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Page 5 Bramble, Taylor Cork, Marisa Craven, Megan DeMouth, Dalton Doom, Caitlin Doty, Brooke Essy, Taylor Gehring, Collin Jund, Alexis Koethe, Morgan Legleiter, Breanna Loya, Marissa Messinger, Addison Meyers, Carter Neilsen, Alyssa Phippen, Sarah Ripperger, Taylor Royer, Matthew Roozeboom, imothy Scheve, Emily Settle, Ben Smith, Keely Smith, Mitchell Smith, McKenzie Tennison, Bridget Tunink, Abby Vens, Jeremy Watson, Sam Weyers, Audrey Wood. Juniors: Bailey Baldock, Cheyenne Becker, Samantha Benson, Tim Brown, Hannah Clark, Aaron Fogt, Megan Gainer, Ayla Gooden, Char Halley, Elizabeth Imm, Allison Jacobi, Olivia Lacona, aylor LaRosse, Taylor Luther, Kelsie Marchal, Tyler Mardis, Hannah McDevitt, Emily Mickelson, Shane Oswalt, Charlotte Porter, Lauren Reed, Chayli Rittman, Meredith Senne, Caroline Slaghter, Drew Wadding, Trevor Wiley, Brianna Young. Sophomores: Caroline Chelsvig, Macy Feaker, Kaelyn Koontz, Paige McDermott, Aaron Mitchell, Corey Montes, Tess Parker, Peyton Payne, Rachel Rinehart, Anna Shapiro, Rachel Shapiro, Tyler Smith 50 hours: Seniors: Mohad Awan, Brennan Borgestad, Kyle Corbin, Logan Driscoll, Hunter Flesch, Nora Frentress, Lindsay Greifzu, cott Gulbranson, Nicholas Hammen, Claudia Hernandez, Bridget Johnston, Alexis Koethe, Jake Kuyper, Collin Lidstrom, Jolene Loos, Mara Mapes, Novepreet Nagra, Henry Oberman, Alexis Ridout, Evan Schroeder, Garrett Slaybaugh, Alexandra Strange, Connor Wachter. Juniors: Zack Baudler, Kassidy Becker, Cooper Bell, Austin Biegger, Emily Black, Rachel Blackwell, Connor Boatman, Jessica Brown, Nicole Cady, mily Carlson, Kaitlyn Coleman, Mac Delsol, Aaron DeNucci, Chase Devoto, Sydney Ehlinger, Sarah Fields, Maddie Fung, Partrick Gray, Madison Green, Maddie Grissom, Zach Grossmann, Jessen Hansen, Kassidy Hays, Kendall Hays, Maddison Hess, Christian Hofbauer, Natalie Horton, Parker Howe, Nathan Jacobsen, Alexa Johnston, Nathan Keck, Anna Kollmorgen, Dillon Lauridsen, Erika Lewis, Jordan Lisle, Connor Littlefield, A ustin Long, Ben Mardis, Kate McLaughlin, Taylor Michl, Clare Mitchell, Matthew Mitchell, Jake Mooradian, Anthony Nelson, Rebecca Carly Rachel Oliver, Madeleine als, Emily Parker, Jenna Pearce, Breanna Poage, Andrea Poppinga, Gavin Priest, Kevin Priest, Jordan Pyle, Collin Richard, Ryan Sabotoin, Samantha Schaefer, Taylor Schleisman, Koy Schneiter, Morgan Seemuth, Justin Sell, Zac Siefkas, Kaitlyn Sough- an, Jordyn Steinkritz, Josh Stotts, Maegan Tyrrell, Madison Staley, Lauren Vespa, Graham Vogt, Taylor Vorhees, Phat Vu, Mikayla Whitmer, Jason Wittmuss, Tyler Wright, Sneha Yamsani. Sophomores: Lindsey Buzynski, Rachel Brush, Zoey Clark, Kaitlyn Cox, Ben Doyle, Shauna Erickson, Joshua Fett, Ben Foxen, Evan Gaynor, Olivia Groves, Analese Hauber, Payton Holmes, Hannah Hoth, Erika Hunzeker, Aravind Kannoly, Megan Kiernan, Jonah Knous, Brandon Kuhn, Scott Macarthy, Mary McCormick, Kaitlyn Menz, eg Meyer, Morgan Parker, Anna Rhodes, Mitchell Rossman, Arik Russel, Katie Ryan, Madeline Ryan, Matt Smith, Noah Smith, Mason Statton, Sara Wadle, Lucas Waage.

