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.

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.”

Kenia Martinez
SJHS Staff Writer

Springville Junior High School has a couple of science teachers. Among them is Mrs. Lori Caras, who teaches seventh and ninth grade students at the junior high. She’s taught at SJHS for ten years, and she taught at Woodenville High School in Seattle for four years.

Mrs. Caras decided to teach because her father was a professor and as she was growing up, Mrs. Caras saw how he loved teaching. She would also see him grading papers, but besides that, she said it looked like fun. She chose to teach science because she loves it.  She went on the explain, “Sometimes I think kids struggle, so I want to make it easier, and I want to make it fun.”

Besides teaching seventh grade life science and ninth grade Earth Systems, Mrs. Caras has also taught Biology, A.P. Biology, Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology. She says her favorite is Anataomy, Physiology and that she loves zoology, which is something she has a Master’s Degree in. “I thought I was going to be a vet when I was going up!” She said, explaining her love for Zoology. Mrs. Caras said she would like to teach for as long as she can; as long as she can stay an effective and enthusiastic teacher.

Jose Martinez,a ninth grade student at SJHS, said, “I like what I learn because the work is pretty easy. I like to learn about the Big Bang because it’s fun.” He says he likes the class because it’s fun and he has a lot of friends in the class. Jose likes the teacher because she’s pretty relaxed, but when the stduents get too noisy and don’t do their work, Mrs. Caras hushes them up and tells them to do their work.

Shelby Mason, a ninth grade student of Mrs. Caras’s also likes the class, “I like this class because we learn about a lot of interesting stuff.”

Out of all the science teachers in the school, Mrs. Caras is probably amongst the favorite for her sense of humor and nice and enthusiastic attitude.

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.

Mr. Dahl teaching his seventh grade science class.

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Cody Woolsey
SJHS Staff Writer

Mr. Sam Dahl is the newest, and maybe the most unique science teacher here at Springville Junior High. He started teaching this year and students are already buzzing about him. “He understands us,” says Kallie Whitby, a seventh grader at Springville Junior High, “He knows how to teach us right.” This is only one of the many testimonials of what a great teacher Mr. Dahl is.

Mr. Dahl says his favorite part of teaching is “Making my students lives completely miserable! Nothing brings me more pleasure than when I hear my students say ‘Mr. Dahl you are the meanest teacher in the world,’” although he is kidding, this quote tells a lot about his teaching style, and how he likes to joke around and have fun.

His students say he is one of the coolest, laid back, fun teachers at Springville Junior High. Comments about him range from “he is the best!” to “you rock Mr. Dahl!” For a new teacher who has only been teaching for 21 days, he has already taken on an incredible reputation at Springville Junior High.

“I realized at a very young age that if I could gain a position of power and authority over other people, I could work my way up the ladder until I eventually ruled the entire world. So teaching is just the beginning for me,” explained Mr. Dahl, and again he was of course kidding.

According to his students, he teaches his subject very well and keeps things entertaining for the kids, but he also knows that the kids must learn and makes them take notes. Here’s what Sarah Muir, a seventh grader at Springville Junior High, thinks about Mr. Dahl’s teaching method: “He helps me get science in a fun way, and he just ROCKS!”

Mr. Dahl has already adopted quite a reputation here at Springville Junior High. Maybe he actually might fulfill his lifelong dream and take over the world!

Mrs. Manwaring long jumping at the district track meet.

Kayla Price
SJHS Staff Writer

Mrs. Manwaring is the ninth grade science teacher at Springville Junior high but not for long. She is leaving at the end of this school year.  Her husband will be attending medical school next year, and she just had a baby girl on Friday, May 15th.  Julia Manwaring was born at 4:58 a.m., and everything went well.

Mrs. Manwaring does not expect to get right back into teaching because she wants to stay home for a little while to spend time with her daughter.

Mrs. Manwaring is going to miss some the activities that she does with the students after school. “I will really miss coaching basketball and track, to,” she said. She is going to miss all of her students and the dances that she and her husband get to chaperone. “My favorite memories here at the school are because of the great students.”

Mrs. Caras said that Mrs. Manwaring is “an excellent teacher.” One of her students, Breekel Orton, said, “I’m going to miss Mrs. Manwaring.”  All of the students at SJHS are going to miss Mrs. Manwaring and there is no replacement for her outstanding personality.

