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525 Swartdogs qualify for World Championship
In the 1998-1999 school year, then-Cedar Falls High School physics teacher and current S.T.E.M Facilitator Kenton Swartley received a VHS tape in the mail. Swartley played the tape for the last five minutes of his class. The video was an informational piece about robotics. A group of students got really excited and asked if they could start a robotics team. “I said, ‘Sure, just line up some mentors and engineers to help us and raise some money to compete.’ I was not expecting for it to work for us as well as it has,” Swartley said. Twenty-one years later, the “525 Swartdogs” robotics team has received many awards and attended many competitions across the nation, even traveling to China in 2014, 2015 and 2016. This year on March 23-25, the 525 Swartdogs competed and won the Regional FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) meet in Duluth, Minn., qualifying them for the World Championships in Detroit on April 25 and 26. The 525 Swartdogs qualified for a second time the next weekend. “We qualified in two ways. When we went to Regionals in Duluth, Minn., and won with our robot and qualified for worlds. Then, this past weekend we qualified because we got the Chairman's
award. Basically it's the top award that a team can receive at any competition in FRC. It is even better than winning with a robot because it is so prestigious,” 525 Swartdogs co-captain Megan Pezley said. The Chairman's Award takes hours of time dedicated to writing and creating content that proves what good things a robotics team has done in their area. Pezley headed the Chairman’s Award team. “It is all about how you inspire the community, state and the world. We specifically got it because it is a whole process of writing essays, mini-essays, presentations to describe why your team deserves this award. We went to China for a competition there, we run the competition where we are at and have started a lot of teams in Iowa,” she said. Out of the 26 teams in Iowa, the 525 Swartdogs have helped kickoff 11 of them, making them a team in Iowa that has set an example for many others by winning the Chairman’s Award this year. “We are really popular in Iowa because so many teams were were started by us. We got it when I was a freshman, but we have not gotten it again since this year,” Pezley said. Even though the Swartdogs do not have as much
The 525 Swartdogs qualified for the World Championship robotics competition. It will be streamed live on April 25 and 26 from Detroit. competition in Iowa, at the World Championships they will have many teams on the same level as them. “It will be a lot different than our regional event. The three teams on the winning alliance qualify for championships. Out of 400 teams there, there will be about 200 or so that have won regionals just like us. There will be about 200 teams that are on our same field. It is probably a bigger honor than winning the regional,” Swartley said. This year, the 525 Swartdogs robot has three main features of what it can do for the “game” and challenge this season on the robotics field at competitions. The challenge
this year is space-themed. “[Our robot] takes cargo, which is basically playground balls, and it can put them in the rocket in the cargo ship. Then we have hatch panels that are basically these discs that we can put onto the rocket or cargo ship, and we can do any levels for that. Personally, what I think is the coolest about the robot is that it can climb. It has a little foot that comes out of it, and it extends forward so it can climb,” Pezley said. Swartley has seen the progression of the advancement of the robots being built for FRC competitions, as well as for the Swartdogs’ robots each year.
“The ones we are building now look a lot different. There are more sensors and cameras. This year there are cameras that the drivers use to drive while looking at a feed on a computer rather than looking at the robot itself,” he said. Swartley recognizes the progression of the Swartdogs to get to their current status. “I can remember way back when we were a new team and would see teams that were around for longer than us. We would think, ‘Oh wow, they are amazing. I am kind of jealous of them,’ and ‘Boy, I wish we could beat them in a match.’ They were targets for us to beat them, and now that is us. Teams come to events and they say, ‘Oh, we want to beat the Swartdogs,’ so it is a bit of a challenge, but also is nice to be recognized,” Swartley said. Pezley is appreciative of her three years of experience with the Swartdogs. “I have grown up seeing the Swartdogs and seeing how accomplished they were, so it was something that I kind of took for granted. I did not realize how lucky we are to have to be on such a good team and have all of the resources and great mentors,” Pezley said. “We are very lucky.” By Co-Editior-In-Chief Sabine
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Environmental team launches recycling bins A study done by Columbia University estimates that each American throws away seven pounds of trash each day, adding up to 2,555 pounds per American per year. The Environmental Awareness Team (E.A.T) hopes to bring that number down by educating the student body on how to recycle. On Monday, April 1, the team put out 19 recycling bins near every major trash can in the high school, making sure there was one in every hallway. Above the bins, posters they hung that telling students what goes in the trash and what goes in the recycling bins. Senior E.A.T leader Maya Gabriele said that the high school does not have enough recycling education. “Before this project, we had a couple of recycling bins in the library like for paper. People know they’re supposed to recycle paper, OK. Nothing else. No, recycling education, not even am I supposed to recycle this?”
