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From the ground up Senior Emile Batrouny traveled to Panama this summer to work with his dad in airport equipment engineering. Page 8
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From the ground up
Staging a road to nationals
Exploring a future in architecture, senior Emile Batrouny spent a week drafting airport equipment at an airport in Panama for his dad’s business.
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On Pointe Freshman Kiley Price was one of 120 dancers in the country to participate in the Kaatsbaan three-week intensive dance program in New York this summer. She danced for eight hours a day and experienced life like a “professional” dancer.
Senior Tasia Jewel rehearsed this summer for an upcoming production of “James and the Giant Peach,” the first time the version will be ever preformed in the country.
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On the defense against hunger Sophomore Easton Hunt hosted a two-on-two basketball tournament in his neighborhood to raise money to help feed the homeless.
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Participants of sophomore Easton Hunt’s annual summer basket ball tournament, Hoopfest, gat her to watch and play a game. These players are part of t he youngest age division ranging from age seven to 11, which includes 30 teams (photo courtesy of Easton Hunt). Cover: Senior Emile Batrouny holds a postcard from Panama he bought while working for t he Rio Hato International Airport t his summer (photo by Emily Staples).
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On the defense against hunger Donating the proceeds to Hope Faith Ministries, a faith-based organization that aids the homeless, By Morgan Lewis sophomore Easton Hunt hosts an annual basketball and Gabe Swartz tournament in his neighborhood during the summer.
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ith the trend of recreational basketball teams picking up in the past several years, one BVNW student organized a tournament this summer with the purpose of giving back to the community. Sophomore Easton Hunt raises money to aid Hope Faith Ministries, an organization that helps the homeless in Kansas City. Every year, Hunt hosts a two-on-two basketball tournament in his neighborhood called Hoopfest. Hunt said the summer was the fourth annual Hoopfest he and his family have hosted. Each year, around 100 kids show up to play in the tournament, with this year’s tournament taking place June 2. Hunt said a large amount of donations come from the participants, but a portion comes anonymously or from other neighbors and businesses. “It is a five dollar entry fee for players, [but] sometimes we receive larger donations,” Hunt said. “This year from the players we had about $1000 dollars in donations. Also, we sometimes get anonymous donations from companies that will match the amount made from players’ donations.” Hunt’s whole neighborhood comes together for this event, and Hunt said weeks of preparation and effort goes into running it. Hunt’s neighbors lend their driveways and hoops to allow the tournament to have multiple divisions. “It takes so much advanced planning; I couldn’t do it without my parents and my neighbors,” Hunt said. “It takes a lot of planning to find a day that works well for the whole neighborhood so everyone can participate.” Hunt said his favorite part of conducting the tournament is making the kids happy and helping the community. “Hopefully I can continue to run the tournament until the end of high school, and then one of my siblings can continue the tradition,”
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Hunt said. Harmony Middle School seventh grader Matthew Brown said even though this was his first year participating in Hoopfest, he plans to participate again next year. He said the tournament was a fun thing to do with friends, and he had a positive feeling knowing where the donations went. “It is a great way to get outside with my friends and play basketball,” Brown said. Hunt said his experience with Hope Faith began with his grandfather, Dick Noon, who serves on the board and is a former treasurer for the ministry. “My grandpa is on the board [at Hope Faith Ministries] so I was familiar with it, and I have volunteered there so it was a good place that I had experience with before,” Hunt said. Hunt said his relationship with his grandfather benefits from his work through the tournament. He said his grandfather has a great influence on him, and they have a close relationship. Noon, who said he has been with Hope Faith Ministries since it opened nine years ago, said Hope Faith feeds 900 homeless people every day, and it also provides the homeless with medical, dental and vision care services. In the past year and a half, according to Noon, Hope Faith Ministries has begun their Transitional Internship Program (TIP), which houses homeless people, trains them and places them back into the industry so they can earn a living. “They cease being homeless, and they become human beings that earn a living, Noon said. “It’s a wonderful ministry, and I’ve been a part of it, and it’s just so rewarding.” Noon said Hope Faith Ministries is faith-based, meaning they receive no funding from the government; the money they receive comes entirely by donation. Donna Hunt, Hunt’s mother, said Hoopfest raised $918 from the tournament in 2015. She said Hope Faith Ministries was challenged to raise $50,000, and if they met the goal, there would be a matching
