The CHIEF February 2022

Scholastic Bowl Update By: Jasmine White

In the past month, the Scholastic Bowl had a couple matches, including two major competitions that were in the conference. One match was on January 20th and it was the first virtual match that included a new way to do Scholastic Bowl. This new way included phones for a buzzer using a website and computers for video and audio through Zoom. Varsity and Junior Varsity had done well, winning several matches that night. The second match on the 29th was at IVC. The varsity Scholastic Bowl team went to the tournament and got 4th place out of ten schools. Let’s wish the team luck for their upcoming February matches!

For the month of February, Mr. McElwee has given us some interesting facts! Fact #1: On the day Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, a photographer named Robert Landsberg was out on the scene only four miles away. With his distance not being far enough to survive the eruption, Landsberg decided to live his last moments by taking some final shots of the volcano. Once the smoke grew closer to him, he rewound his film and laid on his camera to protect it. Thanks to his pictures, scientists could better understand the eruption of the volcano! Fact #2: Throwback to the year 1999 when many tech companies and banks had to redesign their faulty code programming on their computers so that the date and time could be correctly tracked. They feared that systems would go from ”99” to “00,” instead of the year 2000, which could’ve potentially caused glitches and shutdowns to occur. Thousands of hours were put in by people to work on fixing this dreaded error.

Random Facts W I T H B I G MAC By: Emma O'Lone