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Paul StrikeStaff Writer

Future Problem Solving is a compe-tition that is unlike any other. A group of four people are given a scenario set in the future for which they must think of problems that could arise from the situ-ation. Then, they think of solutions to solve the problems they come up with. Next, five criteria are brainstormed to judge the solutions, and from this the best solution is picked. An action plan is then created from the solution to solve the underlying problem.

A group of four CFHS students have this process down pat. Future Problem Solvers Nicky Singh, Kavin Sundaram, Joe Kruempel and Lee Przybylski earned fourth place in the senior level of the State F.P.S. Competition held March 28 and 29 at Luther College in Decorah.

The overall topic of this year’s com-petition was debt in developing coun-tries.

To be more specific, one organiza-tion replaces international banks, and instead of giving out loans, it helps to create partnerships between multina-tional companies and developing na-tions.

“It wasn’t our favorite fuzzy,” Sun-

daram said.There are two parts to the State con-

test: the writing process and the skit. The group is given two hours to com-plete the writing portion already de-scribed above. The catch is the groups don’t know what the exact scenario is until they open their packets at the be-ginning of the two-hour session.

“You know about the topic before-hand, but not the specifics until the competition,” Kruempel said.

The two-hour time limit is a very formidable opponent for the Future Problem Solvers during the writing portion.

“During this process, the first thing you notice is that you are incredibly rushed for time,” Singh said. “With only two hours, the environment can get pretty stressful, so it is important to work diligently and effectively.”

The skit is definitely the most popu-lar part of State among the group.

“We have a lot of fun working with each other late into the night to create a funny, applicable skit of our action plan,” Singh said.

This year, Przybylski did a one-man show with a plastic pink flamingo named Fred.

The skit included the two sitting in an office talking about their working

conditions, and a call comes in saying that stock options were going to be of-fered to the workers.

“I’ve heard people complain about their jobs, and I knew ‘The Office’ was a popular show, so I tried to make it look like that,” Przybylski said.

CFHS Future Problem Solving coach Sheryl Bewyer commented on the skit.

“The skit was awesome,î Bewyer said.

Przybylski and Fred earned third place honors in the skit contest.

Through Future Problem Solving, many lifelong lessons are acquired.

“It taught me the importance of working diligently and thinking quick-ly,” Singh said. “It also taught me that creativity is not only helpful, but essen-tial in some cases.”

Teamwork is perhaps the biggest lesson learned during the competition.

“It taught me the importance of teamwork and that working together to solve problems is always more effec-tive than working alone,” Singh said.

Singh further explained the impor-tance of F.P.S. by encouraging others to try it.

“I encourage all those who have the opportunity to at least try Future Prob-lem Solving,” Singh said.

Future Problem Solvers earn fourth place at State

Paul StrikeStaff Writer

Senior Joe Kruempel has some serious creativity.

The CFHS student won the Se-nior Division State Scenario com-petition for the third time in as many years.

Scenario is a unique competition where a student must come up with a short story set in the future that ties in with a given general topic.

For the scenario competition, Kruempel wrote a short story that involves neurotechnology, a sci-ence that could allow people to communicate to each other or even machines through a computer chip implanted in the brain.

“It was about a future society in which literal thought police (from the CIA, a.k.a. the Cognitive In-vestigation Agency) could interro-gate suspected terrorists by invad-ing their dreams and memories for information,” Kruempel said.

The story didn’t completely originate in Kruempel’s head, though.

“The idea for my scenario came from reading 1984, and being dis-appointed that the ‘thought po-lice’ couldn’t actually police your thoughts,” Kruempel said.

The story was judged based on the merit of its creativity and writ-ing style.

A unique aspect of the Inter-national competition is an on-site writing scenario competition where students from all over the world get mixed in groups of four and write similar scenarios.

“It’s fun to go and meet people and see all the extremely different perspectives, or just walk into the cafeteria and hear five different languages,” Kruempel said.

The next level of competition, the International competition is tak-ing place at Michigan State Univer-sity in Lansing, Michigan, on May 29 to June 1.

