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“ It’s great practice for national
Junior Marc Lombardo is in deep thought
tests, national math tests.” said
during the annual Sprouts Tournament.
junior Eric Antonson, a Math Club
This tournament is sponsored by Math
Club and involves drawing as many member. “I enjoy doing math and
“sprouts” as possible. Whoever draws Math Club doesn’t cost a penny."
the last sprout is the winner. Amy Marsh Antonson said that this year at the
UNL Math Field Day and the
One competition Math Club participated Creighton Math Contest Math Club
in was UNL Math Day. Junior Colin even provided money forthe mem
Keierleber and Senior Susan Gindt buzzed bers’ meals.
their way into the quarter-finals of the Math Club really got around,
Quiz Bowl. Daieuen Shin
according to Antonson. They went
to Lincoln and Northwestern Mis
souri State. They also had meet
ings every Thursday morning at
7 :15 where they primed their math
skills by working on problems from
previous math contests and any
problems that they would likely
encounter atthe contests. With all
that practice its no wonder that
many members did extremely well
in the contests.
Math Club wasn'tthe only club
traveling. Computer Club, a new
club consisting of over 20 mem
life bers, has also been out and about.
They visited places like Gateway
Institute, AT&T and learned about
how places like that are set up.
Although it’s called Computer
Club, “ It’s not so much about com
puters but the software, “ Senior
Andrzej Raczynski said. They
learned more about what kinds of
programs there are and what they
can do. They usually met on
Wednesdays but there were no set
times and they didn’t meet every
week. Computer Club is similar to
the Computer Technology class.
According to Andrzej, the differ
ence is “mostly the field trips."
by C hris R e d fie ld
In Computer Tech class students de
signed rockets on computers and then
built and launched them. Sophomores
Joe Trosper (left) and Brett Tomlin
(above) prepare their rockets for launch.
Kim Kaup
