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Newspaper Page TextIllinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, May 3, 2017 Page A-5 Cougars perform well at Academic Masters This year, Renaissance literary the IVHS team movement. had participation Owen Dwyer Illinois Valley High School by an exchange said, “The novel (IVHS) participated in the 34th student, Jenny Park is about a mixed annual Josephine County Academic from South Korea race woman’s life Masters competition April 28 at competed in the during the 1920s North Valley High School. math portion of the and 1930s and the Perennial winner Grants Pass program and won effect of negative High School again bested the Three $300. Her exchange influences during her Owen Dwyer Rivers School District contenders student hosts are childhood.” Dwyer including Illinois Valley, Hidden Teri and Randy Town. Park plans to prepared for the competition by Valley and North Valley high attend the University of Nebraska’s writing essays. schools. School of Pharmacy. Carrying on a family tradition, IVHS sophomore Owen Dwyer competed in the English portion of the competition and won $300. His brother, Liam, was the IVHS English contestant in 2014. Their parents are Kate and Mark Dwyer. Students in the English portion of the competition were required to read a novel and be prepared to discuss a question Quinn Dietz about it during the competition. The novel selected this year was “Quicksand” by Nella Larsen, This is the second time senior Jenny Park a respected voice in the Harlem Ari Dwyer (no relation) competed in Academic Masters. He was an exchange Continued from A-1 student in Valencia, Cave Junction City Councilor and Community Emergency Response Team Spain during (CERT) volunteer Jean Ann Miles who recently helped coordinate the I.V. Emergen- spring cy Prepare Fair weighed in on the Public Safety Outreach Campaign kickoff, “This semester last year. is a wonderful opportunity to help Cave Junction and the Valley to work together. Dwyer We’re a stronger community when we pool our resources. We’re at our strongest won $500 when we put our differences aside and work from our commonalities. I really think for his that’s the key. As individuals, we can’t do a lot, but there’s so much we’re capable of performance doing if we get out of our comfort zones and work as a group.” of Violin Concerto Judy Hoyle IVN Contributing Writer MEETING ... No.1 in A minor by Jean-Baptiste Accolay, written in 1868. It’s a favorite of many well-known violinists, including Itzhak Perlman. His parents are Carol Valentine and Jack Dwyer. Ari Dwyer “It’s always wonderful to see how these young people manage to put together their presentations in a very short time. It’s important to remember that every member of these teams is already a winner of fierce competition to represent their school. Academic Masters is a nationally unique competition that motivates students to stretch academically and musically,” Carol Valentine stated. This is the fourth year Quinn Dietz has been IVHS representative for the social studies portion of the competition and he was awarded $300. The question he was required to answer was whether the electoral college should be abolished. Dietz plans to study law at the University of Oregon. His parents are Colleen Dietz and Michael Cordia. Raymond Sutherland was this year’s IVHS science competitor, who was awarded $300 to answer a question about eclipses. He is the son of Angela and Elijah Graves and he plans to study psychology at Southern Oregon University, with the eventual goal of becoming a criminal profiler. Each school selects their team from a larger group of 20 to 50 or more students through testing. Over the three decades of the competition, over 3,000 students have competed in one or more of the five disciplines for the honor of representing their school. IVHS students worked toward the competition for months, competing first within their school for the honor of representing IVHS against the other three public high schools. Total scores include a semi- finalist written exam conducted at Rogue Community College, together with results of the final contest. Raymond Sutherland During the night of the competition, the music competitor gives a performance before the audience. The other four competitors are each given 30 minutes to answer a question or solve a problem.