R.O.R.T. Promising Freshmen

Worst part about the Holidays Worst gift you got on Christmas Dumbest holiday movie Worst food in Christmas dinner “A lot of people around at this time of year.” Lorienne Colson, 9 “Just a pair of socks and books.” Taylar-Rae Bush, 9 “The Grinch because there’s no point to it.” John Huestis, 9 “Stuffing because I dislike the texture.” Winter Brien, 9 “People celebrate [the holidays] too early.” James Jackson, 11 “A pizza night light.” Colsen Slater, 11 “A Christmas story because it’s not funny.” James Jackson, 11 “Cranberries because they’re tart and sweet.” James Jackson, 11 “The Christmas music playing in stores.” Andrea Miller, 10 “American Girl Dolls because I never asked for them.” Addison Elliot, 10 “Frosty the Snowman because it’s too young.” Summer Dalgarno, 11 “Fruitcake and ham because I’m picky like that.” Landon Lovec, 10 “I don’t like ham unless it’s Black Forest thinly cut.” Nate Stubblefield, 12 “Christmas songs played over and over.” Keefer Marquart, 12 “I got a pair of pliers when I was twelve.” Brandon Walker, 12

Students in Industrial Tech Having a break during your school day from required courses is something that most people enjoy, and in the Intro to Welding class offered at CMR, freshman Ty Herzog says he uses this class as just that.

“Getting to be more hands-on and having a little more fun than other classes [is] a break to your day,” Herzog said. “[In the future,] I’ll probably try and get two [IT classes] a year to get something to do in my day.”

He says he got interested in the IT program because his family “is into that stuff,” so that inspired him to take the classes and get involved with welding. Different from his IT classes in middle school, Herzog says the class at CMR gives him opportunities to try doing different things, with more hands-on work rather than bookwork.

“It gives you a lot of life skills in general, like for fixing stuff, and if I ever did want to go into a career of some sort, I’d already be ahead in that sort of field,” he said. by Kaylebb Stahmer, staff writer Promising freshmen Ty Herzog

Kolten Lawrence

For an aspirant boilermaker, taking the intro-level IT classes would help in following that career, and freshman Kolten Lawrence is doing exactly that.

“I am taking intro to electricity, drafting, woods, and medals. So far it’s really good. The electricity has been my favorite so far, but I’ve only been in two of them so I couldn’t tell you so far,” Lawrence said. “They’ll teach us a bit of safety and how to

do basic electrical work and drafting, stuff like that.”

His favorite parts of the classes he has taken -- electricity and drafting -- is the circuitry section of his Intro to Electricity class, which he said was really fun. During these classes, he added his teachers were very nice, advocating that the teachers deserve a raise for the work they do.