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NOVEMBER ISSUE 2 Honoring Oroville's Veterans On a personal level, Clark decided to Veterans day was originally known as join the military to help people and Armistice Day and celebrated the end of follow in her family’s footsteps. World War I. Today it has morphed into a Specifically, she wanted to help people in celebration of those that have put the safety the Middle East who were being of the nation before their own lives. “Anytime oppressed by a terrorist. She had argued someone reaches out and says thank you, it that since the U.S had the power to help validates everything that we've been through those people, then they should. Added to to make that happen,” commander of Hodges those reasons were plans to protect her Post #84 in Oroville and the 9th District Vice country, explore the world, and postpone Commander Cassandra Clark explained. attending college. Clark also affirmed she People can also show their appreciation for was treated equally for the majority of veterans in more ways than one. For example, her time serving and only a few she describes that any respect paid towards individuals perceived her only as a fallen soldiers means a lot to living veterans. female. After serving, Clark explains, She also reveals supporting active-duty “Veterans Day especially reminds me of military members would be a sign of respect the kind of people who were my brothers because helping one member of the family in arms. For me, Veterans Day celebrates supports everyone. While veterans appreciate that bond that can never be broken.” the respect and gratitude they receive during this holiday, it can have a greater meaning to By Odin Finsen them. “Veterans Day does evoke a lot of emotions,” Clark states. “I think about the people I served with and the places I've been, and some of them I miss very much.” There is no right way to celebrate Veterans Day, it is only important that veterans both past and present get the respect they deserve. Veteran's Day Art Oroville High School wanted to celebrate Veteran’s Day with beautiful art. Ms. Schroeter gave her 4th period AP Art class an option of doing a flyer or a Veteran’s Day Art piece. Students were encouraged to make their art about freedom and what By Miles Long living in America means to them. The students researched and found artistic examples to inspire their own work. The artwork was showcased in a virtual Veteran's Day presentation put together by Ms. Coolidge and her class.

By Meladie Young

By Julian Brenenstahl By Isai Layata Robotics Club Oroville High School offers many after school programs. Students can participate in sports such as football, soccer and basketball or they can join an academic club like robotics. Robotics specifically is a challenging but fun program to participate in. Students are given a new challenge to solve with a robot built by their own hands each year. Over the course of this year students brainstorm on what design is best to complete the task, program their robot, test their product and redesign if necessary. A robotics participant will Despite the many challenges presented to the spend most of their time at their school but robotics community, members continue to move occasionally they will get to attend tournaments forward. This year’s challenge is to construct one or where they compete with other schools all over two robots that work together to pick up garbage on Eastern Washington. beaches and sort it into 3 different containers. While this describes a typical year, 2020 is Oroville’s current plan is to make one robot capable everything but typical. With the ongoing of picking up large amounts of garbage and then pandemic, many schools are not open and still sorting it into 3 small bins on the robot. Once the completely virtual. “In our CWU GEAR-UP North garbage is sorted, a second robot with similar bins Central Washington Robotics League we have the drives under the first robot which dumps its bins. following schools participating: Manson, Oroville, The second robot then drives away and dumps one Quincy, and Tonasket,” Oroville Robotics Coach bin at a time into the recycling containers and then Laara Peters stated. Along with many not being the cycle repeats. While this is the latest plan, it can able to participate at all, the teams that are able to change at any time. Although the 2020-2021 robotics attend robotics are limited to school activities and year is not the best, the students still find the club are not able to attend competitions. enjoyable. By Odin Finsen Associative Study Body

Executive ASB (Associative Student Body) this year is nothing like it has been before. With COVID-19 restrictions and the new free and reduced lunch law, ASB has lost most of its fundraising ability. In a normal year, ASB would put on homecoming week activities, sell ASB cards, and try to make school fun. However, they are still working hard to find new ways to support student life activities. The officers this year are Meladie Young, Bo Fox, Marta Capote, Kylie Accord, and Noah Saltz.

By Meladie Young

Sports

2020 has been a hard year for 7-12 athletics. Even though they can’t all start Below are tentative starting dates for sports. their games, many sports are practicing in Students must be signed up on Family ID and have preparation for when they can play. The a current physical before they can participate. sports that are practicing including soccer, softball, football and cheerleading. After High School* winter break, boys/girls basketball and December 28 Basketball, Wrestling wrestling will start back up if all goes well. February 17 Football The teams are practicing in their normal March 1 Cross Country, Volleyball, Girls Soccer: practice places. For these sports to safely April 26 Track, Tennis, Boys Soccer, Golf, Baseball, practice, the coaches and players have to Softball take their temperature when they come in as

well as wear a mask for the whole practice Middle School* time. Unless they are running or moving January 4 Girls Basketball and Wrestling around in a safe distance, they must have February 8 Boys Basketball their masks on. March 15 Volleyball, Football, Cross Country By Samantha Sherer May 3 Track * subject to change Running Start: Pros and Cons

