Mr. Seid, Principal

Sweet corn, be-cause it’s the most popular vegetable

in Iowa.

Kelsi Sieren, 12th

Celery, because you can put peanut butter on it and man, I LOVE peanut

butter!

Sierra Lyle,11th

A tribe of asparagus, because they’re self-

conscious of their pee.

Grace Shemanski, 10th

A pickle, because they are tasty with peanut

butter.

Kaylin Swanson,9th

Broccoli, because it looks like a tree.

Olivia Sieren, 8th

A cucumber, so I can be friends with Larry and sing Veggie Tale

songs!

Austin Waterhouse,

7thA carrot; I like to munch on them like Bugs Bunny.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: If you could be any vegetable, what would you be and why? By Maitland Sieren

Emily is optimistic about her futureNational Testing Offered at Keota

EagleRock! Parent’s Night

By Maitland Sieren On June 13, 1995, Emily Grace Baetsle was born into the world. Welcoming her were her parents,

Darren and Jill Baetsle, and older brother Eric. Emily, otherwise known as “Em-Kat” by her friends, enjoys watching football with her family. They love to cheer on the Cowboys! Emily’s favor-ite birthday memory was celebrating during the Keota Fun Days, because her birthday is always around the Fun Days. Emily admires her family because they are positive role mod-els and are always there for her when she needs them most. Young Emily imagined herself as a day care provider. Her favorite child-hood memory is camping at the Coralville Lake. During her years of high school, Emily has been involved in Cross Country, EagleRock!, Eagle’s Wing, 4-H, County Council, Chorus, Band, Speech, Drama, CYM, and has even been the Varsity girls’ basketball manager. Out of all of her activities, she is most proud of being on Honor Roll. The activities she enjoys most are cross-country, managing the bas-

ketball team, and Speech, because “It gives me a chance to be around dif-ferent groups of people!” After high school, Emily plans on going to Kirkwood Community College for Early Childhood Education. In ten years, she sees her-self married and working in Cedar Rapids. Emily plans on determination and her positive attitude getting her there. Her favorite memory of high school so far is going to Prom junior year. When Emily graduates, she will miss seeing her friends every day. While being at KHS, Emily’s favorite class has been Journalism because, “Mrs. Conrad makes it really fun!” This senior’s big-gest pet peeve is not having things orga-nized. In her free time, Em enjoys

refinishing furniture and working on 4-H projects with her grandma. When asking her friends and teach-ers what they will remember most about Emily, Desi Hesseltine said, “I will remember Emily as funny and my only Journalism buddy.” Callie Greiner said, “I will always remem-ber Emily as the basketball manager.” Mrs. Ingersoll said she would be re-

membered as “responsible, hard-working, and kind.”

Three things Emily wants to accomplish are to graduate college, get married, and have kids. When Emily graduates, she wants to be remem-

bered as being a positive person and someone who

likes to be involved. Her advice to future se-niors is, “Your senior year will go by fast, so enjoy it while it

lasts!”

By Maggie Baker In the past few months, Keota High School students have been hard at work taking a few different tests. The PSAT, the Plan, and the Explore tests have all been offered since the start of school. Each of these tests is dif-ferent, but each has a common end goal. Mrs. Detwiler, Guidance Counselor, explained, “These tests help to iden-tify strengths and weaknesses a student might have. Identifying weaknesses can help us make an ed-ucational plan to improve them, and even help strengths that the student will need in their career paths.” The Explore test is offered to 8th through 10th graders, and helps identify career interests. The Plan test is offered to 9th and 10th graders and is similar to a practice ACT test. Students in 10th and 11th grades are eligible to take the PSAT; how-ever, this test is quite important for juniors. For sophomores, this test is just practice, but for juniors, this test can qualify the student for a National Merit Scholarship. As much help as these tests offer, the Plan and Explore tests will no lon-ger be offered at Keota. Mrs. Detwiler explained, “The goals of these tests are already being met by other means, such as Iowa Tests, MAPS test-ing, and I Have a Plan Iowa, at no ad-ditional costs to the district. Plan and Explore tests cost additional fees for goals that are already being met.” If you are a sophomore this year, be sure to listen for Mrs. Detwiler’s announcements early next fall and sign up for the PSAT test. This will not only prepare you for the ACT, but you may even qualify for a National Merit Scholarship your senior year!

