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Junior explores electricity interests, wins free trip Junior Sabrina Leistcow will be joining 1,900 other students from around the world on June 14-20 in an all-expense paid for trip to Washington, D.C., to build leadership and public speaking skills and to enhance her knowledge of the energy industry and how cooperatives work. Earlier this year Leistcow learned about the Living With Energy Youth Tour Contest through her family’s interaction with the Butler County Rural Electric Cooperative (REC), which supplies energy to get family’s farm. Farming has been in Leistcow’s family for many generations and still is today, with a modern twist. Her father’s works as a lawyer during the day, and farms during the evening. Often getting home in the wee hours of the morning from working on the farm. An electric cooperative is a
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Junior Sabrina Leistcow will be taking a trip to D.C. this summer paid for by the REC to expand students’ knowledge on electricity. non-profit business that is oper-
ated and owned by various people in a community. The focus of the business is to provide reliable power, not make a profit. On top of her interest in environmental science and farming, Leistcow wanted to understand her dad and grandfather’s job more. “Kind of taking after my grandpa and my dad because it is something they interact with on a daily basis with their jobs. It’s interesting because I want to understand how they do stuff and how the business is run,” she said. Leistcow was selected based on an essay she wrote about one of the REC cooperative principles: concern for the community and will be joining 37 other Iowa students this June. Despite her extensive knowledge on the environment and farming from taking AP environmental science this year, her fami-
ly’s involvement in agriculture and being a part of the environmental awareness team, Leistcow said, “I hope to learn about what rural electricity is and how electricity affects America and me and the impact it has on my daily life even if I don’t know it.” On top of immersing herself in a week full of agriculture learning, Leistcow is ecstatic to talk to new people and explore D.C. “I am so excited because we get to go with kids from all over the United States. There are going to be representatives from other states, so I am so excited to talk with people from California. I’m also excited to see all the memorials, “ she said. “I get to lay down flowers on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers with other people from Iowa.” By Co-Editor-In-Chief Sophia
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Students graduate early to explore options after high school
As this school year is coming to a close, four juniors and one sophomore will also be joining the seniors by graduating early. For junior Sabine Martin, graduating early means going to school in France for one year. She will be participating in the Rotary Youth Exchange. The Rotary Youth Exchange is an international organization that allows students from all over the world to be a part of the exchange program. Martin is being sponsored for this trip by the Rotary Club of Cedar Falls. She said, “I thought that I would gain a lot from it, like learning a new language, ab-
sorbing a whole new culture, and I am open to that and really excited for it.” Martin will be living in Lyon, France, with three different host families. She will switch host families every three months. She said she is most excited to be immersed into a new culture and the opportunity to be surrounded by French every day. She said, “I’m so excited to take everything I learn there back to Cedar Falls and tell people all about my experiences.” “I feel like I’m going to get a lot more authentic experience. Rather than just going to Paris and being a tourist, I’m
going to be in a family that is originally from France, and they already have their lifestyle set, and I’m just going to be placed into it,” Martin said. Junior Sierra Miller is graduating early to prepare for college. “I wanted to spend a year working and saving up money so that I could actually afford college,” Miller said. After Miller saves up enough money, she said that she would like to go to college in another country. She said, “I have Spanish citizenship, so I will most likely move there once I’m ready.” Sophomore Grace Boez-
inger isn’t exactly graduating early, but she is leaving Cedar Falls to attend an arts school in Minnesota to pursue her dream of being a professional ice skater. She will be living on the school’s campus dorms and will be practicing full time with her coach. In addition to attending the arts school, Boezinger will also be taking online classes that go along with her curriculum. What Boezinger said she is most worried about is being away from her family. She said, “They are really supportive of me, but I am really close to my mom, so it is going to be difficult to be away from her.”
Martin said the most difficult thing about graduating early is “mentally preparing to leave a whole year early and leaving everyone behind is kind of hard, but I’m excited for the future that is coming.” For Miller the most difficult part was coordinating how and when she was going to take her required classes. For those interested in graduating early, Martin said, “Do it, if you want to. It’s a lot of work, but if you have a goal and something you are working toward, it’s a really cool idea.” By Staff Writer Clare
New enrichment gives students outlet for creativity Peet student leader Abigail Brodhead has added a student offbeat teaching a game to the options for enrichment this May. She teaches and plays Dungeons and Dragons with fellow students. Brodhead helps students make characters and embark on fantasy adventures. “To teach newcomers, [I use] notes that I write down, and I want to start using models and objects to show them.”
Dungeons and Dragons is a dice tabletop game with lots of role playing from the players as they play different characters such as wizards, thieves, rangers and clerics. Creativity is practically a must when it comes to playing. Broadhead tries to give freedom to the players, “I really want to get people involved and get them to know each other better. I also want to let everyone be creative with designing certain things. Since Dungeons and Dragons is
about being creative and thinking outside of the box, it would be fitting to let people.” With the enrichment just starting out, Brodhead already has some plans for what she wants to do. “I want to get to making characters for playing D&D and learning how to be a Game Master/Dungeon Master,” Brodhead said. Dungeon Masters dream up the quests filled with monsters, mazes and treasure for the players to explore.
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“I was really inspired by my siblings and by a podcast,” Brodhead said. “My siblings at home love to play Dungeons and Dragons, and I was really curious about what they were doing. The whole idea I thought would be really fun and something different from the normal ‘leadership, yay!’ Tiger time enrichments.” By Staff Write Jamie
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