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Above: Participants pose for a picture toget her as t hey take a break during t he Hoopfest tournament held in sophomore Easton Hunt’s cul-de-sac. Bottom Right: Sevent h grade girls compete in a game for t he Hoopfest tournament. This age division included eight teams. Top Right: Teams from t he eight h grade age group play a game in t he Hoopfest tournament. The winner of t his age group was t he Super Optimistic Noodle Squad (photos courtesy of Easton Hunt). grant of $50,000. tournament has brought her closer to According to Hope Faith Ministries, him. they met their goal, and the matching “It allows us to spend more time grant was donated by the Enid and together preparing for it, and I think it’s Crosby Kemper Charitable Trust. great because he’s seeing my example of Donna said the money they donated how important volunteering and giving this year helped the ministry reach is,” Donna said. the $50,000 goal, and the total Donna said the tournament gives amount raised, according to the Hope kids an opportunity to have fun in a Faith Ministries webpage, totaled relaxed environment with different $103,657.17. levels of talent and In 2014, Donna competitiveness. HE’S GROWING INTO “Kids that want to said Hoopfest raised $1,500, get competitive A MAN THAT WILL and that donation RECOGNIZE THE NEEDS can, but there received a $5,000 is also plenty of OF OTHERS. match to give to teams involved Hope Faith. In -sophomore Easton Hunt’s that are just there 2013, Donna said for fun,” Donna grandfather, Dick Noon Hoopfest raised said. $1,994 and received a $2,000 match. Donna said she thinks running the In the past three years, Hoopfest has tournament is a valuable lesson for donated a total of $4,412 by itself and Hunt. $10,494 with the matches. “I think it teaches [Hunt] that more “I have a good relationship with Easton, people enjoy volunteering and giving and I have a great deal of respect for than you might think, but you have to what he does and for the youth and come up with the right environment adulthood that he is growing into,” that’s suited for the right age group or Noon said. “He’s growing into a man kind of people,” Donna said. “If you that will recognize the needs of others.” come up with a creative idea then it’ll be Donna said helping Hunt run the a success.”
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Taking the stage
Senior Tasia Jewel will represent BVNW in a premiere production of a version of “James and the Giant Peach” by tony-nomiated songwriters.
Singing on Senior Tasia Jewel dances to “Money on t hat Tree” wit h ot her members of t he Kansas All-State musical cast during a rehearsal for t he production of “James and t he Giant Peach” (photo by Jack Oxley). The fervent June sun beats down outside as students relax at their neighborhood pools, chill out in coffee shops and pack their cars to head off to exotic lands. One group of students spent the summer tucked away for hours in the BVSW theater preparing for their trip - one the students hope will take them to Nationals. A group of 23 students from all ends of Kansas got together on two occasions this summer - for three days in May and 10 days in July - to rehearse the students’ performance of “James and the Giant Peach,” which will premiere at BVSW Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. Out of the 68 students who auditioned, senior Tasia Jewel is the only student to represent BVNW in this production. Unlike other shows these students have been in, this Kansas All-State musical is the national debut, which means it is the first time this version of the musical will ever be performed in the U.S. “We’re the high school that’s debuting it,” Jewel said. “I thought that was really cool, and it’s new, and I really wanted to do something new....it’s basically some of the best people from Kansas are in this show, and I thought it would be really cool to work with some of the best teens in Kansas.” After the actors premiere the show for friends and family at BVSW they will take it to the Kansas Thespian State Conference in January, and from there they will have a chance to take it to the International Thespian Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska in June of 2016, what the cast and crew refer to as “nationals.”
