By EON Team

By Lillie Zablocki

The 2012-2013 school year has been vividly captured by the AHS Needle.  The Needle has covered the full spectrum of stories, including new Chromebooks in Jennifer Hartwig’s classroom, the Interlude craze, and the AHS drug search policy. The staff also covered national news stories including the November presidential election, the Sandy Hook school shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing.

The Journalism Production classes show off their t-shits. Many of this year’s JP team will serve as editors next year.

During second semester, AHSneedle journalists added new features to the site, including 1 Question 25 Answer video interviews, an advice column called Ask Anonymous, and the weekly news update show Eye of the Needle. Several students began blogging this year, and we’ve linked the blogs to AHSneedle.com.

Over the 2012-13 school year, AHSneedle.com posted more than 340 stories, videos, and slideshows. The AHSneedle Twitter account tweeted the lunch menu daily as well as tweeting highlight of sports activities and links to news stories.

The Needle will be closing production for the summer and will resume when school starts again in August.  Our Journalists will continue taking pictures and working on yearbook throughout the summer.

The Eye of the Needle team will be continuing to improve their program their program and all the elements involved.  If you have an idea or would like to be on an episode next year e-mail them at: ahseyeoftheneedle@gmail.com

The various staff blogs will be bounding forward as well.  The staff bloggers will be updating blog posts this summer as they please.  So, continue following, reading, and commenting on the blogs.  The bloggerss appreciate the support and love the encouragement!

The AHSneedle wishes you an enjoyable summer and can’t wait to be your go-to for news next year! Farewell!

By EON Team

By Lillie Zablocki

As the year is rapidly drawing to a close the senior graduating class is preparing to walk across the stage.  This year’s Commencement will take place in the Atlantic High School gym on Sunday, May 19 at 2 pm.  The program will be filled with seniors class speakers.  Theses speakers are Jake Auerbach, Mackenzie Holmes, Caroline Trewet, Jordan Mauk, Scott Caslow, and Kaley Miller.  The rest of the speakers are Atlantic Middle School teacher Mrs. Amber Moore and Atlantic High School Principle Mrs. Heather McKay. Conferring of the Diplomas will be done by the Board of Education President MRs. Kristy Pellet and the Superintendent of Schools Dr. Michael Amstein.  There music of the ceremony will be performed by seniors Mikayla Somers and Shelby Cooper.  Finally, the 2013 Commencement will draw to a close with the Recessional to the senior class song, “Good Riddance” by Green Day.  Feel free to join this year’s senior class, parents, and teachers in the celebration of the graduating class at the 2013 Commencement Ceremony!

The 2013 Senior Graduation Class!

]]> http://ahsneedle.com/?feed=rss2&p=12041 0 http://ahsneedle.com/?p=12047 http://ahsneedle.com/?p=12047#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 19:48:04 +0000 ahsneedlejj http://ahsneedle.com/?p=12047 By Meghan Plambeck

On Wednesday, May 8, Class Night for the seniors took place at Atlantic High School. The seniors were invited to attend if they had received a scholarship, and were awarded their scholarships by various different people. One of the highlights of the night was Tom Stinn receiving a full ride to Iowa State. Listed below are all of the scholarships students won in alphabetical order.

 Al Wernimont Memorial Scholarship ($750) – Nick Olsen

American Legion Scholarship  ($500) – Reann Cappel and Jake Auerbach

Atlantic Booster Club Scholarship ($500) – Shelby Worth, Emily Jacobsen, Nick Olsen, and Mikayla Summers

B.P.O.E. Elks Scholarship ($250) – Tyler Fischer and Abby Johnson

Kiwanis Club of Atlantic Scholarship ($500) – Reann Cappel

FFA Recognition – JP Freund

Atlantic Masonic Scholarship ($500) – Scott Caslow

Atlantic Rotary Academic Scholarship ($2000) – Scott Caslow and Matt Iekel

Atlantic Rotary Vocational Scholarship ($1000) – Reann Cappel

Atlantic School District Employees Association Scholarship ($500) – Jordan Mauk

Atlantic School Foundation Scholarship ($1200) – Abby Johnson and Matt Iekel

Beverly Nelson Memorial Scholarship ($500) – Jake Auerbach

B.P.O. Does Scholarship ($500) – Shelby Cooper

Bernard and June Hess Scholarship ($1200 /yr) – Tyler Fischer and Liz Guttenfelder

Bernie Saggau Award (Recognition) – Sam Markham

Betty Patterson Memorial Scholarship ($1000) – Shelby Worth

Blanche Rowe Scholarship ($1200 /yr) – Shelby Cooper

Brandee Alexander Scholarship ($1000) – Abby Johnson

Cass County Beef Producers Scholarship ($1000, $1000, $500) – Liz Guttenfelder, Reann Cappel and Emily Jacobsen

Cass County Corn and Soybean Scholarship ($100) – Dalton Franken

Cass County Soil and Water Conservation Scholarship ($300) – Nick Olsen

Charles Perrin Ag Scholarship ($1000) – Nick Olsen

Dale Allen Memorial Scholarship ($500) – Travis Olsen, Sam Markham, and Ben Nelson

