Articles by nzuckman

The Young Playwrights Contest In FCS Middle School

Here we have an interview with Lori Reed, the middle school drama teacher. The interview with Ms. Reed gives the information about what this contest is all about, and what the winners earn.    What is the young playwrights competition?  So it’s called the playwrights in progress, and it’s an opportunity for young people to express their views in an art in the form of a play! What do you do to help students enter into the competition?  We have a process of preaching the parts of the play, reading other students plays so they can see examples, then brainstorm together, and then when they start writing their plays their classmates start to improve and expand their own plays. What does the winner of the young playwrights competition earn?  In our Friend’s Central competition you get to direct your cast and see your own play up on the main stage,…


Twenty Million Trees

As you may have heard, a popular youtuber named MrBeast has started a project, partnering with Teamtrees and 600 other YouTubers; he plans to plant 20 million trees by the first of 2020. This may seem like an unachievable goal, but it has only been a few days and he has already raised more than 10 Million dollars for the Earth! This means that he has a very good chance at actually achieving his goal soon.   He has partnered with some big names from the youtube community such as Pewdiepie, Jacksepticeye, Mark Rober, Marshmello, and so many more YouTubers that have agreed to this daring task.    Their plan is to partner with teamtrees, a charity that apparently plants a tree for every dollar donated to their charity.  This goal seems achievable, because MrBeast has more than 20 million subscribers currently, meaning that if every single one of his…


An Amazing Hidden Game: Slime Rancher!

You may have never heard of this game before, but I can assure you that it is one of the most underrated games ever. In Slime Rancher you play as Beatrix LeBeau, a young woman who was shipped to the far, far, away range in a small pod by the 7zee cooperation. When you wake up you get a game tutorial, and then the fun begins.  I have played over almost the whole game, and the only reason I haven’t completed everything is because the developers are constantly updating the game!  I was looking for a game that contained battles and cuteness at the same time, and then I found Slime Rancher. Slime Rancher is a game for people who enjoy adorable farming simulators, and also brutally murdering their enemies. Wait… Did I forget to mention how amazing the graphics are? Slime Rancher’s graphics are smooth and the lighting really…


The Spotted Lanternfly Crisis

  If you have ever taken a long stroll around campus, chances are you have seen one of the bugs that is pictured above. If you have seen one of these, you could have just walked by it, looked at it and then walked away, or you could have squashed it. These odd brown bugs are called spotted lanternflies, and they are a massive issue. The spotted lanternfly changes a lot in its lifetime, and you may not know what is the spotted lanternfly and what isn’t. A spotted lantern fly’s life cycle starts as an egg mass on a tree. These egg masses look a lot like cement, and the best thing you can do when you see one is to scrape it off of the tree it is on. The next stage is the nymph, they can either be all black or black with red, both having white…


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