Students explaining information about Elephants in Mrs. Carpenter’s eighth grade science class.

Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer

When people think of science they usually think of explosions and equations, however, students in Mrs. Carpenter’s eighth grade science classes will now think of elephants. For the last two weeks of school Mrs. Carpenter has given her class a special project to work on where they learn about elephants and how scarce they are becoming.

“I love elephants. I’m hoping that students will be able to understand that what they do affects the world around them,” Mrs. Carpenter explained when she was asked why she gave her class this project.

Students have been divided into six groups and each group is given two different topics. There are topics from the sounds they make, to the number of elephants that are usually found in each heard. “It’s a fun project, and we learn lots of different things,” Brandy Murray, a student in Mrs. Carpenter’s class, explained.

Students not only get to learn about elephants and their lifestyle, but they are also helping save African land. African Wildlife Foundation Conservation has said that they will donate three acres of African land to an elephant reservation for every class that participates in this project. Even though students believe that they are merely just completing another one of those ‘end of year projects,’ they are also helping the world and making it possible for elephants to live safely in Africa.

Eighth graders at SJHS had a mousetrap car competition last week.  The average distance traveled by the cars was 10 to 15 feet.  Braden Peterson (left) broke the previous mousetrap car record of 91 feet this week when the car he built traveled 129 feet.  Braden attributes his success to the amount of time he spent designing it, tinkering with it, messing with the body design and science concepts that would maximize the cars effort.  “I think I could of adjust the string diffently to have it even go further,” Braden said.

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.

Madie Dockstader
SJHS Staff Writer

Mrs. Kelli Manwaring is a science teacher here at Springville Junior High School. This is her second year teaching. Mrs. Manwaring wanted to be a teacher since she was a little girl. She took anatomy and physiology in high school and loved it. “It made me think about going to the medical field for a while,” said Mrs. Manwaring, “I finally decided that I would rather teach and work with kids than be in the medical field. I thought it would be fun to work with student council groups and also coach sports.”

Mrs. Manwaring is from Idaho Falls. She says it’s a lot like Utah except it’s windier and has smaller mountains. Her husband’s family is also from Idaho Falls, so they go and visit often.

Mrs. Manwaring attended Utah State University in Logan, Utah. She was an ambassador for the university, so she helped put on leadership conferences for high school students and recruit for the university. “I absolutely loved it!” said Manwaring.

Mrs. Manwaring loves being active. She played basketball, volleyball, and did track in high school. She and her husband go camping, backpacking, rock climbing, and biking all summer. They both love the outdoors, and they have a goal to do a triathlon together this summer.

In addition to teaching science, Mrs. Manwaring is also one of the track team coaches. The end of the school year will be a crazy one for Mrs. Manwaring because she is expecting a baby in the middle of may, around the time of the district track finals.

Kaydie Kerby, a student at Springville Junior High School, said, “I think Mrs. Manwaring is a great teacher because she helps you understand, and she is fun to be around.”

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.”

Ethan Trunnell
SJHS Staff Writer

This year at SJHS, science enrichment classes have taken learning about science to a whole new level. Mrs. Kelli Manwaring has been given the task of teaching the science enrichment class.

The main objective of the science enrichment class is to broaden the students understanding of science, and since there is no state core for this class it is very open to things like egg drops and bottle rockets. The class has learned about the solar system, the human body, and many other cool projects.

The students shot off bottle rockets, teaching them about air pressure and how space shuttles work. Then on to things about astronauts, like an astronaut egg drop involving eggs. The egg drop required the students to safely protect their astronaut (one large egg) as he reentered the atmosphere (from the school roof). If the egg cracked, too bad for the astronaut, thus teaching the students how space missions are achieved.

Another fun project that the class did was to do physical exercise such as push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups etc. to find out their muscular capacities thus beginning the study of the human body during which they dissolved the calcium off of animal bones leading to their discovery of how rubbery bones are.

There are three periods of Science enrichment, sixth seventh and eighth. This semester, and seventh and eighth periods in the upcoming semester. It lasts for 45 minutes for two terms or one semester, before the class switches and the new group of students continues for the next semester. The elective science enrichment class is worth .5 of a credit.

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!