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June 2010

Cover Story: Stevens Point teen makes national canoe, kayak team

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STEVENS POINT TEEN MAKES NATIONAL CANOE, KAYAK TEAM By Nicole Strittmater Journal staff

Olympics Overall Champion three times. She won the Junior Olympics freestyle, extreme slalom and boater cross events and has been the Junior Midwest Freestyle Champion. She won the For the third straight year, Stevens Point athlete Hailey U.S. Open, a slalom race, in 2009 and 2010, after she took third Thompson has made the USA Canoe and Kayak National Slalom place in 2008. Team. She placed second at the Olympic trials in 2008 and fourth at Thompson, 16, fought against the best whitewater paddlers in pre-Worlds in Tacen, Slovenia in 2009. Continued on Page 4 the country to keep her spot on the team during the USA Canoe & Kayak Team Trials, which took place early May in Wausau. She made the senior national team for women’s whitewater canoeing. She placed first, making her the top ranked paddler in the U.S. She also made the junior national team for canoeing and kayaking. View gallery In 2008 and 2009, she was on both the junior and senior teams for canoeing. This is the first year she made the junior national team for kayaking, said Ashley Knutson, operations manager for the Wausau Kayak and Canoe Corporation. This summer, Thompson will compete in the Senior World Cup Series, which involves three different races in Europe. She’ll compete in a variety of races to determine her International Canoe Federation ranking. She also will compete in the Junior World Championships in France in July. If this were an Olympic year, these races would help determine who goes to the next games, Knutson said. Thompson has her eye on the Olympics, but women’s canoeing isn’t an Olympic event. She and her parents, Jean Buckley and Michael Thompson, have more than 1,200 signatures on a petition they will send to the International Canoe Federation and the International Olympic Committee. Thompson has been maneuvering through a whitewater river in kayaks and canoes since she was 12. Whitewater kayaking involves sitting down in the kayak with a double-bladed paddle. In a canoe, she is kneeling with a single-bladed paddle. TOM LOUCKS/STEVENS POINT JOURNAL. Hailey Thompson and her In addition to making the national teams, she has been the Junior mom Jean

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TEEN PADDLER HAILEY THOMPSON IN ‘STATE OF ELATION’ AFTER QUALIFYING FOR NATIONAL TEAM “I was so close to home and I had trained there often,” Thompson said. The day after she finishes school at Stevens Point Area Senior High, she will fly to Europe for the Senior World Cup Series, which is three races in the Czech Republic, Spain and Germany. She’ll also compete in the Junior World Championships in France in July. She said she’s received a lot of support at school and from her family. “It means the world to me,” she said, “and I really hope that I can bring back a cool story after this summer.”

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Stevens Point teen Hailey Thompson is no stranger to the USA Canoe and Kayak National Slalom Team. She’s been on it not once, not twice, but three times. And she’s only 16. During the USA Canoe & Kayak Team Trials in early May in Wausau, she made the senior national team for women’s whitewater canoeing. She placed first, meaning she is the top-ranked paddler in the U.S. She also made the junior national team for canoeing and kayaking. View gallery But in recalling the weekend trials, the first thing she mentioned wasn’t about how excited she was. “I was really impressed with the performances of my competitors,” she said. And that’s what made her mother, Jean Buckley, most proud. Buckley recalled a 14-year-old girl who had never raced at the trials before. The girl was nervous and very emotional as she tried to paddle through the elaborate course. “I saw my daughter being really supportive of her,” Buckley said with a voice scratchy after cheering for all the athletes. “I think she showed herself to be a bit of a leader for some of the younger kids who had never paddled at Wausau.” One of Thompson’s good friends missed making the team by seconds, and Buckley said she saw her daughter consoling him. “That’s the kind of stuff that I think is probably the most important -- encouraging others and supporting others,” she said. “It’s great if you make the team yourself, but it’s also great to be a friend to someone who’s ...

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HUMBLE P.J. JACOBS PRINCIPAL GETS CHANCE TO SHINE: P.J. JACOBS EDUCATOR GIVEN PRINCIPAL OF THE YEAR HONOR By Nicole Strittmater Journal staff P.J. Jacobs Junior High School Principal Dan Dobratz is shy and reserved. He doesn’t toot his own horn, and he always wants attention on students and staff members. But during, appropriately enough, National Teacher Appreciation Week, he couldn’t remain in the background. On Tuesday, you wouldn’t have mistaken him for shy. He couldn’t say enough about his great students, and he was constantly smiling. He still was on cloud nine because the Wisconsin Association of School Councils named him Wisconsin middle school/junior high Principal of the Year over the weekend. The reason he was so excited wasn’t because he won, though; it was because his student council surprised him with the award. The student council submitted the nomination without telling him. They worked with his family to compile information, filled out applications, wrote letters of recommendation and championed his work to the WASC governing board. “What made it special is no one told me. I was clearly kept out of the process. It was a total surprise,” Dobratz said. “What made it so exciting is they wanted me to have the award. That’s the coolest part. I got recognized by the students.” WASC promotes student leadership and responsibilities in schools. It’s a statewide organization of public, private and parochial middle, junior and senior high school student government groups, and governed by 12 students and 12 council advisers from six regions in the state. Stevens Point is in Region 2. Dobratz, who taught in other districts before becoming an administrator, came to P.J. Jacobs in 1992. This is his fourth year as principal, and he previously served as assistant principal. “He’s been a phenomenal principal when it comes to supporting student leadership. There is not a complaint,” said Alicia Skarsten, student council co-adviser. Dobratz didn’t even find out about the award until the about 40 students in the student council invited him to their meeting. They wanted to be the first to tell him. “His face lit up. He was so happy,” said Ashley Stewart, a student council member and also student president of WASC Region 2. “After kind of a rough school year we’ve been having, we decided Mr. Dobratz really deserved it.” Stewart was referring to the budget cuts the school is going through, and she said she and the students can tell that Dobratz is dealing with tough

