Illinois 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
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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.