many student organizations, where students can join and meet people. I am glad I chose to come here because it makes me grow and learn academically and socially.”

Feven Aregay

WHS Class of 2017 • AU Class of 2021

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Seventy-three days to make a difference Imagine reading your favorite book. High school is a lot like a good book. When you first start, it takes a while to get into it. You need time get to know the characters and then you start really enjoying it and you can’t wait to see how it ends. But at the same time, you don’t want to end it. There are only 73 pages (that’s days) left in my book of high school. During my senior year, which has been one of the best chapters of all, I have been in classes that have challenged me, classes like AP Spanish and AP Stats, and classes that have interested me, like Wood Hear me. . . Tech 1 and newspaper. Also, this year I have tried new things that I realRachel Boer ly wish I would have done earlier. For example, Monday night I attended the Concert Choir Variety Show. Let me tell you guys, there are so many incredibly gifted singers at WHS, and if you ever get the chance to hear them sing, you won’t regret it. New classes also bring new characters. Those new characters have been a big part of this chapter as well. Even though I am a senior, I have met people I didn’t even knew went to WHS until this year. So go to coffee with that girl in your math class. I doubt you will regret it, I know I haven’t. So my advice to you all is, whether it is just on to your next chapter of the book or the end of your “High School” book, make it full of new adventures, new characters, and a happy ending during these last 73 days of school. Senior Rachel Boer hopes to come out of wood tech with 10 fingers!

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Tesla car on a path that goes beyond Mars By Samantha Masunaga Los Angeles Times (TNS) The Tesla Roadster that launched Tuesday on the first test flight of SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket is heading farther into space than expected. The red car — along with a dummy in the driver’s seat named “Starman” — were targeting an elliptical orbit around the sun that would, at times, get close to Mars. On Tuesday night, SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted that the vehicle’s trajectory had “exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt.”

Technology Watch Starman and the Roadster are now flying in a long, elliptical orbit around the sun. At its farthest point, that orbit extends nearly 243 million miles. That’s 2.61 times the average distance between Earth and the sun, which is, on average, about 93 million miles. Musk said the Roadster will orbit the sun for millions, perhaps even billions, of years. He wondered what aliens might think if they ever came across the Roadster drifting through space. After all, SpaceX packed other weird items in the car, among them a small toy Hot Wheels Roadster (complete with a miniature Starman) on the dashboard. “Maybe [it will be] discovered by an alien race, thinking, ‘What were these guys doing? Did they worship this car? Why do they have a little car in the car?’” Musk said. “That will really confuse them.”

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