Jacob Simmons
SJHS Staff Writer

A great component to the quality teaching in both schooling and sports at Springville Junior High is thanks in part to Mr. David Kindrick. Mr. Kindrick teaches science at SJHS, coaches the girls’ basketball team, and also helps out with the track team.

Mr. Kindrick has been teaching for nine years, eight of those years at SJHS. The other schools he has taught at include East Hardy Early Middle School and Timpview High School.  Mr. Kindrick is currently teaching and has mostly taught eighth-grade integrated science. He has also taught body conditioning and study skills. “I really like the ecology section [of eighth grade science] because I get to integrate a lot of art,” said Mr. Kindrick.

Mr. Kindrick doesn’t just teach in the classroom; he teaches both on the basketball court and out in the field for track. McKenzie Morris, a member of the ninth-grade girls’ basketball team, said, “He is a good coach. He is very assertive and knows a lot about the game.”

Some of his favorite things to do outside of school are sports, puzzles, and reading. He is a big fan of science fiction books. Like most people, Mr. Kindrick also enjoys spending time with his friends and family.

Kaleb Barnum
SJHS Staff Writer

Mr. David Kindrick, Springville Junior High science teacher, is coaching the SJHS girls’ basketball team. They seem to be in good shape, since their record is 1-2. They are on their way to going to district! The names of the girls on the team are: Mindy Staple, Sarah Ripley, Ripley Tew, Mackenzie Morris, Courtney LeFevre, Emily Daybell, Kara Stoddard, Amanda Sly, Maddi Stahlie, Amy Tingey, Cami Sumsion, and Brooke Caswell.

The girls are looking forward to playing their next game so they can get redemption. Mr. Kindrick said, “We are really athletic and willing to work hard.” Cami Sumsion, ninth grade student at SJHS, said, “The basketball team is way awesome!” The girls’ basketball team is looking forward to finishing their season and how it turns out. Keep up the hard work!

Mr. Kindrick and some of the logos his students created.

Cody Woolsey
SJHS Staff Writer

This week in Mr. David Kindrick’s eighth-grade science class, everyone is looking a little bit greener. Mr. Kindrick is teaching his students about the environment and how important it is to us living on this earth. “We impact the environment,” said Mr. Kindrick, the eighth grade science teacher at Springville Junior High.

A part of this unit is for students to design and create their own logo. Students will then pick the best logo out of all Mr. Kindrick’s classes, and it will be printed on a T-shirt. “Students are very creative,” said Mr. Kindrick, “I expect quality work.” Students then have the option to purchase a T-shirt for three dollars.

By making these T-shirts, Mr. Kindrick hopes that Springville Junior High will help the environment, as well as display the creativity that the SJHS students wield. “It’s good to know that SJHS is doing their part to go green,” said Katya Wagstaff, an eighth grader at Springville Junior High. Who knows, maybe SJHS could change the world by showing off their new go green T-shirts!

Andrew Garza
SJHS Staff Writer

Mr. David Kindrick, eighth grade science teacher at SJHS, is doing a class experiment about chemical reactions. They are studying about how the statue of liberty turned green, how you make nylon, how pancake batter changes to pancakes, and other cool stuff.

Each student in Mr. Kindrick’s class is doing something different. Students are using computers to research information on the internet. Jordan Kendall, a student in Mr. Kindrick’s class, is learning about how the statue of liberty turned green. Jordan said, “The statue of liberty turned green because the salt, the air, and the outside coat that protects the statue of liberty mixed together which made a chemical reaction that turned it green.”

Derek Hansen is learning about how you make nylon. Derek said, “Nylon is a complex fiber. You combine liquids called hexanediolyl dichloride and diaminohexane just to make one strip of nylon”. Mr.Kendrick said, “Chemical reactions take place everyday around us, so it’s nice to know why things happen.”

Jacque Kass, SJHS’s Scientist of the Month

Each month in eighth grade science, SJHS teacher Mr. David Kindrick selects a “Scientist of the Month.”  Jacque Kass received the honor in October because, according to Mr. Kindrick, not only is Jaque a great student, but she is also “very friendly and has a positive attitude about everything.”