The Running Start is a program where students can earn college and high school credits by taking college classes. Students will graduate with their High School diploma and Associate's Degree. It is run through the Wenatchee Valley College along with an Omak campus. Currently, WVC (Wenatchee Valley College) is completely virtual but they are hoping to get up and running again when Covid is Another Running Start student, Savannah Berg, says less risky. Many people consider Running that “ Some pros are that you get more freedom, Start but don’t know completely what especially if you are online and you have more time to they're getting into when they apply for the do stuff outside of school. There are also more program. When a Running Start student interesting class options that you can take that aren’t was asked about the program, Mykensie offered by the high school.” To go against those pros, Hugus said that some pros of the program she states that “Some cons would be that you have to are that there’s “More variety of classes and take responsibility on your own for some things. There teachers, you’re more independent and you won’t be teachers nagging you to do it, you just have to learn how to manage work time outside of remember on your own.” Going into the running start school.” Alternatively, she states that some program takes a lot of time and commitment and cons are “adjusting to less face time with students have to have the motivation to do it. It is an the teachers and having a longer commute amazing opportunity for those who are willing to give to in- person classes if you’re not from all their time and effort towards their classes. Omak.” By Hailey Smither December Spirit Week Dates: 12/14 - 12/18

Tuesday: Ugly Sweater Day

Wednesday: Class Colors (7th Green, 8th Purple, 9th Yellow, 10th Blue, 11th Red, 12th Black, Staff Pink)

Thursday: Disney Character Day

Friday: Pajama Day STUDENTS OF THE MONTH “Sofia has done an amazing job pushing her art abilities JUNIOR HIGH to the next level”

“She has good grades, participates in class, and completes assignments to the best of her ability”

“She respects others, helper her peers when they need it.”

“Noah is very responsible & does an excellent job advocating for himself”

“Noah has been all in when it comes to school from day 1”

“He takes his academics Noah Saltz Sofia Cervantes very seriously & is developing a positive culture around school pride “Yonatan is a valuable and student life” resource in my class” “I appreciate his HIGH SCHOOL willingness to be a helper”

“I am so grateful for the help he provides not only to me but to his peers”

“Kayla is always read to learn”

“I appreciate that she is friendly to everyone around her”

“Kayla meets her expectations on a daily basis”

Yonatan Castrejon Kayla Clark TEACHER FEATURE Ms. Jewett Most of the students at Oroville High School have had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Jewett. Some of the students have known her for a long time but others haven't gotten to know her very well. Ms. Jewett started working at Oroville High School in the 2012-13 school year. Before she started working at Oroville, she worked at the mine from 1990-96. She started working for the school as a sub for a para in 2001 then she was hired permanently in September of 2005. She started working at the elementary school because she wanted to be close to her daughter over the summer. She also wanted to work with kids and to help them. Ms. Jewett eventually moved over to the High School from elementary. She stayed at Oroville High School because she liked the kids here and wanted to continue to work with them. There are kids that push her sometimes, but she still loves working here with all the people and students. She likes to watch the kids progress through the years with their classes and behavior. Ms Jewett looks forward to when all of the kids can come back to school. By Samantha Sherer Outside of school in the summer, Ms. Jewett works in her yard doing things like mowing, weed-eating, and working with her flowers. She also is a part of the Chesaw Rodeo. She helps sell tickets to get into the rodeo as well as t-shirts.

Ms. Morales Teacher of the Month

“This teacher has demonstrated that teaching is her calling”

“She really tries to help her students succeed.”

“I have chosen this teacher because she is always there for us”

“She is the teacher that is always asking how we are doing and how she can help us during these rough times” PS5 vs. Xbox Series X

The Xbox series X and Playstation 5 are this year's brand new gaming consoles. With every new console, it has benefits and drawbacks. Microsoft and Sony's brand new next generation consoles are the next step in gaming quality and performance. The PS5 is the 5 edition of the Playstation family since 1994 while the Xbox series is the third edition of theXbox since 2001.The Xbox and Playstation both have brand new state of the art CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, frame rate, and resolution. This upgrade of their consoles is slightly better in one then the other. To start,the Xbox has a higher performance CPU (Central processing unit) than the Ps5,the Xbox has a (3.8GHz custom Zen 2) CPU while the Ps5 has a (3.5GHz custom Zen 2) CPU which results in slower loading along with slower file saving. While the Xbox beats Playstation for CPU power, it does not for it’s GPU. The Playstation has (RDNA 2 10.28 TFLOPS @ 2.23GHz) while Xbox has a (RDNA 2 12 TFLOPS @ 1.825GHz) which is a (0.405) difference from Playstations 2.23GHz GPU. This slight difference will determine how fast the consoles will create and render images. By Evan Fleisure

He wanted to bring back the economy, end the reliance Presidential on China and protect U.S. manufacturing, curb immigration, lower drug costs and terminate affordable care acts as well as defend the second amendment. Election Joe Biden ran for President on the Democratic side The 2020 presidential election along with Kamala Harris as his running mate. Biden’s encouraged the people to get involved and slogan was to “Build Back Better” and he promoted free vote. Many voters were passionate about education, higher minimum wage, expanded health their candidate which resulted in record- care, work to abolish racism, and invest in green energy breaking voter turn out. With Coronavirus during his presidential campaign. many things were different, such as most The 2020 Election ended in a win for Joe Biden and states had mail-in ballots rather than in- Kamala Harris, the first female Vice President. They will person voting. This caused some state’s officially take office on January 20th, 2021 at 12 pm. In ballot results to take longer than in years Biden's first months in office, he plans to tackle prior. The election lasted five days and the Coronavirus head-on by pushing for immediate candidates were neck and neck for most Coronavirus legislation. The people hope to see great of the time. things from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The top two candidates were Joe Biden By Hailey Smither, Meladie Young, and Odin Finsen and Donald Trump, with Donald Trump running for his second term in office. Joe Biden was Barack Obama’s Vice President, which made both candidates equally qualified. The Republican candidate was Donald Trump and his running mate was Mike Pence. During his campaign, President Trump promised to “Keep America Great.” NEWSPAPER STAFF

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