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Above: Students and staff were divided by college teams and competed in a modified NCAA bracket against one another. The food they brought in helped stock the Food Pantry, going back to students in need.
each class with the same number of students per team,” Madness also collects several other necessities. “The drive also collects toiletries and things like Woolley said. “In addition to trying to keep each team anned Madness—oftentimes the instigator of Kleenex, shampoo, bars of soap, deodorant and it all equal, we also try to keep the big powerhouse teams away excitement and competition between all first period goes right back to the kids through HOSA. HOSA collects from each other. So it is a bracket but it may change a little classes at PHS everything and gives things out to kids based on what bit over time if it benefits the food pantry more.” Leadership adviser Jamie Mooring explains some of the they need,” Woolley said. Mooring reveals that a large part of the success of background surrounding Canned Madness. However, according to Mooring, Canned Madness has Canned Madness is due to teacher involvement. “We used to do Canned Madness around Thanksgiving not always been as successful as it is now and several other “I do not think that the success of Canned Madness but what we heard back from the food banks was that strategies were used before in order to try and motivate is anything that Leadership does. I really think it is the they were filled with food on Thanksgiving because every more students to bring in food. buy-in of the teachers. Every year we have a handful of school does a food drive around that time. The food “I have been advising [Leadership] for 12 years now teachers who really promote the food drive and really banks are what made us move the food drive to the spring and we always have had a hard time getting students and make it a competition. The winning teacher is going to get because their response was that they teachers involved. We knew it needed a breakfast party and that is really an afterthought now,” were run dry by March and they needed be a competition in something. For Mooring said. “It is just really cool that to some replenishment,” Mooring said. According to Woolley, the competitive aspect of Canned a couple of years we partnered with the Mooring states that Canned Madness everything that the kids Business and Marketing classes and had Madness is what sets it apart from other fundraisers. benefits students at PHS whose families “I love the competition part of Canned Madness. I market the food drive and then donate stays in the Viking them may not be able to afford enough food. love seeing classes get excited about it we would run the drive,” “When HOSA decided that they were and trying to bring in as much food as Mooring said. “That Family.” “[Canned Madness] going to put together a food bank for our possible and seeing how excited kids worked a little bit but school, Canned Madness seemed like a get to see if they are going onto the next we were at a Leadership generates more JAMIE MOORING natural thing for [Leadership] to do. It is round or to see if they won or if they conference when we got TEACHER just really cool that everything that the the Canned Madness idea excitement in the school lost. I think Canned Madness is just a kids donate stays in the Viking Family. It cool process and it generates more from another school and even more than just a really is great to help out the community but it is really amazing some of the students brought the idea excitement in the school even more than that the food stays here at the high school and we stock back and wanted to try and to see if it just a normal fundraiser,” Woolley said. normal fundraiser.” our own pantry so that kids and their families can get in might work.” Although the competition has fueled LEVI WOOLEY there if they need to,” Mooring said. excitement and higher levels of student Mooring states that the competition STUDENT According to senior Canned Madness leader Levi part of Canned Madness has helped to participation within the drive, Mooring Woolley, the point value of certain items are based off of facilitate excitement around the school. says that the true meaning and purpose the higher or lower demand for those items in the food “For whatever reason, Canned Madness has really taken of Canned Madness lies in its service to the community. pantry. “If you were to talk to the teachers who are consistently off and teachers buy into it, students buy into it. Canned “HOSA determines what [Leadership] values at the Madness did exactly what we hoped it would do, which in the competition until the end, they will say that the highest on our point scale and what they need is what we is to kind of give an incentive to participate in the drive,” heart of it is that our school will benefit from Canned value at the highest number of points. Things like peanut Mooring said. Madness. Kids do not realize that there are some kids who butter, shampoo and conditioner are rated higher on our In order to keep the competition organized, Woolley sit next to them in class who visit the food pantry every point scale so that the big teams like Matt White and [Eric] states that Leadership uses a bracket to separate first day,” Mooring said. “I think that those teachers put on a Ryan will bring those things in and try and get the most period classes into equal numbered teams. big show because they know that that is what the kids buy points possible,” Woolley said. “We just try to collect as “We make the huge bracket out in the main hall just to into but if you ask any of the teachers, at the heart of it much of those items for the kids and the food pantry as have a visual for all the teachers and the students to see is that they know it is a really good cause. That is really possible, because they need them a lot more.” what is going on. We organize the teams by the number amazing and it is getting kids motivated to give to their Aside from collecting food, Woolley reveals that Canned of students in each first period class and try to set up own community.” B Y
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CLUB 7 ‘THE AFTER PARTY’
PHS students are invited to meet in the Library Mondays and Tuesdays after school from 2:30-5 p.m. for a place to complete homework and get help with assignments. No sign up needed to attend. An activity bus will be available at 5:20 p.m.
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YEARBOOK INFORMATION
If you still have not purchased a yearbook there is a limited amount available through the bookkeeper, $50 cash or check. Seniors, if you have baby pictures, send them to uniquevikingphs@gmail.com; pictures will be accepted on a first received basis.
SENIOR CAP AND GOWNS
If you have not yet placed an order for cap and gown units, graduation products, class rings or class tags, you may still order them at www.jostens.com or call 800-567-8367. Cap and gown orders will be delivered April 5 during lunches.
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NO SCHOOL, MARCH 25
The Friday before Spring Break there will be no school due to a Staff Development day.
ATHLETES OF THE YEAR
Seven Viking student-athletes were honored by the Tacoma Athletic Commission as PHS Athletes of the Year. Two of the seven Athlete of the Year awards went to Vikings. Kate Jacobsen for gymnastics and Jordyn Bartelson in girls wrestling. Jaden Vollmen, Hannah DeWitt, Jessica Galan, Reed Wetzel and Josh Franich were named PHS nominees.
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