With the release of the bins, the team also created a video about the bins and how recycling benefits the planet. Gabriele said she hopes the informational video, posters and the bins make a difference. “This video we made to educate people shows that recycling has a big impact on the earth,” she said. “By us giving our high school this education and knowledge now, where they can develop this skill—like they know how to sort their garbage and recycle it—that’s going to have an impact on the the planet.” The project started with E.A.T senior member Sydney Householder. “I didn’t really know what kind of recycling bins we would get or where we would put them or who would be involved with it. I just know I wanted them,” Householder said. Environmental science teacher Jason Lang, informed Householder about the recycling bins at University of Northern
Iowa and suggested to the team they try and get the bins at the high school. “So we contacted Jenny Bruce at UNI; she works with the community. She came and met with us a couple of times to see what recycling bins we needed.” Householder said. “Next thing we knew she emailed us and asked when she can get the recycling bins over here.” To get the bins in the high school the team also coordinated with administration and janitors. Householder said even though the recycling bins are out, it may take some time to see an impact. “It might not be an immediate thing. It might take a year because students need to be educated on what they can and cannot recycle, how things need to be cleaned, etc.,” she said. The team warns the students to watch what they put in the recycling bins. “Know
that your container two thirds full of yogurt can’t go in there. If we keep having a bunch of trash be put in there, we’re probably going to decide to not have it out for everyone to use,” Householder said. The Environmental Awareness Team is not done leaving their mark on the high school. They are looking for artists at the high school to paint the trash cans in the parking lot. “The reason that we wanted to paint the trash cans out in the parking lot is to make them more noticeable so students can be like, ‘Oh, hey. I can put my trash over there instead of putting it out of my car,’” Householder said. Students who would like to paint a trash can can contact the Environmental Awareness Team at Enviroat@gmail.com. By Co-Editior-In-Chief Sophia
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“My message is that you can’t expect anybody else to make the community a better place, so I encourage everyone to get involved in whatever they are interested.” —District 30 Sen. Eric Giddens
CF family finds home in state capital School Board member Giddens, who was the Democrat candidate in the Senate District 30 special election, is now the newest state senator in Iowa after he won the special election against Republican Walt Rogers and Libertarian Fred Perryman. “The person I am replacing I have a lot of respect for and was a friend of ours. I think in some ways I want to carry on doing the same good job he did by listening to all people, not just those I agree with. I’m a Democrat, but I need to listen to Democrats, Republicans and work with all of my colleagues,” Giddens said. Giddens’ has family members who are also involved in Cedar Falls Schools. His wife, Kendra Wohlert, who used to work at the high school and Southdale as a choir teacher, and his son Henry is a student at Peet. “[I felt] so much excitement [when he won],” Wohlert said. “I was relieved that the community voted for a candidate that ran a positive campaign, and I was relieved that the community wanted someone who would represent everyone.” Giddens said that the experience was both honoring and humbling especially because the community had so little time to get to know him.
