Trees on the playground removed due to disease
By Joanna Odebode and Samantha Young
January 8, 2019
Filed under Middle School, News
Six trees on the playground behind the middle school have been removed and others are dying. Mr. Ron Miller, fifth grade math teachers, and Mrs. Tina Boyd, fifth grade English language arts teacher, planted these trees as an Earth Day project. They are Bradford Flowering Pear trees and Oak trees. ...
Freedom High School Girls Soccer Team becomes first team in school history to make the PIAA state championship
By Dylan Scheel, Freedom Area Middle School
January 8, 2019
Filed under Middle School, Sports
The 2018 season for the Freedom Area High School Girls Soccer team was one to remember. The team was the first ever Freedom High School athletic team to advance to the PIAA State Championship in any sport. The team ended up losing in the State Championship 3-2 in overtime to Southern Columbia on Friday,...
Students raise funds to support family affected by fire
By Destiny Montgomery, Altoona Area Junior High School
December 21, 2018
Filed under Middle School, News
On Oct. 12, a home went up into flames causing a family to start their lives over. One of the family members living in the house was seventh grader Bailee Miller-Dicken. She was not home when the fire happened, she was spending the night at a family member's house. “When I found out that...
T-shirt design winner selected
By Whitley Brown, Duncan Middle School
December 19, 2018
Filed under Middle School, News
The theme was "Dreams Don't Work Unless You Do." The design was simple. And the winner was sixth-grader Brooklyn Rowell. Rowell's T-shirt design was selected by a vote of Duncan Middle School students through a contest for "best T-shirt design." The voting was open to all DMS students. Additionally,...
Learning From Your Mistakes
By Crystal M., Day Creek Intermediate School
December 13, 2018
Filed under Middle School, Opinions
Everyone makes mistakes, right? We’ve all done something we regret that we wish we could go back and change. And some mistakes are bigger than others. But the only way to truly learn from a mistake is to acknowledge it and move on. One assignment in Language Arts required our class to complete ...
Seventh-grade tours Cameron University
By Whitley Brown, Duncan Middle School
December 11, 2018
Filed under Middle School, News
Before seventh-grade students visited, Cameron University changed its policy to only allow 100 kids to visit at a time. This forced Duncan Middle School to separate into two groups and visit campus over a two-day period. Only four employees were available to do the tour. The seventh-grade stude...
Student Council tapes Clark to wall
By Maria Montell, Duncan Middle School
November 27, 2018
Filed under Middle School, News
The Bedlam contest ended today, with counselor Bubba Clark being duct taped to the gym wall. The contest, which ran from Nov. 5 through 9, allowed students and teachers to donate money to containers marked either for the Oklahoma State Cowboys or for the University of Oklahoma Sooner. Depending o...
Important lessons for all in ALICE training
By Watertown Splash staff, Watertown Middle School
November 13, 2018
Filed under Middle School, News
An intruder bursts through your door, you know it's not real, but it seems like it might be. Alert. Lockdown. Inform. Counter. Evacuate. All schools in Watertown practiced ALICE training this fall, in case an active shooter ever came into the school. Every year, the Watertown Middle School goes over an...
Why Hasn’t Humanity Seen Aliens Yet?
By Darrius H., Kraemer Middle School
November 6, 2018
Filed under Features, Middle School
For only 61 years, people have been exploring space. During that time people have found billions of planets and stars. Out of all those star systems, they still haven’t found one definite planet that contains life, but astronomers have found a few planets that could have once held life and might s...
An Angel At Day Creek
By Dylan R., Raghu C., and Jonas D.
October 4, 2018
Filed under Features, Middle School
Imagine being a four-time cancer survivor. That’s the life of Zein Y. In 2013, Zein was diagnosed with stage 4 Neuroblastoma, a type of cancer that affects nerve cells. Yet his optimistic character has allowed him to thrive, even after 45 surgeries. Rod Carew, a pro baseball Hall of Fame induct...