Park Center High School - Pirate Yearbook (Brooklyn Park, MN)

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Junior Achievement- Working For Big Goals Junior Achievement is very beneficial ond is o nonprofir. business edu-corioool progrom for sophomores, juniors. ond seniors, in which, teenagers operate their own small businesses from coperofczarion to fcqusdotion during rhe course of o school term. They select their own officers, select produce ond marker a product or service; keep records ond fcquxJare their company with o report to stockholders. JA is specifically designed to teach high school students rhe basic skills to operate o business. Srudenrs from various schools (Pork Center. Greek. Cooper. Woyzato. Edsno, and Osseo) go to JA meetings once a week on Tuesdoy nights. They immediorely get to work on rhe projects of their choice The srudenrs make projects such as pscrure buttons, condles, etc. They form a diversified company with 28 different products which produced $9,954 in soles. The Minneapolis soles overage amounted to $1,421 ond rhe nanonol soles overage is estimated or $900, The yudenrs generated an after tax profit of $127 on $100 of interested capital. Ar rhe end of rhe year Mmneopolis was honored as rhe Top Soles Company of rhe Year Junior Achievement is worthwhile ond offers friendship, learning abour businesses, ond having loads of fun. Top Rjghr Srudem from JA having a meeting in order or ger reody for production of their product Mdc e Student from JA working on getting their budget gomg Left Middte Student from JA working on his project Mocte Dorrom John Winrers smlng pretty for rhe comero Dorrom foghc Srudem from JA retaxng after o long rights work 20 JA

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Blind Date? Why me??? Why couldn't ir be someone else? Anyone. I don'r care who. anyone, bur me! Moybe she'l chicken out ond won'r wonr ro go our Or berrer yer moybe she'll ger sick ond hove ro go ro rhe hospirol. Or when her morher comes home from work moybe she'll run her over wirh rhe cor. This is ridiculous rolkhg ro myself ike rhis. If only I ddn'r owe Julio o fovor. Why does he hove ro coJecr his fovor rhis woy. I'll never forgive him for rhis. I'd rarher do his homework oil year long, rhon go our on o blind dare I don’r even know her name, bur rhor's nor rhe worsr porr. I don'r know whar she looks like! Whor if she's for ond ugly, wirh orange hoir ond o green mole on rhe side of her foce. I'll die!!! She’s probably rhe rype of girl rhor Insisrs on rhe besr of everyrhing. The finesr resrauranrs ond expeers condy ond flowers. There goes o monrhs worrh of pay oil in one nighr. Or whor if she's srronge You know rhe rype. The kind you're embarrassed ro be seen wirh. Differenr colors in her hoir, wirh bizarre clorhes. This is gonna be rhe worsr nighr of my life! If she wos half woy olrighr she wouldn’r need o blind dare. She has ro be o loser. This is going ro ruin my repu-rorion. This is ir, rhe end, oil washed up. The nexr rhing I know I'm ringing her doorbei Her morher answers. I sri hove one losr chonce ro ger owoy. Just os I rurn ro leave I see my dare coming down rhe sroirs. I hove never seen anyone so beouriful in my life Love or firsr sighr I’m gkxJ ir wos me!! Play The Dating Game !!! Rate Your Date Rare Your Dare Every person 6 different so every dare 6 differenr Dores con be fun or they con be boring. To moke sure you don'r moke rhe some mistake rwice Rare Your Dore . on o scale of one ro five. 1- Total loser, absolutely no doss- con’r woir unri rhis dore is over. 2 Talkative, oil rolls end no ccrion; you hod ro buy eor plugs in rhe middle of your dore. 3- Okay. nice, bur does nor hove good looks, you could live wirh or without rhis dore. 4- Good looking, bur Isnows ir! You could hove o good rime ond possibly go our ogain. 5- Gassy, great looking, great personality, dream dore. sounds like you berrer hong on ro this one boby1 Afrer your big nsghr on rhe rown. roke o few minutes our from your nightly routine, ro Rare Your Dore”. Now if your dore wos o 1-2, forger ir' Why waste your rime running oround wirh o loser5 Out if your dore wos o 3, wel moybe you could go our wirh him her ogam. On rhe other hond. if you hod o fun rime ond enjoyed rhe compony of your rorred 4-5 dore. go for ir ond try ro do ofl you con ro hond on ro rhor one! Moybe o future life Together, or even mor-rioge could result!

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Vo-Tech: Education Some students at Pork Center feel they need something more than reg-ulor high school classes to prepare themselves for o brighter furore These students ore lucky to hove various additional educational programs such as the vocational school (Vo-Tech). This program helps students get his her future plan together by getting them into the proper dosses. Some of the dosses offered ore auto mechanics, commercial greenhouse, crop production, audio visual etc Auto mechanics helps students better understand fully about their car, the ports, ond the mechanisms that work within it. Commercial green house crop production helps students understand plants, what the particular plants needs ore etc. Audio visual is a course that is specifically designed to help o student learn to use T.V. cameras ond audio visual equipment Vo-Tech has many courses that are offered ond students consider themselves lucky to be approached with the idea of going to vo-tech. Top Lefr The auro mechanics doss resting cor barreoes Middle Left A srudenr rrying our her newly leaned sWk Mrtde Right Greg Rarhmonner rokes o break Bottom Left Denise Rowley works on o Com meroal err layout. Vo-Tech 21