Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 2010, Page 48

Description:	ilskog and Alexander Bertoloni-Meli wash a car to raise: Olympiad. PHOTO BY RAN CAO or sciencehe science clubs of Bloomington South didmany different things to become self-sufficient during the budget crisis.3 budget cuts made by theinroe County Schooljrporation not only affected thestudents, teachers and~ Iministrators, but their activitieswell. Clubs around thecorporation felt the uncertainty oflosing their funding. However, theience clubs of Bloomingtonuth were unaffected by theseAs far as I know, we are notaffected, said Science Olympiadsponsor and science teacher Ms.brina Grossman. The Scienceympiad team provided its owniding for all competitions,eluding its trip to nationals. The>am did many different things tolundraise. We have car washes,work IU football and basketballgames, wrap gifts at Borders overthe holidays, sell concessions,ite grants and solicit community^nations, added Grossman.Ms. Cindy Kvale, scienceteacher and sponsor of JETS(Junior Engineering TechnicalSociety), Solar Bike, ScienceOlympiad and Robotics said that~inerally all of the teams werelaffected. The teams receivedmations, wrote grants, or didndraisers.The fundraising completedby the Solar Bike team notonly went to their annual race inNeosho, Missouri, but also theirtrip to the World Solar Bike Racein Akita, Japan. We canafford to go every other year, saidKvale, ...so we fundraise and saveour money during the off years.The JETS and Robotics -both received donations fro:community. JETS received <sponsorship to enter five teams i:a competition. This year we werefortunate that SAIC (ScApplications International Corporation) covered the $125 pe;team registration, said Kvale.Aside from having teanmembers donate, the Roi:team also had been recedonations from the comir..fund a competition for theseason. We have a reallycompetition we want to go to nextyear, said freshman BenjaminRichmond, The costcompetition was going to costeam $10,000 to $12,000. He addedwe still need a lot more, bwhy people are still pled:The science clubs of Scwere doing just what mar.v :were looking forward to doithe future: becoming entire/sufficient.-HOLLY HAYS
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