1984-inspired essay advances seniorto International Scenario Competition

Jakob ZiererSports Editor

During 4th period, every practice room in the southeast hall of Cedar Falls High School is very busy. One hundred and ninety-four students are working on solos, duets and quartets for the upcoming contest on April 12, held this year at East High School in Waterloo.

“I love this time of year when, dur-ing any given shift of 4th hour, we may have anywhere from four to 10 ensem-bles rehearsing simultaneously in the various practice spaces,” Gerald Ram-sey, band director, said. “It’s such a time of growth and musical refinement for so many students,” he continued.

Twenty orchestra students, 73 vocal students and 111 band students par-ticipate in the solo contest, an optional school event. Most students started to work on their solos in January or Feb-ruary.

“It depends on the student. Most

students are starting right after the win-ter break,” Scott Hall, orchestra direc-tor, said.

Besides improving in technical skills, playing a solo or in a small en-semble is a great group learning activ-ity.

“The kids have to work together to achieve their goal. One person cannot do all the work—each member has a job, and the success of the group is dependent on each member performing their job,” Ramsey said.

Playing with a great sound, play-ing in tune and articulating well in ad-dition to simply playing correct notes and rhythms are the most important things every student has to work on to achieve a good result at the contest. In a group, the students also must achieve good balance between the voices, play the various dynamics indicated in the music and then make musical judg-ments about the phrasing—shaping the musical lines with dynamic contour. So each individual has a big responsibility

for his own individual playing as well as for contributing to a unified group approach to the performance.

“In the ensembles, the students are playing one on a part, so for the group to be successful, every player has to play well. Those students who perform solos have the opportunity to really push the level of their playing. This is obviously a great opportunity for them educationally, and I think they get real personal satisfaction from their musi-cal achievement,” Ramsey said.

Ramsey is confident that the students will learn much through the preparation process. “Our band, for instance, typi-cally receives more Division I ratings at Solo & Ensemble Contest than most schools’ total number of events that they take to contest,” Ramsey said.

Optimism is in the air. “I think the students will all play

well and benefit from going through the process of preparing a soloist piece and, to me, that is what it is all about,” Ramsey said.

Students gear up for music contest Physics Olympics in Review

Left: Warming up for the water heater competition, senior Steven Wein-ert jumps with anticipation.Right: Concentrating at the starting line, senior Jack Kosmicki is setting up the catapult that will propel him and senior teammate Leah Merner to the state competition.

Students Strike BackIn the second annual student vs. faculty bas-ketball game, the students scored a 74-71 vic-tory over last year’s champions, the faculty. The game raised an impressive $1,400 for sickle cell anemia research. At left Spanish teacher Grace Valdez pulls a Michael Jordan-esque maneuver, handing the ball to activity director secretary Jane Carter

Olivia Schares Photo

“Trade me your rubber boots for my basket,” the handsome young Sh-uar man said to me as we sat together outside of a hut in Miasal, discuss-ing the progressive changes the Shuar people have made throughout the last 50 years. I accepted his offer, eyeing his son’s bare feet, and added some zip lock bags into the deal.

I had begun the journey to the end of the road a couple of days ago, af-ter riding in a bus and in the back of a couple of pickups, down into the Amazon plains that stretch from Ecua-dor through Brazil, arriving at the port town, finding a guide and hopping into a canoe where we would be beginning our journey down the Morona River. We arrived at a group of native huts and settled in for the night.

As night settled over the papaya trees, the jungle began to come alive. The screeching nocturnal monkeys be-gan hunting for their food.

The frogs chatted in low-pitched rib-bits as they played in the mud along the banks of the river. The cicadas mated, and the rain danced against my bam-boo hut. I couldn’t help but stay up all night, experiencing the adrenaline of a night lit up with so much life.

The next morning I woke up to the smell of grilled banana, slipped out from under my mosquito net, stepped outside the hut, looked out into the riv-er and saw pink river dolphins playing in the early morning sunshine.

My guide and new lifelong friend Abel, a local who lives in the area with his two young children and his Shuar wife, took my hand, excitedly whisper-ing how lucky I was to be able to share time with the dolphins.

