Various club activities planned for end of year
By Angelina Folchi
Editor-in-Chief
With STAR and AP testing under their belts, students can slowly start relaxing and preparing for some fun end-of-the-year activities coming up. They should be on the lookout for some schoolwide events, but there are also certain activities specifically for members of certain clubs or classes. Either way, there is something for all students to participate in.
FFA advisor Cali Griffin has some events coming up soon for her members. Max Money, Austin DeBerg and Kallie Goss, who scored highest with their Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) projects at the chapter level, are traveling to Shasta College tomorrow to try to move on to regionals. They will compete in the Intermountain and Shasta Section Project Competition by creating a ten-minute presentation about their project and perform it in front of a panel of judges. The three members are required to go into detail about their SAE projects and give information such as how much money they spent and what they learned throughout the project.
Kim McKinney has a fun, math-related activity scheduled for the end of May. Her trigonometry and calculus classes will pair up in groups of two or three, as they have done for many years in the past, and construct their own rockets made from plastic liter bottles. Students spend time during class decorating their rockets and installing parachutes in them, and then there’s an official launch-off day. The classes get together on the baseball field, line out a safety circle around the rockets, and then pump water into the rockets until they shoot up off the ground. The students measure the angle between the rocket at its highest point and the ground, and they can then use trignonometry to determine how high the rocket flies.
McKinney gives two different awards: Most Magnificent, for the prettiest and most decorative rocket, and Highest, for the rocket that flies highest into the sky. Since most parachutes malfunction, the students usually informally declare the rocket with the best parachute as well. McKinney said she likes to make and launch bottle rockets with her classes, because it’s a great way to combine math with something fun at the end of the year.
Culture Club has upcoming plans too; about five members, along with advisor Megan Meschery, are headed off to Reno May 23, a minimum day. They have plans to visit the UNR Planetarium and a museum before eating a Mediterranean-style dinner. Because the club spent the majority of its money on a trip to see Mamma Mia in Sacramento last month, the members will be paying for the Reno trip themselves.
The Friday Night Live club has been working hard all year to teach LHS students about the bad effects of drugs and alcohol, and members are finally rewarding themselves. The group is planning a trip to Six Flags in Vallejo toward the end of June once school is out, because the amusement park is offering a great discount price to FNL clubs. Advisor Sue Gressel expects 10 to 15 students to attend the trip, and all club members are eligible as they have worked on one of the club’s activities throughout the year like Red Ribbon Week, Kick Butts Day, the Youth Tobacco Prevention Survey and many others.
FNL receives money from Sierra County for completing their tobacco requirements and educating students about tobacco, so the club is able to fund the Six Flags trip itself.
Graduation is less than a month away for the seniors, and Sober Graduation Night follows for the seniors and their guests.
