Avas Final Project Intro

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Transitioned from high school to college

Lindsey Whitmore, 2021 Graduate at Whitmore wishes to go back to Berlin for
Olentangy Berlin High School shares her many reasons. Her favorite moments of her
transition to Otterbein University this year for education were at Berlin High School. Todd
classes. Spinner, the Head Principle made her high
school years the best they could have ever
Berlin High School is a very special school so been. From the teachers, to classmates, to staff,
transferring to a totally different environment everyone at Berlin makes the building radiate
was a big change for Whitmore. Berlin was positivity and kindness.
all Whitmore knew so it was extra hard to
transition. She’s getting used to the new “Not one single bad teacher at Berlin. The
atmosphere and she only lives 15 minutes away positivity there was amazing like no other.
so it’s easy for her to see her parents often. Everyone felt like they had a purpose and were
She does have to learn that her parents won’t welcomed,” Whitmore said.
always be that close and she will have to solve
problems on her own.

“I was never uncustom to the culture at
Berlin and switching to Otterbein was very
difficult for me,” Whitmore said.

Freedom in college is way different than
high school freedom. You don’t have to ask to
hangout with friends or have a curfew. Being
in college requires more responsibility though.
Which Whitmore is getting better at as each
day goes by.

“It was very hard for me to adjust to being
responsible for getting anything done, getting
to school on time, turning in assignments,
and being at practice on time. I did get more
freedom though. I just had to learn to balance
the two,” Whitmore said.

Otterbien University in the Fall.
Students were going home for break.

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Deep Creek Lake, Maryland is the jackpot for Waves crash on a sunny day
breathtaking sunsets. is was the view that at Isle of Palms Beach, in
comes a er a great day lled with wakeboarding, South Carolina. e waves
boat rides, tubing, and shing. were perfect for boogie
boarding and sur ng.

Hilton Head
Island, South
Carolina is
home away
from home.

e sunset view
was worth the
risk of a sting
by jelly sh that
washed up on
shore.

Warm evening in Charleston
calls for colorful sunsets and a
swim. We came in contact with
some salamanders too.

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2022 Olympic Games Special Moments
By: Ava Kunselman

Lindsey Jacobellis wins gold during her fifth games at the Erin Jackson is the first black women to win
Winter Olympics. Jacobellis is the most decorated snow- Team USA a gold medal in speed skating
board cross athlete of all time, having won five world cham- Sunday. It may seem unlikely that a skater
pionship golds and eight X Games titles. However, even who spent her life on roller blades would be
though she has competed in every Olympic competition an Olympian on the ice, but Jackson quickly
since the sport’s debut in Torino 2006, the Olympic gold has became a gold medal favorite.

American-born Elieen Gu, 18, jumps into the top position at
the women’s big air competition with her third run, scoring
94.5 with a 1620 and a perfect landing -- making her total
score 188.25 in the event’s debut at the Winter Olympics.
Fans filled the stands to cheer for Gu, who was born and
raised in California but decided in 2019 to compete for

There was a time when Kaillie Humphries, stuck be-
tween countries, and between ambition and alleged
abuse, wondered whether this moment would come.
There were days when her shoulders would slump, and
her insides would deflate, and tears would flow. There
were dreams of the gold medal Humphries ultimately
won here on Monday, of speeding down a bobsled track
faster than any other woman in the world, of standing
atop monobob’s inaugural Olympic podium, victorious.
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Austria won Olympic gold in the ski jumping team event Chloe Kim has continues her dominance on the half
on Monday, four years after failing to even earn a medal in pipe. The champion claimed her second gold medal
the event at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games. “We missed the on Thursday, becoming the first woman to ever win
podium four years ago,” Austrian jumper Manuel Fettner multiple gold medals in the women’s event since it
said. Fettner jumped 128 meters (420 feet) on his final jump became an Olympic sport in 1998.
to soar past Slovenia, sealing the first-place finish for the
four-man team.

