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EAST'S GOTEAST'S GOTThere's no argument that students at East Middle School havetalent. Their talents shine through in their schoolwork andsocial interactions. The 2016 talent show perfectly displayedour talents with a variety of songs and acts. Our school'stalent was included in but not limited to this year's show.

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"I entered theschool's talent showto conquer my stagefright. I sangbecause I am asongwriter and I'vebeen singing since Iwas about four yearsold. I find singing tobe really stressrelieving."-Hayley Nelson '21

"I started doingmagic around 4thgrade. I saw it on TVand fell in love withit. I think it'sfascinating. I'vedone talent shows inthe past so I thoughtparticipating in ourschool's talent showwould be fun."-Wyatt Schneider '21

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Dancing in the talentshow is Braxton Hill'22. He has never hadany formal dancetraining, but he has anatural ability to movethe crowd, and he issupported andencouraged by hisparents.

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ON WITH THE SHOW

Singing in the talent

Singing in the talent

show is Eliza Williams

show is Eliza Williams

'22. "I always liked

'22. "I always liked

singing since I wassinging since I was

little. I started little. I started

taking singing taking singing

seriously in the 4th or

seriously in the 4th or

5th grade. When I

5th grade. When I

performed in front of

performed in front of

the whole school my

the whole school my

voice ended upvoice ended up

cracking, I got nerves."

cracking, I got nerves."

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ON WITH THE SHOW

ON WITH THE SHOW

Performing in the talentshow is Hayley Nelsonand Mia Bermudez, both'21. "We chose this songbecause we both felt lostand had no meaning."Bermudez said.

Doing his magic tricks in the

talent show is Wyatt Schnerder

'21. He first became interesting

in magic in 4th grade, when his

dad showed him a trick. This was

his second talent show

performing magic.

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Rapping in the talentshow is JustineSumner '21. Shestarted rapping whenshe was 10 “It tookme 365 days; a fullyear to finish the rapand preparemyself," saidSumner.

Performing in the talentshow is Meredith Mead'22. She loved to sing infront of people. "I havebeen singing all my life...as a toddler I would sing.I enjoy singing a lot,” saidMead.

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Singing Stay by

Rihanna is Skye

Martin '21. She was

invited to dance at

the talent show,

but due to a knee

injury, she decided

to sing instead.

Rap Rockstar

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Singing in the talent show is Mandy Dorman, MichaelaGadzinski, Madison Wables, and Jasmine Kath, all '22. Theywere nervous about being the first act. "It was nervewracking because everybody was watching us and we werethe first act that people saw,” said Dorman.

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9Breakdancing in the talent show

is Kaden Wilson '21. He got into

performing because of his father,

who he dances with sometimes.

Emceeing the talent show is Sara

Gray, Taylor Norton, and Marissa

Rojewski. They are always willing

to lend a hand to teachers and

peers, and had a lot of fun

hosting together.

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4 Shane Taylor '21“I’ve never seen some of thestuff that was performed. Therap song sang by Justine wasvery deep and mentallyoverwhelming but shockinglytrue. My talent is academics, orin other words, school.”

6 Andrew Bruce '21 “The show was very good,other students around me weretalking about how good it was.My favorite acts were thedancers. I had a friend in theshow his name was Wyatt. Mytalent would be soccer, I'mreally good at it and I love it.”

2 Matthew Grody '22“I liked Braxton's act, because he isa good dancer. I think he justshowed everyone what he coulddo. My talent is being me.”

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10 Lily Bovee '22“My favorite act was Braxtonwhen he was breakdancing; it wasreally cool. I also had a couplefriends in the show. I knewMeredith Mead, MaddisonWables, and Michaela Gadzinski. Ilove to sing and play piano. Iactually auditioned for the TalentShow but I didn't get in. I’mplanning to audition next yearagain.”

Kaitlyn Deplanehe '22“The talent show overall was verygood. I really liked the singing acts.My talent is gymnastic, I do fronthand springs, front walk overs, andback walkovers. I wouldn't want toperform in front of everybody,though.”

