Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Visit our YouTube Channel!

SW Patrons, we here at the Raider Report have some news for you. We have now launched a YouTube channel. Every week we'll upload our newcast to the blog and YouTube so be sure to check them both out. We will also be doing comedic shorts which will be posted when we have time. Check out the links below for the blog and our new YouTube channel.

www.swraiderreport.blogspot.com/
www.youtube.com/swraiderreport/

Newscast #2 Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Want To Taste?


This year the students in Mr. Butler’s biology class cooked up some protein filled foods. The main ingredients for these special foods were BUGS.
The six students had just got done learning about the proteins found in the exoskeleton of some bugs, so for a fun little experiment they decided to cook with these bugs. The class made mealworm cookies, cockroach stir-fry, and some sort of cricket dish.
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By Megan Lefebvre

Monday, September 26, 2011

Bluffton Game


On Friday the 23rd, the Southern Wells Raiders fought a hard battle against the Bluffton Tigers on the brand new turf. To begin the game the SW captains deferred and got the ball at the beginning of the second half. Seth Biberstine kicked off to a good Raider start. The Tigers scored the first six points and added a point for a field goal. Then the raiders got the ball and scored but coach Lefebvre decided to go for 2. The 2 points were good. 7-8, Raiders were ahead. The game went down hill after that. Raider momentum was running down. To end half time, Bluffton was up 14-8. Then at the end of the third quarter, the score was 29-16 Bluffton. By the beginning of the 4th quarter though, the Raiders were gaining back there momentum. Raiders were up 40- 35 in the last minute and twenty-three seconds. Bluffton had a touchdown pass to now make the score 40-41. That was the game ending touchdown. Bluffton’s varsity won but, their Junior Varsity will be dominated!


By Molly Stoffel

Friday, September 23, 2011

Homecoming



Last week was the start of homecoming as our Raiders football team took on the Wes-Del Warriors. Our week started off with Pajama day and during the last half hour of school a pep session was held by the cheerleaders. As students poured into the gymnasium, the band played the school song and other game day tunes. Senior and Carnes Crazy Lucas Miller introduced members of the members of the girl’s golf, boys and girls cross country, and finally the football team. Seniors and captains from each team were recognized when their team had the floor. Tuesday’s theme was tie day as we were to “tie up the warriors.” Wednesday was war paint and class color day with activities night at starting at 5 pm. The activities held were the chug contest, wheel barrel race, dodge ball, and, the powder-puff football game which was, unfortunately cancelled for that night. The juniors came in last place with 11 points, the freshman came in third with…, the seniors and sophomores had an extremely competitive night with each scoring 29 and 30 points respectively. The 7th wore white, the 8th were gray, freshman wore red, sophomores wore white, juniors wore red, and the seniors wore black. Thursday was the theme of the week, wild, wild raiders as students were encouraged to dress in cowboy or girl outfits in preparation for our showdown with the warriors. Friday was game day and that meant spirit day. Raider fans and students wore the S.W. gear with pride down the hallways and to the game to watch our boys beat the Wes-Del Warriors 60-0! Way to go Raiders!


By Molly Stoffel

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Southern Wells Media


As you may have heard, the Media class this year will be making a weekly newscast instead of newspaper. Before we could even think about beginning the newscast, we had to make the intro, which, believe it or not, took a few weeks. Brittney filmed the teacher profile and did the voiceovers. Next we shot footage of events from the homecoming week. We literally had to film everything, such as the dress up days, the pep rally, activity night, the football game, and the crowning of the king and queen. Kinder had two people film the football game so we could get footage from “all angles”. Even though the camera workers were freezing their butts off, they still got some stellar footage. The boys spent a while cutting shots and rendering the videos to make the perfect pep rally scene.
The class is a lot of hard work. We are always doing something, like typing, filming, thinking of new ideas for the blog, or trying to make our next newscast better.
We have faced many challenges throughout the class. First, our green screen and lights didn’t come in on time which delayed some of the segments. Next, our only camera was “mysteriously” broken. After that we couldn’t get the intro put together, but eventually worked out all the flaws. Right after we got the green screen and the lights, both of the lights burnt out and we couldn’t replace them. The most frustrating thing though, was that not everyone got to see our newscast! That was infuriating because we all worked so hard on it and only some of the students watched it. My personal opinion on the newscast is that it is pretty awesome. It had the perfect mixture of funny and serious, and it kept your attention. Our class is going to continue to make the videos better, and any advice or ideas you have are welcomed. We plan on showing them every SWIM week. So I hope you’re looking forward to seeing our next newscast!