Garside Computer/Business ($1200/yr) -Travis Olsen and Ben Nelson

Garside Elementary ($1200/yr) – Tori Dolch

Garside Fine Arts ($1200/yr) – Caroline Trewet

Garside Math/Science ($1200/yr) – Sam Bateman

Garside Secondary ($1200/yr) – Mikayla Somers

Garside Vocational ($500-$3000/yr) – Reann Cappel

Garside Community College ($600/yr) – Noah Welter

Helen Jensen Pigg Memorial Scholarship ($1000) – Mackenzie Holmes

Hixson ISU Scholarship ($3864) – Matt Iekel

Humphrey Memorial Scholarship ($500) – Jake Auerbach and Abby Johnson

Iowa Western Community College Cass County Scholarship ($1000) – Hope Bowker

KB Agricultural Scholarship ($900) – Jordan Westphalen

Knight’s of Columbus ($500) – Bryce Wernimont, Dalton Franken, Mackenzie Holmes, Sam Markham, Reann Cappel

Managing Pressures Two Year Leaders ($500) – Cassandra Hallman, Shelby Cooper, Sam Markham, Scott Caslow, Matt Iekel, Caroline Trewet

Marie Mayberry Anderson Scholarship ($1200) – Jordan Mauk, Caroline Trewet, Ryan Beymer

Meredith Communications Scholarship ($1000) – Liz Guttenfelder

Morris A. Levine ($750) – Chad Christensen

Most Academic Improved ($1000) – Caroline Trewet and Megan Pross

Owen and Kitty Meredith Scholarship ($1000) – Jake Auerbach

Patty Hannon Scholarship ($500) – Shelby Cooper and Tiffany Braukman

PCI Academy Scholarship – Shelby Tichota

Personal Growth Award ($1000) – Acacia Wilson and Kourtnie Beschorner

Pheasants Forever Scholarship ($300) – Tyler Fischer

Pork Producers Scholarship ($250) – Nick Olsen

Reann Gruhn Memorial Scholarship ($500) – Blake Meneely

Senior Alumni Scholarship ($750) – Matt Iekel, Mikayla Somers, and Scott Caslow

Student Council Scholarship ($250) – Jake Auerbach and Caroline Trewet

Tom Maley Memorial Scholarship ($1000) – Josh Schorle

Trevor Fredrickson Memorial Scholarship ($750) – Jared Fulk and Liz Guttenfelder

Tyler Family Coca-Cola Scholarship – Jared Fulk and Reann Cappel

American Red Cross Scholarship ($2000) – Abby Johnson

By Kelsey Hamilton

The Spanish Trip students ran a canned food drive from April 22- May 4. There was a competition between all Atlantic Community School grades, (K-12), to see who could bring the most food. Fifth graders took the win but the freshman came in at a close second. The winning grade gets a pizza party provided by Pizza Ranch.

The AHS Spanish Club collected food for the Atlantic Food Pantry while fundraising for their trip to Costa Rica.

Over $2000 in food was raised and will be donated to the Atlantic Food Pantry. Saturday, May 4th students went door to door around town collecting over 1000 items just that day to donate. Local businesses including Wickman Chemical, Duke Aerial, Deters, Henningsen Construction, Todd Tanner, Wells Fargo, McAtee Tire and Pizza Ranch have all supported the fundraiser through matching the value or donating items.

The food drive was hosted to help raise money for the Spanish Trip traveling to Costa Rica in 2014.

Steve Baier’s physics student are participating in their anual cardboard boat project. The boats could have been one-man or two-man. Boats were to be completed Monday, May 6 and displayed in the Multi-Purpose building. These boats sailed on Tuesday, May 7 at Nishina Hills golf course in Atlantic. The students will be gone from sixth to eighth period.

The boat had special requirements. The students could only use cardboard to build them. They could use duct tape, glue, or caulk to hold them together. No metal fasteners, string, or zip ties could be used.

The boats were either one-man or two-man, depending on whether partner work was done.  All one-man boats raced other one-man boats and two-man boats raced two-man boats.

This project is worth 100 points. The boats were graded on speed, maneuverability, design, and the final race results. The students first designed and built a boat. Each class looked over the boats and determined which one they thought win. Then on Tuesday, the students, along with Baier, loaded up their boats and headed to the Nishna Hills Golf Course to test them.

If the boat made it across the pond, the students received at least a “B.” The determining grade was the race back. The boats raced back against each other to see who was victorious and would get the best grade.

On Friday, May 3, the AHS band and choir students travelled to Harlan to perform sets of songs they had spent a month preparing. Chamber choir, Concert choir, and the band all performed.

Choir director Jennifer Gaesser took two choirs with her: the JV Concert Choir and the Varsity Chamber Choir. Concert Choir received a 31 division II excellent rating for their songs “Come to Me, O My Love” arranged by Allan Robert Petker and “Dreams of Thee” arranged by Eric William Barnum. Chamber Choir received a 36 division I superior rating for their songs “Come to the Music” by Joseph M. Martin and “In Remembrance” arranged by Jeffery L. Ames.

Gaesser said she was very happy with the results of Large Group. “Everybody worked hard and there’s always room for improvement.” To prepare for next year, Gaesser will not pick music for Large Group until she sees the abilities the next set of choirs obtain up to Christmas.

Band director Jarrod O’Donnell took the concert band to Large Group Contest. They received a division II excellent rating for their two songs: “Flieger Marsch” arranged by Hermann Dostal and “Gathering the Ranks of Hebron” arranged by David Holsinger.

Large Group Contest was both the band’s and choir’s last school performance of 2012-2013 school year.

Question: What should Mr. Smith name his 4th child?

The top responses from the AHS Needle staff include…

Girl Names — Ava. Hannah. Sophia. Emma. Isabelle.

Boy Names — Noah. Adam. Luke. Matthew. Joshua.

Also, you can find a list of the most popular baby names in 2013 here!

Mr. Smith’s baby is due in November! This will be his fourth child. He has one girl, Sarah, and twin boys, Micah and Gideon.