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ISSUE3, VOLUME<strong>15</strong><br />
CLAY<br />
CLASSIC<br />
INSIDE:<br />
8th grade students use<br />
chemistry to solve<br />
mystery<br />
Cheer<br />
Weaver Woods gets a<br />
new deck<br />
Mixed Media<br />
German students go to<br />
Staatskongress<br />
7th grade science<br />
students learn about<br />
rocks<br />
ISS Above tracks the<br />
space station in the<br />
STEM lab
9<br />
F<br />
Fluorine<br />
92<br />
U<br />
Uranium<br />
Eighth Grade students are doing Chemistry in<br />
science class. Chemistry is the study of matter and<br />
how it changes. Some labs students are doing this<br />
year includes flames, Chemicals, States of matter<br />
and CSI (crime). Some Chemicals students need to<br />
look out for are Hydrochloric Acid, sulfuric acid, and<br />
boric acid. Mr Simon, eighth grade science teacher,<br />
said one of his favorite parts about chemistry is<br />
seeing students do the lab correctly and the designs<br />
that students come up with.<br />
7<br />
N<br />
Nitrogen<br />
in t he<br />
LAB<br />
Analytical Chem ist<br />
A scientist that studies and tests the chemical<br />
behaviors of chemical composition.<br />
Chem ical Engineer<br />
A branch of engineering that uses chemistry,<br />
physics, mathematics and economics.<br />
H ealth Care Scientist<br />
Does everything from investigates genetics to<br />
measuring organ functions.<br />
Forensic Scientist<br />
Helps lawyers, juries, and judges understand the<br />
results of scientific tests.<br />
Infographic by Presley Silverman<br />
Crime of the Century: Eighth Graders Learn Chemistry Through CSI<br />
Above: The crime scene of the stolen lunch.<br />
Left: Darcy Davis<br />
and Rachel<br />
Popowics, conduct<br />
a blood typing lab,<br />
by seeing how the<br />
samples react when<br />
adding certain<br />
antibodies.<br />
Bottom: Kendall<br />
Schmid and<br />
Caroline Marton<br />
conduct the same<br />
lab.<br />
Above: Students have 27 possible suspects, in<br />
which they do multiple labs to narrow down, and<br />
figure out who stole Mrs.Fulp's lunch."I liked<br />
working with my group and conducting labs, to<br />
figure out the mystery," Mallory Crinklaw, eighth<br />
grade, said.<br />
Below: Joe Derksen and his team work<br />
on their lab. "We have learned so much<br />
throughout these labs, like how to work<br />
together with people about chemicals,<br />
atoms and elements."<br />
Above: A tray filled with different types of blood after<br />
reacting to antibodies. Left: Testing an unknown liquid to<br />
match the suspect.
What w as y our FAV ORI TE p ar t about cheer ?<br />
"I like supporting<br />
our school and<br />
practices, too," Ava<br />
Sharer, seventh<br />
grade, said.<br />
"Doing the<br />
kicking kitty girls<br />
stunt," Lily<br />
Franciosi, seventh<br />
grade, said.<br />
"Probably<br />
stunting," Maria<br />
Deam, seventh<br />
grade, said.<br />
Cheer ing at<br />
I nv it at ional<br />
January 26th, the seventh<br />
grade boys basketball team had<br />
their invitational, and on the<br />
sidelines, the cheerleaders<br />
supported the boys by getting<br />
the audience to chant and cheer<br />
during the game.<br />
"I have been doing cheer<br />
since the fall season 7th grade,"<br />
Ava Sharer, seventh grade, said.<br />
She also said she has done a<br />
tumbling class and her best skill<br />
is a cartwheel.<br />
Lily Franciosi, another<br />
seventh grade cheerleader said<br />
she not only has cheered at<br />
school but at the Interactive<br />
Academy and ICE.<br />
"Even though we were<br />
losing in the second game, I still<br />
thought it was really fun<br />
because we were cheering really<br />
loud and being really<br />
supportive," Franciosi said.<br />
Another cheerleader who<br />
was on the sidelines, M aria<br />
Deam, said, " I thought the boys<br />
did really well at the<br />
invitational."<br />
Their favorite stunts they<br />
did at invitational were Kitty<br />
Kicks. Sharer said Kitty Kicks<br />
were their favorite.<br />
While the boys season is<br />
over, the cheerleaders can still<br />
be found at the girls' basketball<br />
games. Lauren Herring, seventh<br />
grade, said she is currently<br />
working on a roundoff back<br />
handspring.<br />
Deam said she is working<br />
on multiple back handsprings<br />
currently. Some of the routines<br />
the cheerleaders perform are<br />
called stunts.<br />
Sharer said her stunt group<br />
consisted of Lily Beard<br />
Herring, Ruby Sal, and Brooke<br />
Ohrvall. Franciosci's stunt<br />
group was Sophia Szymanski,<br />
N orah N owlin, Deam, and<br />
Lily Cole.<br />
They said they are planning<br />
on doing cheer next year.<br />
Cheer leader s Sup p or t 8t h Gr ade Basket ball Team<br />
TOP LEFT: Lily Getchell leads cheers from the sidelines of the boys basketball game. TOP RIGH T: The<br />
cheerleaders perform the Bruno Mars halftime performance. M I D DLE LEFT: ?An extension lib is my one of my<br />
favorite stunts,? says Abby Ye, the flyer in the middle. M I D DLE RIGH T: Grace Fleming and Abby Ye get the<br />
crowd excited during the game. BOT TOM: The cheerleaders do the break it down cheer during the game. ?The break<br />
it down cheer is hard to learn. There are many complicated steps,? Florence Hargitt said.
