March Issue 2018 - Pepper Box

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TALENT SHOW

PARKLAND

Students showed off their skills at the annual talent show

NEWS, Page 3

Photo courtesy: Formulanone via Wikimedia Commons

Reactions to the school shooting in Florida have influenced Ritenour students

SPOTLIGHT P. 4-5

SCHOLARS ACADEMY

Students were chosen for a college focused program.

SPOTLIGHT, Page 6

THE PEPPER BOX RITENOUR HIGH SCHOOL

ISSUE 6, VOLUME 44

9100 ST. CHARLES ROCK ROAD, ST. LOUIS, MO 63114

MARCH 2018

Ritenour opens new cafe in library The Ritenour High Cafe opened on Feb. 12 and is staffed by Ritenour students and teachers By ALLISON BOTH The Pepper Box Staff Ritenour has opened a new coffee shop to students on Feb. 12 and it has been successfully up and running since then. The cafe has multiple food and drink offerings to choose from, ranging from muffins and cookies, to coffee and hot chocolate. They have a Ritenour High Cafe (RHC) special that changes either weekly or monthly depending on the seasons and holidays. For the opening week, their special was red velvet muffins in honor of Valentines day. The treats are mostly made locally from Ritenour’s Culinary Capstones students, as well as the Baking and Pastries students. It is currently open before school, after school, and during 1st and 7th hours, when students are enrolled in hybrid classes. FACS teacher Denise Schindler said that the Ritenour High Cafe was started partially because of an idea from the Ritenour Board of Education. “It was an idea from the district for work based learning. They thought it would be a good idea to meet the needs of the

students and stop tardiness,” “I am the Chef Manager, health safety, problem and “Hopefully it will bring kids Schindler said. “It also gave but I still help make the food resolutions to school since we have the students a more college occasionally,” Loy said. Loy was interested in problems with attendance based environment, and Loy and the other students cooking, but said that there and we’ll be able to attract allows students to use it must be “Serve Safe Certified” was a bigger reason that he kids with breakfast options during study time, while also and make sure that they chose to enroll in Culinary and a quiet place. “ encouraging students to come can take care of any of the Capstones and Baking and The Ritenour High Cafe early if they don’t have wifi, or problems that arise. Serve Pastries. is a new step for this high simply help get the students Safe Certified is a state ”I just want to give back school with high ambitions of into the real world.” issued test to make sure to the school, I care about being able to help give back The students have taken that people are qualified to the school a lot and I want to to their community, even if it ownership of the cafe, as they work in the establishment as contribute to the betterment is just with a cup of coffee and helped paint and decorate manager, including food and of the school,” Loy said. a muffin. the cafe before it opened, and they even helped in researching the machinery that needed to be purchased. The RHC is still in its early stages, but Schindler and the students have started to talk about how they can expand from the current operation. “The goal is to have water in the area, have a working environment, food, all hours, and charging stations. Plans are to have this in the next year and expand, since we are self sufficient. We would also like to expand the machinery and options as time goes by and the options open up for us,” Schindler said. Students had their own reasons and responsibilities when concerning our Ritenour High Cafe and Photo By: Ron Steinschriber senior Josh Loy said that he is gaining skills that could help FACS teacher Nina Ballman and senior Jonah Gleckler help customers in the Ritenour High Cafe on the morning of March 12. him in a culinary career.

Senior Huskies Receive Full Rides

By CAROLINE RAMOS-HERRERA The Pepper Box Staff

Several students from Ritenour’s class of 2018 have received full ride academic scholarships to attend competitive universities this fall due to their outstanding accomplishments. A few of the recipients from Ritenour were Kyah Donald, a recipient of a full ride scholarship to Missouri University Science and Technology, and, Trenton Kwasa, a recipient of a full ride scholarship to Washington University. Recently, Dariana Rodriguez and Emma Norman both received full academic scholarships to the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Scholarships do not fall into someone’s lap easily. Students have to go through long processes to apply. To receive the scholarship, the process includes building relationships, going on tours, filling out applications, and waiting and wondering whether they got it or not. “One day I talked to Ms. Noonan, I went in her office to talk to her about some other scholarship I was looking at and she referred me to the Clay Co.

Scholarship, and she was like, I want you to go to this informational meeting, and we went to the meeting later that day,” Donald said. Donald explained that in Clay Co., there was a presentation and they had the opportunity to tour the Clay Co. building. The students were given the applications for the scholarship. For Trenton Kwasa, the process was very similar. In addition, there was an essay, referrals given to him from two other people, and an interview process. Students, Emma Norman and Dariana RodriguezBolanos recently received full ride scholarships to UMSL and the process for them was different than the one the other recipients received. First, Norman explained, there’s an application for a scholarship online, and then students have to write an essay, answer a couple of short answer questions and find two administrators to write letters of recommendation. Rodriguez’s process was filling out the application for the Opportunity Scholars Program, which required two teacher recommendations and short essay questions. Then later she received a letter in the mail stating that

she was a finalist for the scholarship and then had an interview. “I sent in the application over winter break and received a letter in the mail toward the end a January indicating I was a finalist. They narrowed down the applications to 20 finalists and had us all come in for interviews, then chose 3-5 students to give full rides to!,” Norman said. College and Career Counselor Julie Kampschroeder helps with students seeking scholarships and knows the process on how to get a full ride. According to Kampschroeder, there are merit scholarships and that means the colleges require students to have a certain ACT score, a certain GPA, and if they have those, then they earn that scholarship. Many public schools have that very narrow aspect on what is needed. There are other colleges, like private schools, where students might fit in the category to compete for a scholarship. “We had a lady go to a campus to compete for a full tuition scholarship that doesn’t include room and board, but it’s a $30,000 a year scholarship,” Kampschroeder

said. There are a variety of scholarships that students can receive and just because it’s not a full ride, with everything covered, does not mean there aren’t other opportunities for students to save huge amounts of money. Some wonder what it takes to get full ride scholarships

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and what colleges look for in students. What colleges look for can range from what sport students play to their GPA. There are endless amounts of factors that can determine whether students are in the competition for the scholarship. “They do it on their own and I think the college center

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