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In order to get the opportunity to debut this show, Dan Schmidt and Max Brown, co-directors of the Kansas All-State show, contacted Music Theater International to see if there was a production that was getting ready to be released to showcase for the state of Kansas. Music Theater International released Pasek and Paul’s “James and the Giant Peach” to Schmidt and Brown. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are tonynominated Broadway songwriters. The musical will have to work on a tight schedule, according to Schmidt, considering a majority of practice occurs for short periods of time in the busy months of May and July. Schmidt and all the actors must deal with a schedule that has to accommodate students traveling far from the
THIS IS OUR ROAD TO NATIONALS. - senior Tasia Jewel edges of the state of Kansas. “[Having a tight schedule] is the only way,” Schmidt said. “We have kids from Garden City here, kids from Johnson County and everywhere in between, and so we have to work around their shows and their school’s schedules.” In the span of one year and a half, there will be only about 15 rehearsals total. Issac Silba, Garden City High School senior, who plays the role of Earthworm in the musical, said
it takes a lot of talent to be able to nail down a performance with such limited practice time. “There’s a lot of dances and songs that we have to learn in a minimal amount of time,” Silba said. “So it’s amazing to see it all pull together so quickly, because I don’t think any of us have ever been in a production that’s worked this quickly.” Pasek and Paul as well as the vice president of Music Theater International will come in August to watch the show in action for the first time, giving the cast and crew the rare opportunity to receive feedback from the Broadway professionals who wrote the songs for the musical. “I feel a lot of pressure for August when they come to watch it,” Schmidt said. “I’m freaking out a little bit already. I want to make sure it looks good and tells the story right.” While the practice schedule is tight and rehearsals are few and far between, Jewel said she is confident that the musical will succeed due to the talent and hardwork she and her co-stars put in on their own time. “This is our road to Nationals,” Jewel said. The All-State cast and crew will perform Pasek and Paul’s “James and the Giant Peach” December 17-19 at 7 p.m. at BVSW. Tickets will be sold at the door for $10. *Pasek and Paul did not respond to The Express to comment in time for press.
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From the ground up By Laney Breidenthal and Lauren Fischer As the head drafter at his father’s company, senior Emile Batrouny traveled to Panama for a week over the summer to help with the building process of airport equipment.
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Top: Senior Emile Batrouny stands wit h t he shelter he designed for t he Rio Hato airport in Panama. The shelter holds equipment racks used to assist landing planes. Middle: Francisco Torres, subcontractor for installing equipment, Rodrigo Hernandez, project manager, and Batrouny stand in t he Panama Canal. Batrouny worked wit h Torres and Hernandez during his time in Panama. Bottom: At t he Rio Hato airport, Batrouny laid out an antenna, generator and equipment shelter. This equipment communicates wit h airplanes to help locate t he airport to land safely (photos courtesy of Emile Batrouny).
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e flew over 3,000 miles to a foreign country with no experience speaking the language, but senior Emile Batrouny was not on a family vacation at the beach. Instead, he spent a week drafting airport equipment at the Rio Hato International Airport in Panama and preparing for his future. Batrouny, the head drafter at his father’s company, ACS International, traveled to Rio Hato with his father from June 24 to July 1 to help the airport in Panama become ready for more major flights. According to Batrouny, there are shelters at the end of airport runways that contain communication instruments., which send information to airplanes that are about to land and to the command center inside the airport. Batrouny said his job is to draw the shelters and the instruments before their construction and installation. Two important instruments Batrouny draws are localizers and the DVOR (Doppler Very High Frequency Omni Directional Range). “The localizer is basically a small tower with computers,” Batrouny said. “It has this antenna ray outside, and it helps tell you where the runway actually is and how far away the airplane is so they can get the approach right. The DVOR communicates with the tower and the airplane to get the positioning of it, including the air space, so that other airplanes don’t crash into each other.” Batrouny said while he has done drawings for larger projects before the one in Panama, this was his first trip to the actual site of a project. During the construction phase, an airport will provide ACS International with the specifications for the equipment they need. After he receives the specifications, Batrouny draws the shelter from a template. “[I] go through and change the shelter to the specifications, and once I do that, I send it to the
