Students qualify for DECA state competition
February 5, 2013
Hundreds of students, working individually and in teams, recently competed in the Area 4 DECA competition at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.
Many qualified for the DECA state contest March 7-9 competing in categories including accounting, marketing, retail, entertainment management, business law and ethics, financial services, travel and tourism and sales.
Nominate schools’ ‘green’ achievements for King County honor
February 5, 2013
NEW — 4 p.m. Feb. 5, 2013
Nominate eco-conscious students, teachers, staffers, volunteers and programs — or even entire schools — for the King County Earth Heroes at Schools awards program.
The awards program aims to honor people and entities for contributions to environmental protection and student environmental education. Honorees in past years included programs related to recycling, restoring habitat, composting lunchroom waste and growing pesticide-free gardens. Issaquah School District campuses typically perform well in the awards.
The program encourages self-nominations. Or, colleagues, classmates and the public can nominate potential Earth Heroes. Find nomination forms and the list of 2012 winners at http://1.usa.gov/y5Hpzf. Call 206-296-4477 to learn more.
Students express mixed feelings about Skyline lunches
January 29, 2013
A standard public school is expected to serve lunch on a daily basis under specific dietary regulations. However, whether students actually like the options provided is not something that is enforced.
Sampurna Basu
Skyline High School
Skyline High School has many daily options for lunch, ranging from the featured hot lunch of the day to a wide array of salads. In addition, there is a Student Store where students can purchase Yoko’s Teriyaki and other lunch choices. All meals are strictly regulated by the Issaquah School District so each serving size is no more than 300 calories.
At the average lunch table, varied responses come in reaction to these seemingly fair conditions.
Club serves Liberty High School’s lunchtime favorites
January 29, 2013
Veronica Austin
Liberty High School
Most Liberty High School students recognize the DECA store as a favorite purveyor of fine smoothies, snacks and Otis Spunkmeyer cookies, but few really know what goes on behind the scenes.
To get a better understanding of this Liberty staple, I asked senior Elizabeth Rutherford, a DECA store manager, to take me through a typical lunch:
Even before the bell rings for lunch, the DECA store is already preparing for the onslaught of hungry Patriots.
“If our teachers let us leave early, we try and get a couple of panini on the grill and open up a cash register early,” Rutherford said.
“We are usually busy for the first half of lunch,” she said, adding that each worker in the store has a job to do. There are “cashiers, panini makers, pizza twist people, smoothie makers, and runners” with managers like Rutherford supervising.
Students bypass lackluster lunch at Issaquah High School
January 29, 2013
Jacob Brunette
Issaquah High School
Every day, hundreds of students buy lunch from the Issaquah High School cafeteria. With three lines and a wide variety of available food, students are free to pick and choose what they want to eat on any given day.
Recently, however, there has been concern about the healthiness of school lunch, and IHS does not do a stellar job at providing students with healthy options.
To begin, only one of the three lunch lines provides the typical school lunch, made by the kitchen staff and changed daily, while all three have pizza every day.
Eastside Catholic High School needs more vegetarian fare
January 29, 2013
Shreya Tewari
Eastside Catholic High School
Eastside Catholic High School’s food is provided by a lunch program called No Junk that works with several different private schools across the area.
The program advocates offering balanced food options while keeping special considerations in mind as well, i.e. gluten allergies, etc.
No Junk offers breakfast at Eastside every day before school for those who should choose to arrive early and purchase it. The regular options include breakfast burritos, cinnamon rolls, croissants, hash browns, bagels, juice, cereal, fruit cups and yogurt, while occasionally including a special hot option such as pancakes or French toast.
Taking a closer look at nutrition in schools’ lunches
January 29, 2013
Lee Xie
Skyline High School
This month, we are choosing to start off the year with a bang by reporting on an issue that is relevant and important to our audience: school lunches.
We all know that the Issaquah School District is innovative and dedicated when it comes to education, but how do our schools fare when it comes to feeding our students in a nonintellectual way? Our journalists explore the issue and how lunches shape up at Skyline, Issaquah, Liberty and private Eastside Catholic high schools.
In the grand scheme of things, school lunches in America have been a hotly debated topic in the past few years. Last January, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued new guidelines that stated that school meals would have to offer fruits and vegetables to students every day. The meals would also have to reduce sodium, saturated fat and trans fat levels. The new standards called for schools to offer more whole grains, as well as more fat-free or low-fat milk options.
How to thrive in competition
January 29, 2013
Lee Xie
Skyline High School
This year, the motto for DECA — an international association that prepares students for their futures in the business world — is “THRIVE.”
And on Jan. 11, Skyline High School did just that at Area 4 Competition, qualifying 90 members of the chapter, a new school record, for state competition that is set to begin March 7.
I asked my fellow executive board members on what they thought set our chapter apart from the others at area, and received the following tips on how one can thrive in competition:
The Hot List
January 29, 2013
Nitin Shyamkumar Skyline High School
‘Les Misérables’
Movie: Les Misérables
One can tell how popular the film adaptation of the musical play “Les Misérables” has become due to its truncated reference: “Les Mis.”
It is evident that because of its frequent references, it has become far more efficient to Americanize the name of the film/play rather than pronounce the entire two words.
In any case, “Les Miserables” has performed well both at the box office and in terms of critical reception. An impeccable performance led by a stellar cast, the recent movie”Les Misérables” was novel in the manner in which it was filmed. Actors were filmed with a live piano accompaniment upon which a full orchestra was later added.
Teen Talk
January 29, 2013
How and how much do you study for finals?
Eastside Catholic High School
“Every night.”
Nalani Saito, senior
