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March 10, 2017
Friday, March 10, 2017
Regular Schedule
Happening NOW •Meet: International exchange students during lunch today in the commons •JROTC: Military Ball 6-11 p.m. Saturday in commons
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Barbecue beef sandwich, french fries, peas •À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and cheese burrito, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •SMASH Book Club: Members will meet to discuss “The Forest of Hands and Teeth” fourth period and “The Raven Boys” fifth period today in the library. Members who cannot attend should see librarian Kerri Smith. •Drama Club: Members will meet at 3:15 p.m. Monday in the Little Theatre. •Sophomores: Will meet during reading period Tuesday in the auditorium. •Young Republicans: Will meet at 3:10 p.m. Wednesday in A-153. •Show Choir: Auditions for the 2017-18 choirs will be held from 6-9 p.m. March 20 in the auxiliary gym. See director Jeff Spencer in the chorus room for more information. •Service Academy Day: With U.S. Senator Mike Rounds will be held from 9 a.m.-noon March 25 at Harrisburg High School.
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Bowling teams end season with win in Nebraska event Boys win Star City Open, girls take fourth
By Kim Rote, Taylor Anderson, Kylee Haub and Sydney Stallinga ollowing a state title by the boys on Feb. 27, the WHS bowling teams wrapped-up their competitive season at the Star City Open Saturday in Lincoln, Neb., then had a year-end banquet Wednesday at Eastway Bowl. Attending the Star City Open has become a tradition for the Warriors. The most elite high school teams in the region battle for prestige and college scholarships at the event each year. Past Warrior teams have been crowned champions in both the boys and girls divisions and more recent teams have placed in the top five of their division consistently for several years. This year’s competition featured 16 girls teams and 16 boys teams from South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa. Qualifying for the event took place on Saturday, as each team of five bowlers completed in a series of four individual games. The total of all games is used to seed the top 12 teams from each division into doubleelimination bracket play held on Sunday. The Warrior girls team qualified in the fifth position and the Warrior boys were seeded fourth. The top Warrior girl, based on seeding, was senior Alexandra Rote with a series score of 453,
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narrowly missing the All-Tournament team by 13 pins. The top Warrior boy was junior Jacob Sorenson who bowled a 557 series in qualifying to grant him the seventh place position and a spot on the All-Tournament Team. Double-elimination bracket play started early Sunday morning and consisted of teams battling head-to-head in the best three out of five Baker-style play. Coming off a high from winning the state tournament earlier in the week, the Warrior boys handily defeated a team from Lincoln, Neb., Southeast 3-0 before facing No. 1 seed North Bend, Neb. The battle against North Bend went the distance, but the Warriors came out victorious with a match score of 3-2. Remaining in the winner’s bracket, the Warriors next faced cross-town rival Roosevelt. Defeating the Rough Riders left the Warriors as the sole undefeated team. Coming back through the loser’s bracket after a win against North Bend, the Warriors again faced the Rough Riders in the championship match. Supported by a crowd with a number of Sioux Falls supporters, the two teams squared off for the title of champions. The Warriors matched Roosevelt ball for ball and shut out the (Cont. on back—BOWLING)
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Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . Taylor Anderson and Sydney Stallinga Assistant Editor: . . . . . . Maddie VanderFeen Staff: Rachel Boer, Kylee Haub, Hailie Schock, Megan Nolan, Erika Lehan, Shoniya Stonehouse, Alejandro Martinez, Logan Barber, Abdisa Baneta Editors-in-chief . . . . . . . . . Carson Herbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and Maham Shah Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. WHSNOW.COM Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ TNS Campus High School Newspaper Service
Photo courtesy Kim Rote ROLL WITH IT—Members of the boys team (L-R) sophomore Collin Lax; juniors Caden Van Noort, Jacob Sorenson, Jake Schofield and Cyler Melvin; freshman Miller Soutar-Bishop; sophomore Jadyn Schumacher and coach Troy Duffy celebrate their win Sunday in Nebraska.
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WHS earns top rating at Festival of Orchestras By Carson Herbert and Lauren Green WHS hosted the Festival of Orchestras March 2 in the auditorium as the WHS Orchestra earned a Superior rating, the best available. Director Karla Chiarello said she was happy with the day as a whole. “It was a great day with 12 orchestras from in and out of the building, and should prove the orchestra is alive and well in South
Dakota,” Chiarello said. Junior Madison Hollingshead said it was an excellent learning experience. “It was fun,” she said. “The judges gave us good tips on how to get better.” Senior Hope Carlson was proud of WHS. “It was a great way to show off the music we have been pouring our heart and soul into,” she said. “It was an awesome experience for my peers and I.”
