The NEAAAT Times
The future of soccer at NEAAAT explained and a new column: Weird Fear.
Also read about Pi day, St. Patrick's Day, and more!
Quiz Bowl Success!
Friday, March 11, 2016
Issue XI
by Destiny Cook
On Saturday, March 5th, NEAAAT’s Quiz Bowl teams competed at a regional competition in Greenville. Our middle school quiz bowl team “killed it” at the competition earning first place overall and making it to state. They will be competing at the state competition in Raleigh in the next few weeks. NEAAAT’s high school quiz bowl team came in second place at the tournament. There is a chance that the team will make it to state, but it is unlikely. Both teams had fun at the regional competition and plans are being made for both teams to visit Raleigh for the state competition. Congrats to both teams for their great performances at the competition and good luck to the middle school team when they go to state!
NEAAAT Beat
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Fri, March 11: ECSU Founders Day
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Mon, March 14th: NEAAAT Pi Day
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Tue, March 15th: Calendar Committee Meeting
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Thu, March 17th: St. Patrick’s Day/NEAAAT Board of Directors
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Fri, March 18th: Early Release
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Fri, Mar 25th-Sun, Apr 3rd: NEAAAT Spring Break
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Fri, Apr 8th: Report Cards
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Fri, Apr 16th: NEAAAT Formal
Chase Update
Chase is doing well along with two other couples that have chosen to nest at the pond as well. We are still feeding Chase and soon we will have to go and buy more feed and cracked corn for him. We have sent a letter to Plant Park to get all of our plants and other gardening necessities priced so that we know how much money we need to raise. The plans have been sent and at the moment we are waiting for a response from ECSU about the plant plans.
NASA Event 3/4 Update
by Seth Moore
On Friday, March 4, NEAAAT students went to the NASA room and made circuits. We used a breadboard which is a board that can be used to create a circuit and plugged in some diodes (a little light) and wires to turn on the light. Basically, we learned how electricity flows in a circuit and how to control it. We also learned what a potentiometer is and what it does. The potentiometer changes the amount of energy that can go past it by just twisting the knob. We learned that as you change the energy flow, the light either dims or glows brighter which is what the potentiometer does. We all learned a lot about circuits and how they work. We all appreciate the NASA staff, and our coaches, for taking the ime to teach us what they know.
RARPRQ
by I.G. Crazy ME
with Anonymous
> How many cows do you think are in Canada?
> Super strange question. I don’t know if cows even live in Canada, let me check. As of 2011, there were 985,300 dairy cows in Canada and that is latest count.
> What would happen if a polar bear and a penguin met?
> Well, that is a common misconception, there are no penguins in the same habitat as polar bears. If a polar bear were to meet a penguin it would be either a) in a zoo, b) in a cartoon, or c) with a fake penguin (you know who you are Mx. Sarcastic).
> How would people communicate in a perfect world?
> In a perfect world I think that people would have small (kind) talk and get on with their day unless they already know the person through family or the person is a friend.
> Hi, Angus, I’m here to interview you on what’s coming up at Port Discover!
> *Head bob* Translation: Oh, hi! Okay, what do you want to know?
> What can you tell us about the events here at Port Discover?
> *Beard flare, head bob* Translation: Well, we recently had a viewing party of the solar eclipse! Now we have some more events coming up.
> Can you give us some information on those?
> *Scuttle, beard flare* Translation: Well, starting in the middle of April we have the Re-Opening of Tech Cafe! Tech Cafe is a middle/highschool coffee house hangout on the weekends that includes cool things like robotics and 3D printing! Then on April 23rd, we have the Earth Day celebration downtown in which we’re asking the schools, including you NEAAAT students, to create STEM challenges to be used in our 5K run and the festival as a whole.
> That’s cool! Where can we find more information about other stuff at Port Discover?
> *Head bob, scuttle* Translation: We have an Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and a Facebook which can all be found @Portdiscover for the user name. We also have a website which can be found here!
> Thank you for letting me interview you Angus, have a fun day with the kids!
> *Sticks out tongue* Translation: Yeah, okay. I’m going to sleep now.
Meet Angus!
- Port Discover
by Isabella Kelly-Goss
Soccer at NEAAAT?
by David Johnson
with Mr. Stone
Mr. Stone has had a lot of experience in the area of coaching and working on and around the soccer field so I decided to ask him a few questions. When I asked him what his thoughts were about starting a soccer team he said, “Sports are important to any school. There should a sport!” He also said that students can learn “soccer along with many sports, create team spirit, and leadership” from playing soccer. His potential goals for the team would be, “to create a team that enjoys soccer, represents the school and practices team building.”
With so much hype and goals, there must also be drawbacks. Stone is concerned about “practicing and finding the right coaches.” Mr. Stone said that his first action as a head coach for a potential soccer team after the team has been selected would be, “First as much as I would like a team, I am not the right fit for a coach. The team should try out and get the team to work together.”