The Eagle’s Wing4 Wednesday, November 13, 2013 The Keota Eagle

Keota Jr./Sr. High School Student Newspaper

Emily Baetsle, Maggie Baker, Bianca Cardona,

Erin Chalupa, Callie Greiner, Desi Hesseltine,

Grant Hill, Justin Hultman, Sierra Lyle, John Mather,

Bree Reed, Miranda Romoser, Jasmine Schutte, Madison Sheetz, Maitland

Sieren, Brittney WeberAdviser: Angela Conrad

2013-14EAGLE’S WING

STAFFThis page was composed and designed by Keota High School students. The Keota Eagle is not responsible for the makeup or editorial content expressed.

HALLOWEEN CONTEST WINNERS & TEACHERS AT KHS

KHS CHEERLEADERS SHOOT TO SCORE

EagleRock! performs “Everyday,” by Jon Bon Jovi at last Tuesday night’s Parent’s Night.

EagleRock! hosted their annual Parent’s Night on Tues., Nov. 5 in the KHS gym. They are pictured above singing their ballad, “Orange Colored Sky,” by Nat King Cole.

Grant Hill plays the keytar to the song “Tonight,” by Toby Mac.

Olivia Sieren sings her solo, “God Bless the Broken Road,” by Rascal Flatts.

Grace McHugh sings her solo, “If I Die Young,” by The Band Perry.

Bianca Cardona performs her solo, “The Power of One,” at the EagleRock parent’s night.

By Sierra Lyle The CYM held their annual Haunted House on Sat., Nov. 2. To say it went well is an un-derstatement. The Community Youth Group brought in over $400 in free will donations. A little under one hundred people showed up to be ter-rified. When asked what she thought the scariest room was, Madison Sheetz said, “Probably the room with the lost baby. It really freaked me out!” There were all different types of scares this year. A haunted maze, an exorcism room, and black light room were some of the scariest haunts. Hannah Reed summed up the Haunted House’s success by saying, “It was a great turn-out this year! We all worked to-gether and got things done!” All profits will go to future CYM activities and fundraisers.

CYM HAUNTED HOUSE

A SUCCESS

Mrs. Snakenberg’s Classroom Happenings

By Madison Sheetz This past Tuesday in Mrs. Snakenberg’s class we attended a virtual field trip with Hilton World Wide. A virtual field trip means that we had a video chat with someone who works at Hilton World Wide. Chris Ekimoff was the one who explained forensic account-ing to the class. A forensic ac-countant is someone who acts like a detective who looks for errors that are untrue in a com-pany’s financial information. The classes that attended the virtual field trip were Mrs. Snakenberg’s Indian Hills Community College (IHCC) Intro to Accounting and her Accounting class. When asking Mrs. Snakenberg what she thought of the field trip, she replied, “I thought he did a very good job of explain-ing the steps to take to get into the profession.” Grant Hill, KHS Junior, said, “I thought it was a great experi-ence because I was exposed to a new kind of accounting. It was fun and exciting to learn about a different way that accounting can be used.” Mrs. Snakenberg also keeps busy teaching Keyboarding, Computer Applications, Accounting, and Personal Finance. IHCC Intro to Accounting is a new class she offers this year that serves as a dual credit for students taking this class.

STAFFSPOTLIGHT

By Desi Hesseltine The KHS cheer-leaders would like to announce that the 31 Bags fundraiser was a success! They sold over $1,200

worth of merchandise, and the squad earned $300 to put into the cheer fund. They would like to thank those who helped them raise this money. The cheerleaders will also be rent-ing out pom-poms at the basketball games. Look for the KHS Cheerleaders before games to get in on the action! Also, watch for flyers about the mini-cheer camp coming up in December. The camp day will be December 15th and the performance will be held on December 20th at the Varsity basketball game against Tri-County.

Keota Jr.-Sr. High School held a Halloween dress-up contest on Thurs., Oct. 31. Pictured above, the winners of the contest were (left to right): Riley Conrad as a the Headless Horseman, Jillian Schulte and Frankie Johnson as Bacon & Eggs, Jasmine Schutte as Mother Nature, and Bianca Cardona and Alyssa White as Pedro and Napoleon from the movie Napoleon Dynamite.

The teachers dressed up as board games or board game characters for Halloween. Pictured from left to right, they are: (back row) Mrs. Edwards as Mrs. Peacock from Clue, Ms. Lenius as Mrs. Scarlet from Clue, Hannah Myers as Twister, Mrs. Baker as Boggle, Mr. Bouska as Mr. Monopoly, Ms. Miller as a Domino, Mrs. Conrad as Mr. Mint from Candyland, Mrs. Swanson as Princess Lolly from Candyland; (front row) Mr. and Mrs. Snakenberg as Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, Mrs. Ingersoll as Go Fish, and Ms. Swartzendruber as Scrabble. Also dressing up, but not able to make it for the picture, were Ms. Hobbs as Candyland and Mrs. Detwiler as Monopoly.