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Seniors win business simulation challenge
On Wednesday, Nov. 20 senior Frank Zhang and Yoon Ki competed in and won the Junior Achievement Titan Challenge. “The challenge is a daylong competition which places high school junior and senior students in the CEO seat to help increase their understanding of business.” “Student teams of 2 have complete control of managing and operating their own virtual business and making key decisions. Companies (teams) are challenged to outperform the competition in profit, sales, and market share with the support of a volunteer mentor.” Ki first found out about this challenge from a poster hung up in the school. “ I was looking for ways to entertain myself at school and saw a flyer that advertised the Titan Challenge. I decided I wanted to take up the challenge especially because scholarship money was involved. I knew immediately once I decided
to do it that I had to ask Frank Zhang,” Ki said. Ki said she thought of Zhang because he is “good at everything,” and she knew they would win. Both Ki and Zhang wanted to participate in this challenge because “they had some interest in business and the scholarship money” they could receive if they won. First place received $1500 and second place received $750 to a college of their choice. At the event there were two rounds that determined which business was the most competitive. The first was a preliminary round and the second round was for the scholarship. “The first round was pretty good. The second round was stressful,” Zhang said. “The first round was a tournament style kind of thing where the top two players in the first round move on. Since it was the whole group there wasn’t as many “good players.” But by the second competition
On Tuesday, Dec. 10, most students were thrilled to hear that school would be dismissing early; however, administration and the maintenance staff were left to clean up the mess. Athletics and activities director Troy Becker said, “We believe that one of the heating water pumps stopped working last evening, and when custodians arrived this morning they learned about it. We then proceeded to start the second standby pump to get heat water flowing again through the building. Once the building began to heat up, some of the coils that froze overnight and split, thawed and water started pouring out into the classrooms and through to the floors below.” Jeremiah Longnecker’s first hour Developing Nation’s class was the first room to experience trouble. Not thinking much of the noise she heard coming from the radiator since it “usually makes weird noises anyway,”
senior Mia Dexter said nothing seemed out of the ordinary that morning. “I get into Longnecker’s room first hour. The bell literally just rang, and it’s pretty cold in there. I hear the radiator in the back of the room like hissing really loud, and I’m like ‘Oh, OK, whatever,’ but then I hear kids need to pick up their backpacks. ‘Everyone pick up your backpacks,’ and there was water rushing to the front of the room,” Dexter said. Junior Abby Townsend, another member of Longnecker’s first hour class, also mentioned there was nothing out of routine going on leading up to the water flow. “We knew we were gonna take notes, so we were just starting talking to each other, but all the sudden we looked back and there’s just water on the floor like running out,” Townsend said. Longnecker quickly called for a janitor once he was made aware of the problem. He said the custodial staff
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Seniors Frank Zhang and Yoon Ki receive the first place award ($1,500) for the Titan Challenge on Nov. 20 it was very stressful because everyone in it was good and knew what they were doing so the score was always super close,” Zhang said. The score/performance index in this challenge is determined by how much money a team was making and how the
team’ business was doing. Ki and Zhang didn’t expect to win since they only prepared the night before, but they came up with a strategy different from all others but the most successful. “We were going to develop the best product and sell at a high price, it
was like a high price strategy,” Zhang said. “A lot of teams did a low price strategy where they would not spend as much on research and development and sell their product for a low price and hope to sell a lot of them. Where we tried to sell fewer but higher quality and more expensive products which ended up working well,” he said. Both Ki and Zhang gained something more from this challenge than money to a college of their choice. “I learned some interesting things about business through the simulation,” Ki said. “I knew the basic things like supply and demand. It was interesting to see how unit price was affected and net cost. It was also interesting to see how different factors would change the effectiveness of a business.”
By Co-Editior-In-Chief Sophia
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Cold snap leads to broken pipes, extensive damage
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After a cold snap overnight, a water pump breakdown led to pipes bursting and water leaks all over the high school on Dec. 10
did a great job handling the situation, but was shocked this was even an issue to begin with. “I was surprised because I didn’t even know that water ran through those. That’s how ignorant I am. Even though I know we have boilers, I thought that it created steam. I was honestly
very shocked.” Noting that there’s an obvious space between the heater and the floor in his room, Longnecker was not surprised however when the problem began to spread to other rooms, especially the math department. “The biggest problem with this partic-
ular room was that the shutoff wouldn’t work, so it just kept running and running for a good, I don’t know, 10 minutes for sure. It just kept running, and that’s why it made its way out into the hall, and Story continued on Page 8/ BROKEN PIPES