Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 2017, Page 5

Description:	OFF TO THE RACESThis summer a group of South students took a trip to Japan. Thesestudents participated in the World Green Challenge, a solar bike race.This summer, a group of 12 students were given theopportunity to take on the challenge of a solar bike race,titled the World Green Challenge. The trip took placefrom July 28 to August 14. This World Green Challengeis a world famous triennial competition that taught Southparticipants to overcom[e] physical challenges, liv[e]together, and [not] be closed minded or prejudicial saidsouth teacher Cindy Kvale , the leader of the expedition.The race took place in Japan where students had theopportunity to visit Shirasaka, Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima,Nara, and Ujima. Kvale discovered the bike race over 20years ago, and she thought that the talent pool inBloomington was large enough to compete in the race.Students put their work to the test while competingin the solar bike race. Senior Joshua Burdine remembersthat [they raced] in this town called Ogata, a small ricefarming community. The bikes used to race had a solarpanel in the back and a motor in the front. The track onwhich the students competed was 15 miles long and hadto be completed four times , once by each team member.In the end, their hard work paid off, and the teamsended up getting 3rd, 6th, and 9th in the overall scores.As one of the competitors, junior Aaron Nunes said, [thebest] part of the trip was getting third.Although the main event was the race, studentswere able to experience some of the culture of Japan aswell. Students experienced many aspects of a new culturewhich they agreed was extremely important. Theirfavorite experience, according to Ms. Kvale, was the food.In addition, the group hiked an impressive 12,388 feet tothe top of Mount Fuji.Finally, the general consensus was that the race wasthe highlight of the trip. Burdine concluded that gettingto take something that we had built and use it to competein a completely different country was a pretty amazingexperience.- ELI DIERSING AND LAUREN GATER<__LUHQ-n ^CNlHoz>-On August 5, 2011 a satellite named Junowas launched into space with the missionof gathering information for scientists tounderstand the origin and evolution ofJupiter. Juno reached its destination July4, 2016. The total cost of this missionwas 1.1 billion dollars. Scientists hopethis will explain how the gas planetsaffect our solar system. PHOTOCOURTESY OF CREATIVE COMMONSI would prefer my moneyto go to something thatwould benefit ourcitizens, i.e., our schoolsor the national debt.SOPHOMORETAYLORBYRDI think that we havelarger problems in theU.S. and that we shouldbe spending our moneyon those.SOPHOMORESUMAYYAHDINBOY AT DISNEY WORLD 6/16 {JUNO, A NASA SPACECRAFT, REACHES JUPITER AFTER FIVE-YEAR JOURNEY 7/4) Academics \| 5
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