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The XpressBi-weeklyXavier High School 6300 42nd St. NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52411Volume 14 Issue 14

Congratulations Class of 2012!from your friends at Fairfax State Savings Bank

Xavier students competed in the Titan Business Challenge at Kirkwood this past Tuesday, April 17. Students attempted to create and manage their own business.

In total, there were 32 teams, nine from Xavier. Each team consisted of two seniors and a volunteer mentor from a local business.

In the morning rounds teams were split into four categories of eight teams. The first and second place teams in each category were admitted to the afternoon scholarship

Xavier places second at Titan Challengeround. Four Xavier teams were admitted to the scholarship round.

Following the scholarship round the top two teams overall received scholarship money. Xavier seniors, Megan Reiman and Ryan Miller each accepted a $750 scholarship to the college of their choice for achieving second place in the scholarship round.

“We really enjoyed the Business Simulation. Our mentor was very helpful and it was a great learning experience,” senior Sam George said.

Stephanie BradyNews Writer

Megan Reinman, Mrs. Winter and Ryan Miller pose after the competition. Kelli Alexander Photo

Juniors reach out to the community

Xavier’s BPA team competed in Chicago at the Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference, from April 25-19. The students qualified for the National Conference by placing at the state conference. Xavier has competed in a total of four BPA National Conferences and has brought home a national award each year.

This year was no exception. Six Xavier students received National Finalist awards. 60

students typically compete in each event, with the top ten students from that event receiving Finalist medals. In addition, first through third place finishers receive a plaque.

Xavier students who received finalist awards include: juniors James Krouse, Jacob Wallerstedt and Alex Tietz, and senior Collin Neuhaus, in Financial Analysis teams; Krouse in Administrative Support Concepts and Insurance Concepts; junior Sarah Chicchelly in Legal Office Procedures and

Marketing/Management Human Resources; and senior Rachel Sigmon in Fundamental Word Processing. In addition, Krouse received a third place award in Financial Math and Anaylsis.

Seniors Taylor Wertzberger, Molly Snow, Brooke Martin, Emily Metz, and sophomore Jacob Schmitt also competed at the BPA Nationals.

Anna BusseNews Writer

Saints compete in BPA national competition

Top: Junior Josie Laska plants flowers at an All Saints parishon-er’s home. Above: A group poses in front of the house where they worked. Hannah Brown Photos

On Friday April 27, the junior class participated in a community-wide service day retreat. Before groups set out to their assigned locations, Mass was held at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Some of the locations juniors participated at included Meals on Wheels, Urban Farm, the Metro Catholic Outreach, the local parishes, and ReStore. Juniors also raked leaves and did other various yard work for parishioners in the area.

The retreat was led by senior Sam George for his service project for the class Ministry and Service. “The juniors did anything from talking to the elderly to manual labor,” George said.

The junior retreats includes a service component unlike the retreats for other grades. “It was an

eye-opening experience because I was able to do service with my classmates instead of just people from my church. I went to Metro-Catholic Outreach and enjoyed organizing canned goods. I could see how it was benefiting people of the community,” junior Maddie Myers said.

George was happy with how the retreat ran and he utilized senior classmates to facilitate each small group. George said, “The retreat was very successful because everything ran smoothly and went well.”

Hannah BrownCo-Editor-in-Chief