Posted by: catbanks on: April 15, 2010
School is almost up, and it’s an important time to keep focused on school work. Theres less then 2 months left in the school year and although most of us feel like we just don’t wanna do anything, its a crucial time to keep your head in the game. Many people by 4th quarter start [...]
Posted by: cbizzle23 on: March 2, 2010
College Coaches are truly a breed of their own. I have been recently emailing some college coaches and they are extreme. There is are coaches who put smilie faces in emails. A couple actually tried to text in their emails. It has been intersecting to see what they will say. Not only are there emails [...]
Posted by: cbizzle23 on: February 3, 2010
Deep down you know you a little feelings for the little flipping mammal. It all relates back to when you are young at the local Dolphin show. Dolphins are one of the smartest animals. In Austria there has been a discovery in Dolphin feeding. They feed on fast small fish. Dolphins have been having trouble [...]
Posted by: lazygirjl on: January 25, 2010
Alex Jaegar, a 10-year-old Kansas boy who recently scored a 23 on the ACT entrance exam is attending Pittsburg State University this semester ( 2nd semester of 2009-2010). Alex Jaegar is another child prodigy who was always inquisitive and ready to learn. In kindergarten, he scored in the 99.9 percentile of the Stanford-Binet, a standardized [...]
Posted by: joanna200 on: December 2, 2009
Leland Stanford Junior University is known as Stanford University, which is a private university that is in Stanford, California. Stanford has around 6,700 undergraduate and around 8,000 graduate students. This is an amazing University that kids dream of going to but it is very strict on grades and are highly achieved in sports. The university [...]
Posted by: georginasellyn on: November 18, 2009
Skin cancer is caused by the uncontrollable growth of abnormal skin cells. It is usually detected from an irregular looking mole on your skin. If left untreated, it can develop into a serious fatal illness spreading quickly from the skin into tissues and organs. It is very dangerous. The main cause of skin cancer is the [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 17, 2009
Monday, November 16, Linda Mayberry (Social Studies department) and I drove over to Kennedy Space Center for the launching of the space shuttle Atlantis. The entire Visitor’s Center was open, so we explored the exhibits and looked for a good place where Linda could watch the launch. I had received a special invitation, so I [...]
Posted by: lazygirjl on: November 16, 2009
Every November, Earth gets a glance of meteor light in the night sky. This year is not different. While Asia will be getting the most mesmerizing meteor show this year, we will also be getting a natural entertainment. The Leonid meteor shower is coming this morning, at 3:30 am and the shower will run from [...]
Posted by: hoopin3 on: November 5, 2009
Mrs. Reedy is a very energetic, high energy type of person. She is very friendly and rarely gets mad. Sometimes she can be a little too nice. She is very slow to anger or get mad. Mrs. Reedy is funny and loves to joke around, she is always smiling. She is very smart and very [...]
Posted by: devu91 on: November 2, 2009
This Friday I leave to go to Los Angeles for the weekend. I fly in the afternoon on Friday and get back on Monday. I am going to attend a recruiting camp at Loyola Marymount University. I am hoping to go to college in California next year, and LMU is an option. In addition, there [...]
Posted by: twingecko56 on: October 21, 2009
Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have discovered 32 new planets orbiting various stars in the galaxy. The discovery was made at the La Silla observatory in Chile thanks to the High Accuracy Radial Planet Searcher or Harps. The Harps spectrograph is connected in turn to a 3.6 meter telescope and has considerably contributed [...]
Posted by: twingecko56 on: October 21, 2009
While NASA’s LCROSS success crash landing onto the moon was spectacular, now that the probes and sensors have all been deployed, the real science can begin. The surprises came right from the landing as excessive levels of sodium have been detected, and while it was known that some percentage of the lunar surface was made [...]
Posted by: jejohnson5 on: October 19, 2009
The process of getting into college is the most important thing in a teenager’s life yet the hardest at the same time. This is not just something that you can pick in a week or month. This school will be your home for the next for years or maybe more. This is the first big [...]
Posted by: dosikseo on: October 15, 2009
Yesterday, all of the American students in Pendleton took the PSAT. A practice SAT, that helps you to understand what the SAT is like. The senior grade takes the SAT, 10 and 11 grades takes PSAT. The PAST was on October the 14th. I heard from a lot of people that the English section was [...]
Posted by: danieladaniela on: October 14, 2009
Preparing for college and deciding what career to study has become something important now that I am entering high school. I´ve been very focused over the last two years in preparing to be a very good soccer player, not only because I love the game, but because I also see it as a means to getting [...]
