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Students took charge to make their dreams become a reality. by Melissa Epstein

Most teenage boys counted down the minutes until
school is out so they could rush home to play their
favorite video games. Senior founders Nate Tibbels , Nick
Pappas, and Brian Wolatz had a better ideo, why wait
till you get home?
They founded the very first gaming club at MN which
allowed students to meet other people who enjoyed
games as much as they did While they played they
could talk about their viewpoints on different games and
share tactics.
"We started the club to give kids who like gaming
more opportunities to play," Pappas said "It's a chance
to experience other peoples opinions and see what they
have to say. Also, you can see what other people bring
to the table."
Discussions over gaming systems and games, rotating
between games and occasional tournaments were just
some of the exciting things gaming club had to offer.
"We play video games a lot. such as super smash
bros, and also we even played some foreign games
sometimes ," Wolotz said "It's not very competitive,just
watching people play and having fun is what it's all
about."

Freshman Madison Morrissette and freshman Jennifer Mack have been
involved in destination imagination since fifth grade. They restarted
destination imagination at MN this yeor, which has had this club in the
past but it wasn 't currently active at the time.
For destination imagination you got to participate in a project know
as project out reach, which included doing community service. This yeor,
they helped the Nebraska Humane Society by making videos on how to
treat animals
"Part of the criteria lfor project out reach] was to do community
service. We all had an interest in animals and we wanted to do
something to help them. so we ended up making videos " Mack said
As part of that project they also had to come up with an eight minute
skit that they wrote themselves that they would also use in competitive
tournaments.
"For the skit you have to have videos and write it completely by
yourself," Morrissette said 'The ski t could be funny and we would use it
to compete against high schools in Nebraska."
The first competition was against high schools around MN, then they
moved on to competing against all schools in Nebraska. If they made
it past that they would compete in globes, a competition of students
from all over. Whether they made it to globes or not every one had a
wonderful experience.
"It gives you a good chance to do community service and be
creative," Morrissette said "Also, you could be silly with out being
judged