The sport of cross country compared to the sport of wrestling<br />
Injuries<br />
"In cross country, you can get<br />
injured if you're not careful about<br />
how many miles you run."<br />
"One of the most dangerous sports in<br />
school."<br />
Physical<br />
"Due to the repetitive motions in<br />
Cross Country, it can get tiring<br />
quickly."<br />
"Wrestling is one the most exhausting<br />
sports."<br />
Cross Country<br />
and Track<br />
Coach<br />
Miss Martin<br />
Mental<br />
"The mental difficulty is high<br />
because your always trying to push<br />
yourself to run that extra mile."<br />
"In a match you will most likely get<br />
nervous."<br />
By Zack Weatherford<br />
Eighth grade<br />
wrestler<br />
C.J. Meyer<br />
Weaver Woods gets a deck<br />
Story by Francesca Gobbi-Belcredi<br />
Weaver Woods has a gorgeous pond but no way to<br />
safely access the pond.<br />
That is, until now.<br />
<strong>Clay</strong> M iddle School has partnered with Keramida<br />
Inc., an engineering firm based in Indianapolis.<br />
Keramida Inc. is going to build a deck that will hang<br />
over the pond, and they are doing this for free.<br />
"The deck will be used to go over the water to be<br />
able to observe the ecology and take water samples,"<br />
Kristen Belcredi, Environmental engineer, senior vice<br />
president of Keramida Inc. and head engineer of the<br />
project happening in Weaver Woods, said<br />
This will allow the students more access to the<br />
pond.<br />
"With the deck there is a huge opportunity for<br />
students to easily get water samples, water organisms,<br />
and critters without the safety issue," M rs. Susie Fulp,<br />
science department chair, said.<br />
Before the deck, students couldn't get close to the<br />
pond safely to observe it. Once the deck is constructed,<br />
students can walk out and over the water.<br />
Belcredi agreed and said that, "The deck will allow<br />
students to see what they are learning in the classroom in<br />
the real world by being able to collect water samples,<br />
plants and even creatures."<br />
Fulp said the deck will provide more opportunities<br />
for hands on education.<br />
The deck is expected to be completed by this<br />
spring.<br />
Weaver Woods isn't just for ecology labs, Fulp also<br />
said, "Students can go out during science, Language Arts<br />
and whenever<br />
teachers want to<br />
take there classes<br />
out."<br />
The deck will be<br />
used to go over<br />
the water to be<br />
able to observe<br />
the ecology and<br />
take water<br />
samples.<br />
"The deck is<br />
being installed<br />
on the north side<br />
of the pond, but<br />
will be built off site," Belcredi said.<br />
Keramida Inc. is donating the supplies, labor, and<br />
design of the deck at no cost to the school.<br />
"There will be environmental engineers,<br />
environmental scientists and a CAD technician working<br />
on the project," Belcredi said.<br />
Keramida Inc. worked with M r. Weaver when he<br />
was still teaching and thought that the deck was a good<br />
way to continue his legacy.<br />
The School is looking forward to the deck that will<br />
be built and accessible by the end of this school year.<br />
(Left) these students are<br />
creating abstract watercolor<br />
paintings<br />
(Middle Left) Students used<br />
different colored paints and<br />
stencils to create their<br />
paintings.<br />
(Middle Right) ?Mixed<br />
media is about being creative<br />
and expressing yourself<br />
through abstract media,"<br />
Halen Peterson, eighth<br />
grade, said.<br />
8th Grade Mixed Media's Abstract Art<br />
(Left) this<br />
student used the<br />
color orange and<br />
flying as their<br />
inspiration<br />
(Right) "My<br />
inspiration was<br />
the color green<br />
and nature,"<br />
Claire Noggle,<br />
eighth grade,<br />
said.