decisions. “I thought it was so nice that we could do something nice for him,” Stewart said. “He’s been a really great principal.” Stewart said Dobratz is very personable and down to earth with the students. “I was in the school play this year. He always calls me by my character’s name -- Madame Mysteria,” Stewart said. She lit up when she remembered the time Dobratz called her Madame Mysteria over the loudspeaker. “He’s really nice to the students. It’s going to be hard to leave next year,” she said. “I’m really happy that he was voted. He seemed really proud of it.” P.J. Jacobs isn’t the only school recognizing an educator. Throughout this week, kids are writing letters of appreciation for former teachers and thankyou notes to the faculty and staff members at their schools. The McKinley Center and Plover-Whiting Elementary School PTOs also organized lunches for staff members.

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SEVENTH GRADER IMAGINES By Nicole Strittmater Journal staff As technology constantly changes, it’s hard to imagine what the world will look like 15 years from now. But St. Peter Middle School student Kaylyn Kluck can think of every detail. This seventh grader imagines there will be Blangos, personal servants that fit in the palm of your hand. There will be screens on the backs of eyelids, mini satellites installed on brains to access the iNet, and eyepods, music players built into eyes. She imagines a world where all her school books are loaded into storage bases installed in her brain. To create an essay for school she will use the screens on her eyelids and speak the words. Instead of email there will be telepathic MindMail, and texting is a thing of the past. Kluck, 13, loves writing science fiction. Her talent for telling descriptive, compelling stories paid off, because she is one of 25 runners up for a Scholastic Book Club’s national writing contest, “The Techno Future is Mine!” She beat out more than 1,000 applicants in grades seven through 12 from all over the country, and she is the only writer from Wisconsin selected. Each runner up won a laptop computer. The grand prize was a $10,000 savings bond. “(Writing) is one of the best ways of self expression,” Kluck said. “You can write something and it will be there on paper forever.” Kluck’s piece is a short story about a girl who wants her own Blango, and throughout the story she tries to convince her mother to buy her one. Kluck has been writing short stories since third grade. This school year, she joined the student newspaper Our Voice, a product of the Stevens Point Journal and the Boys & Girls Club of Portage County. She’s written creative pieces, news stories and opinion pieces, something that her teacher, Michelle Nerren, said gave her confidence. “It gave her the encouragement she needs to continue writing,” Nerren said. Nerren praised Kluck’s use of description. “She thought of crazy new technological things and she though about every detail about them that would make them work,” she said. “Kaylyn is an excellent and creative writer. She blows me away.” Kluck’s piece is printed on Pages 8 and 9 of this edition of Our Voice.

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DOUG WOJCIK/STEVENS POINT JOURNAL. Kaylyn Kluck, a 7th grader at St. Peter Middle School

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A DAY IN ZEE’S WORLD By Kaylyn Kluck, Our Voice Staff S. Peter Middle School Seventh Grader

Today Zee Eden rode the city monorail home from school. All around her the neon lights of the city flashed and flickered, making the city seem to come alive. Zee had always thought the city she lived in was like a bright, glowing rainbow. While riding the monorail home, Zee zinged her friend Ali. Ali was telling Zee about how her parents planned to get her a Blango of her very own. Zee was immediately jealous. Blangos were the hottest, newest technology from Japan. It was your own personal servant. It did everything from making you snacks to picking up items you dropped. It did whatever it was told and it followed you everywhere, just hovering in the air right next to your shoulder. Plus it fit in the palm of your hand. Zee would ask her mom for one once she got home. Deep down inside, Zee knew that her mother would probably say no. Sure, her mom had let her get those screens pasted on the back of her eyelids, and sure she had let Zee get a mini satellite installed on the side of her brain so Zee could access the iNet, send zings, and be able to do about ten zillion other things. And yes, her mom let her get an eyepod, the music player built into her eyes so she could listen to her music anywhere, but that was only because everybody had that stuff. Plus it had all been invented two years ago, so eyelid screens, brain satellites, and eyepods were old news. Zee peered out the window of the monorail. Though it was going at high speed, Zee could still see a moving billboard sporting a flashy ad for Blangos. “It’s like it knows I’m watching.” Zee said quietly to herself. Zee got off the monorail and arrived at her metallic silver sphere-shaped home. The automatic doors slid to the side so Zee could stand in the front entrance. “I’m home!” Zee yelled. Zee remembered when about four years ago, she had always carried her heavy backpack home. Now she didn’t need one because all of her school books were loaded into the storage base installed in her brain. To create an essay for school, Zee used the screens plastered to the backs of her eyelids and spoke aloud the words she wanted for her essay. “I’m in the office.” Zee’s mother called back. Zee ran into the office. Zee’s mom, Izzy, was working away on her tiny laptop. Izzy Eden was one of the thousands of people who sat at home all day trying to make sure that the iNet stayed up and running, and was constantly getting more technologically advanced every day. Once she was done with that, Ms. Eden pressed the tiny button on the laptop’s side. Instantly the computer folded into a tiny 1 inch by 1 inch cube, which she put in her pocket. Izzy was dressed in a light blue sweat suit and was

