WHS Junior Takes Second Place at Midland Lutheran College Short Story Contest
Callan Takes Award with "Snake Eyes"
WHS Junior Alex Callan placed second
place, winning $200, in the Midland Lutheran College Short Story
Contest. Callan won for his war story “Snake Eyes.” Sixty students
from fifteen different schools entered the contest.
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WHS Poetry Out Loud Finalist Recites Selections at Nebraska Arts Council Board Meeting
Wahoo High School English teacher Larry
Fangman and Wahoo junior Eric Curran spoke at the recent quarterly
board meeting of the Nebraska Arts Council held at the Wahoo Public
Library.
Curran recited the two poems he recently
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Eric Curran Wins Poetry Out Loud Championship
Will Represent WHS at Upcoming State Competition
Junior Eric
Curran defeated ten other finalists to win the second annual Wahoo
High School Poetry Out Loud School Championship. Curran recited the
poems, “Discrimination” by Kenneth Rexroth and “Experience” by
Ralph Waldo . . .
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CPR Classes Bring Life-Saving Skills to Wahoo High School Classrooms
Steve Shannon, the Comparative Anatomy teacher at Wahoo High
School, first brought up the idea of a CPR and first aid program a
couple years ago.
The idea originally came about to give students a real life
application for what they . . .
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Business Law Class Winds Up in Court
Students Take Field Trip to District/County Courtrooms
On October 22, the Wahoo High School Business Law class went on
a field trip to the Saunders County District and County Courts.
“The goal of the field trip was to allow students to observe in
person what they have been studying in . . .
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Two WHS Juniors Chosen to Serve on State Attorney General's Youth Advisory Council
Thomsen and Hoppe Will Join 123 Others from Across Nebraska
Attorney General Jon Bruning has announced that Wahoo High
School students Alison Thomsen and Ian Hoppe are among 125 high
school juniors and seniors selected from across Nebraska to serve
on the Attorney General’s Youth Advisory Council . . .
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WHS Business Department Updates Computer Lab Technology
The WHS Business Department computer lab
received 18 new iMac computers this week. These iMacs include a
17-inch monitor and a 2GHz Intel Dual Core processor that allows
students to use both Macintosh and Windows software.
Thanks to . . .
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Everybody Does It
Academic cheating is at an all-time high. Can anything be done to stop it?
If there were
a test on the current state of cheating in school, I would have
gotten an F. My knowledge was as outdated as the stolen answers to
last week's quiz. Ask a high school or college student about
cheating, and before you can . . .
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Local Writer Visits WHS Creative Writing Class
Richard Gehrman, a local poet, novelist, and
the grandfather of Wahoo junior Travis Bennett, visited Mr. Larry
Fangman’s creative writing class on Friday.
Gehrman recently completed the manuscript for
his novel, Cow Creek. . . .
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WHS Comparative Anatomy Students to Receive CPR/First Aid Training
Community Organizations Combine Efforts to Provide Nine Day Life-Saving Program
The
students at Wahoo High School now will have an additional
opportunity to have a positive effect on individuals in the Wahoo
Public Schools and the Wahoo community, in general. Forty-two
students in the Comparative Anatomy classes . . .
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WPS Students Voice Their Opinion in the Nebraska Student Vote
Student 84% Voter Turnout Puts Public to Shame
Wahoo High
School recently participated in the Nebraska Student Vote sponsored
by the Nebraska Secretary of State's Office and the Omaha World
Herald. The Nebraska Student Vote is a mock election, where
students had the opportunity to . . .
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