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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

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Happening Now •Advanced Placement: Student/parent night 5:30-6:30 p.m. in commons

Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Spicy chicken strips, scalloped potatoes, dinner roll, steamed cauliflower •À la carte lines: Cheese lasagna, taco bar, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches

Group Meetings •Spanish Club: Will meet for a year-end fiesta at 3:15 p.m. today in A-154. •Students: Planning on participating in debate should see coach Travis Dahle after school today for important information, if they have not already done so. •Link Crew: Members who did not attend Tuesday’s training will meet for their first training June 2 in the gym.

Other Reminders •Athletic Lockers: Need to be cleaned out by May 31. Items left after that date will be donated. •Warrior Zone: Deal of the month is 20 percent off everything except food and drinks. •Summer Strength Training: Is available. E-mail [email protected] for sign-up information. NOW Wednesday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caroline Point and Carly Knutson Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . Aaron Johnson Staff: Michael Enalls, Ty Smith, Makayla Uithoven, Keenan Sorgdrager, Seth Randall, Rheannan Bills, Stephen Cordell, Joe Simko, Mckyla Moon 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/ TNS Campus High School Newspaper Service

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Track athletes celebrate current season at banquet Event Monday helps prepare teams for State AA Meet

By Aaron Johnson arrior track and field team members participated in their annual awards banquet Monday in the Commons. At the event, honors were presented, including the Most Improved Field Athletes to sophomore RayLynn Rohrer and senior Josh Freese. The Most Improved Track Athletes were freshmen Darline Suah and Nate Freese. The Hardest Workers were junior Isabel Kinzer and senior Isaiah Feterl. The Coaches Awards went to juniors Skyler Moen and Jack Bren. The Warrior Award went to seniors Erin Thompson and Michael Enalls and juniors Kelsi Kearney and Ethan McKinney. The Most

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Valuable Field Athletes were eighth grader Jacee Johannsen and junior Thuro Reisdorfer. The Most Valuable Track Athletes were sophomore Haley Christopherson and senior Alex Derr. Bren was proud of the season so far. “We have had a pretty good season so far,” Bren said. “However, we still need to have a good state meet in order to bring back the ‘ship.’” Coach Everett Gebhart said the team is ready for state this weekend. “For the state meet, everyone is going to have to give their best efforts,” Gebhart said. “I think the athletes are ready for the meet to begin. It should be a great two days.”

Photo by Joan Gebhart HONOREE—Eighth grader Jacee Johannsen was named Most Valuable Field Athlete.

AP students meet with teachers tonight By Ty Smith and Joe Simko Any student registered for an Advanced Placement (AP) class in any subject area next school year should plan to attend an AP Information Night tonight from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the commons. Students and their parents will meet their AP teaches for next year at the event, and will receive information about the AP class or classes they are registered for and any summer assignments or reading that may be required.

AP students who cannot attend this event need to talk to their AP teacher to find out about any summer assignments they are responsible for. Sophomore Topher Zahn said he is ready to meet his AP instructors tonight. “I am excited to meet some of my new teachers for next year in my hardest classes,” Zahn said. Students with general questions should see AP coordinator Becky Kelley in A-122 today.

Girls golf team participates in conference meet By Carly Knutson and Michael Enalls Varsity girls golf team members participated in the Metro Conference Meet Monday at Elmwood,

placing fifth with 388 strokes, only 14 behind fourth place Lincoln. Earning the top scores for the Warriors were senior Kelsie

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Massmann and sophomore Erin Zahn, each with 93 strokes. Sophomore Madison Hollingshead followed one stroke back. Coach Doug Rin-

ken said the girls kept playing hard. “I was really proud that our girls keep working hard to improve their scores,” Rinken said.

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What are you most looking forward to this summer?

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“I’m looking forward to going on road trips with my family and hanging out with my friends this summer.”

“I will be hanging out with my friends from out of town this summer, since I do not see them often.”

“I am looking forward to catching up with my sleep schedule this summer, and taking a road trip.”

“I am going to spend the summer registering for college classes and just preparing for the college life.”

“I am excited to go to Mexico for a wedding this summer. I am also excited to see family and friends.”

A summer job that makes you feel like a superhero A long year of studying, being busy with sports or activities and waking up at the crack of dawn is finally almost over. Personally, I’m so run down that all I want to do is enjoy my summer days binge-watching Netflix! But as I look at my future college expenses, I realize that option is not going to be possible. In order to have the best summer ever and be financially stable next year, I Hear me. . . need a job. I could choose babysitting, retail work or waitressCaroline Point ing, but I decided to choose the oh-so rewarding job of a life guard. I have to admit I might be a little biased, based on the fact that I have done this job for three summers now, but I truly believe life guarding is the best summer job.

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Being a life guard is like having a tanning salon membership that pays you. Although the one-piece tan lines aren’t ideal, by the end of summer I assure you you will have that perfect, healthy glow. The pay is also fantastic for somebody my age at $10.75 an hour. With long days, by the end of summer I feel like I’m rolling in money. Another bonus of the job is that you get to make new life-long friends that you hang out with all summer, which really makes the hours fly by when working. But the best part of this job is that you get to feel like a superhero. Whether it’s at work, or just walking down the street, your CPR and life guarding licenses give you the ability to spring into action and save another person’s life at a moment’s notice. So if anyone athletically inclined is looking for a gig this summer that’s rewarding in more ways than one, life guarding is the best choice I can recommend. Plus, I also get $50 for recruiting you—so mention my name! Senior Caroline Point loves her one-piece tan lines.

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California winds draw turbines By Jennifer A. Dlouhy Bloomberg News (TNS) WASHINGTON — When turbines start spinning at the first U.S. offshore wind farm near Rhode Island later this year, some energy developers will already be eyeing a bigger prize. There’s a steadier, harder wind blowing off the California coast. Those reliable Pacific gusts could yield nearly a terawatt of electricity, 13 times the capacity of all the wind turbines now installed on land in the U.S. — without consuming real estate or blocking anyone’s views.

Your green world But Mother Nature isn’t going to make it easy. The continental shelf plunges fast and deep off the West Coast, making it impossible to install conventional turbines into a seabed hundreds of feet under water. Some developers think they’ve found the solution: harnessing this renewable resource with technology borrowed from the fossil-fuel industry to keep turbines afloat. “We can’t fix turbines into the ocean floor out there,” said Nancy Sopko, manager of advocacy and federal legislative affairs for the American Wind Energy Association. “To tap into that great offshore wind potential, we’re going to need these floating structures.” The Department of Energy is expected to decide next month whether to award some $40 million to as many as five floating wind projects that have already won previous funding. And the Interior Department will soon ask if there’s commercial interest in leasing Pacific waters near California and Hawaii — a critical step toward future floating wind projects there. The technology is in its early days. Globally, there are just 15.33 megawatts of floating wind capacity, mostly coming from a handful of pilot projects involving one or two turbines, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. That’s less than a percent of the total 11.6 gigawatts of capacity from traditional wind projects in waters around the world.