Graduation

Last night I work one of the three cameras for the Graduation ceremony last night. The ceremony started with all the graduates making what seemed to be the slowest walk to their seats ever. The student speaker for the ceremony was Colin Burke. He spoke about his experiences from his middle school days up until his last days at Eastview. He also recaped what was a fantastic year for Eastview overall. The choir then sang a couple of songs leading in to the faculty speaker Mr. Hering. Hering spoke about this class being his favorite and all the experiences he had with them. Then all the students recieved their diploma holders and what seemed to be 5 hours of standing later, all the caps went soaring into the air and the ceremony was over. It was a great night for all the graduates and a terrible night for my legs.

Brian Patten

Ashley's Joe petrulo v-sot

For my vsot I did a interview with senior Joe petrulo, our minnesota state golf champ. It was interesting because while he won state he shares his title with another golfer because of a tie. Alothough they didn’t do quite as well as him the gold team over all did an outstanding job as well. When meeting with Joe it was interesting to hear that he had been golfing sense he could walk. It was also funny to find that no one in his family has the same golfing ability as him.

Ashley's Science Olympiad

I did a story on the science olymipiad team. For not being a very well known team at our school they had an outstanding season. They took first in state, which sent them to nationals. Not only did they take first in state but they received the highest score ever given to a minnesotan team. You can tell from the time these students put in after school that they love what they do, and really work hard. The story previews some of the team members working on a bridge. They had to constuct a bridge that would hold a maximum amount of weight. This is just one of the many categroies they have a chance in participating in. Althought they didn’t place at nationals they appeard to have a great time, and were very happy to have made it that far.

The Last Day of School

Today, emotions flow through Eastview High School as the students reflect on the past year. From football games in the fall, to lacrosse state championship games, we had had an awesome year through athletics, arts, and academics. Our school stands above the rest in academics, we continue to retain some of the highest standardized test scores in the nation and it is all due to the hard work that Eastview High School students put in thoughtout their school year. Other than that, our choirs and bands, are recognized annuely by the state level, the national level, and even the international level. Overall, Eastview has soared the last year and will carry our tradion though the summer to next year.

Changes for 2009-2010

The school year is almost over, and soon the halls of Eastview will be empty. But while we're gone, a lot more is going on at the school than we think. Every year the administration has to make sure that the technology is updated. This includes getting more smart boards and lcd's. They are doing this because students learn better when they are more involved in the lesson, and these pieces of technology keep them involved. Also, for all the athletes out there, the weight room and indoor track is getting a new floor. The floor will be rubberized and should provide better cushion for athletes to avoid injury. Not everything changing about Eastview however deals with new arrivals. Three, and possibly more, of our great teachers our leaving, and I think that it's only right that we give them a proper goodbye to Patty Strandquist, Erin Nickelby, and Julie Endersbe.

Choir Concert

On June 1st, the Eastview Choir Department held its last concert of the year. The concert consisted of two parts, one starting at 6:00, and the other 7:30. The first concert consisted of multiple choirs from the lower and younger levels of the choir department. The second was performed by the more select choirs. The concert had many great performances, including an original composition, and a Star Wars song. The Star Wars song featured a full out lightsaber battle between both sides of the force. Overall, it was a good way for the department to end the year.

Jon Miles Blog 2

For almost a month now, Eastview's marching band has been getting ready for the season with a few relaxed practices. In these practices, director Rich Berggren has been teaching the band's newer members how to march, practiced warmups, and memorized music. The hope is that these practices will cut the time necessary for basics (marching technique, posture, etc.) later on in the season. The last of these practices was Tuesday, June 9th. The band will meet again on Friday, July 3rd to prepare for the Eagan and Apple Valley 4th of July parades, in which the band has historically made a very good showing. These practices have also given freshmen a taste of what marching band will be like before commitment forms were due. The freshmen seem very excited (and a bit nervous) about the upcoming season. Keep up the hard work, guys! It'll pay off later in the season!

Jon Miles Blog

On Saturday, June 6th and Sunday, June 7th, Eastview's ultimate frisbee team, zEUs, headed to the state tournament at the Twin City Polo Ground fields in Maple Plain, Minnesota. Despite the cold, rain, and wind, the team did well on Saturday, beating Henry Sibley 13-2, Mahtomedi 11-1, and White Bear Lake A 10-6, but losing to Cretin-Durham Hall 9-3. The team didn't fare so well in Sunday's improved conditions, however. After a tough 9-7 loss to Mounds View, Eastview beat Saint Paul Central 12-9. Sadly, their luck fell again as they lost to Southwest 10-8. Eastview then lost another tough 8-11 game to Eden Prairie in their final game, bringing them to a respectable twelfth place. However, this was not up to the team's expectations; they took seventh last year and the year previous, and were the six seed this year. The team has high hopes for next year, as the relatively young and talented team matures. Great job, guys (and girls), and good luck next year!

Brian's PSA blog

I chose to do my PSA on preparing for the ACT. This test is different because the students who take it in June have to days after school gets out. I talked with one of my tutors who works out of the Math Addvantage tutoring service place in Eagan and she said it was okay to film the place a little. All the information I presented on the PSA was given to me by her. The advice really paid off, for me at least. The editing process of the video took about two days, two because some Flash kids had to work on a story for their show, or something like that. Good luck to anyone taking the ACT on Saturday.

