Presbyterian Pan American School

April 12, 2017 •VOLUME 14 • ISSUE 6• KINGSVILLE, TX 78363

Eagle X-Press

North Carolina wins March Madness 2017by Antonio RuizStaff Writer

Eagles baseball beats Sunnybrook

by Hope ShobhaStaff Writer

Track & Field competes in Bishop

Staff Writerby Maylin Diaz

by Paulina BoudesocqueStaff Writer

Annual Celebration held at PPAS Students participate in Science Symposium

Juniors attend Dual Enrollment Day at TAMUKby Hannia SanchezStaff Writer

TAPPS 3A Valley All-Stars defeated

Valley 1A All-Stars 36-25 in the game last night. PPAS Senior Henriette Mbawmbaw and freshman Alondra

Gutierrez played in this game. PPAS ju-niors Joshua Karang-

wa and Changhee Han also participated

in the 3A TAPPS Valley All-Stars on

April 4.

Annual Celebration was held March 24-25 on campus.

Photo provided by:PPAS FB

On March 24 and 25, students from Presbyte-rian Pan American School (PPAS) enjoyed games and activities in the an-nual Celebration event. Celebration is a two-day activity that consists of many things, from play-ing games to listening to speeches from students and singing praise songs.Students were sepa-

rated into 10 families, which are randomly so students co-exist with other students that they may not be familiar with. “I really enjoyed all the

games and worship that we did. It was a good experience for being a family member,” said Junior Wooseok Choi.The theme for this

year was The Hun-ger Games: Catching Fire and every team or family was a District.

“I loved the experi-ence. This was my first Celebration at Pan Am and I thought it was fun and creative,” said Freshmen David Araujo.Junior Lizeth Mireles said

that Celebration is the per-fect opportunity to inter-act with people you don’t

always talk to because that is one of its purposes.There were differ-

ent games and activities such as flip the bottle, lap sit, monster, etc.“The main purpose of

Celebration is to encour-age students to work as a team and socialize with

Throughout the school year, students in chem-istry, physics and biolo-gy class at Presbyterian Pan American School have been working on different topics in this year’s science sympo-sium and the judges will select the best research done on April 5, 2017.Rosine Uwayesu, a

17-year-old junior, is working on their re-search on Generation of Electricity together with Nadine Karabaranga, a 17-year-old junior. “What I like most

about our topic is that it helps us understand how electricity has helped in growth of today’s tech-nology,’’ Uwayesu said.Working on a science

symposium is a very good experience be-cause you just don’t do it for a grade, the fact that as you research, you get to learn more on the science topic you’re doing, Uwayesu said. According to Priscilla

Escamilla, a 16-year-old sophomore, her

other students,” said Senior Fabiola Saldaña.Another big part of

Celebration is the sing-ing. All the students reunite in the school’s chapel to sing praise songs. The school’s Praise Team plays a va-riety of songs to enter-tain the students while they have a good time. At the end of the first

day, all the students get letters from their friends and family that were sent to them. “I was surprised when

I got a letter from home because I didn’t expect it. It was a good surprise though, it made me feel home,” Araujo said.“Celebration is one

of the best experiences a person can get from Pan Am. At the end of it, you end up having more friends and good experiences,” said Ju-nior Eulalia Velazquez.

Presbyterian Pan American School track and field members had a track meet on March 23, 2017 and had to compete with differ-ent schools in different track and field events at Banquete. Some of the schools they competed with were Bishop High School, Banquete and Riviera.Omar Ortiz, a 16-

year old sophomore competed in 110 me-ters race and hurdles. “I think that was the

best experience be-cause you get to know where to improve in the next compe-

tition, ”Ortiz said.Different track and

field members also competed in differ-ent categories in the event at Banquete and some students stood out. Some of these stu-dents were Miriam Ji-menez, a 16-year old junior participated in the two mile race, Jose Vasquez, a 17-year-old junior, in the 100 and 200 meters race and lastly, Christian Pena, a 16-year-old freshman in the 400 meters race.Tabitha Barakagwira,

16-year-old junior, likes track because the team members are so encourag-ing and supportive

during the events.“I believe that the

strength of track and field as a team is the fact that we are united and there is a lot of team work,” Barakagwira said.The benefits of track

and field is that it has a lot of components that are basis to other sports and also track and field’s help to im-prove mechanics for running and jump-ing, said Reili Cantu , Track and Field Coach.“What I like about this

year’s track and field team is that most of them are willing to put in the work, ”Cantu said.

