In the Creative Spirit. A poetry prompt for January.
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Do you know a high school junior who is outstanding at everything? Do they serve the community and participate in extracurriculars? Do they get super grades and hold down a job all at the same time?
[People]
Name: Anne Schopen
Hometown: Jefferson, Wisconsin
Occupation: Mother, public relations leader, director of client services at Pineapple Reputation Management
“I get energy from the students,” Maple Grove Senior High counselor Janelle Gillis says. “They have an ‘I can conquer anything’ attitude. High school students are fun. If you give [them] the opportunity to be real, they embrace that.
[Arts]
A kid’s bedtime is the worst. Trying to get little ones to go to sleep can be a nightly battle. So much so that Richard Dahlberg based an entire children’s story around a battle he had with his then 7-year-old daughter Allison.
[People]
More than 150 actors ages 9-17 auditioned competitively from all over the state of Minnesota to be one of 17 youth performers in the Children’s Theatre Company production of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
[People]
Zachery Budde, now a third-degree black belt, started taekwondo in first grade and never looked back. For the past 11 years, he’s trained with Grandmaster Eui Yong Lee, at World Taekwondo Academy in Maple Grove.
Percentages can be one of the most confusing mathematical concepts for children, and even adults, to master. Yet, an understanding of percents is critical in everyday life. The following intuitive approach focuses on the true meaning of percents as opposed to methods that are based on rote memo
[People]
Maple Grove ain’t the Wild West. There are no gun-totin’ outlaws running the streets. A story about the new chief in town doesn’t carry as much panache as an old Western, but Eric Werner prefers it that way. As long as the community feels safe, Werner is doing his job.
Don’t feel bad if you can’t quite keep up with Joshua Borchardt. The 2008 Maple Grove High School graduate has been studying life forms in space and the potential for life on Mars. His work includes a stint at NASA in 2012.
