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CF sends two students to World Food Prize Senior Sabrina Leistikow’s path to pursue environmental science and agriculture in college all started by researching the country north of Australia and east of Indonesia, Timor Leste. It is a developing country with a population of one million people.

“After doing some research, I realized it is one of the leading countries for child stunting and chronic malnutrition.

I chose it because one of the really bad health issues is because of the lack of food and proper diet,” Leistikow said.

“It really solidified my college decision for what I want to do. I really want to be involved in agriculture or environmental science and so going there and getting to talk with colleges and people who do this for their jobs helped reaffirm my choice with what I want to as a major in college,”she said.

Leistikow was researching this country for an essay she was writing for her AP Environmental Science (APES) class. For this essay students needed to select a country and choose a topic, like conflict, education, water or sanitation that affects food insecurity in the country of the students’ choices.

Once the students’ essays were completed, APES teacher, Jason Lang, submitted essays to The World Food Prize contest that created this essay prompt.

American agronomist, Norman Borlaug was the first person to win The World Food Prize, “an international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world.” Borlaug invented the

Green Revolution and Miracle Wheat that fed billions of people. Borlaug then created The World Food Prize conference to equip young people with the tools to help end the hunger in the world.

Leistikow’s essay made it through the first steps of the contest, and this summer she found out her essay was selected for The World Food Prize conference in Des Moines.

The four day event from Oct. 16-19 was held at the Marriott and the Hilton in Downtown Des Moines.

At the event there were approximately 215 students selected from around the world who wrote essays like Leisikow. In attendance there were also past winners of The World Food Prize, which is the Nobel Peace Prize for food, and selected researchers and business people in

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Sophomore Ali Roby, junior Rebekah Bentley, senior Caitlyn Lentzkow and junior Lauren Wessels were all smiles as they worked up a sweat in adaptive PE during seventh period on Oct. 16. The first game on the left and at top is called Rockin’ Bowlin’, and the second game pictured at right is called Rollin’ Bounce.

agriculture or environmental science.

“It is so awesome just being in the presence of people who saved millions of people’s lives. It’s crazy,” Leistikow said.

Selected students and adults at this conference were from around 10 countries in the world. “All the people in my group were awesome.

I had a girl from the Netherlands, a boy from India, Wisconsin, Florida, Indiana and two other people from Iowa. I really like that we got to meet people from all over and then we got to talk about cultural differences,” Leistikow said.

“I was arguing with a girl from Florida that it was ‘pop’ and not ‘soda,’ and people didn’t know what a scotcheroo was or walking tacos.”

Along with Leistikow, senior Sophia Schillinger was also selected to attend the

conference based on her essay and they were accompanied by Lang.

During the conference, students presented their papers to researchers and past World Food Prize winners, attended speeches by experts, got involved in breakout sessions including a hunger banquet, visited farms and participated in cultural experiments.

“It’s made me really realize there is hunger everywhere. I knew there were hungry children in Iowa alone because there is 1 and 6 “children who are hungry”, because that’s why we have the food drive.

Having a face to it, having a human body to the statistic really makes it more impactful,” Leistikow said.

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Standing Together Allies at Board meeting make big Difference LGBTQ+ allies showed up at the Board of Education’s meeting to support Peet Junior High’s GSA Difference. More than 100 allies attended the meeting, filing the board room up to capacity.

Difference set tables up on Sept. 23 in front of Peet Junior High to hand out doughnuts and gay, bisexual and transgender flag stickers to students to welcome everyone after a gay student was bullied earlier this year.

This event started a controversy when parents were upset that the school was allowing this event to happen on school grounds because “... we are very they saw it as “political.” proud of those After the parents posted the video of their concerns who packed the on YouTube, there has been school board pressure put on the school from viewers of the video meeting to show who both objected to and that same supsupported the Sept. 23 event. port at Cedar Falls We believe that the DifSchools.” ference group was trying its best to spread kindness to everyone in the school. The group wasn’t trying to be political but instead show support for members of the LGBTQ+ community because of all the hardships they have to experience. Yes, the LGBTQ+ community has made political progress over the last couple of years, like same-sex marriage being legalized in 2015, but that was not the purpose for the event on Sept. 23. And yes, there is much political room for building legal protections for those who still experience harassment, assaults and suicides in countries around the globe, including the United States.

