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

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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

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Maximum Performance E: ...A,A .I f College bound Heading out into . . . The Real World No more teachers. no more books... lt was a thought. but for 80 percent of the raduating senior class. there were still zars of college ahead. Twenty percent of ie students would attend a two-year col- ge, and sixty percent would attend four- 2ar colleges. It was thought that the senior year was asy. but the preparations went on and on. lany seniors took only those classes they eeded to graduate. and other simple class- s to fill their schedules. But the list of col- -lE COLLEGE LIBRARY provides students ith easy access to information on colleges :ross the nation. Morgan Long sits in the irary reading information about colleges in e Midwest. -photo by Marc Pariilo . r X .st N. XX. 7 if: X 1 . X.. . .se We-. X X K lege preparations seemed never-ending. Most colleges expected students to have taken standardized tests. such as the SAT and ACT tests. That was the beginning of the long list for many students. As the test scores came in, students began to receive mail in what seemed to be an almost continuous flow. Students were then able to check out vari- ous schools in different pans of the country and select the environment most ideal for the type of higher education desired. The most important factor about the chosen school was that it had a school for the par- ticular students career choice. lVlany students didn't feel a need for the mail from out-of-state schools because they had already choosen to attend an in-state school. l hate getting so much mail because all l do is throw it away. All of the college mail is useless because l have already decided to go to K- State, Alisa Firquain said. Colleges were then contacted and appli- cations requested. On most college appli- cations. students were required to give infomiation regarding their extracurricular activities. their academic records. and many times it also required applicants to submit an essay on a specific topic such as one that dealt with community service. When applications were finally finished and were sent into the schools. the hardest part was waiting for the letter of accep- tance or rejection. -Lara Smith IN ORDER TO introduce students to the colleges across the United States. the school invites representatives to visit with students. Larry Kutscher talks with the Wichita State representative during lunch. - photo by Greg Gloshen AS MANY SENIORS began to see the end of their high school education, they needed to make definate plans for the future. Joe Kurtzman talks with career counselor, Bill Miller about scholarships that would be avail- able to him. - photo by Greg Gloshen Maximum Performance 29 design by Lara Smith