Just A BAD Day


My day had started out great, no matter what the weather was on that rainy Thursday morning, which all ended by fourth period. As I walked into class I realized I had lost my flash drive off my book bag. Oh well, I thought as I continued throughout the rest of the period. It will turn up eventually. By firth period I was starting to get a little stressed out. I realized I had left my Literature book in the computer lab from the day before, but when I went back to look, it was no where to be seen. I then walked to the lost and found, searched my locker, Mrs. Smiths room, and my P.E. locker for any place I may have left it. To make the problem ten times worse, I was sure I had left the homework that was due that day in that book. I came back to class feeling very disappointed. WHERE COULD IT BE!
Well thanks to the seniors in media class, to which Mrs. Hartman had given my book to because she knew they were in my 7th period class (Thanks Mrs. Hartman! I wouldn’t have found it without you.), they did not give me my book. I went 3 days without that book, had late assignments, and was very stressed out. The smartest idea would have been to go talk to Mrs. Hartman to see if she had seen it, but me, being me, did not think of that until just today. I followed the trail she gave me which led me to Jordan Alstoft, who blamed Jagger Love. But the real twist on this story is that the entire time that I had told my teacher, Mrs. Shoaf, that my workbook pages were in my Lit book (which I had believed to be true), I soon found that it had really been in my grammar workbook which I had carried around with me to class everyday. So I would like to say I’m sorry to Mrs. Shoaf for overlooking the pages in my book, and thanks a lot to the seniors who could’ve given me my book three days before they did.


By: Brooke Penrod

Pep Session


This past Monday at 2:30, the cheerleaders put together a pep session to cheer the Varsity football players on for the homecoming game against Wes-Del. The session kicked off with the cheerleaders, who performed chants such as “We Got a Team Going All the Way” and “What’s Your Number?” Following this, we recognized all of the fall sports teams; Football, Golf, Cross Country, and Volleyball. I think one of the more major highlights of this pep session though, was when Mr. Fouts, Mr. Bulter, and Mr. Thomas pulled Mrs. Walter, Mrs. Meeks, and Mrs. Shoaf around on a tarp, swerving in and out of cones, racing to see who could keep their teammate on the tarp all the way to the finish line. Mr. Butler and Mrs. Meeks won, with Mr. Fouts and Mrs. Walter in second, and Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Shoaf in a close third. The true favorite activity of the pep session was probably when a few of the football players getting to pie some lucky cheerleaders in the face. Although not without having to do some pretty odd things. Overall, I think the afternoon was enjoyed by most and wish the football players luck in the game on Friday.


By Molly Stoffel

Monday, September 19, 2011

Newscast #1 Tuesday, September 20, 2011

What Is Going On?


Gas…why are you so expensive? Many students here at S.W. drive daily to school and back home. To sporting events and to work, and the one time that we quench is when we need to fill up. Gas right now is at a steady $3.79/gallon in many areas around here and, fortunately, that seems to be a consistent price. While it’s not as bad as it used to be, it’s still pretty hard on most of us middle class people. I personally despise going to the pump. I drive a Ford F-150 and let me tell you, a full tank is not cheap. It takes $80 for a full tank of gas and for many others with larger or older vehicles, it’s even more. You can blame a large portion of the price increase on the conflict in Libya. Libya produces 2% of the worlds’ oil which is about 1,758,000 barrels a day. Luckily the conflict is in what seems to be its final stages, so that means they will start producing more barrels. Another reason is, there has been a lot of activity in the tropics. Thus far there have been two hurricanes and ten tropical storms with many of them forcing companies to evacuate there workers, thus halting production. Hurricane season ends November 30th so production will definitely increase before the years end. So the big picture is oil production is down throughout the world because of rebellions and tropical storms causing gas to go up from $3.68 to $3.79 but it’s not as bad as it used to be in ‘08 when we had to pay $4.00 a gallon.



By: Austin Hampton

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Girls Golf




This year our girl’s golf team has done exceptionally well. The girls on the team are Sadie Herr, Jayde Sills, Kendra Mounsey, Megan Lefebvre, Jordyn Sills, and Jaylynn Pruitt. The first invitational that the girls attended they took home a victory with a 191 team score. Sadie Herr placed 2nd in the invitational with a 41, Megan Lefebvre placed 5th with a 44, and Jayde Sills placed 7th with a 49. This was low enough to win the invitational with a 191 and take home a trophy. The team has won more matches than in the last four years. Couch Ez Harris says, “The girls are improving every time that we go out on the course.” Although the season is coming to an end, Sectionals are on Saturday the 15th. Good Luck Ladies!


by Megan Lefebvre