Nick Carrolljunior

The FCCLA Knowledge Bowl team is headed to Nationals.

The team of seniors Alissa Barber and Stephanie Evans and juniors Nick Carroll, Alison Her-ren, and Alison Johnson com-peted in Little Rock, Arkansas November 14-15.

In the first level of the com-petition the team took a test over an area of Family and Consumer Science. The five areas were Fam-ily and Consumer Science Stud-ies, Food, Nutrition and Dietet-ics, Early Childhood and Human Development, Hospitality, Recre-ation, and Tourism and Fashion, Housing, and Interior Design. The team ranked 2nd out of 14 on the test with a score of 370/500.

In the second level, the team played a head-to-head buzzer round. During the buzzer round they answered questions per-taining to the five Family and Con-sumer Science areas and one FC-CLA Knowledge question.

The team was tied with their opponent Roger Heritage with the score of 45 to 45. Wabaunsee won on the sec-ond tie breaker question that was answered by senior Stephanie Ev-ans.

Junior Alison Herren com-

peted in the Early Childhood and Human Development category. "It was a really awesome felling to know that we all worked together as a team," Herren said.

The team is the first from WHS to qualify for Nationals, although

THE CHARGERWabaunsee High School

Issue 12 November 20, 2014

CHARGERS RECEIVE ALL-MID-EAST LEAGUE HONORS

The Charger football team had two players earning All-League honors, with senior Jus-tice Stuewe earning both offen-sive and defensive accolades.n Mitchell Wertzberger: 1st Team Linebackern Justice Stuewe: 1st Team Of-fensive Line, Honorable Men-tion Defensive End

The volleyball team had four players named to the All-League team, all three seniors made the first team.n Alissa Barber: 1st Teamn Cara Flach: 1st Teamn Mandy Michaelis: 1st Teamn Alli Terrapin: Honorable Mention

Madeline Hess and Louis Vo-pata were All-League in cross country.

POKER TOURNAMENT AIMS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR SOFTBALL

The parents of the baseball and softball team will be holding a poker tournament Saturday at the Alma Community center.

Doors open at 6 p.m. and cards drop at 6:30. The Entry fee is $25 at the door and $20 for pre-registration with a parent or player. Proceeds will benefit WHS baseball and softball pro-grams. Prizes will be awarded to the top six players.

FFA COMPETES IN PARLIAMENTARY LAW

FFA went to Mission Valley on Friday November 14 for the FFA Leadership Conference.

The Upperclassmen Par-liamentary law team of Taylor Nikkel, Geard Quathamer, Joe Hund, Ann Flach, Brendan Milroy and Devin McClayland placed 6th.

The Upperclassmen Ritual team of Taylor Nikkel, Zach Heine, Mandy Michaelis, Cara Flach, Brit Michaelis, and Joe Hund placed 12th.

The Underclassmen Parlia-mentary law team placed 9th and the ritual team finished 5th. Team members were Kars-en Schultz, Mackenzie Howey, Andrew Sopoci, Trent Archer, Brandon Wertzberger, Hadley Schreiner and Eithen Sene.

Freshman Mackenzie Howey received best Greenhand vice president. "I had to memorize a paragraph and present it to a judge."

CABINET MAKING CLASS COMPLETES SHED

Lyle Strait’s Cabinet Making class has been hard at work this past quarter building big project: a storage shed.

"The shed is 8 x 12 feet and we learned how to put up walls, build floors and make rafters," senior Justin Willier said.

“I really want the students to get some construction expe-rience in the class,” Strait said. The project has taken the class about one quarter of the school year to finish cost about $1000. Strait says it will mostly be used for storage and it will be going to a faculty member.

Strait plans to have the class construct 2-3 more sheds this year to sell to the community.

Katie Mayerjunior

On November 11th the pep band and few choir members traveled to Eskridge to march in its Veteran’s Day parade.

The parade started at 10 a.m. at the Golden Living Center Program. The Mission Valley jr. high and high school bands also marched in the parade.

