Activities
Deeper coverage of official and unofficial clubs and activities at Buffalo High School.
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Teacher Sheri Tamte held a meeting on Wednesday March 14, during AAA for students to custom design VANS shoes. VANS shoe company is doing a national contest for canvas shoes, and those who win the contest get their shoe design created, produced and sold. Students have four designs to choose from: the shoes can either be art related, music, local flavor (example horses), and action sports. First you put your design on paper, and turn…
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Buffalo High School featured it’s Concert Orchestra, Chamber Strings, and Symphony Orchestra in the Performing Arts Center last night. Music Teacher Mike Knutson directed the entire evening. Orchestra is an all year long class. They have seven concerts a year and have been practicing for this one all quarter. Knutson was very proud of the performers. “The concert went great, I am very pleased,” said Knutson. “We had a wide variety of music and we…
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DECA went to State this past week on March 5-7. The DECA state meet took place in Minneapolis at the Hyatt Regency. Junior Trevor Dahlof took top 8 in the state of Minnesota for Quick Serve Restaurant Management. Senior Reycel Christianson, Senior Bruce Thao, Senior Esmeralda Heurta, Junior Trevor Dahlof and Junior Katelyn Jerde took top 8 in the state of Minnesota in the Marketing Product Plan Team category. Junior Fei Zheng and Senior Reycel Christianson took top 12 in the state of Minnesota…
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Monday afternoon the Buffalo High School Concert and Varsity Choir headed to Orono High School for Large group Vocal Contest. Both choirs earned a superior rating, the highest you can earn, but Concert choir walked away with just a few points away from perfect forties. “We got two 38s and a 39, ranking superior,” said Senior Heather Gerhardson, “and the top score you can get is 40 so we did pretty good.” Before going on…
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“I heard about the Hoofprint online a couple weeks ago,” said Junior Jackson Shepp. “I overheard people talking about it. They mentioned a video about a boy that could play the guitar really well.” Along with videos on the hoofprint.net, there are online stories, pictures and Twitter feeds. Although it has been up for three years and was awarded the Online Pacemaker Award last year, most of the community and even students aren’t aware of…
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A Finger Knitting Club has arrived at BHS. Started by Sophomore Cierra Dickhausen (pictured below), it is a way to give back to the community. “I wanted to start a program to give back to the community and help those in need and to show that we care,” said Dickhausen. Finger Knitting is a form of knitting using only hands and fingers instead of knitting needles or other traditional tools. “Basically students come in and knit…
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The Buffalo Varsity Mock Trial team are advancing to State after defeating Cambridge-Isanti 220-199 yesterday afternoon. “I was really nervous and when the judge gave the verdict,” said Junior Emma Pearson. ”He was like, ‘Defense 199 and plaintiff 220’. I felt really proud of our team.” The team has been putting in three practices a week since October, preparing for the rounds which took place in January and February. “We’ve put a lot of hard…
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National FFA week wraps up tomorrow and members at Buffalo High School are celebrating. On Monday there was a fun day for FFA members, on Wednesday four FFA members went to Mrs. Ramsey’s third grade class at Tatanka to talk to the kids about agriculture, and this morning there was be a staff breakfast put on by FFA. About 15 FFA members hung out in the agriculture room on Monday playing games like Apples to…
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Today, almost every computer comes with a webcam and one of the biggest uses for it is Skype. Skype is a video chatting service, which originated in Sweden, allows people to chat face to face via computer. Skype has allowed soldiers to talk to families overseas, let a bed-ridden mother watch her daughter get married, and allows grandparents to read bedtime stories to their grandchildren, but what does it do for Buffalo High School? In…
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Men groaning, weights being dropped, sweat, and people running. At any gym this is what you see. Students have access to the gym and weight room before and after school, so why would they want to pay to work out Gold’s Gym, rather than work out at the school? Some reasons that students work out at Gold’s is for the extra classes they offer, some work out for the environment, and others do it because…