April 25, 2019
On Monday, April 22, French Honor Society visited teacher Nancy Gitter’s Project Challenge students at Kaiser Elementary to continue their teaching of French language and culture.
During their initial visit last month, the club members focused on the history and facts about the Eiffel Tower to intertwine with Project Challenge’s “Enormous Entities” theme this year. However, during this visit, French Honor Society focused more on the language itself. The French alphabet was the major focus, but numbers and greetings were covered as well.
After learning and ...
April 24, 2019
On Thursday, April 18, many Advanced Placement (A.P.) U.S. Government, U.S. History, and Composition students went to the Fisher Theatre to see Hamilton, a musical about the interesting life of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Along with the musical, students were able to experience a Q&A session with some of the cast and watch 14 student performances about Hamilton’s time period, including a performance from RHS seniors Cody Quiroz and Kaelyn Kowalski.
This EduHam program was set up by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Hamilton producers to give low-income schools the opportunity ...
Ariel Kerschenheiter and Kayla Mielke
April 15, 2019
Filed under 2018-2019, Features, News, School
Saturday was a great day for R.E.S.T. (Roseville Engineering Science Technology) club. On April 13, a subsection of R.E.S.T. called U.R.O.V. (Underwater Remote Operated Vehicle) competed against many other schools at RHS.
The competition began in the pool room at 9:30 a.m., and ran until the award show at 2:30 p.m. During the event, which was held by Square One, the teams had to do three challenges, with an optional fourth. These challenges includes collecting balloons with PVC connected to the string, measuring a PVC pipe underwater, and collecting bags of balls that wer...
April 15, 2019
On Friday, April 12, Student Assembly held Roseville’s first Glowcoming, a glow-in-the-dark themed dance for students, at 7pm for students to wind down and have fun after a long week of state testing.
As a way of promoting school pride and having students come together outside of school hours to enjoy their time together, the Special Events Committee of Student Assembly decided to throw a Glowcoming.
“For years, our students have requested that we have a spring dance, and a motivated group of students decided this year to fulfill this desire and have Glowcomin...
April 15, 2019
Student truancy is very important because it is essential that you prevent unnecessary absences as much as possible. There are multiple teachers and counselors that try and help to prevent truancy, but it is no one’s job more than it is the students. Some may think that upperclassmen miss more school than underclassmen but that is not always true. On average about 100 students per day are absent. This can be because of sickness, lack of a ride, home issues, or simply not caring. It is important that we do care and we come to school each and every day. Miss...
April 12, 2019
On Friday, April 12th, Symphonic Choir’s Chanson received a 1 rating at State Solo and Ensemble. Before they got on the bus to leave for Avondale, the school where the event was held, choir director Tina Collins treated them to crackers, cookies, applesauce, and pudding to help fuel their bodies for the next five to six hours. The choir had to leave at 3:30 pm to get there in time for junior Mircal Murray-Adams solo performance, and did not leave the school until around 9:45 pm.
Murray-Adams performance time was 5:00 pm which meant she needed to be in her warm-up room ...
April 1, 2019
At RHS, there is a club for almost anybody. From Book Club to Photography Club, it is not hard to find an after school activity to join. One club offered is R.E.S.T. (Roseville Engineering Science Technology) Club. Ran by science teachers Bob Smitka and Bethany Allen, this club allows students to design, build, and code their own robots. R.E.S.T. is split into three groups, U.R.O.V. (Underwater Remote Operated Vehicle, R.C. (Remote Controlled) Vehicle, and Autonomous. Every year, the club visits Roseville Middle School to show incoming freshmen what it is like to be in R.E.S....
March 29, 2019
Yesterday, Thursday March 28, the National Honor Society announced their new members for the 2019-2020 school year. They started off by having current senior members clad in red robes go around to each classroom. Band members played the trumpet while others read a list of names for the new inductees.
“It felt rewarding to be able to induct all the newbies. It felt like it was just yesterday I was sitting in class and my name was called, I’m forever grateful to have been apart of NHS,” senior and vice president of NHS Joe Zerilli said.
After everyone gathere...
March 20, 2019
On March 20, the Roseville community gathered together in the makerspace as members of the care organization came and talked about the new marijuana laws and how to talk to your kids about it. The night started with Care member Ryan Roblin and counselor Jenifer Korzeniowski introducing themselves and explaining what they would be doing tonight. Most of the night was Care member Joe Gulino and his great presentation on the new marijuana laws and how they are affecting this generation. Joe started off with a small presentation on parenting, and how certain parents can miss...
Ariel Kerschenheiter, Copy Editor
March 19, 2019
Filed under 2018-2019, News, School
If you have any friends in Advanced Placement (A.P.) U.S. Government, you probably know that all the students were required to write a speech for Project Soapbox. Project Soapbox is an event put on by Mikva Challenge in order to get teenagers to speak out about issues they believe in. The competition starts off at the school level. All high schools and middle schools are allowed to participate, and judges from Mikva Challenge pick a few winners to compete in the next round. For RHS, the three winners were junior Flora Luo, junior Lily Kalcec, and senior Cody Quiroz. The tri...
March 19, 2019
On Mar. 19, 2019, RHS kicked off their spring sports season with an informational meeting for student athletes and their parents. Coaches of each sport (J.V. and varsity) had attended, introducing the players of each sport to the attendees. Each student athlete went through the goals that they wanted to achieve in the upcoming season.
Christopher LaFeve, the athletic director for RHS, had gone through the rules and regulations of the season, touching on respect and being a good student first. He also mentioned the new fields being built during the spring season. Th...
March 15, 2019
Yesterday morning, our Symphonic Choir boarded a bus to participate in the MSVMA District Festival. The group performed two musical pieces, one in Latin called “Kyrie Eleison” by Mozart, and another called “The Pasture”, originally written by Robert Frost. The choir also had to sight read sheet music in front of a judge.
After their performance, the group got to hear tips and advice from one of their professional judges. These clinics are meant to improve the performance of the group and provide constructive criticism.
“I did not realize we got a one ...
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