I looked at him and smiled. I told him to close his eyes with me while we imagined that we were also dancing in the river with the dolphins.

The next couple of days were spent sitting in the community of Miasal among Shuar elders and learning tradi-tional songs from the village children,

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On Saturday, Feb. 2, the Cedar Falls community suffered a great loss. The passing of 19-year-old Chukwuebuka “Chuks” Asota was deeply felt by everyone who knew this caring young man.

Chuks was born the son of Celestine and Eugenia (Nwosu) Asota in Nk-werre, Nigeria. The Asota family moved to the United States to receive treat-ment for Chuks’ sickle cell anemia. Though Chuks spent much of the last year of his life hospitalized, the treatments greatly extended the length of his miraculous time on earth.

Chuks was a student in Tammy Frahm’s class, a participant in the Special Olympics and a friend to many. He would have graduated with the Cedar Falls High School class of 2008.

We, The Tiger Hi-Line staff, wish to extend condolences to Chuks’ friends and family for their tremendous loss. Chuks was a beautiful young man with an amazing smile. He left an indelible impact on the hearts of everyone who knew him, and his joy and spirit in the face of overwhelming obstacles served as a wonderful inspiration. Chuks showed the world that there is beauty in even the most trying of circumstances.

Chuks’ life has created what will certainly become a lasting legacy of compassion in the CFHS student body. This blossoming legacy was first demonstrated last Friday, when CFHS students and faculty took to the courts for the second annual student vs. faculty basketball game. Because of Chuks’ long struggle with sickle cell anemia, all proceeds from the event went to-ward sickle cell anemia research.

The Tiger Hi-Line staff wishes to commend all CFHS students and faculty for uniting in the face of this tragedy and working toward this noble goal. The game earned an impressive $1400. Every dollar earned by the event will help to ensure that a cure for sickle cell anemia will one day become a reality.

The student vs. faculty basketball game was a constructive way to deal with a community’s grief. In addition to raising money for sickle cell anemia, the basketball game brought a school together. Most importantly, it fostered hope. It fostered hope for a cure. It fostered hope for a brighter future. It fos-tered hope for a changed world. Through this powerful legacy, Chuks Asota will never be forgotten.

In face of tragic loss of student,staff, students unite for charity

Willa Simmet Ecuadorian

Correspondant

“Life is a journey, and the journey is home.”

eating slugs, drinking coconut milk, exploring caves and observing croco-diles.

During this excursion to the end of the road, I had the chance to experience an immense connection with the land, through the mannerisms of the native people, the alertness of the wildlife, the abundance of rain and plethora of greenery.

I also had time to analyze. My journey as an exchange student in the Amazon region of Ecuador has taken me to great depths, both mentally and physically.

The world is changing. Globaliza-tion is taking place before my eyes. Throughout the past 50 years, the Sh-uar people have become bilingual and have entered into modern society.

Those who have the chance to trade hand-made crafts for them or make money to buy them have modern con-veniences like tennis shoes and battery-powered CD players.

The children are attending bilingual schools, and their economy is slowly burgeoning into the modern one.

The effects of global warming are tapping on my eyes and falling on my skin. The Morona Santiago province is the only province left in Ecuador with rivers that have not been contaminated

by petroleum, mining or hydroelectric companies.

The storms this rainy season have been the most intense that the oldest of the locals in Macas (my home town during my exchange year) can remem-ber.

The armadillos are becoming ex-tinct, and it is almost impossible to find monkeys in the trees surrounding my home in Macas, when only a few years ago the population was so abundant.

While flipping through a National Geographic on the bus ride home, I came across an article written about Basho, a Japanese poet, who walked 1,200 miles through Japan in 1689. I stopped and let my hand trace over his words, “Life is a journey and the journey is home.” This is a good mes-sage to keep in mind as life continues marching on.

Each day of our journey is home. Each action made and piece of land touched is home.

As our world changes, we need to journey with it, dance with the positive and protest against the negative.

