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Show 8 . TIMPANOGOS TIMES March9,20ii XJy .... "' m&'f " j M -"'! ' ", ' ' v " ' i " ill ; If m ;J A. i '' v fCy'- - J .(: k Last week the Pleasant Grove Vikettes traveled to Florida this past weekend where they competed against teams from all over the nation. Vikettes to Hold Dance Showcase The Pleasant Grove Vikettes traveled to Florida this past week-end where they competed against teams from all over the nation. The Vikettes came out on top where they swept all first places in the four main categories of Jazz, Military, Hip-ho- p and Kick. They also took a 2nd place trophy in the officers category. The Vikettes were all named as a Top Five High Scoring Team and the 1st Place Small Team Champions. Overall they were named as the Reserve Team Grand Champions. It was a great weekend for the Vikettes where they received great recognition. The team also received the prestigious honor to perform on the Downtown Disney Waterside stage as the evening's closing event. If you would like to see these award winning routines, the Vik-ettes will be holding their end of year Showcase on March Q at 7 p.m. in the PGHS gym. The conceit will feature the Vikettes football routines and competition routines. They will also be fresh off of their national competition. The Showcase will also have performances by Hot Shots. Jazz N' Place, Front and Center Dance Studio and Dance Show Case Company. Tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for students with a family pass for $20. Cheerleaders Take State Competition On Saturday, February 5, the Pleasant Grove High School cheerleaders placed first in the 5A State Compe-tition held at Bingham High School. Cheer competitions are judged in four areas: show-manship, execution, difficulty and choreography. At region, which was held at Timpview High School, the cheerleaders placed a disap-pointing sixth place. This gave the squad the motivation to make changes and work harder than ever before to prepare for state. The girls practiced two hours every day endlessly pol ishing their routine. Team Cap-tain Lacey Renslow said, "We had to basically redo the entire routine." With the team consist-ing of mainly sophomores and juniors, the younger ones had to step it up to varsity level. After winning state, Renslow said, "True dedication really does pay off." - ". 6 " ""'., , - :il : ' " 'J y i "- - nv; v' r - V N J. ,))' Cheerleaders celebrate after winning first place at the 5A State Competition held at Bingham High School. nmimmm iznz: PGHS Hosts District Science Fair The District Science Fair was held at Pleasant Grove High School on March 1 through 3. The Elementary winners were Cathryn van Dijk, Lauryn Piatt, Ciara Warburton, Kinsee Gaillard, Ryan O'Loughlin, Camden L. Clark, Austin Ivie, Talia Johnson, and Brianna Simpson. The seventh and eighth grade winners were Shannon Smith, Eli Hebdon, and Sarah van Dijk. The ninth through twelfth grade winners were Kallee Gardner, Alex Beeston, Joseph Ivie, Kayla Bowman, Con-nor Bowman, Allison Leavitt, Angela Thornton, Cassandra Belliston, Hannah Belliston, Mekell Craft, Bronte Hebdon, Marlee Whetten, Lindsey Greer, Grant Evelyn, Hayden Dobyns, Brennan Burnett, Kirsten Mar-quis, Eliza Shumway, Kyrstin Millett, Wyatt Duclos, Chance dinger, Thomas Clay, Garth Lee and Caleb Wolthius. Each school in Alpine School District held their own science fair and were allotted a certain number of projects that they were allowed to send to the District Science Fair based on the number of students that did projects at their schools. Students did projects in many different categories in-cluding computers, behavior, chemistry, microbiology, earth, physics, etc. There were over 500 elementary school projects and the top 120 were awarded a medal, certificate of recognition and the opportunity to go on to compete at the regional level. In addition to the top 120 win-ners, the next 100 projects were awarded an honorable mention award and medal. At the secondary level, there were over 200 projects and the top 75 were awarded a medal, certificate of recognition and the opportunity to go on to compete at the regional level. The winners from the Dis-trict Science Fair then go on to compete at the regional level. The regional level is called the Central Utah Science and Engi-neering Fair (CUSEF). It is held at BYU on March 21 through 24. Students will be given die chance to compete for many awards, cash prizes, and even scholarships for every category. There are cash prizes for the top seven projects in every catego-ry, as well as specialty awards. The top five projects will also be selected and awarded an all expenses paid one week trip to Los Angeles to compete at the International Science and Engi-neering Fair David van Dijk, the Science teacher at PGHS, has been doing the District Science Fair at Pleas-ant Grove High School for the past eight or nine years. He said, "I think that it is a really valuable tool to proper science education. It encourages both students and teachers to get out of the text-book, videos and worksheets, and into the world Of hands-o- n active science. Many students thrive in the hands-o- n environ-ment and are not given that op-portunity enough." Science fair experiments teach students writing, re-search and comprehending scientific literature skills, as well how to manage time and schedules. David stated, "Unlike most school assignments that are due the next day or the next week, science fair projects take more time and prior plan-ning by the students in order to accomplish. Most projects involve a good deal of math and the display board requires them to think artistically. In addition to all of this, students also develop communication skills as they learn to present their findings orally to their peers and to the public. Those students who do science fair projects truly do come out way ahead of their peers academi-cally. "The most important thing of all, is that most students re-ally take the chance to look outside of themselves and try to understand how they can apply what they are learning to improve their own lives or the world around them. They start seeing that they can have a positive experience for good in the world and start looking for possible solutions to real world problems. 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