But the Difference group was made to show solidarity to kids who are different from their peers and may not get enough support from home or the media. This event was to comfort those who have experienced hate toward them or kids who are afraid of their own identity.

Sexuality and gender are not things that people choose; it is who they are. Sadly, many if not most of the LGBTQ+ population still get tormented for being who they are.

We are proud to say that we support anyone on these spectrums, and we are very proud of those who packed the school board meeting to show that same support at Cedar Falls Schools.

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Dress code covers up confussion, questionable clothing choices Recently the school announced a renewed focus to enforcing the dress code.

Assuming the 2018-2019 student handbook available on the Cedar Falls High School’s website is the most updated version, unaccepted attire at CFHS includes “clothing, adornment or accessories that are considered disruptive to the educational process,” specifically “midriff-baring tops, tube tops, excessively short skirts.”

“Items that display drugs, alcohol, tobacco, look-alike drug or tobacco products, or e-cigarettes, is considered harmful, sexual or obscene, demeaning, offensive, promotes violence, racism, or gang affiliation” are also prohibited.

Hats, sunglasses and headphones are not allowed unless the teachers give their approval.

Although the dress code can limit creativity and wrongly sexualize what a person wears, it does

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Would you see it as unprofessional if a teacher violated the midriff rule or other dress code guideline?

62.2% Yes 39.8% No Are the rules in the dress code clear enough for yor to follow?

77.9% Yes 22.1% No 253 responses offer some positives. One positive is that it ensures an environment without sexual distraction.

At games, dances, shows, etc., clothing is one of the main focus points. One dresses more freely to fit the occasion and catch people’s attention, but one’s clothing is not one of the main focus points at school. While some may not like to admit it, at least once in everyone’s life, they dress for another reason

than themselves. By taking away some of the ways one can make a statement or grab attention, one can focus more on school rather than what they will wear.

A second benefit of the dress code is it limits the chance of potential wardrobe malfunctions that expose more body parts than is appropriate in school. If the clothing covers more of one’s body, there is a less likely chance that it can move and show a part that is better left covered.

A third benefit to enforcing the dress code is what one can wear is not left to mystery. With the rules laid out and being enforced, one isn’t left wondering in the morning “Can I wear this?” or wandering through the halls wondering if a teacher will stop them for what they’re wearing.

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Dress code based on subjectivity, unfairly assumes what’s distracting I sent out a survey a few weeks ago about the students’ thoughts on the recent enforcement of the dress code. The results weren’t surprising.

Out of 253 responses, 69.6 percent of students were against the increased attention to enforcement and 69.2 percent believed the rules were targeting a certain group, such as gender or race. In my opinion, I feel the dress code is discriminatory against women specifically and the enforcement is unnecessary.

I think the dress code is discriminatory against women because of the fact they are banning showing midriff. I don’t find showing stomach as a sexual thing, and the fact that the school is playing it off as that is very disappointing. Many schools across the country have banned certain articles of clothing that women wear because they are a “sexual distraction to men,” and it paints a picture that women are

objects for men to look at. I find if you are distracted by a stomach because you think it’s sexual, you might need to evaluate your priorities, especially if you’re an adult.

Teenage boys need to learn this as well. Women are not sexual objects or something for them to just look at sexually.

Another word that has been thrown around in the dress code world is “professionalism.” “It’s not professional to wear crop tops.” “It’s not professional to wear hoods or bandanas or dew rags.” By that logic, sweatpants are professional. They don’t show skin and are acceptable in the dress code. Jeans aren’t seen as professional when teachers wear them, and on days where they’re allowed to, they usually have to pay $5 that goes to a charity or good cause. In the survey, the majority of students were not open to paying money for wearing what they wanted to wear, even if it was

for a good cause.

The school has contradicted its own rules before. An example of this is allowing the dance team to wear cropped sweatshirts at public performances and allowing the cheerleaders to wear short skirts while the dress code states “that skirts and shorts shouldn’t be excessively short.” What does excessively mean? The rules are too subjective, in my opinion.

