Northeast Range School

Congratulations to the raffle winners on Friday. The 10th grade class is sponsoring a recycling drive to raise money and awareness of beverage recycling rates in Minnesota. Did you know that Iowa and Michigan recycle containers at rates around 90%? Minnesota recycles at around 35%. There is a bill at the capital proposing a refund for beverage containers, similar to Iowa and Michigan. Besides saving the state $200 million in yearly disposal costs, the refund would allow individuals to redeem containers for 5 to 10 cents each. Conservation Minnesota is pledging $500 to the 10th grade class if we can collect 10,000 glass, plastic or aluminum beverage containers. The group also wants to raise community awareness of the issue. the 10th graders have collected 5600 so far.

Help us out by bringing your extra beverage containers to the school library during school hours. Students, bring your cans to lunch on Friday to be raffle eligible for great prizes including pizza, pop, temporary tattoos, stickers, and reusable water bottles! Some of the winners from April 12 are pictured below.

Northeast Range STEM class receives Top Honors from the Guthrie Theatre!

This past fall, the Guthrie Theatre challenged high school students to produce a 3 to 5 minute video about one of their upcoming spring shows, Shakespeare’s “The Twelfth Night”. In return, submitting schools would receive a complete set of Shakespeare’s works for their school library, and the best videos would be shown during intermission during the show. Mr. Fadum’s STEM, Film and Broadcast class took on the task and submitted a video for their consideration. The Guthrie was so pleased by that production, they invited the class to view a matinee production of that show and in addition to the works of Shakespeare, the class will be presented with a new video camera to aid in further video projects.

The class worked hard, learned a lot, and had a great time making the video. The story is about a boy and girl who were twins. They are separated from each other during a storm at sea, and each assumes the other was lost. The girl takes on the guise of a boy to find work, and ends up employed by a nobleman. The nobleman is in love with a noble woman, and uses the girl (disguised as a boy) to send the noblewoman love notes. Of course, the noblewoman ends up falling in love with the messenger boy (the girl in disguise) and the girl falls in love with the nobleman-who is in turn, in love with the noblewoman! Much of the comedy comes from the confusion. In due course, the brother reappears-unbeknownst to the girl- and is mistaken for her, which results in more confusion. Add in some fun loving trouble makers and a couple additional jealous suitors to the noblewoman, and a comedy of errors and mistaken identity ensues.

Since our version is set in a high school, the nobleman became the captain of the football team, the noblewoman, the prom queen, and so on. And since this is a play involving gender confusion, we added a twist of our own.

The cast includes Viola (our Victoria/Victor) played by Luke, Orsinio (our Oscar) played by Savannah, Olivia (our Olive) played by Jared, Sebastian (our Sam) played by Chloe, Malvolio (our Mark) played by Julia, Sir Toby (our Tom) played by Breeanna, Maria (our Mary) played by Aaron, Sir Andrew (our Andy) played by Augusta, and Antonio (our Tony) played by Jessie. Tech included Mickel, David, and Ryan.

If you would like to view the video, go to:

You can also search some of our other projects on YouTube at ‘wednesdaystemclass’

The class would like to thank the ISD #2142 administration for providing transportation to this exciting opportunity.