We need to preserve the liveliness of nighttime in the jungle, the art of an indigenous language, the dance of the river dolphin and the fact that the end of the road really does exist.

With some help from a friend, senior Willa Simmet created a giant paper mache earth. The earth was used in a town festival to help spread the news about global warming.

Submitted Photo

Student studying in Ecuadorfeels impact of globalization

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Abby BermelWomen’s Golf

At the Pheasant Ridge Golf course, senior Abby Bermel set a new Tiger record with 35 shots on Friday. She holds five other individual Tiger course records. She is also a return-ing letter winner from the team that placed 6th at State last year.

1.) Have you ever shot a 35 or better before? I have shot a 35 before but never in competition.2.) How did you stay calm as you put together the effort? Deep breaths! I was nervous for the meet, but I would just take a deep breath, and it would calm me down.3.) Who do you attribute the record setting score to?My dad. He has taught me a lot over the years. I think most importantly he has shown me how to love the sport.5.) Do you plan to golf competitively in college?I have signed to play at UNI next year.

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ActionWomen’s Track finished 1st out of 14 teams on the J-Hawk Inv.Next up: Ames Invite 4/8(Ames @ 5 p.m.)Men’s Track finished 3rdNext up: “Hi-Covey” Invite 4/12(Ames @ 1 p.m.)Women’s Soccer defeated CR Washington 2-0Next up: CR Xavier 4/10(CR Xavier @ 4:15 p.m.)Men’s Soccer lost to CR Washington 0-4Next up: W. East 4/12(W. West Tournament)Women’s TennisNext up: IC West and City High 4/12(Home @ 9 a.m and 1 p.m.)Men’s Tennis lost to Dub. Hempstead and Wahlert 0-8Next up: IC High and IC West 4/12(Iowa City @ 9 a.m and 1 p.m.)Women’s Golf defeated Waverly SR 187-201Next up: MVC Quadrangular 4/15(Cedar Rapids @ 3:15 p.m.)Trap ShootingNext up: Charles City 4/12(National Fish and Game Center @ TBA)

Sara SreverStaff Writer

The Tigers are not letting the nasty spring weather stop them. On Thurs-day night, the Tigers fought through the rain and wind to defeat Cedar Rap-ids Washington in a 2-0 game. This is head coach Beth Huber’s 6th season of coaching.

“It was good to win. A win is always a nice way to start. Mallory Adams was really strong defensively and had the Washington team frustrated. Melanie Adrian was a steady force in the mid-field. I thought our forwards did well considering that we hadn’t really gone over our runs. Everyone pushed hard even though it was cold and wet out,” Huber said.

Returning key defensive players are Kelly Larson, Jessica Wingert and Ad-ams. Strong offensive players Lindsey Morris, Emily Rogers, Linden Terpstra and Adrian have returned to make the team even stronger.

Besides the weather, the team had to deal with other challenges, such as three players injured and a few girls who have not made the fitness require-ment in order to start.

“Well, we are really going to have to work hard and focus at practice. Also, to be mentally prepared for games,” Terpstra said.

“As a team we need to work on our formation and working together, so tactics are a big thing, but every year we almost start from scratch with our technique because so many girls play

little or not at all during the off-season, especially the winter,” Huber said.

The Tigers are working toward State, but Huber promises no guarantees.

“I think every team has the ability to make it to State because you can’t control many factors that occur in a game. Look at how Davidson made it to the final eight in men’s college bas-ketball; you can’t just look at who the best teams are on paper. You have to play the game.”

According to Huber, the Mississippi Valley is one of the toughest confer-ences for soccer.

“We have a difficult conference, which has plusses and minuses. We get to play many difficult games through-out the season, which better prepares us for difficult opponents in the Re-

gionals. On the other hand, it can be de-moralizing if you don’t do well against some teams in the conference. Also, we already know that Cedar Rapids Ken-nedy is in our region, and they are a very strong team,” Huber said.

The Tigers practice every week day that they do not have a game and Sat-urdays in addition. It is structured, very organized and highly competitive.

“We try to have intensity in each practice, but just like school class, what we work on in practice changes as we prepare for certain teams or our needs change,” Huber said.