Jacque Kass was born June 7th and has lived in Springville her whole life.  She has one “awesome brother name Mitch and two chill parents that I love to death, and I have a pet fish that is a beta.”

Jacque’s best friend is Elaine, and they have been friends since they were one.  Some of Jacque’s hobbies include softball, basketball, volleyball, and she really loves playing the piano.  Jacque loves rap music, playing video games, and her favorite holiday is Halloween.

Jacque wants to live where it snows all the time, maybe the North Pole.  She loves being outside, and if she could choose a profession it would be some kind of scientist that studies things outside.

Christopher Taylor
SJHS Staff Writer

Springville Junior High School has a new tardy policy. For many years, students had to go to Morning Enrichment at seven o’clock if they were tardy to class.  This year SJHS has switched to a lunch detention tardy policy.

Once students have been tardy twice, or have sluffed class, they must report to detention at lunch. Students have five minutes to get lunch and go to the detention area. The detention area is behind an expandable wall in the lunchroom.  Kids must eat lunch and then sit quietly or do homework.

Mrs. Courtney Johnson, the new assistant principal at SJHS and one of the lunch detention supervisors, said, “It’s not a party.”  She said that there will be “constant eyeball supervision” while kids are serving in detention.

Last year, many students simply decided not to go to the Morning Enrichment Program. Hopefully, since the new detention program is during school instead of before, this will not happen anymore. There will be punishment for kids who still don’t show up though. Mr. David Hansen, a teacher at the school, said that he will “Pull off your fingers one by one” if you don’t come to detention. Although he was kidding, there will be serious consequences for kids who don’t come. According to Mrs. Johnson, if you don’t come to the detention, they will find you the next day and add to, or double your time.

Many people said they felt that this program will be better than Morning Enrichment. According to Mr. David Kindrick, the eighth grade science teacher, it will be better because students get an automatic penalty, and because they will have no excuses for not coming to lunch detention.  When Mrs. Johnson said that the reason she likes the lunch detention program better is because “It’s a drag to miss lunch.”

Robin Anderson
SJHS Staff Writer

These next two weeks will be very busy for some eighth grade students at SJHS. The students in Mr. Kindrick’s and Mrs. Carpenter’s classes will be building mousetrap cars and Rube Goldberg machines. They started building these machines on March 27th, and they will be due on April 10th.

“The students will have to create a car that will only be propelled on the stored elastic potential energy of the spring in the mouse trap,” said Mr. Kindrick. The students are building these machines out of the simple machines they are currently studying. They have learned about the transfer of different types of energy and the simple machines that give a machine an advantage for work to be done.

The students have another option besides the mousetrap car. They can instead build a Rube Goldberg machine, which is a machine that performs a series of complex events, usually in a chain reaction, to achieve a very simple task, such as turning off a light switch, or pouring a glass of water. The Rube Goldberg machine was most noted by a man named Rube Goldberg, who was an American cartoonist and inventor in the early twentieth century.

The students in this class think they will have lots of fun doing this project. “I think it’ll be fun building stuff,” said Aleks Newman, an eighth grade student in Mr. Kindrick’s class.

Even students in ninth grade look back on the project with fond memories. “I grew attached to my beautiful mousetrap car. The lever broke the day of the race, and I was forced to duct tape a pencil to it to act as the lever,” said KresLynn Knouse, a ninth grade student at SJHS, “I don’t even remember how far it went, but I wish I could do it again.” We all wish the eighth graders good luck on their project and hope they do well.

KresLynn Knouse
SJHS Staff Writer

The Battle of the Bands took place on February 27th in the Springville Junior High School auditorium. The cost of admission was five dollars, and the money earned served as a fundraiser for the girls basketball team. Many different styles of bands performed, including two rock bands, one screamo band, and one acoustic band. Forty dollars went to the first place winner, a band called One Man Short, and $20 went to the second place winner, Intricate Antics.

Audri Petro, a ninth grade student at SJHS, said “My favorite song was ‘May I ask who’s Calling’ by One Man Short. I am so glad I went to Battle of the Bands.”

Most students and teachers at SJHS that attended Battle of the Bands said that it was a fun-filled, deafening, amazing night that they would recommend anyone should attend next year. All bands are given a 20 minute slot for their performances, making the Battle of the Bands a great way to advertise local bands.