On April 4, 2017, at Presbyterian Pan American School (PPAS), a baseball game took place. The Eagles baseball team won against San An-tonio Sunnybrook Christian academy by a score of, 18-2. Among the top base-ball players that com-pleted more runs were Jose Calderón, Min Oh and Carlo Lopez.“We as a team want to give our best in every game, even if situations are not fa-vorable,” said Se-

nior Jesus Perez. The starter pitcher was Calderón and catcher Juan Vazquez. Al-though the score was favorable, it was a fair game, Perez said.“The game was great. They were good play-ers, we all gave our

best, and at the end our efforts were paid off,” said Se-nior Abiel Cárdenas. Moreover, there was another game held earlier on March 31, 2017, in San Isidro. The score was re-markable with, 18-12, with PPAS in the lead. Starters were Calderón as the pitcher and Moi-ses Araujo as catcher. “Our boys played very well. I was proud of how they played and how they han-dled the situation,” said baseball Coach Hardy Robertson.

On April 3, the Men’s Gonzaga basketball team played against North Carolina Tar Heels for the March Madness Champion-ship. In the end, North Carolina won the match with a score of, 71-65. As it is done every year,

the March Madness tournament 2017 start-ed on March 12 with the selection Sunday and it is going to come to an end on April 3 with the championship game.The March Madness,

considered the great-est tournament for col-lege teams, is a bas-

ketball competition run by the National Collegiate Athletic As-sociation (NCAA) that features more than 60 college teams that play against each other in different categories.According to the Il-

linois High School As-sociation’s website, Ihsa.org, March Mad-ness was born in Illinois as an “annual tourna-ment of high school boys basketball teams, sponsored by the Illi-nois High School As-sociation.” It started on 1908 and grew to be a state wide tournament that hosted over 900

schools by the 1930’sToday, this phenom-

enon is thought to be the Super bowl of col-lege basketball and it is broadcasted through-out the whole U.S. in broadcast compa-nies like CBS Sports.The Final Four is the

name for the semifi-nals stage of the March Madness tournament. This year the Final Four matches, played on April 1, were South Carolina vs. Gonza-ga, with a final score of 73-77 and Oregon vs. North Carolina, with a final score of 76-77, respectively.

From left, Juniors Min Oh, Youjin Oh & Joshua Karangwa attend Dual Enrollment Day at TAMUK.

219 students, dozens of TAMUK staff, and 9 different schools, reunited for a single purpose: celebrate the annual Dual Enrollment day. The Event was held at Texas A&M Uni-versity- Kingsville (TAMUK) on March 21st, 2017. It started at 10 a.m. and came to an end at 2 p.m. in the second floor of the Student Union Building.

Presbyterian Pan American School (PPAS) attended with a group of TAMUK dual en-rollment students pertaining to the junior class, who received information and explored the institution’s educational spaces.

“I liked the fact that they ap-preciated our efforts for be-ing a high school student and a college one at the same time,” said Junior Joshua Karangwa.

TAMUK’s staff was com-posed by college students and

professors who shared their experiences throughout the years and who essentially as-sured to all the dual enrollment students that TAMUK Univer-sity was a very good option, indeed the best in the region.

“It was interesting to hear their offers and to know more about the colleges inside the university. They sounded pretty convincing,” said 17-

year old Junior Youjin Oh. TAMUK’s faculty divided

the colossal amount of students into 4 groups: A, B, C & D. Thus, different groups attended diverse rooms, and listened to the proposals comfortably.

After some these conferences and oral presentation shared between students and the hosts, the staff invited the alumni to get some snacks and drinks.

During the lunch break, door prizes were provided to the au-dience by drawing raffle tickets.

“The path to being success-ful starts with making the best choices, and you guys have a pretty good potential that must not be wasted,” said TAMUK College of Arts and Sciences Dean Dolores Guerrero at the beginning of the event.

Indeed, Oh recognized their recruiting efforts and po-tential to captive the inter-ests of high school students.

“I liked the University buildings and centers, now I’m consider-ing applying to this institution. It seems to be diverse and a proper place where higher education is conveyed,” said Junior Min Oh.

According to the Universi-ty’s staff The Dual Enrollment day purpose is to appreciate, identify, recognize, and dis-sect the best students around the area and in the community.

by Hope ShobhaStaff Writer

topic, neonatology, can help one understand more when it comes to careers because it is a science topic, which it focuses on and one might be in-terested and try it out.“I believe that next

year’s science sym-posium will be much better because one will be able to look at the mistakes done in the previous one and then correct them in the new one,” Escamilla said.“As a science teacher,

I think science sympo-sium is different from science fair because in science fair you have to follow the scientific method while in sci-ence symposium you have to conduct re-search on a topic,” said Walter Mebane , Chem-istry/Physics teacher.Science symposium

is more of research-ing and then educating people and thus it is a benefit for the audience that listens and the re-searcher, Mebane said.