Noah Manning '20"I think Skye singing Stay is agreat act, because I like to singand she has a great voice. Iwasn’t expecting it to be thatgood. "

Alyza Tracey '20“This year the Talent Show wascreative. I didn't have afavorite act I thought theywere all great. I would have tosay my talent is singing, I'm inchoir.”

Benjamin Taylor'20 “This year there were a lot oftalented people in the talentshow. I think the talent show isa great way for kids to expresstheir personalities.

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Devinn Lownsberry '20“I thought the talent show was great,I liked Skye’s performance andBraxtons. I expected more talents toperform. But, my talent is art but Iwouldn't wanna be in the talentshow.”

Elsa Merrill '21“The talent show was cool thisyear, I loved all the acts and Iknew a couple of people. I tomake it more interesting Iwould have liked to see moreof a variety of acts.”

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Click this picture to watch exclusivecontent from Mahogany's BulidingBridges performance.

Written Rhymes. Reading a studentwritten rap aloud isMahogany Jones. Sheencouraged thestudents toparticipate byexpressing theirfeelings throughrapping. New Exerpiences. Freestyle rapping withMahogany Jones' helpis Kai Rogers '20.Rogers and severalothers volunteered toshare their skills infront of the school.

Mahogany Jones made a big impact on EastMiddle School with her performance andmotivational talk during the 3rd installment ofthe Building Bridges with music series. Studentsapproached her after the performance, posedfor selfies and asked questions. She tours toschools around the Midwest as a special guestwith Building Bridges with Music. "Just recently,I got a really cool phone call from a gentlemanby the name of Jeff Haas, and he told me aboutthe program...which is to do pretty much what Igo across the world to do...to begin to connectcultural dots, but using music and using thearts," said Jones. Mahogany has travelled allover the world, breaking down people’s culturalstereotypes using art and music. “We reallymake efforts to just try and keep everything

temperate...we go to different countries wherethey send diplomats, where ambassadors maybe, and where people don’t always have thegreatest view of America or Americans so thework that we do culturally is kind of to just goand share our music and work with the localartists that are there and the vocal communitythat’s there to help them see that we’re not asbad as you think we are but we’re not asfabulous as you think we might be, and thatwe’re not all Donald Trump.” In her own words,she basically just wants everyone to know: “HeyI have a big package of love for you, and it justhappens to be a whole bunch of words andmusic and I hope you like it.”

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MAHOGANY JONES DISSOLVING CULTURAL STEREOTYPES WITH MUSIC

BuildingBridges "I thought Building Bridges was areally cool exposure to a lot ofcreative stuff that we otherwisewouldn't see," Mr. Ford. Building Bridges is a group of artisticindividuals that come to East Middle School.They present lessons to the students of theschool that will help kids with problems thatoccur daily. One way they shared theirmessage was by playing musicalinstruments with and without the EastMiddle School Band Students. By playingtheir instruments they taught the studentsof East not to bully each other because weare all different in several ways. "Thepurpose of Building Bridges is to use musicas a spring board to teach great lessons,"said Founder Jeff Haas. Everytime Building Bridges visits East MiddleSchool they bring with them a guest. Thistime they brought with them band students

who are currently attending a college. Theyalso invited East Middle School's Black Band Band students to play with them while alsoteaching another great lesson. "I think musiccan be really moving while teaching a greatlesson," said Kailey Gustafson '20. All theband students agreed that it was a greatexperience for everyone. "It was really coolto play with people who are experienced inJazz because this is my first year in JazzBand. We also taught a lesson to theaudience at the same time,” said Sidra Smith

"I likeBuildingBridgesbecause itsends agoodmessageout to ourschool in afun andinteractiveway,"MackenzieBohrer '21.