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company that makes the shelter,” Batrouny said. “They have this giant mold, and then they make the fiberglass shelter, and they put all the equipment in it and then ship it to site.” After the head drafter at ACS International retired, Batrouny stepped in to fill the position. Batrouny said he has always loved to draw and that he wants to become an architect, and he took the drafting class at BVNW in order to be eligible to take other classes pertaining to architecture.* “[BVNW has] drafting classes where you learn the software,” Batrouny said. “Once you get that down, it’s just mostly specializing in the job.” Batrouny said he usually works a few hours a day after school and full time during the summer at ACS International. The same software he uses at work is also on his computer at home, so Batrouny said he can work on projects whenever he wants. “It’s really fun; it’s a really good job experience,” Batrouny said. “The best part is drawing. It’s my favorite thing to do. I like being with computers, and it gives me a good time to do that.” While Batrouny said he enjoyed his experience in Panama, the language barrier was difficult because he does not speak Spanish. “We had one or two workers that spoke English and Spanish, so (we communicated by) mostly translations and sometimes facial expressions and using your hands can get the job done,” Batrouny said. Batrouny’s father, George, said the work his son does for his company is essential for every project. Because they are not on site constantly, the people who work on site need the drawings in order to know what to build. “It’s good for him to see the drawings he’s been doing, what they look like actually on site and how we do the installation,” George said. George said the trip to Panama was beneficial
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for Batrouny because he was able to experience a country he has never been to before, experience a new culture and become accustomed to a real life work setting. “I hope it helps him understand how the real work functions and how things we do in the office are actually down in the field as an end product,” George said. “It’s a different work experience more than anything else.” Batrouny said the airport construction is finished and it is open for flights to land and depart. However, once the airport installs the equipment, larger airlines will feel more comfortable going there because there will be people at the airport to communicate with during landings, not the pilot alone. The most beneficial part of the trip, Batrouny said, was gaining the experience and being able to see the drawings he completed come to life. Batrouny said the hardest part of his job during the year is communication because a majority of his coworkers are overseas, so the only way to communicate is through email. He said it helps greatly to have his dad at home to work with him. “Doing it with my dad makes me more relaxed and makes it easier,” Batrouny said. “I’m not always conscious of some boss watching me. With my dad, if I have any questions I feel comfortable just asking him. I can do it anytime because he’s always there to help.” Batrouny said he hopes to someday go to another site with ACS International, however with college approaching, he said it will be difficult to find the time. “I know that I’m going into architecture, which is using the same fundamentals,” Batrouny said, “but if architecture doesn’t work out, I’ll probably go into my dad’s business since I’ve already had so much experience doing it.”
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On Pointe
Over the summer, freshman Kiley Price attended a three-week dance intensive program in New York where she trained like a professional six days a week.
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he wraps and ties her pointe shoes onto her blistered, tired feet and stands gracefully. The music fades in, and she begins to twist, leap and turn in sync with the music as a drop of sweat slips down her face. For freshman Kiley Price, dance has been a part of her life for nearly 11 years. This summer, she took her training to the next level by attending the Kaatsbaan dance intensive program in upstate New York. At this three week dance program, Price spent approximately eight hours a day in various dance classes concentrating on ballet technique and different styles of dance, including modern, flamenco, pilates and yoga. Price said her instructors in the Kaatsbaan program gave her a look into the life of a professional dancer. “[The program] was very intense because we danced so much and the teachers were very blunt,” Price said. “They would say, ‘That was horrible,’ and it made you stronger as a dancer, not only physically, but also mentally. They made you have to be stronger.” During the program, Price said the students would dance from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. five days a week, with Saturdays off and one class on Sundays. She
said she had to adjust to the intense schedule. “[Going to dance programs] for two years in the past, it’s nothing crazy new to me, but it’s never been this intense in the past,” Price said. “You’re always tired because you never get enough sleep, and along with that, (you are) constantly on your feet and dancing. You would wake up very sore and during the classes you didn’t necessarily feel your best, but I think you came out after the program with much more endurance.” Price’s mother, Trisch, said dance has benefited Price both mentally and physically, and the programs she has attended in the past have made her stronger. “She comes back knowing more [technique],” Trisch said. “All the hours, all the repetition - she definitely comes back stronger and better. I think it gives her a lot of confidence...and I think her teacher gives her that empowerment.” Price’s dance instructor at her home dance studio, Michele Hamlett-Weith, said she believes dance intensive programs like Kaatsbaan help students understand what it takes to be a professional dancer. “You’re in [the program] with other young people with the same drive, so you challenge each other,” Hamlett-Weith said. “[The dancers] come back from the programs with a better depth of understanding of what it takes to be a professional.”