Band and choir teacher Rich-ard Philbrook has been teaching at WHS for about 7 years. “It’s very important to acknowledge the service of veterans. I think it helps give the students a civic pride and responsibility,” Phil-brook said.

This is the third year attend-ing the parade and as usual the weather was very cold. “I could hardly move my fingers and I even had gloves on,” junior Mad-dy McCall said, “But it was still nice to get out of school.”

The National Anthem was sung in the park by five WHS choir members including sopho-mores Emily Schmitz, Rachel Hurla, Rebecca Willier, Natalee Kates and junior Emma Wil-

liams. “I liked singing because it was a good way to represent our school and I liked singing with my friends,” Williams said.

“I enjoy being around the stu-dents outside of school and show-ing them off,” Philbrook said, “They really make our school look good and can handle them-selves well.” The band will con-

tinue to attend the Veteran’s Day parade in the future as long as weather permits.

The next time to see the band and choir perform is at the win-ter concert December 18. It be-gins at 7 p.m. starting with the middle school and Jr. high band and choir. The high school will perform at 8.

NEWS BRIEFS

Seniors Cierra Bauer and Madeline Muller lead the band during the Veteran's Day parade November 11 in Eskridge. "I liked that we got to show off to people you never see," senior Madeline Muller said. The band played "A-Rock" and "Jenny (867-5309)."Photo by Lauren Brovont.

Band marches in Veteran's Day Parade

Senior Alex Simmons marches during the parades. "The food was the best part. It was extremely cold though," Simmons said. Photo by Lauren Brovont.

FCCLA wins Knowledge Bowl

'Fire Up' helps students with peer tutoring

Alison Johnsonjunior

Struggling students who don't want to ask teachers for help now have an-other option: fellow students.

Students who have missing assign-ments are required to go to a program called ZAP (Zeros Aren't Permitted) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during seminar. Recently, a new pro-gram was added to help these students, called Fire Up. National Honors Society (NHS) students can volunteer to mentor students on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Counselor Marilyn Workman creat-ed Fire Up to help students who are fail-ing classes. About 20 students attended last week. Workman contacted NHS sponsor Eileen Wertzberger and they worked together to put the mentoring system in action.

Peer mentoring can be encouraging and motivating. Workman said “Stu-dents might feel more comfortable get-ting help from their peers.” So far only a few NHS members have helped with the program, but improvement is al-ready visible. Principal Jeff Stuewe said “I really like the fact that we’re utilizing peer tutors.”

Along with the usual ZAP some students who have had missing assign-ments for over a week are required to stay after school on Wednesdays. NHS member Rose Stuhlsatz is helping for the second year. "I like helping them get their work done," Stuhlsatz said.

ZAP and Fire Up take place in math teacher Roger Alderman’s room during seminar. Alderman said, “The students are needing the most help in science and math. With the help from the NHS stu-dents the list is starting to slowly dwin-dle. The students are finally starting to get some of their stuff done. The goal is to get these students grades up and teach them that their grades are serious."

With 20 students falling behind, the need is clearly there for a mentoring program. With NHS’s help hopefully WHS students can raise their grades and Fire Up!

FACS students job shadow

Lilian Rizzojunior

Job Shadowing is a fun learning ex-perience.

Students in Ashley Weber's Career and Life Planning class are having the opportunity to get out of school for a while and experience what it’s like to have a career. Their careers varied from personal trainers to store managers.

Freshman Mackenzie Howey went to Maple Hill Grade School and shad-owed the Kindergarten teacher. “I like working with children and I learned that you need to learn patience,” said Howey.

Cassie Punchard went to Maple Hill 24/7 Travel store to learn about store management. “I learned that you don’t need a lot of college education and that all you need are some basic classes,” Punchard said.

Kyle Schmitz went to Max Fitness to learn about personal training. “I am interested in fitness because I enjoy lifting,” Schmitz said.

Nick Carroll, Alison Johnson, Alissa Barber, Stephanie Evans and Alison Herren pose with the Knowledge Bowl bracket. Photo by Ashley Weber.