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Another way that BuildingBridges collaborated to putacross their message wasthrough dance. Jeff Haasinvited dancers KatelynColling and Dwaylan Jones toEMS for a Martin Luther KingJr. Celebration. The twoprepared three differentdances to share with ourschool. Dwaylan has been dancingsince he was fourteen and hestudied dance at the DetroitSchool of Arts. He is alsocurrently a sophomore atConcordia University. "Dancehas been one of the greatestthings in my life," said Jones.Katelyn has been dancingsince she was just threeyears-old and hopes that oneday she can have theopportunity to be aprofessional dancer.

"Our goal was to teach the

youth about equality andhow to accept each other'sdifferences no matter race,

gender, or sexualorientation," said Jones.

Jeff Haas also reached out to and invited her to come andtake part in the celebration.

She sang "Way In The Water"and the world famous

Whitney Houston song, "IWill Always Love You".

She has been singing since

the age of three and eversince then music has been

such a huge part of her life."Music is so important to me

and it has helped me tomeet so many people, andsome from other races andcultural backgrounds," said

Wheeler.

" " "I like hearing thedifferent kinds of musicthat they play for us,"said Jack Brizard '22.

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OliviaRichards'20

1 CarinaStewart'20

Olivia Richards races the200 meter dash, the 100meter dash and she doeslong jump. Richards was2 seconds away frombeating the schoolrecord for the 200 meterdash, her time was 29.40.

Carina Stewart racesthe 800 meter and shedoes long jump. Thisyear at the BNC MiddleSchool championshiprace, Stewart not onlybroke her personalrecord, but she alsotook home first place.

Grace Kipfmueller racesthe 4x400 relay, the4x200 relay and the400 meter run.Kipfmueller was tryingto break both relaysbut came 2 secondsshort.

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Girls Track!

We talked to Coach McDougall and she told us who she thoughtwere breaking records and who will continue to break records.These are the girls that she said are the best throughout theseason.

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SidneyCarrigan'20

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GraceMaitland '22

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Sidney Carrigan races the400 meter, 3200 meter,the 4x400 relay and4x800 relay. Carriganbroke her personalrecord for the 3200 meterrace at the Kiwanis invitewith a time of 12:01.26.

Piperlynn Mattesondoes the 70 meterhurdles, the 200 meterhurdles and long jump.The highlight ofMatteson’s season waswhen she was able tobeat her opponent inthe 70 meter hurdles.

Grace Maitland racesthe 70 meter dash, thehigh jump and the4x100 relay team.Maitland was able tobreak all of her personalrecords at the All Citymeet.

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EYE ON THE PRIZE

THE JOURNALISM FAMILY

THE SPARTAN The iconic Spartan Award is acritique that participatingmedia can earn in it's field.Only 22% of submissions wona Spartan. East Journalismwon their Spartans for TrojanTV and their website; The Link.EMS is the only middle schoolever to recive the honor.Other medias that can besubmitted are yearbooks andnewspapers.

Over the school year, thejournalism staff grew veryclose. Winning the Spartanmade them all even closer."We knew that if we hadn'tworked together; wewoudln't have won. OurSpartans represent teamworkand our Journalism family," -Eleanor Stevenson '20

In MIPA Contests, theorganization offers MeritAwards in addition to theSpatans and other crtiques.These Merit awards includefirst, second, third, andhonorable mentioncertificates. They honorphotography, videos,yearbook pages, newspaperarticles, and more.

THE MERIT AWARDS

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WINNER TAKES ALL

Without theadvisors; Mrs.

Mackey and Mrs.Phillips, the

journalism staffwould be nowhere.They taught them

everything theyknow about their

craft. Their supportcontinues toexpand the

journalism talentsin the school today.

"Winning the Spartansand awards was superexciting because wegot to see all of ourhard journalism workfinally pay off." -Lilly Prall '20

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WINNER TAKES ALL

Without theadvisors; Mrs.

Mackey and Mrs.Phillips, the

journalism staffwould be nowhere.They taught them

everything theyknow about their

craft. Their supportcontinues toexpand the

journalism talentsin the school today.

