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SKIER SCRIBBLER Volume 7
Aspen High School
May 2023
District Bids Farewell to Departing Educators
Elsa Tullar, Editor-in-Chief
teacher Adam Cheney will be departing from the Aspen School District next school year to travel overseas to teach psychology and history in Brazil. He and his family moved to Aspen three years ago after living in Serbia and Turkey, and are now ready to live internationally again. While working at AHS,
on and this is my fifth school so I’ve been around a bit,” Cheney said. “Be as curious as you can about the world outside. If you are wondering, go do it, go see it, go be it.” Post-secondary college counselor and AHS ski coach Charlie Laube will also be leaving the Aspen community next
News
Opinion
A&E
Table of Contents
2023-24 Spring Sports Season: The Review
AI Isn’t All Good
What Your Favorite Social Media App Says About You
News.........................................1
“Spring sports have officially come to a close. Girls’ soccer, tennis, golf, boys’ lacrosse, and baseball have all ended their respective seasons this month. Teams worked incredibly hard for their achievements and empowered the spirit of AHS students to increase throughout the spring season.”(pg.2)
“Released only a few months ago, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is merely a baby. Just as a newborn’s intelligence matures rapidly as they grow from a toddler to a teenager, to an adult, AI’s intelligence will grow accordingly. Able to answer nearly any question with a coherent, well-thought-out answer, ChatGPT has already progressed ahead of
“Instagram You can tell a lot about a person from their Instagram. Everything about everyone can be predicted from this app. Whether it’s what you post or who you follow, Instagram is the CEO of social media stalking and personality predicting.”(pg.10)
down in the AHS commons for the 2008 college fair and he knew that’s what he Entering the 2023-24’ school year, four wanted to do. Now to be sitting in that educators will be leaving the AHS team position that he aspired to achieve, it is to explore what the world has to offer extremely hard for Laube to walk away outside of the small town of Aspen, from it However, he believes that the Colorado. universe has a plan and that no matter Cerena Seeber, Adam Cheney, Charlie what, he has made a lasting impact on Laube, and Alexander Reginelli will the AHS community. be leaving the AHS community next “If a student has an awesome colschool year in order to pursue personal lege experience and they remember interests and explore different parts of everything about that experience, the world. Additionally, art teacher but they don’t remember me, I’ve Stephanie Nixon will be working at done my job. I’ve done what I’ve AHS part-time, teaching two concurset out to do. It’s not about me. It’s rent graphic design courses. Although about setting up students to become she will be employed by Colorado informed, confident, autonomous Mountain College (CMC), she will decision-makers. That’s something still be an active member of the AHS that you will need to do for the rest community. We will miss these eduof your life,” Laube said. cators as they provide such valuable Finally, Spanish teacher Alexander knowledge and positive energy in our Reginelli (Reggie) will be departschool environment. However, the ing from AHS to go and pursue his journeys they will be partaking in the educational career at Carbondale future are incredible opportunities that Community School (CCS), teaching are important for these educators to Spanish to elementary school stutake while they have the chance. dents. Reginelli lives in Carbondale At the beginning of next school year, and spends over 300 hours a school English teacher Cerena Seeber will be year commuting to Aspen, so worktaking a year’s extended leave in order ing closer to his family and home is to explore different parts of the world the best fit for him as of now. Adand check in on her own college kids. ditionally, he is excited to challenge Seeber hopes to travel to India to himself in different ways by shifting receive her yoga teacher certification, from teaching high schoolers to and Costa Rica to improve her Spanelementary schoolers. By focusing ish and challenge herself. Additionmore on language acquisition rather ally, she hopes to spend an extended than content, Reginelli hopes to period of time in Salida to get to know develop a further sense of commua different part of Colorado. Although nity amongst CCS by providing its Seeber will deeply miss the AHS comstudents with the ability to commumunity, she feels as though she has nicate and interact with people that made a lasting impact on her students Photo created by Elsa Tullar are linguistically diverse in their and colleagues and is excited to see Cerena Seeber, Alexander Reginelli, Adam Cheney, and Charlie Laube pose for their school photos. community what they do in the future. Cheney has enjoyed sparking interest in year, but not for good. Laube will be “No one is irreplaceable and this is all “I hope that I have helped students his student’s minds when teaching about leaving the field of education in order an opportunity to grow. There will be find their way into literature and authors international landmarks where he has to spend time with his family and work some different things next year but to that they love. I hope I’ve created some spent a lot of his time. for his father in Ohio but is hoping to take on that challenge and continue to lifelong leaders and writers. I really “I will definitely miss the unique stufind his way back to Aspen in the winter address that in a helpful and productive hope that my classroom was a sanctuary dent body of Aspen and the perspective in order to satisfy his craving for a way while we are all maturing is so for kids where they could feel seen and of students. Additionally, I am going to mountainous and snowy environment. important,” Reginelli said. heard and respected and not too stressed miss the social studies team in general. Laube always looked up to the pennants out,” Seeber said. It is the best team I have ever worked and college counselors and after sitting Similarly to Seeber, social studies
people in certain regards.”(pg.7)
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