SJHS News

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mr. Kindrick always has a smile.
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 [...]

Seventh grader Cooper Fullmer shows off the rocket he made for Science Enrichment.
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]