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JROTC holds military ball at school this year By Kelsi Kearney and Erika Lehan The JRTOC program will hold their annual military ball Saturday from 6-11 p.m. in the WHS commons. Senior Jacob Peterson, the JROTC Battalion Commander, said the ball is a valuable tradition. “It is a time to take a break from everything and have some fun,” Peterson said. “This year has been challenging as we just com-
pleted an intense accreditation inspection by our higher headquarters just this past Monday, so this provides a chance to relax and take a break from the rigors of school and military drill and ceremony.” The evening will include a buffet meal and featured speaker teacher Marc Murren. After his speech, the area will be cleared for the dance. Music will be provided by Dakota Entertainment.
Spring sports mean warmer weather on way There might be lots of snow predicted for this weekend, but the start of track practice this Monday means that brighter and warmer days are in the close future. Yes, we dipped our toes into the coming warm weather, reaching temps around 70 Hear me. . . degrees earlier. However, the weather was just playing games with us, because Maddie VanderFeen all hope of brighter warmer days were ripped from our hearts when it began to snow again later that Monday night. That did not stop me from wearing sandals the next morning. With track season slowly getting under way, it hurts
to watch my track runners warming up outside in their sweatshirts and running tights. I can only pray for warmer days ahead (and respect the calendar and it’s “First Day of Spring” on March 20). In addition to an exciting track season, the baseball, girls golf and boys tennis teams say they also have big things coming this year. The first track meet will be on that first day of spring March 20 in Vermillion and the first baseball game March 28 in Harrisburg. It is imperative to support our Warriors this spring, no matter the weather, even if 30 degree weather does make it harder to enjoy watching people run in circles and people run the bases. On the bright side, warmer weather is coming and it is now socially acceptable to wear sandals (although that never stopped me before). Senior Maddie V. can’t wait to watch senior Noah Brown run in circles.
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(Cont. from front) Rough Riders 3-0 to win the event. Freshman Miller SoutarBishop was proud. “It was good overall,” Soutar-Bishop said. “We played as a team and executed well. When we needed big shots, someone always came through.” In the girls division, the Warriors finished in fourth place overall. Roosevelt went undefeated to win the girls division and complete the Sioux Falls sweep. Senior Sam Huber said the girls team played hard at the event. “We all worked together
and encouraged each other until we got knocked out,” Huber said. “Overall, it was a successful and fun weekend.” The teams wrapped-up their season with a yearend celebration Wednesday at Eastway Bowl. At the event, several awards were presented, including Best Average to juniors Adrianna Spaethe and Cyler Melvin, Most Improved to sophomores Reilly Beman and Collin Lax, Best Attitude to juniors Samantha King and Jake Schofield, Best Motivator to Huber and Sorenson and Hardest Worker to Rote and junior Kalis McCubbin.
20 cent device saves lives
By Sid Perkins Science News Today (TNS) On a trip to the East African nation of Uganda a few years ago Manu Prakash, a bioengineer at Stanford University in California, was surprised to see an expensive centrifuge being used as a doorstop. Medical labs use these devices to separate liquid mixtures, such as blood, into their different components. Based on what they learn from those components, doctors will tailor a patient’s treatment. But the clinic did not have electricity. So no one could use this machine.
Science Friday And that’s when he remembered a toy— the whirligig. Whirligigs are very simple. Start with a small disk with two holes in it, similar to a large button. A loop of string is passed through the holes. Then handles are placed at each end of the loop. When the string is twisted, it stores energy. Pulling on the handles releases that energy and causes the disk to spin rapidly. If made and used correctly, the whirligig will unwind and then rewind itself. Additional pulls on the handle cause the disk to reverse and spin in the other direction. The whirligig-based centrifuge Prakash and Saad Bhamla created was made of paper. So the researchers named it a “paperfuge,” a mashup of paper and centrifuge. Their prototype costs less than 20 cents to make, yet works as well machines that cost $1,000 or more, the engineers report. They also developed low-cost plastic versions that can be 3-D printed easily. They can spin at rates of up to 10,000 revolutions per minute.
