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TALENT SHOW- A SUCCESS!

By: Brice Grimes As you heard there was a talent show. This is our first ever talent show in Brambleton middle for all of us students, also there are 20 acts and 20+ volunteers. The 20 acts included dancing, magic, instruments, and even ASL. Before the first act it was time for the Master of Ceremonies! After that it was time for the first act it was a magic act by Paul Hartman and Daniyal Ahmed. Then right before the intermission then

Arthur Ding played amazing song on the piano. After that there was a ten minute

intermission were you could go to the bathroom you could also play on your phone and get some delicious snacks. The next act after the ten minute intermission was Jenna Moser and Reagan Davis singing “ Dear World” by Echosmith. Then after nine more acts it was the finally the final act. The “sax trio” by Nathan Beach, Ari Dixit, Hans Von Theilen. 6th grade student, Arthur Ding, plays piano.

First Brambleton Theaterical Production- Guys & Dolls

By: Abhinav Mudigonda

If you do not know, the first school play was on April 6th, 7th and 8th. The play is Guys and Dolls and is about a gambler who has a game coming up and has to deal with his girlfriend, and take her to a trip to Havana, but the problem is his girlfriend hates gambling. The crew and cast and even the director said it was really fun to work on the production and work together with different grade. Overall, it was a great show! I can’t wait to see what they come up with next year. A group song during opening night of Guys and Dolls. (Photo: Trevor Savile)

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Spotlight on Marvel Studios Marvel is known as one of the most billion dollars so far, and is still going “Avengers 4” or “Avengers: Infinity War prominent and profitable organizations of strong. After taking the movie industry by Part 2”, and Gambit. Captain Marvel the modern times. Marvel Studios has made storm with Black Panther, the most follows the story of Carol Danvers alias some of the most successful movies and anticipated Marvel movie released. Captain Marvel as she is caught in the midst movie franchises of all time. Marvel Studios Avengers: Infinity War Part 1, sequel to of a battle between 2 alien forces. The has seen bouts of success before with Avengers: Age of Ultron, became the movie Untitled Avengers Movie is supposed to be movies such as Ant-Man and Guardians of with the highest grossing opening weekend, the sequel to the 2018 hit Avengers: Infinity the Galaxy. But what they’re experiencing accomplishing this feat in just 11 days. War Part 1. Gambit is a developing movie now is unlike anything they’ve experienced based on the famous comic character before. Marvel is planning to come out with at least Gambit, and is meant to be part of the X- 4 more movies in 2018 including Deadpool Men series. Spider-Man Homecoming was very 2, Ant Man and the Wasp, Venom, and X- successful and Thor: Ragnarok produced a Men: Dark Phoenix. Deadpool 2 is the Marvel has awed Hollywood and the rest of considerable amount of publicity and 2017 sequel to the popular Deadpool. Ant Man the world. At this point, Marvel has taken was a great year for the movie-making and the Wasp is the sequel to the 2015 film over the superhero movie industry in terms giants mainly because of those 2 movies. Ant Man. Venom is the spinoff of the of money and overall success, blowing DC But just when we thought they couldn’t get Spider-Man series, telling the story of the Films into the dust. Marvel tops every better, Black Panther is released. I could go famous “villain” of the Spider-Man comics. movie they make with the next and leaves on and on about the unprecedented success X-Men: Dark Phoenix is the 12th movie in their audience wanting more. They continue about that movie, but I’ll just sum it up in a the famous X Men series. to produce and deliver as they always have, sentence: Black Panther is the 9th highest and I have no doubt that their success will grossing movie of all time, making 1.3 The plans for 2019 include Captain Marvel, be unmatched. Author: Pranav Goteti the Untitled Avengers Movie a.k.a.

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Seattle Seahawks Draft One-Handed Shaquem Griffin

By: Malhar Kulkarni With the 141st pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, the Seattle Seahawks select, Shaquem Griffin, linebacker, UCF. He will join his brother, Shaquill Griffin, in Seattle! The 6’0”, 227-pound linebacker was taken in the 5th round. Shaquem is competitive, and he is everywhere on the field. The brothers are poised to make noise in Seattle. Shaquem raised eyebrows at the NFL Combine, which is basically tryouts for the rookies, where he ran the fastest 40-yard dash timing since 2003. The St. Petersburg native was an electric player in college, and despite having only one hand, he put on a show in every match. Griffin was also the fastest defensive player since 2003 as well. NFL analyst Bucky Brooks said “Seahawks Draft Shaquem Griffin.” Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo!, Sports.Yahoo.com/Seahawks-Draft-Shaquem-Griffin- that Shaquem should have been drafted earlier, and many people 180831325.html. thought that his fall was because of his one hand. For this, Griffin was awarded Defensive Player Of The Year in his conference Shaquem Griffin will join other Seahawks draft picks Rashaad Penny, Will Dissly, and others, and will look to prove he was worth the 141st pick for the Seahawks.