This team is getting along off and on the soccer field.

“We have a lot more team chemistry than last year, and I think it’s going to be a good season,” Terpstra said.

Women’s soccer delivers strong 2-0 showing in opener

Hoop Dreams...

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1.) Lending motivation to her team is choir teacher Kendra “The Destroyer” Wohlert. She and all the participants raised approximately $1,400 for sickle cell anemia research from this game.

2.) Leaving art teacher Lisa Klenske to fade into the background, junior Elsa Jehle drives the ball up the court for another student score over the faculty.

3.) In a sramble for a loose ball, senior Thomas Schiller comes up with it for before losing it again as (from left) English teacher Doug Wilkinson, social studies teacher Jeremiah Longnecker, senior Tim Jack-son and social studies teacher Chris Dyvig follow the action.

Honor Heindl Photos

Students win second annual contest with faculty, 74-71

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Hands on Learning

David BergstromStaff Writer

This spring, five CFHS girls are ex-ploring education from the other side of the teacher’s desk.

Seniors Caitlin Hagarty, Kendra Holm, Emily Kline, Megan Potratz and Rachel Saul all participate in the cadet teaching program at Cedar Falls High School. Cadet teaching is a class where students spend part of their day in a teaching role. Kline and Saul teach third grade, Potratz teaches kindergar-ten and Hagarty teaches first grade at Cedar Heights Elementary School, while Holm teaches kindergarten at Hansen Elementary School.

Every day they take on the role of a teacher from 12:45 p.m. to about 4

p.m.The young teachers work off of

what the lead teacher has planned for them to do each day.

“I will probably go into elementary and become a second or third grade teacher. I’m already planning on taking college classes this fall,” Kline said.

Some cadet teaching participants are still weighing their options.

“I have not decided yet between be-ing an elementary teacher or being a Christian faith counselor,” Saul said.

The cadet teachers have a rou-tine schedule they follow to assist the teacher.

“I get there at about 12:45 and have lunch with them. Then we go back to our room and have some Daily Lan-guage Review (DLR) time. After we

are done reading, we go to the computer lab and spend quite a bit of time there. We go back to the room and we start science, which we have been working with some crayfish lately. After that we have social studies and watch some videos for that. We have been having a lady come in to talk to the kids about how they can help in their community, and after she is gone, they read,” Kline said.

Saul has many duties, too. “I get there and correct and file papers, and then we read for about 20 to 30 min-utes. We watch movies about science, read or allow the students to free-write, do DLR and then dismiss,” she said.

Discipline is sometimes the respon-sibility of the cadet teachers.

“My teacher, Mr. Hansel, takes care

of the naughty students, but if he is gone, then I am the adult and the per-son in charge, so they have to obey me, and if they don’t I report them to him. One time the class got into trouble as a whole because they were passing notes all around, so as a punishment, they had recess taken away for the day,” Kline said.

There is no better reward than being the best class.

“Our third grade class was given a certificate for being the most obedi-ent class in the school. So as a reward, the class was given one extra recess a month, and they could choose when they wanted it as long as it was OK with the teachers plans,” Kline said.

Rewards also come to the cadet teachers in the form of teaching accom-

plishments.“One of the little kids was having

some trouble with reading, and we read a big section, so that was a greatest achievement,” Saul said.

With all the work that is put into the day, enjoying the kids is a must.

“One of the funnest parts of the day is I decide when they leave to go home. I check their backpacks and make sure they are taking their books home they need and take their homework home as well. When I dismiss them, I choose how they leave, whoever has a birthday in this month or next month, who has this shoe size or this color of hair and I usually make them give me a high five before they leave. If they don’t give me a high five, then they don’t get to go,” Kline said.

Cadet Teaching program provides real-life job training

Left to Right: Pointing to a student’s project, Emily Kline provides instructions for a class activity. Listening to a student’s question, Kline provides an answer. Say-ing farewell to a student, Kline gives one of her end-of-

the-day high fives.

David Bergstrom photos

of Emily KlineA Day in the Life