Clubs

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**By Savannah**
====MESA stands for Math, Engineering, and Science achievement. It helps people {students} understand math, engineering, and science. MESA students stay after school on Thursdays. They build solar-powered cars, bridges, catapults, tributaries, and water bottle rockets. It is so much fun. They went to competitions and MESA day. When at MESA day, a team almost won a bridge contest named NATIVE PRIDE. On that team were Brianna {an 8th grader} and another girl. Some of the field trips MESA went on were to Aurora Community College, Wings over the Rockies, Natural History and Science Museum and much more. The teacher for MESA at our school is Ms. Olson. Ms. Olson lets you do your homework so you don’t have to do it at home. She also gives you a snack. MESA challenges you and helps you at everything. MESA is fun.====

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= = = **__What Puts the WOW in Denver???__** =

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Many people go to the Denver March Pow-wow. It is a nation wide pow-wow. People from everywhere come to dance, watch, and eat some good food. This pow-wow takes place at the Denver Coliseum. It is fun to go to. You get to socialize, have fun, and watch the dancer’s outfits. Some of Merrill’s Indian education students dance. Some just go to have fun or as Vincent said to see old family. Many want to dance but don’t have the money to get an outfit or time to learn to dance. People just like to maybe socialize with people they may not be able to talk to later in life, like Michael, he talked to ALL the princesses. Merrill has 22 students in Indian education. Out of that 22, 5 people dance. 2 girls dance in that group, the other people are boys that dance. Native girls are really shy. The pow-wow starts on the second to last Friday of March then ends on the last Sunday. This year it started on the 18th and ended on the 20th. There are over 2,000 people that go to the Denver March Pow-Wow. 1600 people just danced and many more watched. There are many contests for dancers to compete in. There are different categories of girls, boys, men, women, and elderly people to be in. Those are just the major categories. In the women and girls there are golden age, senior, women, teen girls, junior girls, and tiny tots. It is the same for the males. In those categories there are at least 3 in them each. The tiny tots are just basically kids under 6. The golden age is for people older than 60. There are a lot of categories. Isn’t March Pow-Wow fun?

= = = = = **__News From Mesa__** =

By Scott
Mesa is an after school club that gets together every Thursday. Mesa is a club where you build things. For example, Mesa built CO2 powered cars; then raced them. CO2 cars were built by having a hole in the back of the car where you put the CO2 cartridge in. When the cartridge is popped, the CO2 is released and that is how the car moves. The cars were also made not too thin because in the race they could snap. Here are two comments: “Yes, I like Mesa because the excitement of building things.” “Yes, because you get to go on field trips and I like it a lot. Students got to go on a field trip to a community college and looked at some of the things they built there and showed them some of the things we built.” Right now Mesa is building roller costars that are 70 inches high! They are also making bridges that can sustain a lot of weight! They are doing all this because Mesa Day is coming up; April 16, 2010. This is also when they have field trip to the museum Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum. This is a museum that has a large amount of planes and some shuttles in it.

by Robby
====The yearbook committee is lead by Ms. Larson. There are nineteen students who meet every Tuesday to work on the yearbook. They start by looking at pages with all the pictures checking that names are spelled correctly, that there is only one picture of every student, and that the students are labeled in the correct grade. On the 24th it weas cancelled because of Thanksgiving. Also, Dulce, a member of the yearbook committee, states, "The cover will probably be of the world. Also, they will probably be ready by CSAP."====