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To Buy Or Not To Buy? Questions Behind the New Tech School Store

by Ben Kouchnerkavich

Holland, Mich.--The Holland New Tech school store was a promising economic venture, but some school nurses have a different opinion about it.

While visiting New Tech to do drills with the 8^th grade students on Wednesday, a group of school nurses were most displeased with some of the products being sold at the school store, deeming them unhealthy.

This has caused some employees of the school store to question whether or not they even want to continue selling products before school and during lunch.

Sophomore Izak Fritz

One such student is sophomore Izak Fritz, who was involved in the development of the school store.

“I was talking to [school store creator Bryce Crenshaw] one day,” said Izak. “And he asked if I wanted to work at school store. I said ‘sure.’”

Izak was part of helping to decide what they would sell at the store and what the prices would be.

For the most part, he likes working there.

“It’s fun,” he said. “There are nice people you get to talk to and ask how they are doing. [However], sometimes people yell at you when you aren’t fast enough.”

Izak described the experience when the school nurses saw what they were selling there.

“They saw the foods and decided it was a terrible idea and that we needed to stop selling junk food,” he elaborated. “It made me upset after all the hard work and time we put into it. I don’t know if I want to work there anymore.”

“I don’t know why they would allow [unhealthy foods to be sold] in the first place”, an anonymous 11^th grader said.

Izak is concerned that selling exclusively healthy food would result in a decrease in the amount of money being brought in.

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Complete Video From WOTV's Maranda Regarding The CEP Student Film Challenge

Teens Become Energy Saving Advocates

A Holland New Tech Television Experience

by Ben Kouchnerkavich

           

Grand Rapids, Mich.--On Tuesday, April 9,  New Tech sophomore Bryce Crenshaw and teacher James Woods went to the studios of WOOD-TV in the Heritage Hill neighborhood of Grand Rapids to be filmed for the television show “Maranda: Where You Live.” Mr. Woods was the supervising teacher at Holland New Tech High School for the production of the Community Energy Plan (CEP) video project that all New Tech students participated in during the 2011-2012 school year. 

The videos were published on YouTube, and Crenshaw’s video received the most views. He worked with fellow New Tech sophomores Jose Arroyo, Bronsen Clyne, Anthony Garza, Oscar Roman, and Khalil Torres. Their video was shown at an awards film festival last April at the Knickerbocker Theater in Holland.

According to WOOD-TV, students will be talking about their role in the project and the importance of the project to the Holland community. Teachers will be speaking about their role in the project as well. Holland Christian High School and Black River Public School also participated in the video project. Mr. Woods and Bryce Crenshaw were the two representatives chosen from New Tech to be interviewed.

Mr. Crenshaw suggested that not everything went as planned in the television appearance. The Ottawa Area Intermediate School District hired a company to produce a film about the project. The film was featured as an example of cooperation between school districts in Ottawa County. The project itself was a YouTube video contest between high schools in the OAISD.

"Maranda came up with some questions related to the CEP project,” Mr. Crenshaw continued, “and what it was like to do projects in school and what affect the school has on us. We didn’t get asked the things we had planned for." Despite the misunderstanding, it became a very positive experience for Bryce. “It was confusing at first, but the problem fixed itself and it went really well altogether.”

Mr. Woods agreed. "It was a great opportunity to give a little exposure to the positive things that are happening in Holland. The community has a great plan in place to make us more energy secure and efficient. The schools have wonderful students and staff. We were able to share a little of that with Maranda and her audience, and that was really nice."

The episode of “Maranda: Where You Live” featuring Mr. Woods and Mr. Crenshaw will appear on WOTV-TV at 7:00 PM Friday, April 12, as part of a special on the public awareness campaign, “Doing More. Together.”