Shawnee Mission Northwest High School - Lair Yearbook (Shawnee Mission, KS)

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WN' 26 Academics AFTER SCHOOL WORK can sometimes help a student catch up on his or her project. Jason Reece glues on the floor of his model With 3 hot glue gun. -photo by Marc Parillo

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Maximum Performance ii, i Going for th gold Students Rnd entering contests and competitions pays back Dedication. Intense dedication to a single purpose as what students who did research pro- cts for science. built houses for archi- ctural drafting. or competed in exhibits ir art needed the most, l'It will have taken me. all the way from search to experiments to finished dis- ay. about 100 hours to complete my iience project. Heather Manley said. 'By the time the model is completed. a udent will have spent an average of D0 to 350 hours on his or her project. r. Ron Wray. the architectural drafting acher. commented. But the rewards often are worth all the ne and trouble students put into their projects. Many entered local contests. and if they placed highly. advanced to the statewide or national level. Jenny Reardon was one such person. She won several awards for her project which dealt with the effect of radiation of microvalgae. She also went to Puerto Rico to present her paper at the International Science Fair and won a first place award in Environmental Science, I think that the hardest part of doing a science project is thinking of a topic. she said. In drafting. each person had to draw his own set of plans. but students could work in pairs when they built their hous- es. Jason Reece and Craig lVlilroy worked together and planned to go into the building trades in the future. You need to know the principles of building a house. Otherwise it is useless to take the class. said Reece. They planned to enter their model in the Research and Development Forum which took place in early April. They completed drawings. made blueprints. poured concrete. constructed the structure. and built the rest of the house to scale. making it as realistic as possible. The hard work and time put in by stu- dents earned them recognition for their achievements. and sometimes even a monetary reward. fRuchi Aggorwol CLASSES IN ART often experiment with new and different techniques. Marlene Downs works with a piece of pottery in Ceramics. -photo by Marc Parilio SCIENCE PROJECTS can take up a great deal of time for students. Effie Giannopoulos observes the effect of vitamin D deficiency in rats. -photo by Marc Pariiio Maximum Performance 27 design by Ruchi Aggarwal