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Page 10 — Trucker Imprint ENTERTAINMENT Wednesday, April 17, 2019 NORWALK HIGH SCHOOL TRUCKER IMPRINT Volume 17, No. 5 350 Shady Lane Drive, Norwalk, OH Wednesday, April 17, 2019 NHS artists to state By Brenna Mock Ward’s winning project was a Ward’s favorite artist is junior ceramic piece called Lemon Dylan Castle. Two Norwalk High School Lime Surprise. “I’ve never seen such talent students won at the Ohio Gover- “I felt happy when I found and such a good personality nor’s Youth Art Exhibition: the out,” she said. “I never thought wrapped up in one person,” she first state winners from NHS I’d do something like that.” said. since 2016. The piece took about two Montana’s winning piece was Seniors Petra Montana and weeks and was made out of white called Neo Nineteenth Century. Sophia Ward will have their art clay and glaze. The piece was made out of featured in the exhibition in Co- “I love that art is something I acrylic paint and a canvas. lumbus. can make from my own mind,” Montana has been a lover of Regional judging took place Ward said. “There were often art since she can remember. on March 2 and state judging rubrics and criteria but in the end “It felt very satisfying win- took place on March 9 at Hilliard it’s all about what your personali- ning,” she said. “I’ve been work- Davidson High School. ty is like to make the piece really ing [to win] for three years.” Artwork by 11,500 students work.” Montana said it took a month from 1,112 schools was submit- Ward said she has loved art to create her winning project. ted. From there it was narrowed since kindergarten. “I am so proud of her. She has down to 2,500 students at the “I can remember loving to worked very hard in all of her art regional judging. Three hundred draw and color since about kin- classes all four years,” art teacher Submitted photos students’ art pieces were chosen dergarten and how excited I Rachel Hipp said. “It’s only fit- Neo Nineteenth Century (above) was to be a part of the exhibit at the would be when we got clay in art ting that she has one of the best made by Petra Montana. Lemon Lime final stage, including Montana class.” 300 pieces in the state of Ohio.” Surprise (below) was made by Sophia and Ward. Ward said she does not plan Montana created the painting Ward. NHS submitted 33 pieces of to continue art as a career, but in Hipp’s painting class. art from 22 students. Regional plans to keep doing it as a hobby. She said she plans to continue winners were sophomores Sevan- “The winning piece that So- art as an art therapist and sees na Keegan, Kara Mosser, Tracy phia entered showed great control herself treating patients with art. Silcox and Nancy Sommers; jun- of clay as a medium and her at- “My favorite part about art is iors Dylan Castle, Devin tention to detail and craftsman- seeing something in my head Dellinger, Bree McGlaston, An- ship really helped to make the come to life through a medium,” gela Olivarez-Ramirez and Cale piece stand out in judging. She Montana said. Ours; and seniors Leonela Esco- has always had great control of “I get goosebumps thinking bar, Abby Marchione, Alyssa 3D art and is creative in her de- about it,” Hipp said about the Walsh, Montana and Ward. sign and color choices,” art winning pieces. For a picture of the regional teacher Tracy VanBuskirk said. The exhibit opens April 22 at winners, see page 3. Ward created the project in the James A. Rhodes State Office VanBuskirk’s ceramics class. Tower and closes May 16. Norwalk’s newest sensation By Olivia Schaffer ticipated in a He got in- “My situation could easily be TED confer- vited to replaced with someone else,” Lin- Recently, you may have been ence. He speak to denberger said. seeing a familiar face on the added that Congress by He added that the best part of news. Senior Ethan Lindenberger his favorite Tennessee his experience has been than he has been making headlines as his interview Senator La- did not do much to get to where story becomes more popular. was with an mar Alex- he is. As a result of his story and In November, Lindenberger Australian ander’s of- more debate about vaccinations, took to Reddit to get advice after radio station. fice. He Facebook has changed their poli- making the decision to get vac- Traveling said that he cy regarding anti-vaccination cinated after he turned 18. Lin- to Washing- was asked posts and information by making denberger said that at first, his ton, D.C., to over Face- it more difficult to find false in- story did not blow up. After a testify in book and