Also, people should be allowed to wear whatever they want and express themselves, as long as they aren’t hurting anybody or themselves. It’s not the wearer’s fault that they are seen as “sexual” or “unprofessional.” It’s the stigma on how people link clothing to certain ideas about the person wearing it. We are our own people who express ourselves differently through the clothing we wear, and the school shouldn’t limit that.

By Staff Writer Myra

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What was your last Halloween costume?

“I was four years old and a vampire.”

—Jordan Luders senior

By Staff Writer Kendall

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“I was a witch last Halloween.”

“My last costume was “My last one was a ninja Minnie Mouse with costume.”

—Carrie O’Connor my daughter, and senior my husband and son

were Mickey.”

—Chelsea Steffy secretary

—Ashtyn Humpal sophomore

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Have you ever dreamed of publishing your own book?

While the publishing companies and the literary agents ponder over thousands of submissions, take your work into your own hands and give self-publishing a try with Blurb.

Blurb is an easy to use selfpublishing website with its extension app, BookWright.

With its helpful tools and book templates, it’s as easy as copy and paste. Simply choose your preferred starting template or begin on a blank template, open a text box, place, and paste or write your text. This app allows you to choose from a variety of text formats to use throughout your story.

It also allows you to create your front cover, back cover and spine cover to your liking.

The price of doing so is not so terrible either. For a standard book with 480 pages, it totals up to about $21, though it can vary depending on the type of paper you use, the number of pages you have and what format you use. Blurb also allows the users to put their stories up for sale by way of Kindle and/or print through their own website or others’ sites.

While there are many advantages to using this app to publish your story, there are still a few setbacks.

Some setbacks when using

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Blurb is a website that offers resources for authors to publish their work in hard copies and online.

Blurb would be that the app itself has some limitations. On most book templates, there is a set amount of pages you can have. The most common page limit would be 484 pages, with 16 pages being the minimum amount on a standard template. Another possible setback for creating your book is that there is almost no way

to insert a header. While this might not be a deal-breaker for some, traditionally published books tend to always have a header with both the book name and the author’s name on opposite pages.

Placing photos into your story can also be a challenge in some spots. They will almost always turn up in black

and white, but if you’re willing to pay a little extra, it is possible to print the photos in color.

As one can see, there are many advantages as well as disadvantages to using this website, app combo. Deciding what route is right for you is ultimately up to you and what you want. While going

the way of traditional publishing, it could take years to see results. If you’re impatient and/or unwilling to wait years for your work to be recognized, give self-publishing a thought.

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Disney+ joins the growing field of streaming video In 2017, Disney announced that they were making their own streaming service that would rival Netflix and Hulu, and now Disney has just revealed that what movies and shows it’s streaming service Disney+ will have in its Nov. 12 launch.

Disney+ exec Agnes Chu told Vanity Fair in September that their approach was based on nostalgia. “We’re not making a large volume of things just to make them,” she said.

“Everything we do, we have a very clear focus that it needs to meet the standards that the originals set, and hopefully take it to another level on Disney+, so we’re pretty thoughtful about harnessing the nostalgia.”

Disney+ will have classic animated features like “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” as well as Disney Channel

originals like “Descendants” and “High School Musical.” It will also have Marvel and Star Wars movies and old animated series that not many have heard of.

New movies like “Frozen ll” and “Star Wars: Episode Xl—The Rise of Skywalker” and others will arrive later after being on the big screen.

Disney+ will also have its MCU shows like “Loki,” “WandaVision” and “Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and many more that will be exclusive to Disney+.

In total, Disney+ will have over 600+ movies and shows in its Nov. 12 launch, and viewers can find what movies and shows they will have @Disneyplus on Twitter and online at The Verge.com.

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Frightful Fingers Be the talk of the costume party with these spooky monochrome nails for Halloween.

Skulls, dripping slime and spider webs are just some of the things shown in this manicure.

Things You’ll Need: Base Coat (L.A. Colors Base/ Top coat) White polish (OPI Alpine Snow)

Black Polish (OPI Black Onyx) Glow in the dark top coat (China Glaze Ghoulish Glow) (Optional)

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Keep reading to find out how I achieved these spooky nails for Halloween.