"The suspense was theworst part when wewere waiting to seethe results of theSpartan. I wassurprised that we wonone Spartan, thesecond one blew mymind." -Paxton Cruzen '21

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2. Finish Strong. Finishing the open800 meter run is Sam Simon ’21. Hebelieved that the wind played a minorrole in his performance. "The wind dideffect how I ran, but it also dependson how my legs feel,” said Simon.

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4. Time for Teamwork. Sprinting atthe end of his 800 meter race here atEast is Eli VanVynct ’21. He enjoyedrunning with his teammate MatthewRitter. "We are the same pace so it’sfun to be able to run with someone,”

3. All About the Height. Getting inthe air during high jump is DrewMcCall '20. He wasn't happy with theheight he got. "The weather was reallycold so I did not do my best," said

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1. First Jumps. Powering over ahurdle at a home meet is Owen Shaw’20. It was his first race of the year,and he felt unprepared. "I did not feelready before hand, but after I felt likeI could keep doing hurdles in thefuture,” said Shaw.

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5. Running Records. Running thetwo mile race is Cam Owens ’21. Hehoped to beat the school record. "I’mclose to beating it, so hopefully nextmeet I do," said Owens. 6. Jump andPass. About to jump over a hurdle inthe 55 meter hurdle relay is GabrielHoward ‘22. He was not used to thiskind of race. "I liked it because youdepend on your teammates and it’smore of a team thing,” said Howard.

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Filling a flat tire on his bike isJustin Olhert '20. Jesse Martin '20 is polishingand cleaning his bike. Fixing his bike seat, because itwas loose is Gavin Havenga '20. Nick Sommerfield '20 is ridinghis bike during reource which isthe time the group meets up. Than Dykstra is the teacherthat runs Bike to East, he isrecycling the bike parts foranother bike.

TROJANS BIKE TO EAST

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TROJANS BIKE TO EAST

"Bike to East is agreat program. Ihave learnedmany things," saidJames Bedells '20.

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ALL EARS Listening to Vinnie, the tour guideshare the histroy of the ArlingtonCemetery is Mitchell Stachnik '20.He found the tour and contentinteresting. "I liked seeing JFK'sgrave and his family's graves,"said Stachnik.

MOVING MEMORIAL Reading letters at the Korean WarMemorial is Audrey Blanchard '20.Letters, flowers and othermomentos were strewn thoughoutthe memorial as a token to lovedones lost. "The memorial wasreally interesting and powerful,"said Blanchard.

FACE TO FACE Studying the Korean WarMemorial is Lilly Prall '20. Thememorial was created toreflect specators amongst theetched pictures of the soldiers."It was impacting because itwas like I was really there," said Prall.

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ALL EARS Listening to Vinnie, the tour guideshare the histroy of the ArlingtonCemetery is Mitchell Stachnik '20.He found the tour and contentinteresting. "I liked seeing JFK'sgrave and his family's graves,"said Stachnik.

HANDS ON Interacting with an exhibit atthe Franklin D. RooseveltMemorial is Lily Briggs '20. Sheliked the memorial because itwent from showing the badtimes to the good times. "It wasreally cool to see the statues ofpeople who made our countrybetter," said Briggs.

MOVING MEMORIAL Reading letters at the Korean WarMemorial is Audrey Blanchard '20.Letters, flowers and othermomentos were strewn thoughoutthe memorial as a token to lovedones lost. "The memorial wasreally interesting and powerful,"said Blanchard.

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FuturePresidents

Emma Baird &Henry Parvel

Social Butterflies Carina Stewart &

Owen Shaw

Next Winners ofThe Voice

McKenna Bak &

Kai Rogers

Next Picasso

Julia Snyder & FinnLancashire

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Broadway Stars

Lauren Fleming &Cole Kushner

FutureOlympians Leah Socks & HenryGoldkuhle

Natural Helpers Emily Armstrong &Darin Aprea

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