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Virtual Enterprise

By Paige Connell

                QHS’s Virtual Enterprise team headed to the second annual San Francisco Bay Area trade fair on the first weekend in March.  This competition was hosted by several high schools in the area and was held at the South San Francisco Conference Center.
                Virtual Enterprise is a class taught by Mrs. Redkey in which students create a business and interact with other schools doing the same.  While at the competition, the students had to maintain a professional attitude.  The Virtual Enterprise Competition Booklet outlines rules such as, “No hands in pockets or jingling change in your pockets,” and “Don’t fidget.”
                The Virtual Enterprise class left at 8:00 am Saturday morning, March 4.  Before reaching San Francisco, the class took a detour at San Jose in order to go to two museums: an Egyptian museum, and a Tech museum.  The Tech museum included some impressive robots, even one that took a picture of patrons and then drew what they “saw” by pen.
                While in San Francisco, the class had some touristy diversions.  They visited Pier 39 and Pier 41, ate at Bubba Gump’s, took a tour of Alcatraz, rode the cable car, and shopped in Chinatown.
                The trade fair was held on Monday, March 6.  Inside the conference center, there were 65 booths—the number of schools that attended the fair.  Evan Franklin, part of the Virtual Enterprise team, said, “It looks kind of like a job fair, with booth after booth.”  The participants can walk around and buy (with virtual money) items from other schools’ catalogs.  When a customer comes up to QHS’s Custom Cruisers booth, they can buy rims for tires, shifter knobs, pedals, and many other custom car items.  When somebody buys a product, the team fills out an invoice and does the things necessary for a sale.
                In the competition, the QHS team placed very well.  In the company newsletter category, the Custom Cruiser team won fifth place.  For the catalogs, they earned sixth place.  In both of these competitions, there were over 50 entrants.
 

Continued on page 10, Virtual Enterprise.












Left Below: VE at the Egyptian Museum in San Jose. Right Below: VE in jail at Alcatraz!

Give Blood. Save Lives.

By Kayli E. Vallely

                On March 8, 2006 Quincy High School S-Club hosted a blood drive in the lower gym. United Blood Services, a company based out of Reno, came to run the drive. Students ages 17 and up were encouraged to donate. The gym was transformed into a clinic, with places to register, places to speak with a medical professional to ensure that it is safe for one to give blood, places to donate, and places to eat refreshments afterwards.
                The first thing the donor did was to fill out his or her personal information on a form. From there, donors saw a medical professional who checked ID, iron level, blood pressure, and asked many questions. If the donor was found to be in good health, the medical professional escorted him over to one of the donor chairs, and a nurse took over. Once the needle was inserted into the donor’s arm, he or she gently squeezed a squishy ball for about five minutes, in order to speed up the pumping of the blood. After donating, the donor was encouraged to relax and to indulge in some of the provided goodies.
                The staff was very helpful and encouraging, and they were more than ready to help the donors with any problems. The whole procedure was conducted with the welfare of the donor in mind. 
                “I felt kind of faint afterwards, but it was only for a minute. And the fact that I could give something so vital to someone else made it totally worth it,” said donor Kayli Vallely.
                According to Jan McKee of United Blood Services, fifteen students donated whole blood and six donated red blood cells, for a total of twenty-one units of blood. Twenty-eight students were interested in donating blood, but because of hypertension and other ailments that put students at high risk, only twenty-one were able to donate. Mrs. McKee mentioned that the day before the drive only twelve students had signed up to donate, but she was happy to report that that number was almost doubled on donation day.

Continued on page 2, Blood Drive.

Inside this Issue:

Sports in the Spotlight...p. 4 & 5

Just For Fun…… p. 6

Horoscopes……. p. 7

Bits O’ News.. p. 14 & 15