25 hours: Seniors: Sean Anderson, Madi Boeck, Leah Cheatham, Abigail Daly, Cassandra Erickson, Dustin Eubanks, Michael Fellers, Katlyn Frame, A lec Harrold, Max Hendricks, Tyler Hunke, Kelly Koch, McKenna LeClere, Maddie McCormick, A dam Novak, Schylir Rowen, Sanika Sherry, Rowen Schylir. Juniors: Hannah Ackerson, Brooklyn Allison, Katherine Amick, Meghan Anderson, Karolyn Artino, Ronald Battreall, Emily Bieker Hailey Buzynski, Sarah Chicken, Maria Comito, Shannon Cretsinger, Matthew Earney, Cooper Floyd, Ellie Girkin, Mady Gutnecht, Drew Hearn, Tyler Hobbs, Emilie Hulse, Kennedy Landes, Morgan Lauritsen, Brianna Martin, Logan Murphy, Catherine Mwamsoyo, Austin Neal Kellan Oveton, Max Scheve, Ross Schmaltz, Sarah Schroeder, Kyle Shryack, Ryan Stall, Hanson Yan. Sophomores: Emilee Anderson, Noah Baumeister, Nathan Belvo, Kelsey Best, Emily Brekke, Madeline Chilton, Sydney Day, Ashley Dean, Jonathan Dominguez, Cameron Green, eaghan Greteman, Mark Heggen, Ashley Hiatt, Amber Holloway, Nicholas Hope, Jacob Larson, Brittney Latcham, Bailey Legleiter, Jacob McDonald, Rachel Miller, Danielle Modrell, Elizabeth Morrison, Nathan ortenson, Mackenzie Nehls, Katelyn Noah, Sheridan Powell, Hannah Quimby, Katherine uimby, Hannah Roethler, Anna Ruble, Jack Scafuri, Alex Shepard, Mackensie Schuster, Haley mith, Kaili Reane Smith, Chandler Thayer, Grace Tobin, Angela Trible, Max Urban, Katie Wang, Jason Wells, Katelyn Weyers, Rumer White, David Whitsell, Olivia Wood, Paige Yontz. The Waukee High School Hyper- Stream Club participated in the IT Olympics at Iowa State in four categories: Cyber defense, gaming, multimedia and comm unity service. The club put in many months of preparation and competed in two days of competitions against nearly 40 schools from across the state.

The cyber defense teams placed eighth and 14th out of 29 teams. The gaming team came home with its third consecutive first-place trophy. This was the first year of competing for the multimedia team, which also brought home a first-place trophy. The entire club participated in the annual community service project, the Iowa Service Learning Institute, which won them a second-place trophy. Club members are Logan Kinn eer, Justin Sindelar, Nick Guzman, Jacob Paisley, Hannah Hoth, Maddie Darveaux, Malia Griffin, Anna Ruble, Sri Akkina, Anna Shapiro, Chris Wells, Alexia Stock, John Jago, Ethan Grote, Connor Thorson, Alex Goodenow, Colin Richard, Kenny Jacobson, Max Urban, Ian Coon, Jake Callaghan, Megan Luedtke, Vivian Le, Katie Amick, Emma Hester, Sydney Ehlinger, Katie Ryan and Matt Riley.

