April 23 - Seniors on Trip to Wisconsin and Chicago
The senior trip for the class of 2009 is to the Wisconsin Dells and Chicago. The trip began on Tuesday at 1 p.m. when a charter bus took the senior to the Great Wolf Lodge at the Wisconsin Dells. The seniors spent Wednesday at the lodge, then left Thursday morning for downtown Chicago. Thursday afternoon was spent at the Navy Pier and the group spent an entertaining evening at Ed Debevicks for supper.
Aprl 18 - 5,632 Feet High!!! MGHS NASA SLI Team Returns from Trip to Huntsville
Members of the NASA SLI Team returned from a five-day trip to Huntsville, Alabama on Sunday evening. Student team members are Tyler, Ryan, Mitchell, Justin and Scott. Adult teachers and mentors that accompanied the team are John Paine, Larry Terneus, Denyse Blankenship, and Lindy Zeeb.
The rocket launched at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday morning and flew to an altitude of 5,632 feet. The rocket carried two scientific payloads. The first payload measured the airframe temperature changes on the rocket while in flight. The second payload measured the oxygen concentration of the atmosphere at one-mile high.
The team visited the Marshall Space Flight Center and toured several areas in the facility. The team’s rocket was displayed in a rocket fair at MSFC on Thursday along with rockets from ten other high schools and organizations and from 19 universities.
The Student Launch Initiative project began in July 2008 and a proposal was submitted in late September 2008. The project will end on May 22, 2009.
Mulberry Grove will be given the opportunity to submit a proposal for the 2010 SLI as a returning team.
April 18 - MGHS Rocket Boys Meet Original ‘Rocket Boy’ from Coalwood
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On Saturday, April 18th, members of the Mulberry Grove NASA SLI team flew their rocket at Braggs Farm near Huntsville, Alabama. After a successful flight to an altitude of 5,632 feet, the team met Homer Hickam, retired NASA engineer on the Space Shuttle project. Mr. Hickam is one of the six ‘rocket boys’ from Coalwood, West Virginia. His and their story is portrayed in the movie ‘October Sky.’ Mr. Hickam autographed the motor-stage of the rocket for the team and encouraged them to read the book. The rocket will eventually go on display in the foyer area at the high school.
April 10 - MGHS Rocket Team Soars Into National Finals – Again
Organizers for the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) announced on Friday that Mulberry Grove Rocket Team #1 had qualified as one of the top 100 teams in the world’s largest model rocket challenge. As a result, the team has been invited to the national fly-off at Great Plains, Virginia on May 16th.
This is the fourth consecutive year that Mulberry Grove High School has had a team in the finals. The team is lead by senior Ryan , project manager and rocket designer for Team #1. Ryan has been a member of the team since its beginning in the Fall of 2005 and will make his fourth and final appearance at the competition next month.
Other members of the team are: Seniors Tyler , Sammatha , and Justin , and Juniors Taylor and Bryant . This will be the second appearance in the finals for Tyler, Samantha, Taylor and Bryant. This is Justin’s first year on the team.
High school math and physics teacher John Paine is sponsor of the TARC team and the project leader of the NASA Student Launch Initiative team. Paine said, “ This rocket may be the best the team has designed and built over the past four years in the competition.”
After a tangled chute and a 50th place finish at the 2006 finals, the team posted a 7th place finish in 2007 and a second place finish in 2008. Last year’s finished earned the team an invitation by NASA to submit a proposal for the 2009 Student Launch Initiative. The proposal was accepted and Mulberry Grove High School became one of eleven schools or organizations to take part. This week the NASA SLI team will fly a high-powered rocket in Huntsville, AL to a mile high with a scientific payload they designed. Students members of the SLI team include Ryan, Tyler, and Justin from the TARC team and Mitchell and Scott .
Mulberry Grove High School also entered a second team in the competition this year. The team had all first year members. Team #2 members are Ethan , Shelby , Danielle , Kayla , Kayla , DeAnna , Ashley, Scott and Heather.
The competition this year was to fly to exactly 750 feet in altitude, total flight duration from lift-off to touchdown of exactly 45 seconds, and carry a raw egg that had to be placed on its side during the flight and not break. Teams are awarded a point for every foot above or below 750 feet. The time difference from 45 seconds is doubled which adds that many points to the score. A cracked or broken eggs is disqualification. A perfect score is ‘zero’.
