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IN BRIEF

The Minnesota

Wild have secured a

playoff spot despite

losing their last four.

The regular season

ends Saturday with a

game against the

Calgary Flames.

The first-round play-

off opponent will be

the Dallas Stars or

the St. Louis Blues.

The Minnesota

Twins began their

2016 campaign in

Baltimore, getting

swept by the Orioles

in a three-game se-

ries, including a 4-2

loss last night.

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Art gallery brings artists closer to the people By Rebecca Edwards

The Mahtomedi art department is, as of late March, hosting a gal-lery in the Chautauqua Fine Arts Center to celebrate senior award winners and to display the artwork of Mahtomedi students from every area of the department. The gallery is funded by MAEF (Mahtomedi Area Educational Foundation) and is currently show-ing drawings, paintings, photo-graphs, digital art, and pottery. On March 29th the school host-ed an event to showcase student video projects and digitally pro-duced art as well as recognize se-lect seniors for their outstanding

artistic achievement across medi-ums. The winners for 2016 includ-ed Jasmine Gibson and Chelsea Henagan for drawing, Hayley Boyd for photography, Natalie Rogers for painting, Kaleigh Mil-ler for digital art, Tyler Leininger for pottery, and John Camitsch and Charlie Couture for video. Alicia Dolentz, who teaches painting, photography, and video classes at Mahtomedi, is pleased that this sort of art showcase is “able to feature digital artwork, films, and media-based art as well as art you can hang on a wall.”

In years past, Art and other fine arts departments hosted a senior banquet that doubled as an award ceremony for the senior artists, writers, and musicians. This changed in 2015, and the gallery was created, making student art-work more accessible. “It really worked out nicely,” says Dolentz.

Innovative class-room helps engage students By Madeline Paakkonen This year, students of math teacher Matt Oswald have had the opportunity to experience a new type of classroom. With the help of a grant, Oswald has equipped his room with new technology and materials, hoping to help students grasp ideas and improve their un-derstanding of topics. By converting the classroom walls into floor- to-ceiling white boards used for group problems and activities, Oswald has intro-duced IdeaPaint into his lesson plans. IdeaPaint creates a collabo-rative space with the use of white-board markers and erasers, help-ing students express their ideas and use problem-solving skills in an open, active environment.

Three TV monitors which con-nect to tablets through Chromecast have also been added to the room, further enhancing group learning. Oswald was inspired to reno-vate his classroom with the goals of active learning and collabora-tion in mind in hopes that his stu-dents would benefit greatly from the changes. A student of Os-wald's, junior Bridget Barnett, showed her appreciation by ex-plaining that the room “promotes teamwork” and provides “a good way to work together.” Recently, Oswald applied for and received a second grant in order to improve his classroom even more. He hopes that, before the end of this school year, “mobile, collaborative chairs or tables” will replace the more sta-tionary desks currently in the classroom. The new furniture will both facilitate physical movement and contribute to an engaged stu-dent learning experience.

Prom 2016: New location, same great fun By MZP Staff Mahtomedi’s senior prom has officially changed both venue and date and will now take place at the John P. Furber Farm on May 7th. The original location, Studio JX in downtown Stillwater, was booked in the summer of 2015 to host the prom on May 14th of this year. Though the site was still un-

der construction at the time of the booking, completion was predicted in time for the big day. Last month, with prom ap-proaching rapidly and construction still underway, Mahtomedi Student Leadership Council was forced to find another time and place for the dance. To complement the change of scenery, the theme for Prom 2016 will now be modeled after the hit eighties film Footloose. “It was a disappointment, but the new venue will be even better,” says SLC board representative and

Mahtomedi junior Acadia Hega-dus. The event includes dancing and dinner. Tickets will go on sale later this April.

MHS Prom

at the Furber Farm

May 7th, 2016

Get ready to cut Footloose!

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Mahtomedi schools go head-to-head in food drive event By Jill Olson

Over the past few weeks, Mahtomedi’s high school and mid-dle school competed in a food do-nation competition for the Mahtomedi Food Shelf. The Student Leadership Coun-cils of both schools encouraged students, with the incentive of school-wide homework passes, to donate non-perishable foods to school. At the high school, students deposited food in the commons to be taken to the food shelf later this week where the food would be weighed and the winner deter-mined. The food has yet to be measured; however, a strictly visu-

al inspection had the middle school in the lead. Official final results are expected to be posted soon.