Top Coat (Seche Vite Fast Dry Top Coat) Toothpick or thin paint brush

Index (Dripping Slime)

Story and pictures by Staff Writer Myra

STINEMAN Bobby pin or dotting tool Q-tips and nail polish remover (For cleanup around nails)

Bonus Tip: Apply a glow in the dark top coat to give your nails a party glow.

Ring (Frankenstein Stitches)

Take a bobby pin/dotting tool with white polish and make three different sized dots in different places on the nail.

Use a toothpick/thin paint brush with white and paint the rest of the drips with lines going towards the cuticle as shown. Let dry.

Apply top coat. Let dry.

Take white polish with a toothpick/thin paint brush and paint slightly curved lines on your nail to make the cuts. Let dry. (Note: I was going to make three cuts but a few mistakes made me only do one.)

Paint horizontal short lines across the lines painted previously to make the stitches. Let dry.

Apply top coat. Let dry.

Pinky (Ghost Face)

Middle (Spider Web)

With white polish and a bobby pin/dotting tool paint two dots for eyes and an oval below for the mouth.

Apply top coat. Let dry.

Take white polish on a toothpick/ thin paint brush and paint diagonal lines in varying lengths extending from the bottom corner of your nail.

Paint the curved lines connecting the diagonal lines to form the spider web. Let dry.

Apply top coat. Let dry.

Thumb (Skull) Using white polish and a bobby pin/ dotting tool, make an oval shape in the center of the nail. Take a toothpick/thin paint brush with white polish and draw four teeth at the bottom of the oval. Let dry.

Take a bobby pin/dotting tool with black polish and make two dots in the oval to make the eye sockets. Let dry.

Finish with top coat. Let dry.

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Homemade horchata makes perfect autumn drink

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Horchata is a traditional Mexican drink made with a sort of rice milk, which adds that original homemade flavor. Have you ever wanted to try and make it yourself? Keep reading for a step by step recipe for this homemade horchata.

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Recent Hi-Line poll finds coffee lovers outnumber tea

What you’ll need to create this homemade horchata is simple. You’ll need whole cinnamon sticks, vanilla extract, sugar and long-grain white rice. Though technically you could use almost any type of rice to make horchata, only long-grain white rice will give it that traditional taste.

Additional items that you need would be a fine strainer or cheesecloth, a pitcher and a blender.

Step one: Measure out 1 and 1/3 cups of the long-grain white rice, 2 whole cinnamon sticks and 2 cups of water. Place these ingredients into the blender and blend together on medium for roughly 1 to 2 minutes. Add 2 more cups of water and blend once more.

Step two: Let this mixture sit at room temperature for at least 8 hours. The longer it sits, the stronger the flavor.

Step three: Pour the mixture through the mesh strainer or through cheesecloth (either one works). Continue to strain the mixture until there are little to no rice or cinnamon stick solids in the finished product. Throw away the solids and strain once more to make sure there is nothing left behind in the liquid mixture.

Step four: Add in 1 cup of whole milk, 2 teaspoons of vanilla and roughly ½ cup or less of sugar to taste. Place into the fridge to chill.

Step 5: Pour the horchata into a glass with plenty of ice. Garnish with ground cinnamon and enjoy.

As more coffee shops are appearing inside of high schools, the age old question of which is better, coffee or tea, has become a question for teenagers, as well as adults.

Since coffee and tea both usually contain caffeine, they are used as stimulants to help wake people up and get them through their day.

A poll conducted by a Tiger Hi-Line staff writer found that students from Cedar Falls High School have strong opinions on if coffee or tea is better. Student Jack Jorgensen said, “Tea is better for you and has less risk for heart attack or stroke.” While student Haylee King focused on coffee. “It has more caffeine and just a great flavor. It is also very versatile, but the best part is probably the caffeine.”

Many students shared their preference on the survey too. “I don’t like the taste of coffee nor tea,” said junior Xander Gruver, who instead wrote in fruit juice as his drink of choice.

Coffee won the poll, capturing 44 percent of the student vote, while tea finished with 32.1 percent of the vote. The final 23.9 percent was split among many different drinks. Even with these large percentages, only 16.6 percent of those polled felt they needed a drink to get through the day, but with 76.1 percent of students selecting coffee or tea, the trend for students favoring shops with these offerings remains strong.