The skater, Kamila Valieva, is cleared to continue competing Chen is a favorite for gold at these Olympic Games,
in the Games by a panel of arbitrators on Monday even but this time there has been no sign of nerves or
though a drug found in her system, trimetazidine, is on the pressure. The 22-year-old had a nearly flawless per-
list of drugs banned by global antidoping officials. “It’s a formance -- which included two quadruple jumps
trifecta of substances — two of which are allowed, and one and a triple axel -- and recorded the top score of the
that is not allowed. day at 113.97, also the highest short program score
in figure skating history.

Germany — unquestionably the world’s sliding
superpower — became the first nation to sweep the
medals in an Olympic bobsled race on Tuesday, grabbing
gold, silver and bronze in the two-man event at the
Beijing Games.
Francesco Friedrich is now a three-time Olympic gold
medalist, teaming with Thorsten Margis to prevail in 3
minutes, 56.89 seconds. Johannes Lochner and Florian.
Bauer were second in 3:57.38, and Christoph Hafer and
Matthias Sommer held on to finish third in 3:58.58. 6

The Big Debate

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Berlin Gymnastics Soars to the Top at Home Meet
By: Ava Kunselman

The 2021-2022 Berlin Gymnastics Team gets
ready to take on the events at their first home
meet of the season. They did there cheer that
they call before every meet which helps them
get in “meet mode.”

Tia Estrada ‘25 dominates the
competition scoring a 9.2 on bars.
She also got 3rd place in All Around
with a score of 36.1 that helped
the Bears jump the top!

Izzy Borgstrom ‘24 takes the Kylie Hendrick ‘23 smiles with
floor with pride and confidence. joy as she stuck her dismount on
She nailed every tumbling pass beam. Her teammates cheered and
perfectly. She ended the flawless hugged her afterwards. The Berlin
routine scoring a 8.1. Gymnastics Team is very supportive
of eachother.
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Ocean Henthorn ‘22 soars through the
air with her outstanding tumbling pass.
She did a back handspring full. She scored
an 8.9 helping Berlin take first of three
schools in the district.

After Senior Paige Dargatz landed her
dismount on bars, the whole team ran over to
cheer since this was Paige’s last home meet
before she graduates. Paige has always been
a big contributer to the Berlin Gymnastics
Team.

Tia Estrada ‘25 warms up on beam before
she competes. Even though its a warm
up, she still lands every skill with ease.
Tia is also a big contributor to the Berlin
Gymnastic Team.

Kalyn Davis ‘25 flys through the air
while preforming on floor. She lands her
full with perfection. Kalyn always has a
smile on her face when competing on
any event!

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Covid-19 is a big obstacle for airlines
By: Ava Kunselman

Covid has been a worldwide issue for two years now. It has Now with the new Omicron variant it’s also making the
affected many friends, families, and jobs. Now in 2022, it’s airline process extremely difficult for many companies.
affecting the airlines more than ever.

“Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said about 8,000 of its
75,000 employees tested positive for Covid-19 over the last
four weeks, absences that marred the company’s financial
results during a busy holiday travel season,” NBC News
said.
With airline employee numbers dropping, this could lead to
cancellations of flights and more.

“Delta late last year updated its sick leave policy for
employees who test positive for Covid-19, providing them
five days of pay, outside of sick banks, and an additional
two days if they test positive on the fifth day. Previously
staff had 10 days of paid leave for Covid infections aside
from regular sick days,” NBC News said.

The CDC changed the required pay leave from five days to
10. Employees are not very happy about this, considering
these people need to make money to live off of, they can’t
make as much now.

NBC News stated, “Delta reported a loss for the quarter
and forecast another for the first three months of the
year because of the fast-spreading omicron variant, but
predicted travel would begin to rebound again in late
February.”

Photo, courtesy, flickr.com

The mask shows how the global pandemic has
impacted the world immensly.
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(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) Suni Lee on beam at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics

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