Ger man Histor y<br />
Show ed On The<br />
Alpine Hor n<br />
Eighth Grade German<br />
Students Head Off to<br />
Staatskongress<br />
Story by Alexis Martin<br />
Coming up soon, German students are able to<br />
go on a fun and exciting trip to Ball State<br />
University to learn about culture and other German<br />
aspects at Ball State University.<br />
While at Ball State, <strong>Clay</strong>'s German students will<br />
learn about food, dancing, and other aspects that<br />
intrigue their interests. Olivia Stock, an eighth<br />
grader interested in going on the German trip, said<br />
that there will be rotations that students can go<br />
through to learn about different aspects.<br />
Stock also said that the choice is theirs and they<br />
can choose what section of German culture they<br />
would like to learn about.<br />
She said she chose<br />
German because it is such a fun<br />
language to learn and she<br />
enjoys learning about its<br />
culture.<br />
Sophie M ullins, also an<br />
eighth grader interested in the<br />
trip, said that she is most<br />
excited to learn about the food.<br />
M ullins said she is doing well in<br />
German right now, and thinks<br />
this is a good opportunity for<br />
students to learn more about the language and its<br />
people.<br />
She also said that she plans on taking German in<br />
high school, along with Kat Fresen, another eighth<br />
grader. Fresen wants to be able to talk to her<br />
relatives fluently, because her dad was born in<br />
Germany.<br />
Fresen said that she enjoys German class<br />
because of the fun things they do and the<br />
friendships she has made.<br />
The German trip is in late February and<br />
students are excited about the trip.<br />
This opportunity to go to Ball State is a fun and<br />
interesting way to learn more about German culture<br />
and the language itself, while extending their<br />
knowledge they've learned during their German I<br />
class.<br />
"Each grade is playing between two to three pieces. The sixth graders are<br />
playing a piece called 'Big Rock Candy Mountain,' the seventh graders<br />
are playing a piece called 'Blue Mountain,' and the eighth graders are<br />
playing a piece called 'Ghost Carnival.'" Mr. Frizzi said.<br />
Orchestra Prepares For ISSMA<br />
"ISSMA stands for Indiana State School MusicAssociation," Mr.Frizzi said. " It's the governing<br />
body of all musiccontests in Indiana."<br />
" <strong>Clay</strong> Middle School<br />
has 50 solos, duos,<br />
trios, and ensembles<br />
going." Justine Wang,<br />
Claire Noggle, and<br />
Teresa Yu are one of<br />
the trios going to<br />
ISSMA. Mr. Frizzi<br />
said he is very excited<br />
for this year's ISSMA<br />
contest.
Seventh graders spend time at the Indiana State<br />
Museum during a grade-wide field trip.<br />
Seventh graders learn<br />
how to identify three<br />
rock types in science<br />
Ava Hanna, seventh grade, draws a<br />
picture of the Sedimentary rock<br />
stage.<br />
Story by Josh Calvert<br />
Seventh grade science students are learning<br />
about the rock cycle right now. Katie<br />
M erryman, a student in M s. Smiley's class, was<br />
eager to learn about this specific subject.<br />
She explained how the rocks are made, and<br />
that there is a cycle behind all of it.<br />
?The first type of rock is Sedimentary,<br />
those are made by pieces of sediment getting<br />
loosely packed together before being pressed<br />
together even more under the Earth?s surface<br />
and becoming metamorphic rocks. Then, the<br />
metamorphic rocks move their way towards the<br />
Earth?s core and melt under the hot<br />
temperature and become igneous,? M erryman<br />
explained.<br />
She also said how this unit is very<br />
interesting because of all the twists and turns of<br />
how to test the rocks, but has tons of<br />
information to contain making some of it<br />
difficult to remember.<br />
The students have been in their rocks and<br />
minerals unit for a few weeks now, and are<br />
beginning to get the hang of how the cycle<br />
works.<br />
The seventh graders are finishing their unit<br />
off with a rock song, which is where they pick<br />
a song and take rock vocabulary and replace the<br />
lyrics with some of that vocabulary.<br />
They will videotape themselves making a<br />
music video almost as a replica of the original<br />
music video.<br />
The students watched videos of past<br />