Following Jeff Danielson’s resignation from Senate District 30, all of the candidates had only weeks to campaign, and that along with the weather affected everyone’s plan and forced a lot of quick thinking. “A few years ago [my family and I] left the country for a couple of years, and we lived in Honduras. [When] we decided to come back to Cedar Falls, we kind of settled back down to the community, and I had this realization that this was home, and we need to do the best we can to make it the best it can be. Within a couple years I decided to run for school board. The first time I wasn’t successful, but I tried again and was on that for a 1 ½ years [until my resignation]. I thought if there was an option I would try and all of a sudden Jeff Danielson resigned. I had to make a quick decision and here we are,” Giddens said. Deciding to run in the special election meant that Giddens had to resign from his position on the school board. “I was very sad to lose [Giddens] as a school board member, but I was very excited that he would represent us in District 30,” Joyce Coil, president of the school board, said. Coil said that the most likely future for the
school board is to appoint someone to fill Giddens’ spot until the June 25 referendum. After the quick decision, Giddens had to work on his campaign and start talking to the community. “My plan was just to be as authentic as I could and say the things that I believe in and then tell people that I’m going to be a listener. How to carry out a good campaign is just give the power and thought to the voters. We had so many volunteers that were able to knock on all the doors that were our target doors two times and made sure people knew that this was going to happen,” Giddens said. “Knocking on doors, talking to people on the phone, sending postcards, television ads, speaking to the news paper— those are the key ingredients to a good campaign.” “[Once the election was over] we were all very celebratory and it was an amazing moment but then we had to hit the ground running,” Henry said. “The first thing I want to do is be a representative for the community, and my goal is not to say what is best for the community, but I want to hear what the people want and take those ideas to Des Moines to work with the other legislators and hope we get it
CF sends four to All-State The All-State Individuals Speech Festival was held on Monday, March 25 at the McLeod Center at UNI. Junior Sid Kalala, junior Devin O’Loughlin, senior Catherine Rohret and freshman Kimi Du were nominated by the state speech judges to perform their pieces at the festival. With the help of coaches Catherine Bettag and Jakob Elmquist, the students all crafted their own pieces for different categories and perfected their way into competition. Kalala left the audience in tears of laughter after performing his after dinner speech on college applications, meanwhile O’Loughlin walked people through understanding, embracing and controlling fear in the category of original oratory; Rohret joyously provoked thoughts while comparing the addicting TV show “Riverdale” with a car crash, and Du enthusiastically explained the key to being a productive procrastinator. “It really didn’t have a lot to do with Ms. Bettag and myself. The students here have a passion and are extremely talented in the realm of arts. They are all great performers and exuded that at our competitions. I am extremely grateful to be apart of such a strong cohort of performers,” Elmquist said. Being nominated for the AllState Speech Festival is a big suc-
cess within speech. It is possible for one to get perfect scores from all of the judges but still not make it in to All-State, yet four students out of the nine that went to state managed to be the ones to stay in mind and get the All-State nominations. “I’m really proud of the work I put in to research, write and rehearse my speech. I really enjoyed my time at the competitions. Obviously, I was nervous for my event, but I was also really curious to see everyone else perform. I am also very honored to have been selected to perform at All-State, which I have never done before. All-State was an important source of motivation for me. I really wanted to perform at All-State. I had a great time overall, and I hope I can go back again next year,” O’Loughlin said. Alongside the excitement and struggles of presenting their own pieces in front of experts, critiques and the rest of the audience, the students earned the opportunity to attend the festival all day and got the chance to watch the other best-ofthe-best performers coming from all over the state of Iowa as well. “The struggles are so real. Writer’s block and procrastination definitely were my biggest challenges to overcome during speech, and losing motivation was something I really struggled with. However, getting to perform, watching peo-
ple laugh at your jokes and seeing the No. 1 ratings really makes it all worth it. It was just a really great experience overall, I had a lot of fun watching other pieces and getting to perform my review in front of so many people was awesome,” Rohret said. Including all forms of delivery of a certain message including body language, speech allows students to be more confident and puts them a step ahead of their peers when it comes to the use of speech abilities on daily life. “I am proud of myself for going to All-State because it not only helped me gain experience in public speaking, but also made me feel more confident because it proved to me that I am capable of good public speaking skills, which I believe is needed to be a successful professional,” Kalala said. The biggest goal of the team in the following years is to recruit more students. “I am incredibly proud of the success this year brought. All-State was amazing. The students seemed to very enjoy it. My biggest goals for the next season are to recruit more students and establish student leadership. I would suggest coming to our showcase sometime this month to see what speech is really about,” Bettag said. By Staff Writer Saba
