Students in Aerospace Engineering ended their five-week airplane design unit with a flight competition Dec. 12. Taught by John Mackin, science teacher, each student started designing their gliders...
Audrey Berns
TKC interviewed Janet Mees Reinert, librarian, about student involvement with the KHS library.
TKC: How long have you been working at Kirkwood as a librarian?
“This...
Gabi Baker
“I know everyone who comes here [Great Harvest]. We sit around and gab and solve all of the world’s problems.”
Gabi Baker
“What was the happiest day in your life?”...
Adaline Bray
“[I’ve learned] to be patient. He keeps us young with all the aerobatic [stunts] and running around he does. He really adds life to [our] home.”
Adaline Bray
“It’s a more complicated...
What’s your favorite christmas memory?
“Spending Christmas Eve at my grandmother’s.”
“I walked into an IHOP and saw her, then I went and asked her out. We’ve been married...
Ellie Cassidy
"I don't know that I've ever really had a time where I thought (life) was especially hard. I've had a couple calls where you're going into an abandoned building and you're like 'I have no...
TKC: "What is your favorite thing about the Kirkwood Community?"
"I really like Kirkwood Park because all of my friends hang out there and meet up after school. We talk and you can do anything there"...
![Catherine Wright, sophomore, inspects her glider before launch. Wright chose Aerospace Engineering while flipping through the course description book because she loves learning about planes. “My favorite part of the class is getting to make your own plane, instead of having to test ones that other people have made,” Wright said. “[I love that] each plane is unique.”](https://www.thekirkwoodcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/IMG_0069.jpg)
![Jai Thornhill, Senior. When talking about what good qualities the candidates had, Jai said, “I don’t think Trump is the perfect candidate either, [he] definitely has a lot of faults. But, at least he’s upfront and open about it. Hillary’s got a lot of baggage that we don’t even know. He’s just like “I’m an idiot. Like me for it or don’t.” He doesn’t care. He says exactly what he thinks, not sugar coating it, beating around the bush. Straight forward.”](https://www.thekirkwoodcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC_0126.jpg)