students' videos to figure out how they should<br />
make theirs. Some students are even making<br />
their own songs, instead of using a song they<br />
like.<br />
Liam Hamidi, seventh grade, lists examples of the Metamorphicrock stage. "I really enjoy learning about<br />
rocks and their differences," Hamidi says.<br />
(Left) Eddie Sun and Noah Smiler reflect on their "3 stages of rocks" group project. (Right) Alijah<br />
Alfayyad, Royce Brown, Liam Himidi and Srikrishna Ganeshan work together on their "3 stages of<br />
rocks" group project.<br />
Drew Seelig, seventh grade, draws a picture of the Igneous Rock stage. "It's really cool learning about rocks<br />
and how unique they are," Seelig says. Photos by Christian Dora
Reflecting Back on First Semester<br />
Over winter<br />
break, I went to<br />
N orth Carolina<br />
and it was really<br />
fun.<br />
-Kyle<br />
Brinkman<br />
M y favorite part<br />
of first semester<br />
was the paper<br />
airplane lab.<br />
-Quinn Conlon<br />
I wasn't very<br />
nervous going<br />
into first<br />
semester. I don't<br />
know why, I<br />
just wasn't.<br />
-J.D. Stein<br />
M y favorite class<br />
in first semester<br />
was gym because<br />
I could play<br />
sports.<br />
-Ty Wellman<br />
Food trucks show up<br />
in sixth grade math<br />
Story By Brigham Forsythe, Jackson Reeves, Riley Romstad<br />
Who knew that math and food went hand in hand.<br />
Sixth graders did a food truck unit in math. Advanced math<br />
students would work with markup and discount to create a<br />
food truck business. The students got to bring in whatever<br />
food they wanted, and they would sell it in class.<br />
They enjoyed the food truck unit because they got to<br />
interact with each other and eat food. They thought it<br />
would help them with markup and discount. They thought<br />
it was very helpful when it comes to running a business.<br />
"Learning markup distribution jobs to different people<br />
and learning how to manage people's responsibilities," Jonah<br />
Greene, sixth grader, said.<br />
"I think it will help me in the real world because there<br />
are discounts and you have to learn about prices and how to<br />
price things," Audrey Schuetz, sixth grader, said.<br />
Different people enjoyed different parts of the unit.<br />
They all had fun with it.<br />
"M y favorite part was selling the food and getting to eat<br />
the food because it was fun working and interacting with<br />
each other," Sienna Aslin, sixth grader, said.<br />
"M y favorite part of the unit was eating the food<br />
because you got to relax and have fun for the rest of the<br />
day," Greene said.<br />
All of the advanced math students had a packet that<br />
was due three days from the day they got it. They each<br />
thought it was pretty hard but it helped them understand<br />
the concept. They thought it was worth it in the end when<br />
they got to eat food.<br />
M ost of the kids favorite part was eating food. Each<br />
individual had their own favorite food.<br />
"I liked the chocolate chip cookies because they tasted<br />
super good." Ross Romstad, sixth grader, said.<br />
"I enjoyed the Kool Aid because it was refreshing. It<br />
was limited though because they two cups." Greene said.<br />
"I liked the chocolate chip cookies because they were<br />
really good compared to everything else," Schuetz said.<br />
Each group was able to pick their own food truck name.<br />
"We called ours the Delicious Donuts because we<br />
didn't know what else to call it," Audrey Schuetz, sixth<br />
grader, said.<br />
"Ours was called the Delicious Donuts because we<br />
were selling donuts," Sienna Aslin, sixth grader, said.<br />
The sixth graders thought it was a very good<br />
experience and thought it would be very helpful when the<br />
time comes to run a business. It was fun and enjoyable<br />
while they were learning something. They thought it was a<br />
good way to learn.<br />
Eight h Grade Ceram ics<br />
Top left: Student cuts clay for monster. "I took this class because it seemed fun, and it is very fun."<br />
Ellie Wilt said.Top right: Students work on adding features to monster. Middle right: Student<br />
uses extra clay to put on features. Ellie Wilt said,"The project is difficult but it is also fun."<br />
Bottom left: Student carefully adds teeth to his monster. Bottom right: Students observe their<br />
monsters. "I enjoy this class because you can create whatever you want," students said.