“We would love to have all junior high bands perform next year, it’s a great opportunity for those that love music to get a feel for playing in front of others,” said Mr. David Kindrick, an eighth grade science teacher nad basketball coach at SJHS.

The Battle of the Bands was a great success this year, and any band that would like to perform, or music-lover that would just like to listen, should attend next year.

Nikki Drake
SJHS Staff Writer

Mr. David Kindrick is a SJHS science teacher, the girls’ basketball coach, and a former body conditioning teacher. He enjoys teaching science, because science changes every year so he learns new things every year too. He would like to think he inspires students for the good, and not the bad.

He is the girls’ basketball coach, and his team has played 21 games, and won around half of their games. Great job girls! Most of the girls think he is an aggressive leader that knows how to have fun.

If Mr. Kindrick could have any other job, he said he would be a pro athlete, a movie star, a dentist, or maybe even an artist. Mr. Kindrick is interested in sports and he is all about being active. He mentioned that he misses teaching body conditioning. He misses watching students get healthier. “It was cool to see the little dudes and dudettes improve,” Mr. Kindrick said.

Megan Mortenson and Taya Spencer, two eighth grade girls at SJHS were asked about what it was like being in Mr. Kindrick’s class. Taya said that “Mr. Kindrick always makes us laugh and stuff. He is a cool teacher.” Megan agreed with Taya, “He always tries to be funny, and he is nice.”

David Kindrick
SJHS Science Teacher

Batbileg (Max) Sunjidmaa is an outstanding student who considers himself someone who likes to explore and seek new thing to learn and enjoy. He has many hobbies and activities that he likes to do. But he’s mainly interested in architecture and engineering. He loves to design things like buildings and mechanical objects. His favorite subjects are science of course and math. But he really likes woodshop/technology as well. Max is a great student who really shows an excitement for learning. He loves a challenge, studies hard and always does his best. Max will go on to be great at whatever it is he wants to do. Thanks Max for being an awesome addition to the class and always showing an excitement for whatever we are doing.

Kristi Hatch
SJHS Staff Writer

At Springville Junior High School, Mr. David Kindrick’s eighth grade science students are “going green.” For a classroom assignment in the month of November, Mr. Kindrick presented the idea to design T-shirts that promote being environmentally friendly. The assignment started out as just a design on a piece of paper, but it quickly grew throughout the day. The students wanted to actually make the T-shirts and give them out throughout the school. Their first idea was to have every student bring three or four dollars to Mr. Kindrick to pay for their shirts, but it grew to find sponsors to support the cause.

A couple of weeks ago, Mr. Kindrick gave the assignment to design a logo that could be put on a T-shirt. The students reacted very positively, so Mr. Kindrick presented the option of actually getting the best logo put on a T-shirt. “I just thought a T-shirt would be a great way to get the going green idea out there. Plus using my contacts, I knew it would be possible to do for a low price,” Mr. Kindrick explains.

Students think that it’s a great idea and that it will promote being environmentally friendly. “Everybody will have a T-shirt and they’ll think it’s cool to go green,” said Hannah Packard, one of Mr. Kindrick’s eighth grade students. Holly Sumsion, also an eighth grader in Mr. Kindrick’s class, agrees with her. “People will be interested in it and be more aware.”

Mr. Kindrick did this assignment for the first time this year. “During the section on the environment I noticed that a lot of students didn’t even know what the recycling symbol looked like, and I realized it was because we don’t recycle much here in Utah and they never see it,” Mr. Kindrick said.

SJHS is going green already. “We recycle papers, and we’ll use milk cartons for projects,” said Samantha Child, a seventh grader at SJHS.

Students at SJHS think it’s a good idea to “go green.” “[The students] need to do it, and they are trying,” said Zach Hansen, a seventh grader at SJHS. McKenzie Prothero likes the idea of going green. “I think it’s good because [students] want to recycle,” she explained.

If you would like to sponsor this assignment, you can do so by going to www.nebo.edu. Click on “Departments” and go down to “Nebo Foundation.” When you click on “How to donate,” it will tell you how. Donate under Mr. David Kindrick’s name from Springville Junior High and help SJHS go green!