Works by student artists, including the piece by Jasmine Gibson (above) grace the CFAC

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Mahtomedi sailing season is afloat By Madeline Paakkonen

This past Tuesday marked the start of the Mahtomedi Sailing Team’s in- water practice. Due to the early ice-out on White Bear Lake, the team has been able to start training and prepar-ing for upcoming regattas, or meets. The Mahtomedi team sails at the White Bear Yacht Club with other sailors from various schools in the region. Seniors Izzi Boo and Anneka Ecker enter their final season of sail-ing as the team gears up to compete against various other sailing schools. This weekend, Mahtomedi mem-bers will put their sailing skills to the test in a regatta hosted by the St. Croix Sailing School in Hudson, WI.

McGauley recipient of annual Athena Award By Bailey Pohl

Every year one female senior from Mahto-medi High School who has demonstrated both athletic and scholastic success is chosen as the winner of the Athena Award. This year’s re-cipient is Caitie McGauley.

For McGauley or any student-athlete, ob-taining that high level of athletic skill and aca-demic accomplishment is no easy feat.

McGauley explains that she tries to bal-ance school, sports, and life. After practice,

she first completes homework, then socializes with friends, and finally gets some sleep.

Being a successful student-athlete has come with both sacrifice and a great deal of joy. McGauley has especially enjoyed taking on the role of captain in her athletic career. “My favorite part of being captain is watching other girls get better and helping them im-prove,” states McGauley.

When McGauley inevitably graduates and goes off to college, she knows that she will miss having practice two hours a day and matching the high level of play of local com-petitors. Above all, she will definitely miss her Mahtomedi teammates.

Society Beat: MHS all-school testing draws nigh By Courtney Clark

Mahtomedi’s annual all-school test day is Tuesday, April 19, this year! Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors will all be taking tests while the seniors take the day to research and plan their post-high school op-tions. Freshmen will be taking the EX-PLORE test. It takes about two hours and covers math, reading, science, and English. This test is meant to let test-takers explore which classes they want to take and which careers may interest them. Also, the test prepares freshmen for taking the PLAN and eventually, the ACT.

Sophomores are going to be tak-ing the PLAN test, which is about two hours long as well. It covers the same four topics as the EXPLORE test. This test helps students predict their ACT score and measure their progress in high school so far. It is also used to prepare students for the ACT. The juniors will be taking the ACT on all-school test day. This test is required for graduation, and each student’s ACT test score is an im-portant piece of data that many col-leges examine when rating prospec-tive in-coming freshmen. Covering a broad range of reading, math, and science skills, the four-part test takes almost three hours and has an option-al 30-minute essay. April 19th—mark it on your cal-endar! Come rested and prepared for an awesome all-school test day!

Zephyr E-News goes live By Rebecca Edwards

This week, MHS’s Music and Events Broadcasting class distributed another edi-tion of the new Zephyr Weekly E-News, the second in a new series of video updates to be played during Wednesday advisories for the rest of the semester. The students will rotate group responsi-bilities weekly. Says class teacher and E-News producer Chad Garrels, “This is a great opportunity for students to experiment with lots of different broadcasting roles that wouldn’t normally be available.” The group began playing around with news broadcasting the week before spring break and has quickly developed into an in-formational resource which the group hopes to continue for a long while.

Mysterious hand print mysteriously appears on wall By MZP Staff

Recently, a MZP reporter noticed a hand print on the wall in the hallway leading the English/Social wing of the high school. The hand print, repro-duced at the right, was multi-

colored, but is reproduced here in black and white due to budget constraints on the Zephyr Press. Scientists as well as the custodial staff here at MHS have yet to determine the exact origin of the print. An-thropologists have little in-sight into what it means, though the print seems to be part of some sort of ritual.

UPDATE: Turns out the print is one of hundreds on the wall, placed in recent years by outgoing seniors. If you can identify the name of the senior from 2015 who left the specific print pictured at right, saunter on down to classroom 1314, tell Mr. C. the correct answer, and win delicious peppermint lifesava’ mint! What does it mean?

MHS choir prepares for Pops concert By MZP staff The Mahtomedi student choirs have finalized a theme for their upcoming Pops concert. The Pops concert, which many choir students revere as a “chance to perform fun and recognizable songs,” was intro-duced by new choir

director Chad Garrels to replace the more formal and traditional spring show. The theme of this spring’s concert is “Broadway through the Ages.” The show will include such mu-sical numbers as “Put on a Happy Face” from Bye-Bye Birdie and Bohemian Rhap-sody” from the broad-way hit We Will Rock You. The four MHS choirs are working hard to perfect their performance for this May.

Multi-sport athlete and enthusias-tic scholar Caitie McGauley

Members of the multi-school team (above)

Boats poised to begin a race (below)