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EMMA CRYER Trumpet Player

Senior Emma Cryer has played the trumpet ever since the fifth grade, going on her eighth year now pursuing the instrument. Although now it’s hard for her to imagine a life without that golden instrument in hand, Cryer didn’t always see herself as a musician. “When I started band, I don’t think I considered myself a musician. In fact, I played many more sports and did theater throughout my life. However, as my life has gone on, the trumpet has become something that is both fun and hard work for me,” Cryer said.

Not only fueled by the everyday magic that happens in band rehearsals, Cryer also finds motivation in trying to perfect the sounds created by her favorite players in the game today. “I think little victories in my playing inspires me to work even harder. I also listen to other trumpet players to imitate some of their techniques, such as Alison Balsom or Tine Thing Helseth, two of the best female trumpet players alive,” Cryer said.

Cryer is a well accomplished musician, making it to All State each year since her freshman year.

Her greatest accomplishment of all though took place last year when she had a substantial solo in the All State orchestra. It was stressful for Cryer to audition, but once she had the solo in the spotlight, she was ready to perform like it was any other day. “The only time I was nervous for it was when I was auditioning for it. I was mainly excited and honored to be able to play. Even before All State auditions I worked on it,” Cryer said.

Just like students master a course’s material and athletes work to perfect an aspect of their game, Cryer works to become a better player but also sees herself in a crucial leadership role that goes beyond just perfecting a piece.

“Besides becoming a better player, band helps me become a better role model and team player by building relationships within my section and outside of it. It also grows my persistence and perseverance because even if I run into a problem in my playing, I work very hard to make sure it is the best playing I can do,” Cryer said.

Cryer dedicates a lot of time outside of normal band rehears-

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Senior Emma Cryer has been an All State member every year since she was a freshman and had a solo in last year’s All State performance.

“She is a selfless leader and an excellent musician.”

—Kyle Engelhardt band director

als to better herself as a trumpet player. Depending on the season, whether it be marching band, jazz band or concert band, Cryer spends one to three hours a day playing her horn. Cryer said band director Kyle Engelhart has contributed most to her success as a musician. “Emma has achieved outstanding results in high school because she has worked incredibly hard, practicing diligently every day and working on her playing ever since she was in junior

high. She helps influence our program and the players around her on a daily basis by always performing with a great sound, having a positive attitude and helping everyone around her by being an excellent leader. She is a selfless leader and an excellent musician,” Engelhart said.

As a section leader in the band, Cryer tackles many more tasks outside of mastering the notes on the sheet. “Being a section leader in the band has many duties, including maintaining good relationships with my section at the same time as making sure my section sounds the best it can be. In order to have a good performance, we have to be able to play the music as flawlessly as we can, and if the people in my section have positive relationships

with one another, it is easier to play more cohesively. It’s my job to make sure this happens,” Cryer said.

Cryer finds playing more enjoyable when she sees that those around her are equally as passionate. “I enjoy band because the music we produce is fun to play and work on. I also love the family I’ve grown to know both in my section and in the whole band in general.

The band is full of amazing people who enjoy music as much as I do,” Cryer said.

Cryer wants to continue with music as she plans to attend the University of Iowa to study trumpet performance or possibly music education after graduation.

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Wood begins expanded role assisting students with CAPS, career planning For students, the college admissions process is a once in a lifetime experience, culminating in one of the biggest decisions an individual could make. For school counselors, however, it’s an annual endeavor.

According to Chris Wood, a former CFHS counselor who has moved into focusing on college and career prep as well as working with CAPS students, everything that school counselors do is catered toward the ultimate goal of preparing students for life after high school. “Everything we do, every conversation we have, should be able to relate back to ‘What’s the next stage in your life look like? What’s post-secondary?’”

As Wood explains, there are three major pillars that make up what a school counselor does: Academic Assistance, College and Career Readiness Help, and Social-Emotional Support. Counselors spend roughly 80 percent of their time on direct work, helping students, talking to staff and providing other face-to-face assistance as needed. Ideally, Wood said, roughly half of this time would be spent helping students prepare for their post secondary plans. In actuality, however, counselors are only able to spend roughly a quarter of their time doing college and career planning.

