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Show Thursday, November 27, 2008 12 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Astronauts blast off in the form of eggs! fffiws HHD ryul I Y T T t " '9. :. met 0 I J . V" "f ; ( nKjH & itenntam farads ."in S t rv i RDAIIfcUT Tft-5 ouYOU BY BERN I (QA374-5520 Moti-Fn 10 am -6 pm Sit9am-5pm 26iWestCMtefStreHPniw wnurtetiMt Jacob Simmons SJHS Writer On Nov. 7th at Spring-ville Spring-ville Junior High School, Kelli Manwaring's science enrichment class held an astronaut drop. Mrs. Manwaring gave her students a simple instructions, in-structions, saying, "You are a NASA engineer. You and your team of engineers en-gineers must solve the following fol-lowing problem: How can you return your astronaut (egg) safely to the Earth after his trip to space (the roof)?" The students "space ships" could be no larger than l'xl'x 1', and they could use whatever trinkets trin-kets and gadgets they had at their disposal to make their astronaut survive. In her 7th period class, Mrs. Manwaring reported that 9 of 14 eggs survived, and that in her 8th period class, 10 of 12 survived, totaling to-taling up to 19 of 26 eggs surviving, or 73. "It was funny to watch. Some of the creations just plopped to the ground," Nathan Leatham, a 7th grader at SJHS, commented. comment-ed. The purpose of the Egg drop was to finish up their units on the solar system, space, and its affects on the human body. Now the classes are discussing the l ft rs , ' " ' . - V: r- ' T i. ;: - if Seventh graders Jackson Averett and Gregg Davis show off their successful "Space Shuttle.' process of reentry. "We discussed how NASA engineers have to design every detail of their ships because if anything goes wrong, the ship will disintegrate or burn up on re-entry," Mrs. Manwaring Manwar-ing said. "We hope we can do it again very soon," said Megan Me-gan Negus and Madisen Joyner. Unfortunately, the students will not be holding hold-ing another egg drop, but will be doing some other fun experiments in the future. O a.m. FRIDAY! FRIDAY & SATURDAY NOVEMBER 28 1 29 ONLY! QUILTERS CRUISE When you pre-order a Bernina 830 i H or Purchase an Artista 730 pjjjl ; Cruise sets sail March 15-19. 2009 4S. - cruises can e pufcnasea . ' - Jt ' v a. lot S399 includina all taxes ft fees from the Cruise Ladv 4 'Twilight' Fans Rejoice! I Don ,.W Enjoy four 'J 801-453-9444 or 't miss this exciting event! Quitting & Sight Seeing for days! An incredible Christmas gift for the quilter in your life! Pod Nano w'rth the purchase of a new Ariista640630orAurofa440430!While Abi Santiago SJHS STAFF WRITER The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer has been made famous by millions 4 1 - 1 ) fane XVio pntiro ccrioc .a. C 'Sfl 1 1J i w tit nQc n nvpr cpupnippn million copies worldwide. Over 1.3 million copies of Breaking Dawn sold in the US in one day. It's also the 1 New York Times Best-selling Series. "I think it's amazing that she is able to sell all these books that are so popular!" popu-lar!" Perla Lagunes said. i; Ml I I V' 'i 1 4 1' 1 rV-! I f-: V f ...ii,, 'ii'iags8'i"j-:;i'.'SWiS .? I I. i"i 1 ' S i 5 J. i bkmjBt ti Jtaaj NEW WOMEN'S CENTER 1000 E. 100 N. Pdyson, UT 801-465-7000 v www.mvhpayson.com ljw ' ' Mountain View Hospital SJHS students can't get enough of the Twilight series Twilight is a book about a vampire named Edward Cullen that is in love with a regular teenager named Bella Swan. She has another an-other friend whose name is Jacob Black and he too is in love with her. She becomes the target of three bad vampires, and Edward and his family have to protect her. "It's so intense; it's just a fast read," Camille Sumsion said. The movie "Twilight" came out on November 21, 2008. The famous actress Kristen Stewart plays the part of Bella. She was also in a horror film called "The Messengers." Messen-gers." The part of Edward Ed-ward is being played by Robert Pattinson who was in the movie "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." "I want to go see it because I want to see if my visualizing relates to the movie," Whitney Norman Nor-man said. But not everyone is exited for the movie. "There's too much romance, ro-mance, and it's boring and drives me crazy!" Abram Blanco said. Everyone Ev-eryone is talking about the movie, good or bad, and it's today's hot gossip. , - rtt-.M--4if r-l-"t-" -t"M-" -4'i44- t-imtammimmsviimmm " Jl 75 JQciric Horizon 586N4S5;rn 96 E. Center Springville 489-3603 www.pacifichorizoncu.com C R EDIT UNION mm. Jmmm NOW SERVING YOUT 1IU 3 LU-HI 1UI3I SfHINCiVILt.E PAYSOIM iU SPANISH PORK Credit unions lender Take -the "crap" out of Scrapbooklnql 1 t Visi-t-the NEW Digital Scrapbook Cafe aX 3ne&on Pho-toCoor Lab TOO AY! 1 Scrapbooking Computers Scrapbooking Kiosks 1 Scrapbooking Classes 1 Archival Scrapbook Pages Digital Templates ' Album Supplies 80 West Center Street Springville, UT 84663 801-489-3218 I 800-537-8635 |