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passed to help better the community based off of what the people are saying,” Giddens said. Some general ideas Giddens said he thinks about are public education, health care, the environment and helping people get jobs, but the specifics have to come from people in the community. “I would say [my dad’s decision to run for state senate has inspired me.] Both my mom and dad are pretty political, and I never really did see myself doing politics in the future, but since this campaign I have definitely become more open to my idea of it,” Henry said. Senator Giddens said he hopes to inspire more students to get involved in the community than just his son. “My message is that you can’t expect anybody else to make the community a better place, so I encourage everyone to get involved in whatever they are interested. There is something for everybody. I think the more they get involved in leadership, the more prepared they will be for opportunities they get in the future,” Giddens said. “First, get involved at school and then bring it to the community level.” By Staff Writer Taylor
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On Tuesday April 2, the Jazz One qualified as one of eight schools in Iowa to go to this invite only event. This years performance took place at CY Stephens on the ICU Campus. Over 2,500 heard the bands perform. Sophomore Eli Smith plays with Jazz One band.
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FCS teacher Madison Walker started in class this January, and Walker has been implementing new programs for culinary students, one being The Tiger Cafe. The Tiger Cafe creates and sells meals for teachers and school staff, both take and bake meals and ready to go meals. “Tiger Cafe has done two Take’n’Bake meals now. We have made tater tot casserole with chocolate chip cookies and lasagna with bread sticks,” Walker said. Walker encourages students to work on their cooking skills while getting a feel for the food industry. “Through this class I hope that students continue to enhance their culinary skills while they learn how to work as group to successfully produce meals. If a student enjoys culinary, working with others and wanting to experience the culinary field, I
would tell them to take Tiger Cafe.” Walker credits her previous experiences during college for her inspiration to start something new at Cedar Falls High School. “During student-teaching I got to experience Hampton-Dumonts’ Bulldog Cafe and was amazed by the students and the skills that they have gained from being in the class. Having that experience with those students made me want to do something similar here at Cedar Falls,” Walker said. The Tiger Cafe gives students the chance to not only learn new things, but to also have fun with friends and have a class outside the normal routine. “I have learned about working with others because you most definitely have to work together to get things done with as many people
as we have in the class. My favorite thing is spending time with my friends and also cooking because cooking really relaxes me and takes stress away from the school day,” senior Ashley Dreesman said. “It’s fun bonding with people and learning what working in a restaurant or culinary business is like. I liked our cake competition and having the teachers test them out.” Senior Arianna Lickness uses the class to learn more about the food industry and to gain independence. “I’ve learned there is a lot more to food preparation than I thought. Meal planning take a lot of time as well. Working with my friends and having more control about what we do and how we do it is what I hope to learn,” Lickness said. While the class has only been up and running for about a semester,
Madison Vetter had the opposite problem of many as an elementary kid. Her teachers could not get her to stop writing. Vetter found her passion for writing as a fifth grader. Now she is currently working on a novel that she hopes becomes a part of a series. Whether or not Vetter goes to college for an English-related field, she wants to continue writing for herself and for fun. 1. When did you start writing? Most people cannot tell you when, but I started writing October of fifth grade with a scary story for our English class. It wasn’t really a class. It was more of a 30-minute period. It probably wasn’t that great of a story, but at the time I was convinced it was the scariest thing written by a fifth grader. 2. What are your inspirations? Right now I am most inspired by the differences that exist between people and how there is not necessarily a good or an evil. There is only morally gray things and people whose ambitions get in the way of other peoples, so I really like to play with not good, not evil just somewhere in the middle. 3. What type of writing is your favorite? Creative writing. It gave me a chance to work on something that I had been working on for a really long time. Well, longer than usual. I don’t stick with projects for very long. It let me explore the project that I had been working on called Hell Bender. I’m trying to write a novel, a series if possible. 4. How many projects have you done? I’ve started a lot of projects, but never finished them, and when I say a lot, I mean at least 20, but I have written two short stories and a small collection of poetry. 5. Have you been published before? Recently, I got published in an anthology for high school students that