Team #1’s qualifying score was a 4.14. The altitude reached was 753 feet and the time was 44.43 seconds.
April 6 - Softball Teams Finishes in Second at MG Invitational
The girl's softball squad took second place at the Mulberry Grove Invitational Tournament held on Saturday. After beating Nokomis by a score of 16-1, the team lost to Mater Dei in the championship game by a score of 3-1.
April 6 - Spring Dinner Theatre Ends Four Night Run
The double-feature murder presentations "Three Doors to Death" and "Murder's in the Heir" ended Sunday evening. Nearly 300 people attended the dinner theatre over the four evenings.
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Apr. 6, TARC Qualifying Flights Ended on Sunday
Sunday was the final day to fly qualifying flights in the Team America Rocketry Challenge competition. Both teams flew on Saturday morning. Each team that enters the competition gets two qualifying flights. Team #2 posted a score of 37 points, their best score of two flights.. Zero is the perfect score. Team #1 had posted a score on March 19 of 11.02 on their first of two qualifying flights. On their second qualifying flight on Saturday they posted a score of 4.14. In the previous three competitions, Team #1 had posted a 8.03 in 2006, 10.03 in 2007, and a 6.20 in 2008. Each year they were among the top 100 teams invited to Virginia.
Invitations for this years competition go out on April 10th.
Mar. 21, Sophomore Math Team Places 5th at SIUC Math Field Day
Math students representing the Sophomore class at Math Field Day at SIUC on March 19, 2009 finished in 5th place among Class A schools taking the test.
Mar. 11, 2009 Scholar Bowl Season Ends in Regional Semi-Final Match
The varsity Scholar Bowl season came to an end Tuesday night at the state regional at Farina. In the quarter-final match, Mulberry Grove defeated North Clay 67-63. The semi-final match put Mulberry Grove against South Central, the number two-seeded team in the Sectional. South Central won 168-60. South Central went on to win the Regional by defeating Greenville 242-93 in the final.
The team finished the season with a record of 17-9. The team fiinished the regular conference season in second and finished second at the EI Conference Tournament in February.
Feb. 27, 2009 Scholar Bowl Team Takes Second at EI Tournament
The Varsity Scholar Bowl team took home the second-place trophy at the EI conference tournament on Thursday night. Wins over Odin, Cowden-Herrrick, and Ramsey in bracket play sent the team to the championship game against Beecher City, winners of all three matches in their bracket. Beecher City took first place.
Heather was the varsity scoring champion in the conference for the season answering 50 toss-up questions in 12 regular season matches.
For Junior Varsity play, DeAnna was selected to the all-conference, first-team and 4th leading scorer in Junior Varsity play for the season.
The varsity scholar bowl team will play on Tuesday, March 10, in the Regionals at Farina (South Central). They will play Louisville (North Clay) in a match scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Other teams assigned to the Farina Regional are: Patoka, Sandoval, Clay City, Vandalia, South Central, Greenville, and Flora. The winner of the regional will move on to sectional play on Saturday, March 14, at Fairfield.
Feb. 26, 2009 Southwestern Electric Promotes Electrical Safety
Southwestern Electric Cooperative, Inc. sponsored an electrical demonstration on Thursday, February 26, in the high school gym. The demo was given by Live Line Demo, Inc. The 45-minute assembly provided students with value lessons in power line safety, information that may someday save their lives. The key message to the students was to remain in their car in the event that they are involved in a traffic accident and power poles are struck and lines fall. Its a message that all drivers need to hear. As long as you stay in the vehicle, you are safe. If you step out of the vehicle, you may be electrocuted. Call 911 and stay in the vehicle.
Feb. 16, 2009 NASA SLI Team Launches Full Scale Rocket
On Monday morning, February 16, the NASA SLI team launched the full-scale version of the rocket it will fly in Huntsville in April. The rocket reached an altitude of 2, 956 feet and met all flight criteria. The rocket's weight at lift-off was 16 pounds 10 ounces and was launched using a J-size motor. The rocket in April will use a K-size motor to reach an altitude of one mile. The larger motor will raise the lift-off weight to over 19 pounds. The rocket test was to check flight stability and the recovery system. The test provided valuable data to the team.
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