By Summer
WHEA Middle School has a new cheerleading team! They don’t have a name yet, but they have already written more than 10 original cheers. 
The squad will be cheering for our track team and hopefully our robotics team. The team has a total of 14 girls. All the members agree that cheerleading is a fun and active way to make new friends. They haven’t been cheering for very long but they‘re on their way to victory!
By Sergio
After Winter Break, 7th Grade students went on a camp out at Kalopa State Park. Over the two day trip, students learned about about traditional Hawaiian houses, petroglyphs, and everyday Hawaiian life. On the drive to Kalopa, 7th Grade students first went to the petroglyphs. The students learned about what the symbols meant, and how the Hawaiians told stories in their art carvings. After the historical hike, they went to a whale viewing area, but the students didn’t see any whales at that time. After all the hikes were done, students went to Kalopa State Park and began their camp out. They enjoyed fresh cooked food and very nice cabins. The students also made s’mores and played games.
Granddaughter Ally Nisenoff recently interviewed the scientist Marty Nisenoff.
Superconductivity is the study of the resistance of energy going through very cold substances. Dr. Marty Nisenoff is a physicist studying superconductivity. When Dr. Marty Nisenoff was working for a navel research center he proposed the idea to make a satellite that would carry superconductive materials into space and see if the satellite would still work after two years with superconductive materials in the mechanics. He was the one to supervise and coordinate the whole project, many days he had to work for 10 plus hours. In the end, the satellite made it through the rough launch in 1999 and continued to function for the two years it was intended. Nisenoff has advice for students interested in physics, you must have a basic knowledge of how things work, and mathematics. You also have to have a lot of curiosity about why and how things happen. Another helpful quality is manual dexterity, which is being able to take stuff apart and put it back together. Lastly, and not least is you must have patience. Patience is so important because a study might take years to finish.
by Morgan Taylor
12th grader Jenna Kaua looks at plankton through a microscope
Plankton has been a popular, fun project for students to join at WHEA. The advisor of this project is Mrs. Dewey. Originally plankton was collected at both the Keahou Bay & the Honokohau Harbor. This was to show the differences in areas and amounts of toxic plankton in each location. However, this year Plankton project changed the way data was taken and we’re now focusing on one location. Now the data is only taken on Fridays at the Honokohau Harbor. The data is collected with a ten foot pipe attached to a plankton net, to be able to collect the deep sea plankton. The second bottle of plankton collected, is collected by using a string attached to a water bottle to catch the surface plankton. Once the plankton is collected, the students are responsible to document their data in their data log books. They also must look at the different types of plankton through a microscope to count the amount caught. It is important that the students document their data before the weekend, so that the plankton is easier to count. The data is later given to the organization NOAA for further study and information. Once the data is studied and counted by students, they document the differences between phytoplankton and zooplankton. Given that plankton is the base of the marine food web, it is important to learn more about it!
Kevin, Gavin, Cappy, and Aaron
Written by: Lorelei Nakagawa
What can WHEA high school students do that most schools cannot do? We can play sports forKealakeheHigh Schooland attend WHEA as a student. What does it take to be a part of Kealakehe’s sports? To maintain a 2.0 G.P.A., have good attitude, put out 110% of hard work and dedication at practice, and to have great sportsmanship! What a way to start off the beginning of the year. We had some of WHEA’s students participate in Kealakehe’s fall sports. Aaron Ventimiglia and Kevin Kua’ilani played for Coach Kekuaokalani on the football team, Ana Tuppein played for Coach Chantell on the volleyball team and Gavin Ulman and Cappy Alterman ran for Coach Morales on the cross country team.
Aaron and Kevin made it on the Varsity football team. Aaron played defensive back and Kevin was an offensive linemen. Along their journey this season they had to overcome many challenges but that is what made the sport more enjoyable for them. Kevin is looking forward to play for the football team next year. Aaron is a senior at WHEA and will be leaving us this year. CONGRATULATIONS to their team as they won the BIIF Championships against the Kea’au Cougars.
Ana Tuppein made it on the Junior Varsity volleyball team. Her position was outside front and middle front. Her favorite part of volleyball was spiking the ball to her opponents, diving for the ball and enjoys watching the games. She looks forward to playing volleyball next year. Great job Ana! Cappy and Gavin were part of the cross country team. They had to run about three miles every meet and enjoyed running! Cappy and Gavin thought it was fun and are looking forward to doing running cross country again next year. As the winter season of sports come along, Gavin and Cappy will be trying out for the soccer team. Good luck to them!
Some sports to look forward to during the winter are basketball, canoe paddling, swimming, wrestling and soccer. For more information on these sports contact Kealakehe High School’s athletic director Mike Hernandez at 808-327-4300 ext. 2213.
Written by Gabby Desimone
Virginia King, who lives inNew Zealand, is an artist of unique sculptures, sculptures ranging from diatoms (micro- algae) to the Nautilus shell. In 1998 she was asked to make the “Pacific Star”, which is a floating sculpture. The sculpture was placed in the sand at low tide, and when the tide comes in, it floats on the surface of the water using little glass floats. Virginia King’s work is inspired by the ocean and is created from recycled wood and metals. Mrs. Chinery, our school history and art teacher, was offered a once in a lifetime opportunity to actually work with her and the art. A group of students from WHEA’s art class had the chance to work with her on the sculpture one-on-one. This sculpture would be on display in Keauhou Bay. On Wednesday September 21st the group went to the Donkey Mill and spent the whole day tying together small pieces of found recycled wood. It was a simple task but very time consuming, it took from 9 in the morning to about 2:30 to get a little over half way done. On Saturday September 24th a few students that worked on the sculpture came to Keauhou Bay to help set up for the release of the sculpture. The sculpture was an oval-shape net like thing that floated on the surface of the water. The meaning of the sculpture was to bring awareness to the community about the waste in the ocean and how it can be turned into something beautiful. This was a super cool and interesting experience and I know all the art students were really happy to be able to work with a famous artist one-on-one.
11th grader Justin Sargeant helping Create Floating Sculpture
W.H.E.A. students recently participated in the yearly beach clean up 
“Get the Drift and Bag It.” The goal of this event at NELHA Beach Park is to help the environment, including birds and fish, by picking up trash and harmful materials. In the Middle School, over 5,000 cigarettes and more than 7,000 pieces of trash were removed. W.H.E.A. High School and Middle Schoolers participate in many community programs and are known for their commitment to Environmental Science.
With what might have been thrown away WHEA made over $100 by recycling bottles and cans. At WHEA students try our absolute hardest to not toss any thing away that could be recycled or reused. The whole school participates in putting cans and bottles in the recycling bin.Only a few students bag up the bottles and cans so they can be loaded up and taken to the transfer station on Fridays. Students collected enough bottles and cans to get $104 that will go to helping pay for field trips. That is a lot of cans and bottles that will now not pollute the earth and never decompose in a landfill or ocean. How’s that for helping the environment?
WHEA has received a new flat screen TV thanks to Raytheon and Oceans ’11.
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