is put out by Hawkeye. I got something accepted into that called “What I Have Done.” 6. Do you like the writing we do in school? Goodness, no. I really hate writing papers. 7. What is your favorite genre? Currently sci-fi because that is what my project is in. 8. Do you want to do anything with writing/English when you grow up? Well, my dream since fifth grade October was to be a writer and to be just a famous author. I was really excited about that, but you know real life started to set in, and it’s really hard to do that and make a substantial living. If I would do anything in the English field, it would be something in the editing field because I really, really like reading and editing papers. 9. Do you have a college career path for an English field? Unfortunately, I don’t. My feel on that is unless I want to be something in the editing field, like the publishing industry, I don’t plan on going to college for an English degree. Writing is always something you can do on your own time without a college degree because I can improve on my own and do it for fun.
wolf comes prowling from above, and as he digs into the frozen ground, howling, I am forced to remember the dead. There is a shovel at my hand--was it always there?--and its shaft drips red with blood--is it mine? If there was ever a time for forgiveness, it was always too slow in coming.
Walker has received positive feedback and said she hopes to expand the class to continue to connect with students. “My favorite thing about Tiger Cafe is seeing the students work to produce meals. They come to class and work hard. I have a great group of students. The feedback that I have gotten from customers has been amazing; those comments make it all worth it. It warms my heart having a great staff that is supporting Tiger Cafe,” Walker said. “My future plan for Tiger Cafe is to have an actual sit down cafe where students will serve a three course meal to customers. If Tiger Cafe continues to grow, I would love to open up Tiger Cafe to the community.”
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What I Have Done By: Madison Vetter If there was ever a time for forgiveness, I find it too slow in coming. Nearoff, there is a wind in the winter night that blows a raging gale, and the gravestones sit restless in the earth where I can neither see nor hear them. I’ve made my promises, kept the vows. But I still feel the halo slip from my head. There in the fresh-turned plot, the
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They call me Proclaimer--they call me Prophet--they call me Messenger--they call me Messiah. And I cannot even save my own. And as the storm draws nearer, I sit in this burning house and watch the flames lick the walls. They are desperate to escape, but I’ve locked the windows tightly and the key is buried in the snow. They do not understand. It’s not all bleeding lips and shaking hands, stomach aches and dripping with sweat, because it burns with the fever of unholy desire--it’s a revolution in the blood. Sometimes it’s my arms covered in bloody runes and waking up, naked, in the middle of a field, all the ground tasting of copper. But the wolf turns to wind and slips through the cracks, and stands before me, all muscle, power, and righteous anger. I see the holy fire burn in his eyes as his great wings fan the flames. Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna! There is no more room in hell, I know-have known. The devils walk among us and wear their human faces. My halo splinters. The devils walk among us, and they look so much like me.
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Take advantage of new recycling bins As you look around the high school, you may see something new in every hallway. All year long, the Environmental Awareness team (E.A.T) has been working on introducing a recycling program where students can recycle more that just their water bottles. The team wanted the Cedar Falls High School to help the environment by recycling everything they can that the student body throws away during the day. The team did this by adding a recycling bin near almost every trash can in the school, along with a poster to help guide students on what to throw away and what to recycle. Administration has recently stated that if the student body does not start keeping the campus clean and protecting the planet, we will lose our privileges, like power hour. Not only does recycling help the planet by reducing the amount of trash going into the landfill or potentially winding up in the ocean, but it proves to administration that the student body is responsible and respectful to more than just ourselves. You may think this is asking a lot of the student body to take one extra step before throwing yogurt parfait containers into the trash, but it is not. One more step is required, but this small step will improve the environment tremendously. Before throwing away your lunch or snack, check what you have, look at the signs above the trash and recycling bin and see what you need to throw away and what you can recycle. These small steps will not only show administration that we want to make a difference and care about our school and the environment, but will also improve the planet and how long we have left with it.