Wood is a major proponent of the use of post-secondary preparation as a means for self-reflection. “I’m a firm believer that this college admissions process is the number one self-reflection and growth that you should have over the course of your life.”

Although the college admissions process is largely a senior-focused ex-

perience, Wood said he hopes that this spirit of self-reflection is something that can be brought to underclassmen to help them start preparing. He said, “If we can start sophomores and juniors thinking about ‘What do I value as a human being? What’s my purpose?

What problem do I want to solve in the world?’ then you start working toward ‘this is the type of career that I want to do’, then you think about the training or education that you need, and then

when you get to that college decision process, if you have those questions answered, it’s way easy to think about the colleges you should go to.”

Students can schedule a college and/or career counseling session with Wood in the afternoon on Tuesdays and Thursdays via the Cedar Falls High School Counseling website.

According to the results of a recent survey conducted by the Tiger Hi-Line, the vast majority of students are aware of the job shadow programs that the school provides and are interested in doing a job shadow, but a smaller number have actually done them.

According to the survey, which had 100 student respondents, 85 percent of those surveyed are aware that job shadows are available to students at Cedar Falls. Fifty nine percent of respondents stated that they were interested in doing a job shadow, and 31 percent expressed that “maybe” they would be interested in doing a

job shadow. Only 10 percent of respondents answered “no” on whether they would be interested in doing a job shadow.

Twenty seven of the 100 students surveyed stated that they had already done a job shadow in the past. Actual experiences at job shadows, however, are a mixed bag. Of those 27 students, students rated their job shadow experience as a 4.3 out of 5 on average.

Senior Annika Strohm, who rated her job shadow a 3 out of 5, felt somewhat limited by the individual she was shadowing. She said, “The person I was shadowing had a very limited ap-

plication for his job, so I wasn’t able to see what other jobs a chemical engineer could do. The job shadow forced me to reconsider my top pick for a major because the person I was shadowing portrayed chemical engineering as a ‘glorified plumber.’ After talking to other engineers, I discovered that chemical engineering is still something I want to pursue.”

Senior Jessica McDowell, who gave her job shadow experience a 5 out of 5, said she enjoyed it. “Doing this job shadow really showed me that psychiatry is the right field for me.” In fact, she said, “The only thing I would change was how long I was there. I

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Former counselor Chris Wood is now working with CAPS students for half of his day and serving as a career counselor for the other half.

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Job shadows providing windows into careers was only there for a few hours, and I wish I could have spent longer there.”

The fall date for registering for a job shadow has already passed, and many students who signed up are completing them now. In the spring, job shadows will again be available to students through Cedar Valley Career Connections, a local organization that connects students with job shadow opportunities in the community.

More information will be available on Schoology as the next date approaches.

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BRYCE ALBAUGH

Football Senior Bryce Albaugh has been a leader on the special teams, with key field goals and PATs. He is a state leader in touchbacks, and also in kickoff returns.

In the powder puff volleyball contest on Tuesday, Oct. 22, the staff team reclaimed its winning ways by taking the title from the seniors in the final. At top left and moving down by picture are seniors Jack Plagge, Nick Bellendier and Chris Lageschulte; juniors Michael Goodenbour and Frankie Dunning; senior Sabrina Leistikow; CAPS director Ethan Wiechmann; juniors Matthew Swanson and Michael Goodenbour; seniors Nnamdi Onuigbo and Nathan Le. Above are Chris Lageschulte, instructional coach Kenton Engels, FCS teacher Madison Walker and instructional coach Kristine Urbanek.

What was your most memorable moment?

Going to the state championship last year in football.

What was your first game like?

Very exciting, especially when I got my first varsity start.

How did you get into football?

I got into football because I always liked it as a kid and always wanted to play it.

How long have you been playing football?

I’ve been playing football since as long as I can remember.

How do you feel when people watch you play?

I feel good because I get to show people what I have to offer.

Who supports you?

My family and my teammates.

What was your first loss like?

My first lost was disappointing, but you just have to bounce back and do better next time.

Have you always wanted to do football?

I’ve always wanted to play football. It’s really enjoyable for me.

What do you like about football?

I like being with my friends and winning with them.