Brian Patten

Laura Gengler's blog 2: Spring Dance Show

On Thurday June 4th and Saturday June 6th Eastview held its annual spring dance show. The theme for this spring dance show was 'movies'. It was an excellent show and both nights were sold out! The audience was packed and they all said they loved it! I was luckey enough to be a part of the dance show because I am in dance class hour 1. I perticipated in 4 dances out of 16 or more! Everyone in the show worked really hard to put on a good show for the audience. Some of the dances that were performed was solos, hip hop, and modern. The solos were performed by a couple girls in LDT. The majority of the dances were hip hop because moat classes picked that style of dance. And the modern dance was based of the movie Titanic to go along with the theme of movies. This year was very special becuase we had a WCCO channel 4 news man filming the preperation for the show. I was at Applebees when the show aired and it was really cool to see how fast the news team filmed, edited, and then aired that story. It was very timely! The story was about how Eastview's boys are getting involed in our dance program also. All in all, the show was very fun! All of our hard work deffinetely paid off.

-Laura Gengler

Girls Track at State

This friday and Saturday 6 girls from the eastview girls track team qualified for state. I got the privledge to go along with the girls and be with them even though i did not qualify. The meet was at Hamlin University. Prelims were on friday and finals were on saturday. The 6 girls that qualified were sophmore, Anne Ferguson in the 800m and the 1600m. In prelims she qualified for the 3rd seed in the 800. in finals however she did not perform her best and did not get top 8 at state. The 4 by 100m relay composed of freshman, Paris Sanders, Junior, Mallory Burnham, and sophmores, Amanda and Alex Beckman. They did a wonderful job and got 1st in state with an amazing time of 48.49!! Junior, Taryn Dwyer tried very hard in Prelims but unfortunaetly did not make it to finals. Both for prelims and for finals the stadium was really packed. It was an amazing day on friday but ended up being an awful, cold and rainy day on saturday for finals. All six girls tried very hard and ended the 2009 season very well! good job girls!

-Laura Gengler

The EVHS dance department had their dance shows this past thursday and saturday. Every class has a dance, along with extra dances that people sign up for and solos. I performed both thursday and saturday night. The theme for the show was movies. Each night show went very well. I was in the slum dog millonaire dance, my class dance which was hour 2 space jam, the hannah montana dance and also the finale. Which everyone performs in the finale. On saturday night, channel 4 news actually came in and recorded some of it and the story aired that night at the 10 o'clock news.
-Erika Werner

Taylor Campbell Blog #2 spring dance show

On Thursday and Saturday night, Eastview held the spring dance show 2009. The theme was movies and each class had a song and dance that went along with a movie. There were songs from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, Ferris Bueler's day 0ff, Step up, center stage, slum dog millionaire, saw, dirty dancing, and titanic, just to name a few. Before almost every dance there was also a clip from the movie to let the audience know what dance the movie was from. WCCO channel 4 news was also there Saturday night, filming a story on how many boys get involved in dance at Eastview. It was cool to see the types of cameras and tripods they used. Overall the show was run smoothly and I think that everyone in the show, as well as the audience had tons of fun.

Paulus' Final Blog

On Friday night the Eastview lightning boy's lacrosse team traveled to Mounds View to battle un-defeated Minnetonka for the State Championship. The boys battled the entire game and ended up losing the game 12 to 10. The boys played well, but every time Eastview managed to put one in the net. Minnetonka would respond by putting one in as well. Scoring for the lightning included D.J. Schliesman, Andy Freeman, and Justin Vossen. Congratulations on a successful season. and good lick next year!

Taylor Campbell- Blog #1

Yesterday afternoon, our entire school attended Eastview's academic award ceremony. During this time, seniors, state champions, and achidemic achivments were announced. It was a one hour presentation that actually went overtime. I think that it is actually super cool that the presentation went so long, because it just goes to show how hard working the students here at Eastview really are. It was set up alphabetically as each student walked up to Dr. Peterson and then to their assigned counslers. Personally I think that Colin Burke and Brooke Elliott's anouncements were the longest, as theu wereup there for at least 3 minutes. For some students sitting in the bleachers the ceremony was long and boring, but for other students and parents, it was a demonstartion of our hardworking and achidemic achieving school.

Choir Concert

On Monday June 3rd, I attended the Eastview Spring Choir. The first set of choir concerts began at 6, and the next group of choirs started around 7:30. The first groups that sang were the freshman mens choir, and the freshman womens choir. They did a great job as they sang pieces of all genres of music. The fan favorite was a song from star wars in which some members in the choir broke out into battle with lightsabers. The choirs were very well put together. Mr. Douma and Mrs. Sagen once again put together a great preformance that kept the audience attentive. Congratulations on a successful concert!

-Paulus-

Trevor Trombley

Trevor T. Blog 2
This past week the boys track team capped off their season at the Section 3AA meet. In a tough field of competitors the lightning managed to send a few on to the state meet. The big winner of the meet was sophomore Franky Veldamen. He came away with three gold medals and was a Triple Crown winner as he won all three jumping events. He will be accompanied by two of his jumping teammates Khalil Jordan and Shawn Wells. The jump team scored 52 out of the 89 point scored at the meet. They finished 3rd out of twelve teams. Senior Aarron Stevens place second in the 300 meter hurdles and will be moving on to state. Eric Brady also placed second which was enough to get him to the state meet. The boys had one of their best meets of the season and it came at the right time.