One more step is required, but this small step will improve the environment tremendously.
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Marvel is no stranger to exciting superhero movies that feature a transcendent lead with powers that break the box office. Up until now, all of these leads in individual superhero movies at Marvel have been male, until this March when they released “Captain Marvel,” Marvel’s first female-led superhero movie. Starring Oscar-winning Brie Larson, the movie focuses on the story of Carol Danvers, a Kree warrior who tries to navigate an extraterrestrial war between the Krees and the Skrulls. It’s full of nostalgia, set in 1995 and gives earlier marvel character Nick Fury a chance to shine and develop a strong backstory. The movie itself sounds like Marvel’s typical formula for success: a lead played by a phenomenal actor, a strong supporting cast and a story that keeps you on the edge of the seat throughout the entire movie, but as the reviews rolled in, critics and audiences alike seemed to be disappointed by Captain Marvel, a long-awaited film by many diehard Marvel fans, raising the question: what went wrong? Before the movie even came out, the Rotten Tomatoes score online dropped to only 63 percent. Trolls flooded the review section, calling the film “Anti-male” and “a terrible movie.” With reviews rolling in by the minute, Captain Marvel seemed doomed before it was even released. The negative reviews seemed to be a response to a recent interview by Larson with Marie Claire on Feb. 17. While
promoting the movie, Larson took time to call into question the people who would potentially be reviewing it. “About a year ago, I started paying attention to what my press days looked like and the critics reviewing movies and noticed it appeared to be overwhelmingly white male,” Larson said. This comment seemingly launched a flurry of online reviewers, flooding the review section of Rotten Tomatoes in order to give the movie a bad rating before it even came out. Because Larson shared her opinion, it ended up hurting the potential box office sales for Captain Marvel. This isn’t the first time when a revolutionary movie was rejected by the public before it was even released. Some argued against the film “Wonder Woman” before it was released, calling it anti-feminist. Critics claimed that women
don’t need a strong superhero movie that only centers around the fact that she’s a woman. It’s almost as if a female superhero can’t win when it comes to pleasing audiences. Critics want a movie about a strong woman, but not one that hates men or in any way degrades men’s status, but the woman can’t be too strong or focus on her gender because it’s apparently anti-feminist. When writing new movies that actually include women in a male-dominated genre, writers face a struggle between being too supportive of women or not supportive enough. It’s a struggle that they won’t face when writing about Captain America or Iron Man because their gender doesn’t present something new and different for superheroes. Despite these struggles, the fact that we have any female superheroes at all is a huge improvement from where we started in the movie industry. Until society can manage to move forward with gender equality, there will never truly be a perfect female superhero that can please everybody. Regardless of the negative reviews, Captain Marvel is still a well-told story that is bringing forth important conversations in terms of inclusivity and equality in Hollywood. As long as the conversation is happening, that is a step towards a better movie industry. While it may be a small step, it’s still a step forward.
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“My bracket is not very good. None of my teams I had in the final four made it to the final four. I think the team that has the best chance of winning now is Michigan State.” —Chase Courbat
“My bracket is doing alright. I picked Kentucky, and they lost in the elite eight. I think Michigan State will win it now.” —Reid McFarland
“My bracket isn’t doing well. My only final four team left is Michigan State. I think Auburn has the best chance to win.” —Keegan Reints
“I have a Michigan State bracket, and I think they can win it all. I also have a Duke bracket, which is overwith after last night.” —Paul Elser