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New Class Suggestion: Realism

Hello there! I’m here to suggest a new class. I call it “Realism: Everything your teachers didn’t teach you.” Basically, it teaches skills that people use in the real world. For example, how to use a bank account, how to read the stock market, how to properly clean your house, how to paint a house, and other basic life skills. Please leave me some feedback on this topic. Should it should happen or not?


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MS Music Concert Leaves Crowd Wowed

Last Friday, December 4, many Friends’ Centralites were blown away by the amazing performances from the Middle School Orchestra, Jazz Band, iPad Ensemble, and Chorus in the Meeting Room. While some people came for the cookies and lemonade, even they were raving about the musical talent in our Middle School. The night got off to a great start when the FCS Middle School Orchestra took the stage at Shallcross Hall, performing songs such as the Star Wars main theme and “Born this Way” by Lady Gaga. Violins were in action, cellos were playing along, flutes and trumpets blasted their notes, and drummers were adding cool sound effects to help the Orchestra with their songs. Next, the iPads were out as the iPad Ensemble (it wasn’t really an ensemble, as it consisted of only sixth and seventh graders (Skylar Davis ‘21, Sammy Darling ‘21, Sam Kazak ‘21, Liam Giszter ‘21, Benna…


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FCS Food Competition

This year, Friends’ Central School is having a schoolwide food competition to determine a new dish for the cafeteria. The winner will receive the honor of having their dish featured on the FCS menu. So far, the competition is just beginning, but word is even faculty and staff are now allowed to compete. 32 entries, but only 1 can win. As an exciting kickoff for the intense food competition, we had a selected group of student judges, who tasted and voted on their favorite. The jury has decided and “Waffle la Waffle” dominated five votes to three votes. Although the chicken was amazing, the idea of a waffle breakfast sandwich (WITH BACON) was pure genius and Chris Meade ’20 triumphed in this round and is moving on to his next competition (THE SEMI-SEMI-SEMI-FINALS). The winner, “Waffle la Waffle”: Buffalo chicken wings:


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LEGO Robotics Announcement!

Everybody knows that Friends’ Central has sports teams. But now, Friends’ Central has a new kind of team… Team Phoenix, the LEGO Robotics Team! We go to a LEGO Robotics contest (called FLL: First LEGO League) on December 19, 2015! There are three parts of this contest: the robot (which has to do some different actions to get points), the poster (which you don’t need to worry about), and finally, the project. What We Need So, FLL always has a different theme every year, and this year, the theme is TRASH, which is a very big problem around the world. For our project, we have to find a way to reduce some type of waste in the world and in our community. So, we decided to focus on whiteboard marker trash. Almost every teacher at Friends’ Central uses a whiteboard marker brand called Expo. After these Expo markers run out of ink, usually the teachers…


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At Recent Swim Meet, FCS Brings Defeat

If you were to enter the Annenberg Foundation Pool on Wednesday, December 9, you would have seen swimming, cheering and excitement. That is because our Middle School Swim Team had a meet against Rosemont School of the Holy Child’s team. No surprises here: “The phoenix rises,” meaning our team won! The score was 83-61. Health Teacher/Middle School Swim Coach Mrs. Lisa Mansure is “most proud of everyone giving it their all, and supporting one another in and out of the water.” She also adds, “I really look forward to coming to practice everyday.  It’s a wonderful group of student-athletes to coach and working with Sean and Beth is a highlight of my day!”   Meanwhile, Friends’ Central Aquatics Assistant Head Coach Sean Ford, who also coaches Middle School Swimming, is “looking forward to every swimmer developing as the season continues and showing how much they have learned at the next meet.” Anna Volpp ‘20, is…


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Top 10 Board Games

Dungeons and Dragons: 9.4  Dungeons and Dragons is an amazing role playing game in which you create a character and play the role of it in a fantastical world. You will go on epic adventures with thousands of ending, fight fantasy monsters, and work through intense riddles. This game has the option to play pre-made adventures, or you can create your own representing your personal taste. Also you can play as the dungeon master where you hold the balance of the world that you create in your very hands and can decide whether or not you’re brave fighters, wizards, clerics, and thieves will survive or die. This game has a huge variety in age requirements but it could be ages 10+ or 16+. It all depends on the adventure.



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Game Review: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Hello, and welcome to game review! In this review, we examine gameplay and game mechanics, items, story, and music. Please remember this is just an opinion so please don’t start bashing me! Thanks. (P.S. I won’t tell the story because I don’t want to spoil too much of the game.) Part 1: Gameplay Well “Ocarina of Time” (OOT) is in fact my favorite game of all time, so I’m very excited to share this review.


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MLB Postseason 2015 Recap and 2016 Season Predictions

Postseason 2015 Recap The 2015 Major League Baseball postseason was one to remember. Many different types of franchises dueled for the title. These included the team with the three young fireballers: Matt Harvey, Jacob DeGrom, and Noah Syndergaard, and second baseman Daniel Murphy, who led the majors with seven home runs in the postseason. Any guesses? Yup. The New York Mets. Another completely different franchise, the Toronto Blue Jays, had the best offense in baseball during the regular season, but sometimes struggled to score runs during their push for the title. They miraculously defeated ex-Phillie Cole Hamels and the Texas Rangers by coming back and winning three consecutive elimination games on the road, but then were dispatched by the eventual World Series Champion Kansas City Royals in the ALCS. Also, let’s not forget the Houston Astros, who miraculously rebuilt their team and made the postseason following 2013 and 2014 seasons…


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