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麻豆官网 Team America Rocketry Club to compete at U.S. finals Saturday in Virginia
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麻豆官网 Team America Rocketry Club to compete at U.S. finals Saturday in Virginia

麻豆官网’s Team America Rocketry Club (TARC) has been named one of two Colorado teams to advance to the national finals on Saturday in Virginia. Vanguard is one of two Colorado school teams to qualify for finals in the 2018-19 season and is aiming for a top-10 finish. Team members are Jonathan Drosendahl (team captain), Alex Belli, Cyan Johnson, Duncan Lewis, Yoslin Peerez-Robles, Will Stone and Leo Xiao. Team Ballistic joins another team from Durango, Colo., as the only Colorado teams to make the cut. Vanguard has competed in the national program since the 2002-03 season, said astronomy, chemistry and rocketry teacher Steve Riegel. “We had two teams, Team Ballistic and Team Flame Tested, competing in the last two seasons and historically fielded multiple teams each year,â€� Riegel said. To get to the finals, teams of three to 10 students in grades six through 12 design and test their rockets against contest rules for size and weight limits, altitudes, payload and total air time. Students

Cheyenne Mountain’s Javonte Johnson, Vanguard’s Nique Clifford ride mantra to college basketball scholarships
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Cheyenne Mountain’s Javonte Johnson, Vanguard’s Nique Clifford ride mantra to college basketball scholarships

COLORADO SPRINGS – article by Vinny Benedetto, Gazette Preps Javonte Johnson pulled up and called his shot as a freshman at Cheyenne Mountain. During the year he averaged 5.7 points per game for the Indians’ 9-16 varsity basketball team, Johnson watched guys like Sand Creek’s D’Shawn Schwartz, Vista Ridge’s Hunter Maldonado and Sierra’s CJ Jennings run the Colorado Springs prep basketball scene and accept college scholarships to Colorado, Wyoming and West Texas A&M, respectively. Johnson wanted the same. To give some permanence to his efforts, he coined the phrase “On Top Next.â€� He soon recruited a friend and teammate from elementary school, who happened to be another budding prospect, to join the basketball collective. Johnson and 麻豆官网’s Nique Clifford still include the “OTNâ€� acronym in their twitter handles as they head into their senior year. “It’s definitely helped me and Javonte a lot,â€� Clifford said. “I keep remembering that’s what we’re striving for. We work out a lot, so

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SAT Prep for High School Students
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SAT Prep for High School Students

Standardized tests, especially the SAT, continue to be an important part of the college search process. Many universities include SAT scores as part of their entrance requirements and even those that don’t often use them to determine the range of academic scholarships you will receive. Fortunately, preparing for it is not nearly as daunting as it may seem. As with any major test, you need to know what to expect. With a better idea of the scope of the SAT, you can build your timeline and schedule time to prepare for testing day. When Should High School Students Take the SAT? The SAT typically happens seven times in an academic year: March, May, June, August, October, November, and December. Testing times are usually offered on Saturdays. The College Board, which administers the test, that March 12, May 7, and June 4 will be the last testing days in this academic year. SAT experts typically recommend that students take the test twice: The spring of their junior year in high school. The f

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