From left, Angelita Mireles and Elizabeth Blanno with their research and board.

Min Oh up to bat against Sunnybrook.

Photo by: Maylin Diaz

PPAS plays in TAPPS All Star Game

Photos provided by: PPAS FB

Photo provided by:PPAS FB

FEATURES & OPINION

Art students complete projectsby Naisel MontalvoStaff Writer

Eagles X-Press Staff: Adviser, Desiree Alegria. Paulina Boudesocque, Ana Karen Campuzano, Michelle Day, Sharis Del Carmen, Maylin Diaz, Leo Garza, Naisel Montalvo, Antonio Ruiz, Hannia Sanchez, Hope Shobha.

by Maylin DiazStaff Writer

Students visit Corpus Christi Churchby Leonardo GarzaStaff Writer

by Sharis Del CarmenStaff Writer

by Ana Karen CampuzanoStaff Writer

Power Rangers is packed with action

by: Michelle DayStaff Writer

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

NHS members chosen as Student of the Month

‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ to Prom

Photo by: Joshua Perkins

Seniors David Angulo (l) and Sara Mendoza.

This past Sunday, March 26th 2017, sev-eral student ambassa-dors represented Pres-byterian Pan American School (PPAS) by visiting the Jackson Woods Presbyterian Church in Corpus Christi. The ambas-sadors chosen for this trip were 17-year-old Jaime Chirinos, 18-Year-old Camila Herrera, and 18-Year-old Fernanda Vargas, all of them Seniors.“Representing my

school in other places is an incredible expe-rience. I had the op-portunity to share my experiences at Pan Am and meet new people,” Herrera said.The Ambassadors

Photo by: Sharis Del Carmen

On April 1, 2017, the next phase of the 4-H Fashion Show Contest District Division was held in Leming. The competition is named Duds to Dazzle Cloth-ing & Textile Competi-tion The participants of the team called “Fashion Eagles” were Senior Sara Mendoza, Juniors Isaac Del Rio and Oliver Ira-cheta, Sophomore Julio Galván and Freshman Christian Peña. They received second place for their division which qualified them for state.“I never thought

about getting this far with my teammates. It has been an honor and an incredible experi-ence,” Iracheta said. On the other hand,

Sophomores Daniela Lara and Angelita Mire-les participated in a dif-ferent contest. Lara was in the Senior Division

in the category Semi-formal to Formal. She received a Red Ribbon. Mireles, in Senior Di-vision, and category of Special Interest. She was awarded a Blue Ribbon and second place, allow-ing her to make it to state.“I think the competition

gives the kids the chance to be creative, to show their personalities, and practice some good pub-lic speaking. For the first year for the kids compet-ing, I think they did a fantastic job,” said 4-H Sponsor Niki Tijerina. The Fashion Eagles

team won second place by creating an oven mitt. The oven mitt idea has three star and a butterfly on it. Each star represents each participants country and the butterfly repre-sents peace and freedom. “Life is a fashion and

the world is the run-away,” Galván said.

According to IMDb, Power Rangers is a film directed by Dean Israelite, with the col-laboration of Haim Saban, Marty Bow-en, Wyck Godfrey, and Brian Casentini. This science fiction

movie has a PG-13 rat-ing and is about two hours long. It was pre-sented in theaters on March 24, 2017. This movie is the original Power Rangers televi-sion series, but with a new cast of high school students that all gain super natural powers. The cast includes Dacre

Montgomery (Jason) playing the Red Ranger, also the leader of all the Rangers. Naomi Scott (Kimberly) plays the Pink Ranger, RJ Cyler (Billy) plays the Blue

Ranger, Ludi Lin (Zack) is the Black Ranger and Becky G (Trini) is the Yellow Ranger.The popular actress,

Elizabeth Banks, plays Rita Repulsa, the vil-lain of the movie. She plays an evil alien witch determined to take over the world with her army of monsters.Its plot is based on

a group of 5 teen-age warriors that fight against anything to protect life on Earth and save the planet. The movie is filled

with sci-fi violence, action and humor.In my opinion, it’s a

good movie for children, mostly boys, because it has fictional characters, such as superheroes, fighting, special effects and the old age dilem-ma of good vs. evil.

