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Happening NOW •AP Tests: World History 7 a.m.; Statistics noon in auxiliary gym •Competition Dance: Team try-outs conclude in auxiliary gym—current freshmen-juniors 4 p.m.; current eighth graders 4:45 p.m. •Baseball: vs. Lincoln at Harmodon Field 2— varsity 5 p.m.; JV 7 p.m. •Gymnastics: Open gym 6 p.m.
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Members kick-off drive to finals with ice cream
Group Meetings
•Apply: For the principal’s advisory council for the 2016-17 year now— applications in the administration office—due May 27. •Yearbook: 2016 pre-orders are now being taken at jostens.com and Tuesdays and Thursdays at lunch.
Correction •Senior: Rachel Cruse’s name was misspelled in Wednesday’s National Honor Society cutline. NOW Thursday Staff
Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . Sydney Arrington and Sam Siganos Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . Chayden Fitzsimmons Staff: Isaiah Hall, Robert Speeks, Abby Freese, Austin Hoflock, Ashley Paulson, Abby Johnston and Mubarak Kadir Editor-in-chief . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddie Wiley Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . .Hannah Smith 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
By Austin Hoflock and Sam Siganos arrior Freshman Academy members celebrated the kick-off of the “Final 15 Days Before Finals” Wednesday with ice cream during lunch periods. Freshmen were encouraged to focus on three things as all 400 Freshman Academy students attended assemblies in the Little Theater Monday and Tuesday to begin events. Students were encouraged to first get all the credits to move on to sophomore standing. Second, GPA was stressed—moving grades to the next letter grade to improve grades during the next 15 days. Third, performance on semester tests was stressed—moving to an 85 percent on average to earn open lunch their junior year. Collision provided the ice cream. Freshman Gabe Person, said he’s ready for semester tests to begin. “It got me hyped up for summer,” Person said. “The semester tests are going to be challenging, and eating that ice cream calmed me down.”
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•Today’s lunch: Lemon grass chicken over rice, steamed carrots •À la carte lines: Italian dunkers, chicken fajita, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches
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Friday:
Partly sunny Breezy, cool High 54°
Freshmen Academy prepares to end school year successfully
Lunch Time at WHS
•Collision: Christian fellowship group will have a year-end meeting at 3:30 p.m. today at Kenny Anderson Park. •Graduation Speech: Auditions for seniors who submitted will be at 7 a.m. Friday in the auditorium.
Mostly sunny Breezy High 62°
Partly cloudy Low 42°
Photo by Jack Schelhaas YUM—Freshman Jacob Smith doctors his ice cream with chocolate syrup at the Freshman Academy year-end kick-off Wednesday.
Baseball team faces Lincoln Pats tonight By Sydney Arrington Warrior baseball team members will take on the Lincoln Patriots tonight at Harmodon Field 2. The varsity will play at 5
p.m. and JV around 7 p.m. WHS previously lost to Lincoln 7-4 May 5. Senior Tyler Olmstead is excited for tonight’s rematch. “It’s a big game,” Olmstead
said. “We are going against the best pitcher in the state, so we need to bring our best. We need to focus on our own game before we worry about Lincoln.”
Ballers honored Seniors Sam Siganos (left), Anna Goodhope (middle) and Sydney Arrington (right) were honored as Mr. and Miss Basketball nominees at a luncheon sponsored by Hansen Anderson Basketball May 1 at the Ramkota Hotel in Sioux Falls. Brianna Kusler from Aberdeen Central and Ty Hoglund from Dell Rapids were named the winners at the event. Photo by Laura Goodhope
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Get ready for a Dinger Derby tonight at Harmodon! 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.
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Try to resist temptations of ‘Senioritis’ as year ends
Hyperloop One holds first test
The very real phenomenon “Senioritis” is spreading like wild-fire at WHS. For those of you who are unaware of what Senioritis is, let me explain the symptoms. The first of which would be a lack of studying. With the extremely stressful AP testing ending soon, studying for finals will be a struggle. The second symptom, which I have recently been resisting, is skipping class. People have very different ways of going about this. You have the traditional skipper, who will take a personal day to just chill at home, maybe clean their house, cook a four course meal, Hear me. . . and give their dog a bath. Then you have the recreational skipper, who will take a Chayden Fitzsimmons leave of absence to go have a picnic with a group of friends. Finally, we have the LastMinute skipper, who doesn’t want to take a test or wants to beat the traffic out of school, so they take a period off. And last but not least, we have the major symptom, laziness. Whether it be turning in homework late, waking up two hours late, or in my case not planning your graduation party until last minute, laziness can be a very deadly symptom. Until last week, I didn’t know that my graduation party would be on May 21, from 5-8 p.m. at 4012 S. Birchwood Ave. People in different states need more time than a week to plan a trip to make an appearance at your graduation party. Consider it a life lesson. Senioritis is not a joke, and it should not be taken lightly. Work your hardest to overcome this disorder and finish the year strongly, Warriors! Senior Chayden Fitzsimmons is going to go back to bed now.
By Paresh Dave Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — Development of the nearly supersonic transportation system known as the hyperloop reached a new milestone Wednesday as entrepreneurs propelled a small sled about 100 yards at half its eventual targeted speed.
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Technology Watch The demonstration before reporters in the north Las Vegas desert is the latest hype-building event for the hyperloop, a concept that business mogul Elon Musk made fashionable in 2013. Two Los Angeles companies, students across the country and others worldwide are trying to develop the propulsion, autopilot and safety technologies that would underpin a hyperloop system. Hyperloop One Inc.’s Nevada showcase is expected to be among many from the industry as the downtown Los Angeles company and its competitors zip toward a full-scale test. That would happen by the end of the year in a best case scenario, said Hyperloop One, which had been called Hyperloop Technologies until Tuesday. Even then, the hundreds of millions of dollars going into hyperloop research don’t represent a sure bet. Questions remain about what exactly the systems would look like and who would pay for them.
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