formation pertaining to vaccina- small science magazine picked up front of Photo from Twitter.com was given a tions. his story, things began to snow- Congress Senior Ethan Lindenberger testifies in week no- Lindenberger’s future plans front of Congress. ball. interfered tice. are to become a pastor. He will Lindenberger said he has done with school, After much attend Calvary Chapel Bible Col- close to 200 interviews and has Lindenberger said. He added that preparation and stress, Lindenberger lege next year and will continue been featured on news outlets his grades have not gone down gave his testimony to Congress. He to spread his story. He said he such as BBC, MSNBC, The but it was difficult to catch up will travel to at least four different may also go to law school and Washington Post, USA Today, and he would not recommend states in the next couple months for become involved in politics, Fox and CNN. He had also testi- missing a week of school. interviews, speeches and meetings. eventually running for the House fied in front of Congress and par- of Representatives. TLC and students dance for the kids By Mascie Horner room to the event this year, which was also a big hit. Teen Leadership Corps (TLC) hosted the After the night was complete, NHS raised ap- fifth annual Dance Marathon at Norwalk proximately $7,000 for the Children’s Miracle Net- High School on March 30. work. The event started at 8 p.m. and ran until Senior TLC member Jalyn Moore said the night 6 the following morning. Students enjoyed was very successful. competitive games as they stood “for the “Everyone was very pleased with the amount of kids” as the night went on. support we got throughout the night. A lot of peo- Activities at Dance Marathon included ple came and it was both fun and successful,” she basketball, quidditch, car smash, volleyball said. and dodgeball. Over the past five years, TLC’s Dance Mara- Juniors Ben Penrose and Quinn Jaworski thon has been able to raise more than $45,000 for and senior Anna Little added an escape the Children’s Miracle Network. Submitted photo Juniors (front from left) Grace Albright, Allison Fry, (back from left) Gabe Hainline, Brianna McGlaston, Tyler Hall, Claire Kelley and Colin Bement stop to pose for a picture at Dance Marathon. Issue of the Issue E sports are coming Successful winter seasons Why do students Next school year, Winter sports form cliques? Does E sports are had successful NHS have them? coming to seasons. Read Read up on our Issue Norwalk High up on news of the Issue: cliques School. Read about about state on on page 3. them on page 7. pages 12-13. Page 2 — Trucker Imprint OUR VOICES Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Staff Editorial Students stick to making cliques Every high school has cliques, or groups of peo- ing. Some students think being in a clique gives ple who stick together and exclude others who are them a higher status. different. People should see each other as equal, but be- Why do high schools have cliques and why do cause somebody appears different, people just as- we, as students, separate ourselves into groups? sume they are in a specific clique that they may see Students’ minds assign people to different groups as unequal or lower. based on judgment. Students often see certain groups Being a part of several cliques is a good thing: it differently because other groups do things different- can show a person that not all people are different. ly than the group they consider themselves to be a Nobody ever thinks about how alike everyone is part of. and how we are all in the same boat here as high This is called stereotyping and it is part of defin- school students. ing a clique. Students should be more willing to let others into Cliques give students a sense of belonging. their clique and give another group a shot. Some students want the feeling of being popular, Students: try to talk to people you normally and trying to be in a clique can give them that feel- wouldn’t. You may end up with a best friend you never knew you would have. For stories about cliques, see pages 4 and 5... Recycling: How long does it last? By Madisyn Alt I am all for getting rid of plastic straws and saving the ocean life, but what about the number of trees being used for unnecessary amounts of Recycling has become more paper? Since I was a freshman, I remember always thinking “Why does popular as the years go by, which will the recycling seem to end so early in the year? That is when students get make any nature lover happy.
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