Wrestling team battles for pins<br />
Gabe Young has his opponent<br />
in a headlock. Brian Rivas is<br />
pinning his Noblesville East<br />
opponent. The wrestlers work<br />
on there pins before the meet<br />
starts. Trevor Gallagher is<br />
sprawling to defend the shot.<br />
Gabe Baldoni is pinning his<br />
opponent. Bryan Rivas is<br />
finishing a double. Photos by<br />
Colin Fettig
Carter uses<br />
basketball<br />
experience to<br />
coach girls team<br />
Story by Jamie Elliott<br />
"Go go go!" Coach Jeff<br />
Carter shouts at players of his<br />
basketball team. H ave you ever<br />
wondered about his numerous<br />
basketball experiences and<br />
memories?<br />
Coach Carter started<br />
playing basketball in third<br />
grade, and played all the way<br />
through college. N ow he is the<br />
head coach of the girls 7th<br />
grade basketball team.<br />
However, he has also coached<br />
for boys and officiated for<br />
several years each.<br />
He started coaching 8th<br />
grade boys basketball in 2001,<br />
and ended up doing it for ten<br />
years. He said, "I liked having<br />
the kids come out and working<br />
hard, and getting to know the<br />
boys really well."<br />
Coach Carter also said that<br />
he enjoyed helping the boys<br />
players improve on their game<br />
and skill development.<br />
After he stopped coaching<br />
boys in the 2011-2012 school<br />
year, he started officiating<br />
basketball games. He officiated<br />
for four years before he started<br />
coaching girls basketball at<br />
<strong>Clay</strong>.<br />
He has been coaching girls<br />
for four years now and says, "I<br />
was ready to start coaching<br />
again and there was a girls<br />
position and I've been enjoying<br />
it ever since."<br />
Coach Carter has also said<br />
that he likes working with the<br />
girls during practice and<br />
helping them with their<br />
shooting, ball- handling, and<br />
passing.<br />
When asked about<br />
continuing coaching, Coach<br />
Carter simply replied, "I plan<br />
on continuing to coach<br />
basketball for many years. I<br />
enjoy coaching and it's a lot of<br />
fun."<br />
French students learn about classrooms<br />
1.<br />
2. 5.<br />
3.<br />
4.<br />
5.<br />
1. Daniel Tian and EricYang record their French project. They were assigned to describe various classrooms in the<br />
building use French vocabulary. "First we write our script, then we write questions to ask the teacher and finally we video<br />
tape the project," Phoebe Smock . 2. Leah Wright works on questions for her video. "I'm interviewing Mr.Frizzi," 3.<br />
Phoebe Smock and Annabelle Yang type their script. "We have to interview a teacher about their classroom," Annabelle<br />
Yang. 4. Lily Shukla and Julia Bricker work on their script and questions to ask in their video. 5. Students record intro<br />
to their video. "We have to record a video in French about a teacher's classroom," Lea Wright said. By Francesca<br />
Gobbi-Belcredi
ISS Above orbits earth, informing STEM students<br />
Story by Erick Christman<br />
When you walk into<br />
M r.Dials room some people<br />
might ask? what is that big T V<br />
with the ISS Above on it?<br />
Which also leads to the main<br />
question... what is ISS above?<br />
ISS above is an electronic<br />
device that provides a live feed<br />
from the Space Station above to<br />
your T V.<br />
According to ISS it orbits<br />
the Earth and passes you around<br />
5-8 times a day. It is large than a<br />
six-bedroom house, and is<br />
longer than a boeing 777 at<br />
240ft. The ISS Above also<br />
weighs in at almost 1 million<br />
pounds, which is equivalent to<br />
around 320 automobiles.<br />
The ISS is capable of<br />
streaming live video from<br />
external cameras on the Space<br />
Station. From the live feed it<br />
shows views of the earth, and<br />
space, but only when cameras<br />
are in daylight. It also shows us<br />
information screens like orbits,<br />
speed, position, current crew,<br />
and news updates.<br />
M r. Dial has a live feed of<br />
the ISS above in his classroom<br />
that provides all the information<br />
above.<br />
As Bill N ye once said, "M y<br />
most recent obsession is this<br />
gizmo called ISS-Above? I<br />
watch it all day. I leave it on<br />
more than is reasonable. It?s just<br />
a beautiful thing.? Bill N ye,<br />
The Science Guy?<br />
The ISS travels around the earth about 16 times<br />
a day. It consists of three American astronauts. It<br />
also travels in a zig zag pattern if the earth was<br />
flat. It also says when you can see it pass by and<br />
the visibility outside. Photos by Kenny Bruntlett<br />
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Carmel, IN 46011<br />
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