By Karli Dellar and Dakota Vernezze, staff writers
Kenosha Military Academy –
The Kenosha Military Academy is busy preparing for a major competition this spring.
“We have a competition in Indiana called Purdue where our teams face other academies,” said Echo company commander Kennedy Dellar.
Purdue is the KMA’s biggest event of the year. For this event, the cadets that are part of the teams practice their routines all year round so that they can place and have the opportunity to move on to nationals.
“We are also holding a fundraiser to raise money for the academy itself. We will be holding a pasta dinner and are selling tickets. Ten percent of the proceeds will go to the Wounded Warrior Stripe Project,” said Dellar.
The KMA invites students and teachers to please help them raise money for not only their academy, but for the Wounded Warriors.
Business Academy –
Longtime Indian Trail teacher Bruce Bloedorn retired at semester break from the Business Academy and Kenosha Unified School District. Bloedorn, who taught personal finance first semester, had been a teacher at Indian Trail for more than a decade and will be missed. Business classes, which are available to General Studies students as well, are busy in their work.
The Hawk Shop will soon be looking for new employees. Students must have taken a marketing class, have a B or higher, be an upperclassman, and fill out an application. There will also be an interview. Any Business or General Studies student can apply for this job and get real world experience working in the shop.
Medical Academy –
The Medical Science Expo on March 8 is one of the biggest events that the Med-Sci Academy has each year. The expo is an event that allows the Med-Sci students to show off what they have learned and be able to teach it to the other students of the school.
“It’s called the ‘Hawkspital,’” said Tracy Metzler, Med-Sci Academy teacher.
The Med-Sci Expo will be held in the upper gym, and it will start second period and end sixth period. Please visit and check out what the students have put together and prepared to show us this year.
Communications Academy –
With the success of the open house in early January, the Communications Academy is busy at work. Freshmen are currently focused on traditional work, practicing color mixing and values with a color wheel, which will then turn back into digital work in Photoshop, to insert themselves into their artwork.
Sophomores are busy with both their graphic design and multimedia productions. Integrating with their World History class, they had to take a character from the French Revolution era and merge their face with that character using blend modes and adjustment layers. They also included a prop for it. The prop and the character were suppose to represent what estate that character was from.
“So there were three estates and then we got to use our Photoshop image editing to create ourselves in that shot. Then they had to do a spiral piece where we had to use the transform tool to digitally spiral their work and so they had to do one of those in eight artifacts,” said Katie Sciarra.
Juniors are working hard in their Media Concepts class. They’ve been painting and working with mixed media, and also are creating sketches every day so they can have a full sketchbook by the end of the year.
“[This] is something that they’re struggling with right now. Some of them are frustrated, but some of them do enjoy it,” said Sandra Bleser, Media Concepts instructor.
As their final semester begins, seniors are preparing for the future. They’ve worked well on their digital portfolios and are moving back to filmmaking, starting with creating a video resume.
“I’m kind of really excited and some people may not like it because I know half of the students don’t like the video part, but I know some do,” said Bleser. “But that’s part of Communications, so we’re going to roll back and get into the video making.”