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Teams of students prepare for Black Maskers’ annual One Acts production, refining techniques in the sound booth, painting colorful set decorations and rehearsing their lines backstage.
Students take on One Acts by Grace Comer SENIOR ARTS WRITER
Many of the students involved in the annual Black Masker’s One Acts performance, from the writers and producers to the cast and crew, have been preapring since October in order to put together a spectacular production
of four short plays at the end of January. Planning began for the producers, seniors Lilah Katz and Ciara Culligan, back in October. RM students were invited to submit one-act plays for review by the producers. Once we chose, everything kicked off with the process for auditions and crew decisions, and we got our fabulous cast and crew,” Katz said.
From there, everyone was actively involved in putting together the show. The first production on stage will be “Check, Please!,” directed by seniors Becca Howlett and Jordyn Gershoni. “It focuses on a guy and girl who go on a bunch of really bad dates. It’s everything you could want in a One Act— it’s fast-paced and funny, and the actors do a wonderful job,”
Math Modeling works to tackle today’s issues by Amanda Wu FEATURES WRITER
What will the trend of vaping and cigarette use look like over the next 10 years? While this may not seem like a traditional math competition problem, this was one of the questions that students from RM’s Math Modeling Club were asked to tackle in last year’s M3 Challenge. The annual challenge attracts 1,500 teams from across the country dedicated to using their math modeling skills to solve real-life problems. The club sponsor, math teacher Matt Davis, said, “It’s not what you would usually think of as a math competition, like the AMC where there are just tricky math
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to build a rocket out of trash,” Wichenbach said. From there, a drama-comedy takes over the stage with “Morally Grey,” written and directed by junior Ali Saffell. “It’s a story about a kid, conflicted with right and wrong, as their conscience comes to life try and set them on the right track,” Saffell said, ONE ACTS, cont. page 18
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problems that you solve—these are open-ended questions that are asking you to model something that’s going on.” Despite last year being their inaugural year as a club, RM’s team achieved great success in the 2019 M3 Challenge. After building a mathematical model to represent the problem and then summarizing their findings in a twenty-eight page paper submitted online, RM’s team comprised of past seniors and juniors advanced through multiple rounds of judging. In April, they were invited to attend the final round in New York City, and took home second prize, winning $15,000 in scholarship awards and recognition on the national stage. MATH, cont. page 12
Howlett said. Next on stage is “No Signal,” written and directed by seniors Tudor Postolache and Adam Winchenbach. “The premise is that it’s the end of the world, and we see three separate stories of how people handle their relationships when faced with that, including an old folk’s home, two dogs in a park, and a rich guy meeting a little kid who’s trying
I’ve thought of since the beginning of the year. In the car I’ll always play the same song that I’m ARTS WRITER planning on singing, I’ll always try different ways of doing it or Fans cheer for RM’s most I’ll pitch my pick-up line in the energetic and charismatic mirror,” Hrozencik said. The competition is boys at the highly entering its 18th anticipated annual year and even Mr. RM competition, hit a milestone where a group of last year by reaching boys showcases their $50,000 in total profits. talents. Its popularity shows The show has yet to across the school, enter its more hectic meaning many stage of production students do not need as candidates GRAPHIC BY KISHA YAN much convincing prepare for the show. Regardless, excitement to join. It proves a great way is in the air, and students like to spend your last year of high senior Kevin Hrozencik, who is school and promises fun for all participants. auditioning for the show, are working hard to make sure they ace the part. “This is something MR. RM, cont. page 18 by Aaron Smith
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