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Above Left: Freshman Kiley Price holds a ticket she used during a weekend excursion to Swan Lake preformed by t he American Ballet Theater at t he Metropolitan Opera House. All t he participants of Kaatsbaan went to t he performance. Above Right: Freshman Kiley Price poses in front of a barn door on t he property of Kaatsbaan. Price holds her arms in a contemporary first arabesque and feet in a plié tendue en pointe. Price, along wit h her roommates, walked around t he property taking pictures toget her. Left: The studio freshman Kiley Price practices in during her stay at Kaatsbaan (photos courtesy of Kiley Price).
Price said the founders and instructors at the Kaatsbaan program were professional dancers, and she said the other student dancers in the program were extremely immersed in the dance community. “The founders were dancers themselves, and most of the teachers there danced with the American Ballet Theatre,” Price said. “We got to go into New York... and watch the [American Ballet Theatre] perform ‘Swan Lake.’ We were very involved with the professional dance world of New York and with younger dancers. Everyone there really took dance seriously.” For Price, the Kaatsbaan program was beneficial for connecting with other dancers who understood the work that goes into dance training and those who were equally as passionate. “All of the professionals have kind of been
through what you’ve been through, especially if you’ve had an injury, they would understand,”
THEY WOULD SAY, “THAT WAS HORRIBLE,” AND IT MADE YOU STRONGER AS A DANCER, NOT ONLY PHYSICALLY, BUT ALSO MENTALLY. -freshman Kiley Price Price said. “Just being with younger dancers your age is always nice because you can always talk about the latest ballerina that you’re obsessed with, and everyone knows about her.” Even though her dancing days this summer were tiring, Price said she always took each day with a
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positive attitude. She also said, though the hours were long, she always woke up determined to do her best. “Sometimes you have a horrible day,” Price said. “You haven’t gotten compliments, you don’t feel good about your dancing at all; so whenever I wake up I’m always like, ‘This is going to be the best day. I’m going to give everything I have because I want to feel good.’” Although her summer at Kaatsbaan is over, Price said she will continue to motivate herself and focus on improving in Kansas. “I know [my teachers at my school in Kansas] expect so much from me when [I] come back,” Price said. “So I always think about them kind of watching me and knowing that even though I’m really tired, I’ll definitely improve.”
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“Fruit Bowl”
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CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS
1. Victor’s exclamation (2 words) 5. Formless lump 9. Water filtration brand 14. “Dennis the Menace” girl 15. ___ lamp (psychedelic desk item) 16. TV’s ___ O’Donnell 17. APPLE (4 words) 20. ___ Brynner (Broadway star) 21. Fine and dandy (2 words) 22. Dirt after rain 23. “___-la-la!” 24. APPLE (3 words) 28. Suffix with cigar or bachelor 30. Cable movie channel: Abbr. 31. “Dies ___” (Latin hymn) 32. Assists in crime 34. Evening party 36. In one end and out the other 38. Campsite cleaning facility 42. Had a riot
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1. Rapper Azalea 2. Nintendo release of 2012 whose name sounds like two pronouns 3. Air pump, essentially 4. Reverse tan? 5. Rose’s beauty 6. A group of them is called an exaltation 7. Eggs, to a biologist 8. Vehicle for the Dynamic Duo 9. Sitcom surname 10. ___ Nation (Jay-Z’s entertainment company) 11. Babylonian love goddess 12. Central American land? 13. Infuse with oxygen 18. Regulator of JFK and LAX: Abbr. 19. Novelist ___ Welty 25. Alternate routes 26. Monogram of the current POTUS 27. Polish dumpling 28. Devour 29. “In reality...”, to a texter 33. “Yo bro!”
34. Winter workers 35. Latin abbreviation that may shorten a list 37. Flash a quick smile to (2 words) 39. Begin 40. Bother 41. Dinner duo, phonetically 43. ___ Barrett who founded Pink Floyd 45. Surveillance device 46. Its capital is Pristina 47. Petroleum bigwig 51. Fertilization site 52. ___ length (camera measure) 53. ___ Island (U.S. state) 54. “Lemme think...” 59. Work with yarn 60. “Jane ___” (work by Charlotte Bronte) 62. Middle of an avocado or a peach 63. Actor Stephen ___ of “Citizen X” 64. Nintendo DS rival released in 2004
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