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Happening NOW •Best of Show: Show and Jazz Choir Competition—middle school division 5:30 p.m. tonight; high school 9 a.m. Saturday at WHS •State Art Competition: Judging 10 a.m., open to public 5 p.m. today; 11 a.m. Saturday in Rapid City

Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Popcorn chicken, dinner roll, corn •À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and cheese burrito, chef salad, sandwiches

Group Meetings •Show Choir: Auditions for the 2017-18 choirs will be held from 6-9 p.m. Monday in the auxiliary gym. See director Jeff Spencer in the chorus room for more information.

Other Reminders •2017 Yearbooks: Should be ordered now at jostens.com or with a check for $67 to adviser Cindy Heckenlaible in A-133 fourth period. •Tickets: For the play “And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank” are now on sale for $5 after school in the Little Theatre. The show opens Monday with performances through March 25. •Seniors: Check the spelling of your name now in the counseling center. NOW Friday Staff

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

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Best of Show competition takes over WHS this weekend Event begins with middle school division today

By Taylor Anderson Sydney Stallinga and Maddie VanderFeen lassic Connection and Stage Lights Show Choir members will host the annual Best of Show competition beginning tonight and continuing Saturday at WHS. Tonight, the competition will kick-off with middle school night. Admission is $5 and the performances start at 5:30 p.m. showcasing groups from Patrick Henry; Whittier; Memorial; O’Gorman and St. Francis, Minn., Middle Schools. Both Warrior Show Choirs will also perform tonight in exhibition performances to start and end the night. On Saturday, competition will begin with jazz choirs at 9 a.m., featuring groups from WHS; Roosevelt; Brookings; New Tech and Spirit Lake, Iowa. Show Choir performances begin at 11 a.m. in the main gym featuring groups from Roosevelt; O’Gorman; St. Francis; Omaha, Neb., North;

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Photo courtesy Jeff Spencer PERFORMANCE—The Classic Connection varsity show choir performs at the Viking Cup competition at Omaha North March 4. They took first runner-up at the event. Spirit Lake; North Union from Armstrong, Iowa; Harrisburg and Howard. The WHS choirs will again appear in exhibition. Saturday admission is $15 for adults and $7 for students. Concessions will be available in the commons. Director Jeff Spencer said it will be a competitive day with lots of entertainment for everyone. “Three of the varsity groups attending have already won at

least one grand championship this season,” Spencer said. Senior Bailey Banwart is looking forward to this weekend’s events. “We’re super excited to perform our show for everyone,” Banwart said. “We’ve worked so hard this year, and I couldn’t think of a better way to wrapup the regular season than with this competition, and we hope to see lots of our friends and family from Washington there!”

Jazz band takes honors at two contests By Rheannan Bills Warrior jazz bands participated in two events recently, and saw success at each. On Feb. 3, the Jazz I and II bands performed at the Morningside Jazz Festival in Sioux City, Iowa. Jazz I missed first place by only one point, taking second overall, and Jazz II was awarded the top

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“Second Band” at the event. Junior Jake Schofield and freshman Emmanuel Michael were also selected as the top soloists at Morningside College. On March 7, all three WHS jazz bands attended the Jazz on the Upper Great Plains Festival at Augustana University. The Jazz I band captured second Warrior Nation Events

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place in Class AAA at that event. Jazz II took 10th place. Jazz I from Lincoln High School won, overall. Schofield said he was pleased with the jazz band’s performance at both events. “I was proud of how we performed as a whole,” Schofield said. “I think we did really well and sounded great!” All WHS News

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Page 2 Jeanna Kellogg

Sophomore student of the month •What are your plans/dreams for the future? I plan to major in either government/politics or English and the arts in college. If I don’t go on to college right away, I plan to audition for Up With People. •What are you involved in at WHS? I am involved in show choir, drama and chorus at WHS. •What is your favorite class this semester? I like AP World History and Accelerated English. I learn so much from both of them—especially history with (Jamie ) Van Sloten.

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Sophomore student of the month •What are your p l a n s / d re a m s for the future? I am looking into enlisting in the South Dakota Army National Guard and graduating from college with a computer science degree. •What are you involved in at WHS? I am involved in the JROTC program at WHS. •What is your favorite class this semester? I enjoy German class. Frau Sam is a funny teacher and knows that you can teach a language without worksheets.

Celebrate: we’re all Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! Although completely overlooked by many, St. Patty’s Day is a great time for celebration. Saint Patrick’s Day, also known as the Feast of Saint Patrick, is a cultural and religious celebration held on March 17, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick, the Hear me. . . foremost patron saint of Ireland. It is commemorated around the world Kelsi Kearney through feasts and parades. In America, it has become a norm to wear any type of green to represent the shamrocks of Ireland on the day. Many even follow the tradition of pinching those who do not wear green.

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If you are bored this weekend and are in the Patty’s Day spirit, join in a plethora of activities occurring. The 38th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be celebrated Saturday in downtown Sioux Falls. To those who plan to attend, I recommend wearing as much green as you can, bring out your friends and enjoy the festivities. All proceeds from the parade will be donated to the Special Olympics and other children’s charities in the Sioux Falls area. By attending this event, you can kill two birds with one stone by having fun and also giving money to a good cause. Saturday morning also features the St. Patrick’s Day Race which includes a 5 mile, 5k and a mile run. Rewards will be given for best costume. Online registration for the event closes today. No matter what you do this weekend, remember everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! Senior Kelsi Kearney is pinching everyone who’s not wearing green today!

Computer predicts space trash

By Bethany Brookshire Science News Today (TNS) WASHINGTON, D.C. — People are messy. We’re so messy we’ve even left trash in space, where it can be a danger to satellites and astronauts. Amber Yang, 17, wanted to forecast where this trash might travel. The computer program she created can predict where space debris might go next. It might even, one day, help space travelers avoid space trash crashes. The senior at Trinity Preparatory School in Winter Park, Fla., presented her program at the Regeneron Science Talent Search.

Science Friday Already, more than 500,000 pieces of space trash orbit Earth. They come from old satellites and other objects humans have sent into space. Each travel at more than 28,000 kilometers (17,500 miles) per hour. At speeds like that, even tiny flecks of dust can harm spacecraft — and any passengers. Space agencies try to keep track of space junk and where it’s going. But Yang decided to come up with her own method — one that could use the knowledge of where space junk has been to more accurately predict where it would go next. She used her computer to create an artificial neural network. This is a computer program that works somewhat like the human brain. “It learns from past mistakes and recognizes patterns,” she explains. The program applied Kepler’s laws to data on the locations of space trash. Yang’s program uses that data to figure out where that junk could go next and learns from mistakes to do better in the future.