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Published January 26, 2011, 12:00 AM

PHOTO GALLERY: Ninth Grade Regatta


Ninth grade high school students in teacher Kristi Graetz’s advanced placement general science class experimented with handmade cardboard boats in the high school’s pool last week. They competed in a race and at the same time learned about buoyancy while having fun. See the story in the Jan. 27 publication of the River Falls Journal.

  • Ninth grade high school students in teacher Kristi Graetz’s advanced placement general science class experimented with handmade cardboard boats in the high school’s pool last week. They competed in a race and at the same time learned about buoyancy while having fun. See the story in the Jan. 27 publication of the River Falls Journal.
  • Lined up and ready to go in their boats and representing seven teams are students, from left to right: Steven Williams, Levi Slimak, Kaija Warner, Katarina Greenwood, Evan Schumacher, Blake Heiman and Annissa Lesmeister.
  • Making their way down the lanes of the pool are, from left to right: Levi Slimak, Kaija Warner, Steven Williams, Blake Heiman, Annissa Lesmeister, Katarina greenwood and Evan Schumacher.
  • Some teams gave their plastic bag-covered and duct taped boats names like “The Mario Unicorn,” “The Rotten Egg,” and “The Boat 2 Victory.”
  • Evan Schumacher, in the foreground, and Katarina Greenwood appear to be having fun.
  • Chris Morgan plies through the water with little effort.
  • Matt Merrill sits in his mouse shaped boat at the end of his trip up and down the pool.
  • Katarina Greenwood appears to be taking on water.
  • Reilly Myklebust in the boat is cheered on by teammates Kaija Warner, left, and MaKayla Dehne.
  • Evan Schumacher’s team in “The Rotten Egg” used a snow shovel as a paddle.
  • “The Rotten Egg” teammate Scott Haskins gives the sailing vessel a try.