High School

RRMR is...

     Cheerleading, friends, mistakes, memories, experiences. 

Self-Expression

Moving Schools, Making Friends, Even Memories......

Memoir

Coming here: Best decision ever!

six work essay

First day horrible, Last day awesome!!

Time To Go

My experience at RRMR

Timeless

Cliché

Past

Dreams

Career

Self-image

Rockford Senior High: We gone!

road work

The constant road work in mason city is getting old. They constantly throw down patches. They should just shut down the road for a few months and completely replace the road. It would actually end up being cheaper than a repair every other month.

Snow in May

Who would have thought that we would have another snow day in May? May 2, in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota, there were up to 14 inches of snow that fell on the ground. Some farmers were afraid that their crops that they had already planted wouldn't come up, because of the snow and the temperature being below 32 degrees. Their worries were washed away when they saw that the crops had sprouted. The majority of the students at RRMR are mad about having to go to school another day except the seniors. "The snow was the product of Mother Nature and Jack Frost having relations."- Tyler Burnett, Senior at Rockford

Summer Fun!!

The summer is supposed to be fun. School is making summer less fun by taking some of our summer and making us come to school. Summer  should have kids running and playing in the water. They should also be having fun and not getting in trouble. Kids this summer will be able to swim in the rivers and they actually get to swim because the water level is decent condition. The water is also right now at a dangerous level because the tide can take children and young adults drowned. Mrs. Huebsch says is ready to start semester tests to start because that mean the children are one step closer to their summer break.

New Facebook Layout

           Facebook is coming out with another new home page format, that will help clean up all the clutter in previous layouts. Facebook has had many different home pages and has been trying to clean up the homepage and make it more user friendly, and they think that they've got it right this time. The layout is very simple to use, and it also looks very nice and sleek, compared to earlier formats used for their homepage. Many people have said that it looks good but they're not quite sure how easy it will actually work, and that it may even complicate things because people will have to relearn the site again. When asked Samantha Stevens said "she likes the old Facebook, the new format is sometimes hard to understand. Once you get used to one they should just leave it." In my opinion I think it looks good but it should just be left alone.

Playhouse Competition

     The RRMR building trades class took a field trip on May, 8, 2013 to NIACC. The class builds a playhouse throughout the semester and then takes it to the NIACC campus for judging. The playhouse was given the "most authentic architectural design" award. The building trades class consists of Jacob Jeffrey, Calvin Adams, Christian Uker, and Sabrina Dow. The playhouse was transferred to NIACC by Rick Dow, the instructor of building trades. While on campus, we were given a tour of the industrial technology lab, the tool and dye lab, the welding lab, and much more. Also, we were given a free hamburger lunch and some people received prizes. Christian Uker won a hand sander and the building trades class won two drills. Rick Dow says, "It was fun."

Disadvantages of One-on-One Computers

      The Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock community school district has recently given each junior high and high school student a laptop of their own to use during the school year. The school board apparently felt that the laptops would benefit the children by helping them with their homework and the teachers can give assignments over the internet. The school hands out the laptops before the school year  each August and the students have the choice to pay 30 dollars to take the computer home with them. In my opinion, the computers are not being used for the correct purposes. No matter how many firewalls and netsweepers you put on the internet, the students are still going to find a way around them to play games and waste their time on them. Also, if people would think once in a blue moon...what happens when the teachers start giving the assignments on the internet? What happens when the teachers start to record themselves teaching so they can use the lectures for next year? What happens when too many people are on the internet at one time playing games when others are trying to do the homework assigned to them over the internet? I will tell you what happens. The students are not benefitting at all from having a teacher in the classroom, if they can watch a lecture on their computer and complete and turn in their assignments over the internet. So, why can't I just stay at home and learn? Sure you are going to say that the teacher can give more guidance and help, but if I have a computer right in front of me...the internet has all the information in the world, doesn't it? You are not teaching the students new things to memorize and to just know, you are teaching us how to find the information. Anyone can find information. Rick Dow, the industrial technology instructor at RRMR says, "They're a tool, when used properly, they can be very useful." The computers will soon take the place of teachers, you just watch!

