The Strings Club is officially back and looking for anyone willing to come and join the fun every Friday in Mistie Dickenson’s room.
In the past, Dr. Timothy Naginey used to have a “guitar club” of sorts, where he would have a day every week in which students could bring their guitars to school, and Dr. Naginey would teach them some lessons to improve their skills. However, due to the rise in the amount of clubs available, the club was shut down and hasn’t been seen for a while.Recently, Dickenson and Dr. Naginey have been working together to bring back the club, however instead of a teaching session of sorts, students can bring any sort of stringed instrument and have a fun time fiddling around. The kicker is that it doesn't matter what skill level you are. From complete beginners to masters of their respective instruments, everyone is welcome to come have a fun time, work on songs they are learning, and even help each other improve together. This Friday, a good number of students turned up for the club meeting, bringing all electric guitars, and had some fun practicing. One of the students, Anderson Ratliff, brought two of his electric guitars, plugged in, and started playing a few riffs from popular songs. “I play guitar to help relieve stress, and so that’s kind of why I picked it up,” Anderson said. “And I’ve just taught myself how to play guitar over the past two years. It’s just really important to me to, sort of like, relieve stress, and it’s just, it’s just helpful. Like midway through the day like keeps me going, gets me energized.”
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Zuhair Mirza and Luke Daniel work hard to try to attach an extendable arm to the base platform of the robotics’ teams robot. The team of 13 have been working for over two months now, and have run into a few problems along the way, but they have slowly overcome them. They will have a competition in early 2025 using their robot to collect small samples and use them to score. “I think it’s really good so far this year, and we got a good head start because we had the base already kind of built,” said Dr. Timothy Naginey, one of the leaders of the robotics team. As he said, the team did have a head start using a pre-built base from last year's competition, however the arm has been the major problem so far, as it is currently being held on by “a wish and a prayer,” as some might say, or as the rest of the group calls it “some zip ties and duct tape.” Despite this, the team still has high hopes and continues to work as the deadline for the competition nears, with the first on Jan. 18 in Harrisonburg and the second on Jan. 26 in Bassett. |
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