The question many may be asking is what draws him to like soccer so much. When I asked this, he replied with, “Soccer is a sport that requires quick thinking ability, calmness, and physical abilities. I also think soccer keeps my mind focused.” He said that three things that soccer coaches should focus on while playing are to, “analyze their opponent, never underestimate their opponent, be a team player even if you don’t score a goal, and fit the position and strive to be the best at that position.”
After this interview, I hope things are clearer and well spoken about the rumors around the school. I look forward to seeing what the future for potential sports programs at NEAAAT.
With rumors buzzing and hopes up for certain students, I took the time to talk with Mr. Stone about such rumors. For those who don’t know, people have been saying like “Mr. Stone is here to teach and to start a soccer team for the school”. The students here who like soccer and want to play, all like the idea and want this rumor to come to life, including me.
NEAAAT Pi Day + Pi Patriarchy
by Grace Bassett
Everyone at NEAAAT is preparing for Pi Day on March 14th, a day of circle related activities and desserts. The school plans to have several competitions with each advisory participating as a team. The most famous of these competitions is the Pi Day coin war. Each advisory tries to fill their jar with as many coins as possible to gain links, but other advisory teams can sabotage them by adding dollars into their jars which deducts their points. Other competitions include pie-eating, poster, poem, rap/song, hula hoop contests, cornhole tournament, reciting digits contest, and a bake-off. All places in each competition earns the advisory team points and the advisory with the most points earns a special prize.
While competition is becoming fierce at NEAAAT, I have a slight problem with this overzealous celebration of the irrational number pi (though I do not have a problem with taking a day off from the classrooms). Vihart’s wonderful video on why pi is wrong perfectly describes my problems with pi. My other favorite video by her is about why celebrating pi day on March 14th is more irrational than the number pi.
I would like to bring attention to the fact that everyone at NEAAAT has been influenced by the Pi Patriarchy. The fact that pi is not always the best irrational number to use in trigonometry and that pi day should not be celebrated on March 14th is something that is left unchallenged at NEAAAT.
Ask Athena!
What are some good ideas to ask a girl to the formal? -Mr. Desperate
Dear, Mr. Desperate
How to ask out a girl all depends on what kind of person she is. If she is someone who doesn’t like big gestures here are some ideas.
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Buy her favourite beverage and tape the question to bottom of the bottle.
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A stuffed bear saying that you can’t ‘bear’ to go to the formal without them.
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A picture frame with memories of you two together so she can have it as a keepsake
For a girl who like big gestures:
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Make cookies with icing that asks her to the formal. Then smaller cookies with ‘yes and ‘no’ on them.
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Put a note in a jar fill it with their favorite candy.
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You could also write a notebook of reasons why they should go to prom with you. (illustrations recommended.)
Well Mr.Desperate I hope I helped you or at least gave you some ideas. Good luck with your formal proposal!
Love, Athena
St. Patrick's Day, the day known to us as “wear green and no one gets hurt” day. On the seventeenth day of March, we celebrate this wonderful day of green and pinching but don’t often think about the holiday's origin, beyond the leprechauns and their pots of gold. Most people don’t even know who St. Patrick is, or what he did to get a holiday named after him. St. Patrick's day marks the death of St. Patrick, a man beloved by many for he was known to have saved Ireland. It was made an official feast day in remembrance of
St. Patrick and all he contributed to Ireland, like introducing Christianity there. Now the holiday has been changed to just celebrate the culture and heritage of Ireland. Now, let’s get to the bottom of St. Patties’ Day’s origin.
St. Patrick is known for many contributions to Ireland, including the spread of Christianity. At the age of 16, he was taken from his home and enslaved. He later escaped, bringing the Christian religion back to Ireland. He had shown the Irish the Holy Trinity of Christianity by explaining it through a clover he picked from the ground. This story was found in writings in the 1700’s even though St. Patrick died sometime between 385-461 CE. There is a myth about St. Patrick that has made him most famous. He was known to have banished all snakes from Ireland because of their relation with the devil. This is not true, but snakes are extinct in Ireland. Many people now celebrate St. Patrick's Day, wearing green and pinching those who aren’t. Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Origin of St. Patrick's Day
by Allie Monahan and Anya Sutton
IT TAKES TIME, BUT IT’S WORTH IT!
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
~ Francis of Assisi
In Advisory, we have been focusing on goal setting, planning, and our career choices. As we all know most things in life take time and hard work. This means in order to achieve something, you must plan accordingly. This is exactly what the quote above is stating. In order to achieve a set goal, you must “start by doing what is necessary”. Necessary actions for your career should start with research and planning. We have already accomplished this step in our Advisory class. The next step is putting your plan into action. This includes “doing what’s possible”. This phrase is demonstrating the actions you will portray in order to obtain your goal. Once you add in hard work and determination, “you are suddenly doing the impossible”.
~ Ivone Tatem
Biggest Rivalry
by David Johnson
Separated by 14 minutes, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are known as the sports world biggest rivals. Their rivalry takes a huge threshold in men’s basketball. Although they do play each other in every sport, their rivalry is most prominent in men’s basketball.
