The Rock - Issue 3
November 4, 2016
Elections, Students, Staff and Science Experiments...we've been busy at Rimrock!
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, November 8th: Time: 5:30. There will be a High School girls basketball jamboree. Our girls will be playing Marsing and Glens Ferry.
Friday-Saturday, November 11th and 12th: There will a girls Varsity Basketball tournament in Garden Valley.
FAFSA Night, November 15th: Time: 4:30-7:30. More information below.
Saturday, November 19th, Sadie Hawkins Dance: Time: 7:00-11:00. There is matching T-Shirt theme (match with your date). Cost is $5 per couple and $3 per single.
Rimrock Journalism Class
Email: rburk@sd365.us
Website: www.sd365.us
Location: Rimrock Journalism Class
Phone: (208) 834-2260
Diabetes Awareness Month
By: Taylor Magers and Makayla Davis
November is diabetes awareness month. Cooper Raymond is in 6th grade with type 1 diabetes. He was diagnosed a year and a half ago. He can eat almost everything but he can’t have juice or pop unless its diet. Cooper says that his first couple months with diabetes bothered him because he always had to remember his medicine and keep track when he ate. He says, “Its fine, I’m used to it, but I’d rather not have it.”
Cooper has a pump on his arm. He changes it every three days. It has a remote with it and he has to tell it when he has eaten. It is used to pump insulin. He also had one on his lower back, it is called glucose, and it also has a remote. He carries around a “type 1 diabetes bag” that has anything he needs in it (just in case).
Cooper says, “I thank my parents and siblings.” Cooper also enjoys working with his dad. He helps his dad when he has to go to work (his dad is a vet). He enjoys working with his animals.
For more information, please click on the link below to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-communication-programs/ndep/partnership-community-outreach/national-diabetes-month/Pages/default.aspx
A New Girls' Basketball Season Begins
By: Elizabeth Varela and Ryan Nelson
The basketball girls started their season on Monday, the 31st. There are 18 basketball girls playing this season (during the last few years there was just enough for varsity). This year we are hoping that there will be two teams, junior varsity and varsity. The girls will have a new system with a new coach; their new coach this year will be Mr. Jensen. He loves the sport and coaching girls basketball because they are coachable and they listen more. Coach Jensen has been coaching girls’ basketball as a head coach for 11 years; he was assistant coach for 3 years. Coach Jensen has coached for North Freemont, Marsh Valley, and Sugar Salem. Through the years he coached, he has taken the basketball girls to state 5 times and won each time. Coach Jensen says “I am excited to coach for the Lady Raiders and am excited to work with our student athletes.”
Student Spotlight on Ethan Bingham
By: Jasmine Araujo, Carmel Bazan, Anahi Delgado, and Martha Araujo
We have a Junior on our campus that is well-known because of his drawings and photography. He is a very good artist as well. Ethan Bingham started to take pictures 3 years ago as a hobby. Taylor Pearson, former classmate, inspired Ethan to begin photography by offering advice. Ethan Bingham prefers to take pictures when there is good lighting and he has a good angle. Ethan prefers to use an Android over an iPhone.
For a look at his photography, click on the Instagram link below:
FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aide) Night!!
Rimrock High School and TRIO Bound Presents:
FAFSA NIGHT
An opportunity for you to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid
Location: Rimrock Jr. Sr. High School
Date:Tuesday, November 15, 2016
4:30pm until 7:30pm
To complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), you will need to bring with you:
Your Social Security Number
Your Alien Registration Number (if you are not a U.S. citizen)
Your 2015 federal income tax returns
Submitted by: Anallely Ayala
Tuesday, Nov 15, 2016, 04:30 PM
Rimrock Jr-Sr High School, Idaho 78, Bruneau, ID, United States
2016 Election News:
By: Sierra Lawrence and Valeria Lino
As of November 4th, the election polls are as followed:
National Polls
Clinton at 49%
Trump at 42%
Idaho Polls
Clinton at 27%
Trump at 47%
On Tuesday November 8th we will be getting the chance to vote for the two most controversial presidential candidates. The Republican nominee is Donald Trump. The Democratic nominee is Hillary Clinton. Both nominees have had disputes of their own. Hillary Clinton has been dealing with her erased email scandal while Donald Trump has been dealing with multiple different types of scandals. The Nominees both have their pros and cons so make sure to cast your vote this November 8th.
Ms. Renken’s Science Experiments
By: Anallely Ayala and Heidi Pearson
There has been lots of excitement going on in Ms. Renken’s science classroom! In her seventh grade Life Science class, the students are making lung models. This experiment gives the students an opportunity to make a working model of a lung. They get to feel and see how lungs work and what they do. They used the top half of a water bottle, balloons, straws, and rubber bands to make the lung models.
In Ms. Renken’s Biology class they are designing their own bacteria experiments. They each picked out a subject on what they wanted their experiment on, and they are testing out the effects. For example, a student is doing the effects of music on growing bacteria. The students are to observe their project throughout the course of the semester.
A Sugar Snake
Digestion Experiment
A Lung Model
New Artwork Brings Pride to the Rimrock Campus
By: Breanna Bybee and Sierra Swanson
New Raider Art
The New Artwork in the Cafeteria
New Curtains in the Auditorium
Staff Spotlight...A Look a Mr. Schoen.
By: Lance Smith, Kevin Meyers and Naya Bradshaw
Mr. Alan Schoen is one of our proud staff members of 27 years. He started working here in 1989-90. After graduating from Rimrock High School with his girlfriend, he went to the University of Idaho. He decided to go to agricultural classes because he had more experience and the subject interested him more than any other subject. After college he and his girlfriend came back to Grand View to find jobs. Alan Schoen didn't know he wanted to be a teacher, but he ended up here because no other jobs were available. In his first year of teaching he had no idea what he was doing, but more and more years came and he got the hang of the teaching stuff. Mr. Schoen was very close to the staff; he would go hunting with some and just go out with them too.If Mr. Schoen ever wanted to be a teacher, he would've wanted to be agricultural teacher like he is today. He feels like in all of his teaching here at Rimrock he has shined some light on his students, and has given advice to some new teachers working here today. A quote from Mr. Schoen, “Think about your future because, if you don’t, you won’t be where you want and need to be.”
Red Ribbon Week Was A Success!
By Mylee Meyers and Hailey Sharek
Why we have red ribbon week is because it shows that we are drug free students. At Rimrock we celebrated by having fun activities and themed dress-up days. We had a rock, paper, scissors war and Ray Draper was the winner! The IDFY students put on a play. Stay drug free; you don't need drugs to have fun!
Band Concert
The band concert was very fun and interesting. All of the kids tried very hard and put a lot of work in for this concert. The choir started off the show and sang really well. Then, the Junior High band went next. They had put a lot of work into their songs and played them well. The advanced band ended off the concert. They all played hard and did very well. Over all, the concert was great they all did their best.