jogging in place on the exercise mat, a white plastic square on the floor. The wall screens projected that Zee’s mother was jogging through a tropical rainforest, even though rainforests didn’t exist anymore. While jogging, Izzy was preparing a MindMail to send to her boss. “And yes Mr. Counger, I did prepare the new format for home page, I don’t know how you couldn’t have got it.” Zee’s mom said out loud. Zee knew that everything Izzy was saying was appearing on her eyelid screens. Once Izzy was done speaking the MindMail, she could send it to her boss using the satellite installed in her head. Izzy finally noticed her daughter standing in the doorway. “One minute.” She mouthed to Zee. Then Izzy selected the “private” option on her screen, so Zee couldn’t hear what her mother was saying. After 23 long seconds, Zee finally saw her mom mouth the word “send.” Izzy shut off the exercise mat. “Hi sweetie, how was school?” she asked her only daughter. “Good, but guess what, Ali is getting a Blango!” Zee told her mom. “And I really want one too.” “Hmm that’s nice.” Ms. Eden said while taking a sip of mineral water. “Mom did you hear me? I said I really want a Blango of my very own.” Zee informed her mother. She could tell that Izzy wasn’t really listening though. Instead Izzy walked up to the wall, which now had turned from exotic rainforest to the usual navy paint, thanks to the wall screens “decorate” option. “Mirror.” Zee’s mom told it, and instantly the four walls in the office turned to shiny mirrors. “Man I’m sweaty.” Izzy said. “Clean me.” And suddenly the sweat on Izzy’s body began to slowly vanish. Her hair grew to its usual glossy brown state, thanks to her MyControl self-cleaning option. In one minute, Zee’s mom was sweat-free and smelling like a field of flowers. Everyone depended on MyControls these days to shower them, dye their hair, remove wrinkles and excess body fat, and put them to sleep at night. It was a system installed throughout your entire body that was extremely complex. It was rare that anyone didn’t have one. “So anyway, I want a Blango more than anything in the world.” Zee said again. “Blangos cost money.” Izzy said while she and Zee walked into the kitchen. “Yeah but it’s the latest thing, lots of kids at school have them.” Izzy rolled her eyes. “Zee, you don’t need a tiny robot following you everywhere you go. Besides, we have Martha.” Zee rolled her eyes. Martha was in the kitchen washing dishes. She was the Eden’s house-bot. With her mechanical arms she robotically scrubbed a plate. Zee groaned as she plopped down on a bar stool. “Yeah but I can’t take Martha to school. She’s as big as me! Blangos are the size of a credit card!” “Whatever Zee, you don’t need a personal robot at school.” Izzy replied roughly. “But Mom, I heard that in a few years schools won’t even exist anymore! Ali says Continued on Page 9

June 2010 will make my life easier. Hope you understand how sorry I am.” Zee was just about to say “send” when her mom walked in. “Don’t bother sending it, I was eavesdropping.” Izzy said, plunking herself down next to Zee. “I know that you want to be like your friends and have the newest things. But remember that something newer and even greater will come along.” Zee nodded. Her mother continued, “When I was growing up, I would have given anything to have a cell phone so I could do something called “text” my friends. Now we don’t even use phones, because we can zing each other and hear one another’s voices by opening up the zings. We had to write with our hands too, it was terrible.” Izzy explained. “You are very lucky to be growing up in such a technologically advanced time Zee. And I know how much you want a Blango, so if you help me create a new homepage for the iNet because my boss will fire me if I don’t by tomorrow, we can go buy you one this weekend. I want you to earn it instead of me just giving it to

you.” Zee raised her eyebrows. “Really? Even after the way I acted?” Her mom nodded. “Yeah, we may even be up all night because it’s a big job to format it, but I need your creative mind to help me. The original one I sent today wasn’t very good. With your help, maybe this one will be.” Soon Zee and her mom had made a great new homepage. Izzy’s boss would surely love it. Once they had finished, it was very late at night, so Zee went back up to her room. Using her MyControl, she said, “Let me go to sleep for nine hours.” The MyControl heard her request and ran the order up the surgically installed wires leading to her brain. Soon Zee was in a deep sleep, dreaming about the Blango she would get in a few days.

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