Math Counts! Getting to Know Ms. Dawson

By Zara Sawar & Pranav Goteti By Tanmay Makhija Mathcounts is a regional competition held in Loudoun County. In I spoke with Mrs.Dawson. Here are some of the question that I have this competition, students are tested on a variety of different topics asked her. Here are some of her responses. She said being the in the subject of math. They are trained throughout the year to principal of Brambleton Middle is the best job she has ever had. compete against teams from different schools. A Mathcounts team She also was looking forward to continue to build strong was created for Brambleton Middle School and they have relationships with the students, the Brambleton community, and at performed well. To gain more knowledge about this extra- BAM. She is excited for the great new ideas our teachers have curricular, Zara Sarwar interviewed the coordinator of this planned for BAM students.The new clubs she was looking forward to Brambleton Mathcounts team, Ms. Parikh. are the volleyball club and anime club. Mrs.Dawson also said she taught French and Spanish before she became principal of When asked if the team won any competitions, Ms. Parikh replied Brambleton Middle. Her favorite movies are the French movies La saying “We have had some good performances and many kids have Vie en Rose and Les Choristes. Her favorite book is Cane River. Her done great for their grade level, but overall in the first year of the favorite subject is, Guess? You got it right! It is...FRENCH! When school we have not yet won.” asked, she became a teacher because she wanted other people to learn French. Ms. Parikh told us that there were about 30 people in the activity, but only the top 10 were on the competition team. All middle school grades were eligible for participation. Participants are given many questions and compete against the other schools. On top of this, there's a time limit and all the problems require critical thinking skills.

Ms. Parikh explained the format of the competition as well. “All the schools get together, usually on a Saturday. There's one person who is a head of the competition… He organizes everything. He has the teams set up… And he puts together the award ceremony. This year the location [was] Eagle Ridge.” Eighth Grade Interviews

By: Tanmay Makhija & Malhar Kulkarni

Wondering what eighth grade will be like? We took the time for some interviews with our current 8th graders! We interviewed seven 8th graders during the school day and we summarized their responses to the following questions. When asked how they felt about Brambleton Middle School, all seven interviewees said that they loved the school and the fact that is was new. When they were asked what they would change about Brambleton some responses were adding more to the lunch menu, making the locker rooms less crowded, and adding hand sanitizer. Most people said that the teachers here at Brambleton are very nice and understanding. Out of the seven people interviewed, two people want hand sanitizer, one Should Texting While Walking Be Illegal? wants less crowded locker rooms, and the rest said there is no change needed to Brambleton. By: Malhar Kulkarni On the bright side, things look really good Pro(Yes): around here. See you all in 8th grade! Let’s say you’re walking down the sidewalk and not paying attention to the vehicles passing by. You get to a stop sign, still not paying attention, and cross when the light is green. That puts not only you in danger, but it also your friend. According to a study, from 2000 to 2011 there have been 11,000 walking injuries involving a device. You can argue that distracted drivers can also cause accidents, but if pedestrians are distracted too, then something needs to happen, fast. There can be many casualties having your nose two inches from a screen on a sidewalk. Of course, people get into accidents with vehicles, or they can bump into other people, maybe even damaging their own devices. They also can hit nonliving objects like trees, benches, or poles/street signs. If texting while driving is illegal, why not texting while walking? STAFF Con(No):

Sure, there are plenty of vehicle accidents worldwide. In fact, in 2016 alone, there Tanmay Makhija were 40,000 vehicle accidents globally. But were those necessarily caused by Editor-In-Chief pedestrians on their devices. Drivers are the real problem. Some drive drunk, others speed when they know children are on the roads. When drivers are the problem, Zara Sarwar why make an assumption that pedestrians are the problem? Instead of making a law Malhar Kulkarni banning texting while walking, why not make streets safer? Like putting multiple Abhinav Mudigonda police officers on each street, or lowering the speed limit, or maybe even banning Brice Grimes drunk driving? Don’t make an assumption it’s the pedestrians when the drivers Amelie Watson themselves are on their devices while driving. Pranav Goteti News Reporters

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