Art students from Presbyterian Pan American School (PPAS) are work-ing on several different proj-ects in their re-spective classes. Art class 1 is

working on land-scapes that depict their feelings. Art class 2 (ceramics) is working on a nutrition project. “We are work-

ing on a landscape painting that rep-resents how we feel. I am draw-ing a lake with mountains on the back, using blues and browns,”

said Helena Wal-ton, 15-year-old freshman.Walton said that

art class 1 is work-ing on painting strategies and how to work with pri-mary colors and creating colors

and landscapes.“Because they

needed to work to-gether on a large scale project and praise the beauty of nature, each made a piece of the design and then had to put

them all together,” said Art and US History Teacher Joshua Perkins. Art class 2 start-

ed working with sketches of how they wanted to start their campaign. They are cur-rently working on personal sketches that represent the balance of one of our daily meals. “It’s interesting

and I really like the subject because not all schools teach us about how we should eat and make our diets balanced,” said Alison Ca-banzo, 15-year-old freshman.

This year’s prom will be taking place at Presbyterian Pan American School’s Student Harte Cen-ter on April 29, 2017.The class that will be

in charge of decorating for the prom will be the Juniors. The theme will be Alice in Wonderland and the preparations have already started. “We are really excit-

ed for prom this year. We are still trying to make the decorations, but hopefully every-thing will be ready for that day,” said Ana

Seniors David Angu-lo from Villahermo-sa, Tabasco, and Sara Mendoza from Oaxa-ca de Juarez, Oaxaca, were selected for the student of the month for March and April. Being selected as

the student of the month at Presby-terian Pan Ameri-can School (PPAS) is a great honor for all dedicated stu-dents, Angulo said.“I’m flattered to

be chosen. I thank God and my friends for supporting me,” Angulo said. Angulo is a Senior

who was selected for the student of the month for March. He

is a dual enrollment student at Coastal Bend College (CBC) taking English, Gov-ernment, and College Algebra classes. He is also a member of National Honor Soci-ety (NHS) and Cam-pus Ministry Council (CMC). He is a mem-

ber of baseball and soccer teams at PPAS.Angulo plans to

study psychology at Schreiner University. “Trust in the

Lord at all times,” Angulo said.Mendoza was se-

lected as the student

were driven to the Jackson Woods Pres-byterian Church by School President Dr. Doug Dalglish and participate in the 10:30 service. Vargas gave a speech dur-

4H fashion competes at district

Karen Santiago, president of the Junior class.The prom will be entitled “A Trip to Wonder-

land” and it will start at 6 pm. Juniors have already started to put out posters to promote it. Not only the Junior class is working on decorations but also the Freshmen and Sophomore classes are helping

put everything together.The preparations

started early in Janu-ary of this year.“Things are coming

along, the progress is moving along on a steady pace, it will be done and things are go-ing to look nice,” said Hardy Robertson, spon-sor of the junior class.“I am very excited to

see how the prom is go-ing to look this year. It is going to be very special for us seniors because it is our last one,” said Senior Fabiola Saldana.

Photo by: Ana Karen CampuzanoThe 2017 Prom will be an Alice in Wonderland theme,

held at the Harte Student Center April 29.

ing the service about how life at PPAS has changed her life and that of other students how learn from their experiences at school. After the service was over, all the ambas-sadors enjoyed a lunch with members of the congregation where they shared more of their experi-ences prior and after their life at PPAS. After their lunch,

the ambassadors went to the Cor-pus Christi beach and relaxed a while.

of the month for April. She is cur-rently a NHS mem-ber, 4H Treasurer, and Student Council Vice President. In addition, Mendoza enrolls in different activities and sports such as soccer, track & field, basketball, and cross country.Mendoza plans

to study biotech-nology at Univer-sity of Arkansas.“I’m glad I came to

this school. I have developed many of my skills as a stu-dent, classmate and person. I am thank-ful of how far I have come. I have not only grown physically, but mentally and spiritu-ally,” Mendoza said.

Photo provided by: PPAS FBNine Pan Am students competed in Leming at the Dis-

trict 12 4-H Fashion Sensation competition.

Photo provided by: imdb.com

Fromleft, Jose Calderon, Maylin Diaz, Youjin Oh and Luis Martinez with their project.

Photo provided by: PPAS FBFrom left, Maria Vargas, Camila Herrera & Jaime

Chirinos visit Corpus Christi Church.

by: Naisel MontalvoStaff Writer