Posted by: danieladaniela on: October 11, 2009
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the expulsion from the uterus of an embryo, resulting in or caused by its death. Abortion has a long story and has been induced by various methods. The herbal abortifacients, the use of sharpened tools, physical trauma and medications to induce abortion. The legality, prevalence, and cultural views [...]
Posted by: aosborne01 on: October 11, 2009
On Friday October 9th NASA launched a 7 million dollar rocket at the moon. NASA’s clamming the strikes on the moon was a success, kicking up enough dust for scientists to determine whether or not there is water on the moon. They launched the rocket at the moon’s South Pole because this area of the [...]
Posted by: joanna200 on: October 8, 2009
The University of South Florida texted all the teachers and students that are on campus, alerting them of a possible gunman. This took place Monday, October 5, 2009 at 2p.m, In Tampa, Fl where the University of South Florida is located. The text message that was sent said, “EMERGENCY: Armed intruder on Campus. Stay inside. [...]
Posted by: lrogersimg on: October 7, 2009
Chemistry is a type of science that is used everyday and it is in almost everything around us. I have Mr. Shubert’s chemistry class and he is a good teacher, chemistry is the hardest thing that I have every done and it is a hard course to take but it is one if the interesting [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: October 6, 2009
The learning resource center is my favorite class aside from current events. This class is very helpful. the teachers tutor you, help you with homework, they also help you with writing assessments or papers and they help you with every subject. Mrs. Reedy and Mrs. Brook are very smart and helpful ,probably the two smartest [...]
Posted by: twingecko56 on: September 30, 2009
It’s official, water has been found on our moon existing in ice crystals. Although the Earth’s driest deserts are still less arid than the Moon, it is estimated that 32 ounces of water exist in one ton of lunar surface. Proof of this fantastic scientific discovery, however, may have been brought back to earth over [...]
Posted by: nici on: September 25, 2009
Though the moon has many seas, scientists thought it was dry… They were wrong… In a study published today in Nature, researchers led by Brown University geologist Alberto Saal found evidence of water molecules in pebbles retrieved by NASA’s Apollo missions. The findings point to the existence of water deep beneath the moon’s surface, transforming [...]
Posted by: dillonmoyer on: September 24, 2009
In California, the economy has gotten so bad that President Obama has stopped supporting California with funds. This puts the public universities in a crisis situation because without the funding they cannot function properly. So the schools have started to compromise by increasing costs for students and cutting salaries for teachers. Today there are many [...]
Posted by: georginasellyn on: September 22, 2009
There is a controversy about how long classes in schools should last for. At home in Scotland, classes last for 40 minutes. Here, in Pendleton classes are 70 minutes long. It depends on how you look at it. Some say that less is better because you don’t lose your concentration and can focus for a short period [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: September 16, 2009
Habitat for Humanity – … Campus Sporting Events – …. Big Brothers / Big Sisters - … Pendleton / IMG recycling – details coming soon
Posted by: jejohnson5 on: September 15, 2009
There are many British people who I have gotten into fights about the sport football. Now when I say football you might think that I am speaking of American football like the brown oval ball with the white laces and where people try to hit each other as hard as possible. No not at all [...]
Posted by: sambo9 on: September 1, 2009
The idea of creating an elevator that reached up into space was originally thought of in 1895 by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, an Imperial Russian and a Soviet rocket scientist. He was inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris but stretched the concept into the structure going all the way into space. The purpose of the project [...]
Posted by: jhill2010 on: September 1, 2009
How many planets are in our Solar System? If you ask NASA there are eight. Or is there? Three years ago, NASA ruled out Pluto as a planet as it is now considered a “dwarf planet.” With Pluto’s inconsistent orbit around the sun, NASA said Pluto is not a planet. However, [...]
Posted by: aosborne01 on: September 1, 2009
Many people in the teaching community want to see the SAT go away. Many people feel that it is not a real measure of intelligence in students. Obviously, probably all students would like to never see the SAT again, there is so much build up to prepare for the test, and so much pressure for [...]
Posted by: xeniya on: May 28, 2009
Last week all of the seniors of the Pendleton school went to the senior beach trip, where we elected the favorite teacher of Pendleton seniors. And this is the teacher that I was fortunate to have this year for Current Events – Mr. Kennedy. Although not many people have him this year, all of the [...]