3 women found and young child after a decade

In Cleveland Ohio, three young women were found in the basement of a 52 year old mans house. Amanda Berry, missing 10 years, Gina Dejesus, missing 7 years, and Michelle Knight was missing for 8 years. The suspects are hispanic and are all brothers. Pedro Casto was the owner and the only one of the brothers that was living in the house at the time. A neighbor, Charles Ramsey said he was walking from a nearby McDonalds when he heard a girl screaming help me and he could see her arm waving out of the house. He went up to the house and Amanda asked him for help and told him that she had been in there a long time. Charles kicked open the door as Amanda ran out with a 6 year old girl, that is said to be hers while she was held in captivity. She asked if she could use my phone as she was telling me that there was other girls still inside the house. Charles Ramsey told reporters. "And this was my neighbor, I thought you got some big testicles to pull this off bro, we see this dude every day, I barbecue with this dude, we listen to salsa and eat ribs together, and we had not a clue."

The girls were immediately hospitalized and are now reunited with their families. 

Gina Dejesus Amanda Berry Michelle Knight

Conference Golf

Boys and girls conference golf was held in Nashua, Monday for the boys and Tuesday for the girls. The boys golf team took fifth in the conference with Ryan Turner and Jake Green making 2nd Team-All Conference. The girls golf team came in third with Rachael Enabnit and Courtney Ott making 2nd Team-All Conference. Now the girls' golf team will go to Trear on Monday. The boys' golf team will travel to Lake Mills Friday. "I am so proud of the girls for making it in the top of the conference!" -Mrs. Staudt, girls' golf coach.
Photo courtesy of google images

volleyball and big deals

The RRMR volley ball team is a very good team. The dont just play hard they have really good sportsmen ship among their teammates and other players no matter where it is. The RRMR girls
volleyball team has a good chance to make it to districts and maybe even farther then that. they girls try there hardest every game and it shows and they have a huge fan base that cheer very load. Mr. Turner says That the excitement generated by them and the loud crowds and the seniors  leadership and the center that could get the ball  where it needed to go.

In the town of rockford there is a bar and grill that make good food and its a good place to just go have a couple with your buddys and have a good time. The hamburger of my choice is the Rancho Burger, this hamburger has lots of goodies they start out with an hamburger and the put onion  rings on it and ranch dressing.The small business has lots of regular costumers and they get some new ones every once in a while.

Senior Spotlights!!!

Most people love that this class writes the senior spotlights. The problem we have with writing them is trying to get the seniors to fill out the papers and to turn them into us. People think that it should be us finding out all this information on our own, but how are we supposed to know the little things about all the seniors. Mrs. Huebsch said that we do finally have them all, and that it was like pulling teeth to get them.

CDC

The CDC has posted a plan for a zombie outbreak. Yes I am serious. Their plan is very simple and ineffectual, lock the door. When asked Ethan said"Lock the windows too, "just in case" Tyler said " that is the dumbest thing i have ever heard." I sincerely concur, first of all i can't believe that they even bothered to make a plan. Second, the best they got was lock the door? pathetic. I have actually met second graders with better plans than that.

Water to Leave Rockford

The dam in Rockford, Iowa has been scheduled to be removed in the fall of 2103. There has been major construction in Rockford in the last six months. The bridge from one side of the town to the other has been removed and is being rebuilt.  Once the dam has been removed the river bottom will have to be dredged to keep the river level acceptable.  Kelly Hain feels that the dam being removed will bring the water level down to the level that it won't be worth calling it a river.  

Photo courtesy of google images. 

Apollo Reborn

The Bezos Expedition Team has been leading the effort to recover engines from the Apollo Missions.  Many of the F-1 series engines were burnt up and warped upon reentry to the earths atmosphere.  Serial numbers have been used to attempt to link the engines to the famous Apollo 11 mission. Due to the immense amount of heat most of the serial numbers are not complete.  The latest update from Bezos was released on March 20th 2013, after spending three weeks at sea. When asked if he felt the retrieval of the engines would benefit science Tyler Tumilson replied "He feels that the engines have already been built by the U.S.A. once, why would the recovery benefit science."

Turbine from the F-1 engine.  Photo from Bezos Expedition's website.