Private BERGMAN ACADEMY Ateam of nine eighth-grade science students on April 15 participated in the sixth annual Diocesan science quiz bowl at St. Francis of Assisi School. The science quiz bowl was open only to eighth-grade students who excel in the areas of life, phys- i cal, earth and space science. uring the bowl, students worked in teams to answer a ariety of multiple choice and open-ended science questions. This year, 14 schools from the Des Moines area and around the state took part in the day, making it the largest competition to date.

Despite this year being Bergman Quiz Bowl debut, the team brought home the gold in their division a nd scored the most points overall. The eighth-grade students spent the afternoon April 25 volunteering in honor of Earth Day a nd the Des Moines Trash Bash. The students selected the Greenwood Park lagoon as their work site. During cleanup, the volunteers collected six bags of trash, as well as several large items including iron posts and rubber tubing. DES MOINES CHRISTIAN Today: The and varsity golf teams will travel to Winterset to compete in the West Central Activities Conference at Lakeview Country Club.

The junior varsity and varsity soccer teams will host Albia on Senior Night on Field 10 at the Cownie Sports Park in South Des oines. On May 10, the Concert Choir and Band will compete in the Iowa High School Music Association Large Group Festival at I ndianola High School. May 12: The West Central Activities Conference Art Fair will be in Panora at Panorama High School. Several junior high and high school students have entries. The golf team will compete in Knoxville at the Pine Knolls Country Club.

The high school track team will compete at Martensdale-St. The track team will ravel to Guthrie Center to ompete at Guthrie Center High School. The varsity and junior varsity soccer teams will comp ete in Pella at Pella Christian High School. May 13: The all-school art show will be on display in the multipurpose room. The junior varsity golf teams will be on-the-road to compete at Cedar Pointe Golf Course in Ogden.

The secondary bands and vocal choirs will perform at the Secondary Parade of Bands and Spring Vocal Concert in the school gymnasium at 7 p.m. The varsity golf team will compete in Sectionals at Jester Park Golf Course May 14. May 15: The high school and track teams will compete in districts. The spring ocal music concert of students in grades 4-6 will be held in the school gymnasium. May 16, the PTF-sponsored BMX Stunt Team Show will perform in the gymnasium at he magazine sales award assembly.

MONTESSORI HOUSE The students in the 3-6-year-old classes have just completed an art project where they used primary colors to mix secondary colors and then created a painting. Their paintings are on isplay in the hallway. We are currently studying about symmetry and butterflies. We folded paper and cut out butterfly shapes and also completed a folded paper and paint design to show symmetry. The children also made some simple origami butterflies.

The 5-7-year-old class has spent he past month working on a drum that will be used in their spring music program. They elected fabric pieces and glued them on a large cardboard tube to create a collage. We were able to utilize the fabric scrapes donated by an area quilter. Several students found it was a big job to cover the entire surface, but they were happy with the results. MOUNT OLIVE Mary Gillaspey from the Urban Environmental Partnership discussed with the students what it means to recycle.

The third- and fourth-grade students learned what to recycle and what interesting items can be reused. The timing of this presentation worked well with Earth Day being April 22. The students involved are from Clive, Carlisle, Des Moines, West Des Moines, Grimes, Ankeny, Urbandale, Polk City and Johnston. ST. FRANCIS Fifth-grade science students elebrated Earth Day by cleaning up the grounds of the school and parish.

They raked ulch on the playgrounds, swept sidewalks and collected garbage. In religion, the fifth rade is creating Ten Command- ments books for our first-grade buddies. We will also be starting our unit on Mary. A visit to Hy-Vee Hall, May crowning, a Talking Canvas Downtown walking Park visit and field day will round out the year. Eighth-graders are busy working on their science fair projects as well as studying World War II.

hey completed literature circles on the Holocaust and the war. They will begin their research papers focusing on a topic from that historical period. ST. THERESA Pre-kindergarten went on a field trip to the Earl May lawn and garden center on 22nd treet in West Des Moines. Students were able to view plans drawn by a landscaper, ook at and smell the flowers and ask questions.