The Duke-Carolina rivalry is also known as the rivalry of Tobacco Road. Quite literally, the two schools are down the road from one another. If you drew a straight line from Duke’s campus to that of UNC, it’s only eight miles. If you drive along 15-501, AKA Tobacco Road, it’s 10 miles. Needless to say, you could basically spit from one campus to the other.
UNC is a public university and Duke is a private university. What we can say with 100% certainty is that for the last 60 years or so, both schools have consistently been among the most elite college basketball programs in the U.S. And they have been two of the most winningest programs as well in all of NCAA basketball history for that matter.
UNC and Duke are tied for the third most winningest Division I Men’s Basketball teams with 5 NCAA titles each. UNC has won the titles in 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, and 2009. Duke won their titles in 1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, and 2015.
Moving on to this year, the two games that they play against each other have already come and gone, both with one win, both at their away game. For the first time since 2014, UNC beat Duke in Cameron Indoor stadium. Although Duke has some issues to fix with some players, they can be a much better more well-functioning team if they worked a bit better as an entire unit and if their freshman could finish and capitalize on their many chances. UNC also a pretty good team this year, but to many sports officials, they are a bit overrated. This is because they have the same record as Duke and they are still ranked in the top 15.
As March madness has started and the two teams hope to keep their good spells growing, we will watch and see how the rest of the season unfolds. I will enjoy watching Duke play and hopefully, make it very far into March Madness, not UNC though (sorry for all of the UNC fans out there, just know that I do indeed want to go to school there). If you want to read more you can go to Hungryfan.com, a very professional blogger that I love.
Weird Fear
by Jorim Cole
Fear of Public Bathrooms
Hey, Bromuth.
Many people have a fear of public restrooms. In fact, it is recognized as the second most common social phobia. Seeing as to how people tend to be embarrassed by their fear, this phobia is not publicly recognized. It is seen as a phobia with characteristics that mirror an OCD. Most toilet-fears are because of the following factors:
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The toilets are too dirty
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Others may hear you using the bathroom
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Bathrooms are not safe
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Fear of toilets due to a traumatic experience
Parcopresis is the “clinical name” describing when you cannot defecate in a bathroom other than your own. This can include anxiety after someone “foreign” has used your bathroom. Paruresis is the inability to urinate in a bathroom other than your own. This can be described when your bladder “locks up” while you stand before the toilet. This is more prevalent in women, as they are forced to sit on the stall.
Just know, you are not alone…
There are others out there…
Afraid of those white enclosed stalls…
Toilets that just sit there with their bowls open…
Germs permeating like spores from the many people that have sat upon them…
Don’t worry… your secret is safe with me.
Career Column
by Jorim Cole
CSI-Forensic Pathologist
“Forensic pathologists are specially trained physicians who examine the bodies of people who died suddenly, unexpectedly, or violently” (ExploreHealthCareers.org 02/05/16). As a forensic pathologist, you would be the one to determine what caused the death of a person, and how it happened. If identifying different ways of killing interests you, or you have traits as a doctor and detective, then this may be one of the jobs for you.
You would need to graduate with a degree in medical science, particularly in anatomy or clinical pathology. Then, you must take post-medical school training (which usually lasts for 4 more years), which by the end of it, you need to have completed 50 autopsies that have been evaluated. This will earn you the license that you need. Every ten years, you must renew your license. must be re-evaluated.
As a forensic pathologist, you would spend most of your time in a lab, with your most common tool being a microscope. You would have to inspect skin tissue, bones, and other parts of the human body that can give clues to how the person died. You would be expected to write official reports of your findings if the case requires it, and you may have to present your findings in court if the death leads to that point.
The salary range is when you first start ranges from $76,000-$116,000. The average salary ranges from $150,000-$180,000. Those with full experience may receive over $200,000.
Possible perks include the fact that you can identify what causes murder, and identify how it was done, which can then minimize the chance of it happening again in the future. Someone who has been affected by a death can get the satisfaction of knowing how it was done and who did it. In court, they will be in your gratitude if your evidence helps to win the case.
Negative effects of this job include your exposure to death if you are not one to cope with such things. This is not a job for those who are “squeamish.” You may be exposed to horrible sights, and you can truly see how “evil” some humans can be. Over time, you may be affected negatively by all of the “sights” that you see...
If you are interested in this career choice, here are some good websites to read:
Jokes!
by Alan Sessor Jr.
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What do you get when cut a pumpkin by its diameter?
Pumpkin Pi. -
3.14% of sailors are pi-rates!
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What is the official animal of Pi Day?
Pi-thon. -
The roundest knight at the round table was Sir Cumference… he ate too much pi!
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Never talk to Pi… he goes on forever.
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How are mathematicians like the Air Force?
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Why do people get excited about Pi Day?
Who knows? It’s completely irrational.
Sarcastic Advice
by The (Sarcastic) Penguin
NO!
A.K.A... I forgot