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Media Class Produces MRWA Commercial BY MADELYN PEPLINSKI Ubly High School
Teamwork Creates Unique Yearbook BY MADELYN PEPLINSKI Ubly High School UBLY — While being part of the Ubly Yearbook team has proved to be extremely beneficial, there are numerous challenges that accompany it as well. Many of the events that our team has to photograph are scheduled events. Therefore, if none of our students are able to be there to take pictures, it becomes a missed opportunity that cannot be repeated. Along with these scheduled events, the behindthe-scenes magic is what really makes being a part of this team so important. Designing the yearbook is a very meticulous and time-consuming job. When designing different pages within the yearbook, it is most important to include everyone as well as making sure dates, names, and sport records are accurate. Not everyone within the school is involved in an extracurricular activity so our yearbook staff has created the perfect opportunity for students in the school to still be included within the yearbook. Throughout the yearbook, as a team we have designed multiple “fun pages” that are made to include as many people as possible as well as showcase our students personal interests and hobbies. This year one of our “fun pages” is our Self Expression page. This page was created to showcase the hobbies or activities that students participate
in outside of school. Without our team members working toward one goal to finish our yearbook on time, we wouldn’t be able to accomplish the end goal in mind. Our yearbook staff this year consists of all first-year students with the exception of me being a second year student. For this reason, I was chosen to be the editor to help guide fellow students and to assist in designing pages. While it has been a pleasure serving as the yearbook editor this past year, I am extremely excited for next year’s newest editors, Rachel Leppek and Danielle Tschirhart, to lead the class. They have both proven to be exceedingly hardworking and conscientious. Through all of our hard work, we have created a unique yearbook this year that also includes a brand new augmented feature. Our augmented yearbook allows students to scan a special code on certain pages of the book with a device that then directs them to many more photos specific to that event that could not be included in the yearbook itself. Students have the opportunity to see more photos than ever before and our staff is especially excited to introduce this to our buyers. Print media has become an important part of my day and my life. We are not only a group of students, we are a team. I couldn’t be more excited this year to reveal our final product to the rest of the school.
Ubly Track captain pens article BY JOSH BRANDEL Ubly High School UBLY — The Ubly High School Track team is comprised of 12 members and I am our captain this year. Although our team is smaller than usual, we are still having a lot of success. Although we have not won a meet yet, many of our athletes are medaling in and even winning events. We have a fairly young team this year, with only five upper classmen, so it has been fun trying to
show them the ropes and mentor them. We have practice every day after school for about an hour and a half, and we are scheduled to have about two meets per week. Many of our athletes have set personal records at the meets we have gone to. Track is one of those sports where you are competing individually, but you are also competing as a team. As a result, we have been trying to develop ways for our team to grow closer. We have
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done this by playing different games at practice, scheduling days where we hang out as a team, and just goofing around with each other in general. This is the most fun I have had in a track season in all of my four years, and I believe it is because of the team we have. Our team likes to have fun, but when it comes down to it, we know how to get things done. I am proud to be a member of the Ubly track team.
UBLY — At Ubly Community Schools, we students are offered the opportunity to be a part of the Media class. This class consists of broadcasting live daily announcements to our student body and creating funny videos to put on the announcements. While this class has offered my fellow classmates the ability to express ourselves, this year, we were given an extra opportunity to create a commercial for the Michigan Rural Water Association. Every year, this company allows high school students to create a commercial to have the chance to win money for their Media class as well as the winning students themselves. My group — which consisted of Kelsey Knoblock, Rebecca Particka and William Spicer —created our own commercial to submit for the competition. Our first challenge as a team was to think of a concept for our video. After going back and forth with
ideas our media teacher, Mr. Stewart Kieliszewski, helped our group create our concept that would later be known as “ the water police.” One of the many guidelines included was to create this commercial within 45 seconds. This proved to be extremely difficult for my group, as we had filmed almost 10 minutes of footage! After a couple days of editing, we were able to send our video in and were very hopeful that we might win the competition. Months later, we finally received the news back that my group had indeed won the Michigan Rural Water Association video contest. We were invited to travel to the Grand Traverse Resort to attend the company’s annual banquet to receive our award. While at the banquet, we received $1,500 for our media class and each student in my group received $250. While I was extremely grateful for this opportunity, I am also very grateful for the lesson it taught me. Ubly Community Schools might not be the biggest school, but we are still able to work together to complete and achieve our goal.
Microsoft Teams incorporated into classroom activities Teams allows students to easily navigate through each class hours information and work. Their schedule is simplified, and it is nearly UBLY — Microsoft Teams has impossible to be unorganized as been incorporated into the daily classroom activities at Ubly Schools. it fetches the assignment for you because it recognizes the stored This program allows teachers name and that it was downloaded to upload assignments and other from the assignment. Classes can important information into each also collaborate on projects by sharclass period that they have. The ing opinions and information on a students that are signed up with chat-based format in the classroom their class can see everything that tab. Classroom discussions have is posted and submit their finished been able to span further and stuassignments directly back through dents can help each other outside of Microsoft Teams. the physical classroom. The way Teams works is through Ubly has tried to utilize mulOffice 365 powered by Microsoft tiple different programs into the and using a cloud-based software, classroom that would make the meaning the files and documents new iPads even more productive are stored in the virtual cloud. and help to keep students stay on Teams is linked to all other Microtask with their classes by having all soft programs, such as Word and assignments and due dates readily PowerPoint, keeping everything available to access. seamless and properly formatted. BY ISAAC BOOMS Ubly High School
From high school seniors to certified nursing assistants BY MCKENZIE STOMACK Ubly High School BLY — The Huron Intermediate School District offers a wide range of technical skills program for all different types of students throughout the county. Many of these programs offer certification at the end of the twoyear program or on the job training during the program. Ubly seniors Madelynn Bukoski, Anna Messing, Natalie Pallas, Alexis Pionk, Brooke Ritter and McKenzie Stomack are taking full advantage of the Certified Nursing Assistant Certification offered by the health sciences program. The course began in January the week after mid-term exams. Students studied in class for half days three or four times a week. In class, students reviewed key concepts from the textbook, answered questions from a textbook related workbook, practiced clinical skills, and were quizzed over every
chapter. Some clinical skills the students had to perform at satisfactory level were hand washing, positioning patients, bathing, feeding, and range of motion exercises. In the last week of April, students were able to begin their clinical rotations at Courtney Manor in Bad Axe. During clinical rotations, students get to practice the clinical skills they learned in class on patients. Once the students are finished and perform all their clinical skills, they will have to take a final exam to obtain there CNA training certificate. After students take the final exam, they must take a state test. The state test consists of two parts: a written portion that tests the general knowledge of a CNA and a clinical portion. The clinical portion is judged by proctors who pick out a certain clinical skills for the CNA to demonstrate. Good luck to the Ubly seniors on their CNA final exam and their state test!
Pictured before their CNA clinical rotation are Ubly seniors, from left, Madelynn Bukoski, Alexis Pionk and McKenzie Stomack. (Submitted Photo)