We also got popcorn available to customers at the store. Earl May also donated flowers to our classroom. The students dictated what they learned when we returned to school. We are awaiting warmer weather so we can plant our flowers outside. In reading, the third-grade lasses are starting a story by author Chris Van Allsburg.

We will be looking at other books by this author and comparing and contrasting his writing. He is the author of Polar and a Third grade also had their final book talk with the Franklin Library this week. The ibrarian discussed new and interesting books, both fiction and non-fiction. indergarten practiced their Alphafriend sounds, wore special letter shirts, used props starting with their letter sound and sang their letter song to schoolmates, family and friends for the annual Letter arade. Kindergarten is learning about the earth.

We read about mountains and valleys. We sorted pictures of living and non-living things. We made a project using play dough, paint and pipe cleaners. The general music and choir groups recently held concerts. Kindergarten and first-grade Spanish classes finished their books on an adaptation of Eric Bear, Brown Bear What Do You The students learned the colors and animals i Spanish.

Intermediate students are working on clothing vocabulary and learning how to say what they like and like to wear. The seventh-graders are showing their creativity by interpreting and writing poetry. They are discussing various poets. Robert Frost stimulated their discussions with Road Not The poem by Denise Levertov caused confusion but also motivation for the students to discover what she attempted to explain. The eventh-graders will be writing poems of their own.

The fifth-grade classes are studying the American Revolution. Students are comparing types of maps, including learning how to read different battle maps. The sixth-grade social studies class is finishing up their unit on modern China with and will next study India. We will have a guest speaker and the students will be introduced to the culture and lifestyle of India. The seventh-graders are wrapping up their unit on Australia by creating an Australian web.

Students have been busy researching and creating a web using a topic within the areas of either the outback, the Great Barrier Reef, or examining Australian animals. In eighth- grade social studies, the students are beginning their unit on Reconstruction and Abraham assassination. The eighth-graders will be focusing on primary documents to better understand this event. St. Theresa is having a buy one, get one free book fair in the media center.

Meet Sophie, the og who loves to Hours are May 15, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; May 16, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and ay 17, 9 a.m. to noon. Your Students, Your Schools Weekly news provided by area school districts Continued from Page 4 Mary Gillaspey from the Urban Environmental Partnership came to Mount Olive to discuss with the students what it means to recycle.

Particpating students were from Clive, Carlisle, Des Moines, West Des Moines, Grimes, Ankeny, Urbandale, Polk City and Johnston. MARY TO THE REGISTER The Waukee High School HyperStream Club participated in the IT Olympics at Iowa State. Front row, left to right, Logan inneer, Justin Sindelar, Nick Guzman and Jacob Paisley; second row, Hannah Hoth, Maddie Darveaux, Malia Griffin, Anna Ruble, Sri Akkina, Anna Shapiro, Chris Wells and Alexia Stock; third row, John Jago, Ethan Grote, Connor Thorson, Alex Goodenow, Colin Richard, Kenny Jacobson and Max Urban. Not pictured, Ian Coon, Jake Callaghan, Megan Luedtke, ivian Le, Katie Amick, Emma Hester, Sydney Ehlinger, Katie Ryan and Matt Riley. SPECIAL TO THE REGISTER Waukee Middle seventh- and eighth-grade bands took part in the Adventureland Band Festival April 26.

Posing with trophies after the awards ceremony are Paris Schnell, Ann Kepplinger, instructor Mary Crandell, Claire Brown and Kayla Rinderknecht. SPECIAL TO HE REGISTER Waukee Middle seventh- and eighth-grade bands took part in the Adventureland Band Festival April 26. Claire Brown and Rachel Hawley enjoy their success. SPECIAL TO THE REGISTER Waukee Register.