Bainbridge On Campus

The Bainbridge Spartans Basketball team lost their sixth straight Metro League basketball game, in a thriller, to the Cleveland Eagles on January 8th, 55-58, on a Davon Bolton Buzzer Beater.

Bainbridge played O'Dea High School in their third home basketball game of the young season on December 15th, 2015.

The superstar for the Spartans was guard Brendan Burke, who finished the game with 34 points, a career high, as the Spartans soared to their highest scoring contest of the year.

O'Dea had many turnovers, but that was the only thing keeping the Fighting Irish off the board as they outscored the Spartans, 68-61. Michael Carter III, scored 14, but many Irish teammates were in double figures, as the Irish were very balanced in their scoring.

Bainbridge Spartans basketball team faced off against the Roosevelt Roughriders on the 8th of December, 2015 at Paski Gymnasium

The Metro League game featured the Spartans' new head coach Steve Haizlip, at this second home game of the young season.

The Roosevelt team, led by 6'5" Jonathan Lang, who had 24 points, had more height than the Spartans, but they rallied behind guard Brendan Burke, who led the Spartans with 19 points.

Listen to the game above to find the result.

New BHS head basketball coach Steve Haizlip joined Shaemus Kreider in the BCB studio for a preview of the upcoming season. The first game is on November 28th at Kingston, while the first home game is the following Monday versus the North Kitsap Vikings.

The conversation occurred on November 7, 2015.

Credits: BCB host, audio editor and social media publisher: Shaemus Kreider.

In this episode of Bainbridge On Campus, Finn Manders interviews Aila Ikuse, Kate Merifield, Erik Appleberry, and Mark Dettman about their involvement in the Fort Ward Community Hall project that is taking place on the south end of the island.

The four students are members of the Youth Advisory Committee for the project and are responsible for helping to restore a former 100 year old bakery into a community hall for the public.

They have made a huge amount of progress in restoring the building through grants, hard work, and donations, but are still collecting donations to get them to their of $300,000 goal.

Visit their website at http://fortwardhall.org/ to learn more about their outstanding progress, the organisation and project, and how you can support them in restoring the magnificent building.

Credits:

Host: Finn Mander, Edited by: Finn Mander, Published by: Finn Mander

In this episode of Bainbridge On Campus, Jonathan Coonan interviews Robby Davis and Kolin Hawkins in the second of a three part series focusing on the Bainbridge Island High School Robotics team, Spartronics 4915. They discuss their 2015 season, as well as their individual experiences on the robotics team.

In the third and final episode of the series, Jonathan will be interviewing two of the mentors on the robotics team, Clare Liguori and John Sachs about the FRC legacy and their experiences on the team.

A year and a half ago STEM outreach grew at the high school due to the formation of Spartronics Team 4915. The robotics club participates is an FRC (FIRST Robotics Challenge) team and have been working hard to get ready for this years competition season. FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is an umbrella organization that is also in charge of FIRST Lego League and FIRST Tech Challenge.

Spartronics Team 4915 had amazing seasons last year and this year. Their robots, ATLaS, and GAEA made it to World Championships and finished in the top 5% worldwide.

What makes robotics so unique is the presence of 13 professional mentors at every meeting. These mentors are engineers, programmers, and marketers who work in the professional world and live on the island. They teach team members about their respective fields, and help them build the robot.

Due to last years success, the team has grown significantly. This year they have 50 members, twice the size of last years team. They also have 16 girls, quadruple the number last year. In fact, there were enough girls to attend the Girls Generation Competition, a competitions run by and for girls. The ladies fixed, drove, and cheered ATLaS on as they won 2nd place.

This year’s challenge has been difficult to solve, but with tons of support and a successful season behind them, Spartronics 4915 has placed well in competitions at Glacier Peak, Shorewood, and their regional competition in Cheney. Due to the success of the team throughout this years season, they have qualified for another trip to World Championships with GAEA.

On April 9th, 2015 the team hosted a fundraiser all over the island celebrating STEM, and teamwork with the hopes of sharing their excitement about the world of robotics as well as raising money to send their robot across the country to the World Championships in St. Louis. Thanks to the outstanding support and generosity of the community, they received over $3,000.

Credits: Podcast host: Jonathan Coonan, Podcast editor: Finn Mander, Podcast guests: Kolin Hawkins, Robby Davis.

In this episode of Bainbridge On Campus, Jonathan Coonan interviews Aila Ikuse and Clio Batali about the Bainbridge Island High School Robotics team, Spartronics 4915. They discuss their 2015 season, as well as their individual experiences on the robotics team. 

A year and a half ago STEM outreach grew at the high school due to the formation of Spartronics Team 4915. The robotics club participates is an FRC (FIRST Robotics Challenge) team and have been working hard to get ready for this years competition season. FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is an umbrella organization that is also in charge of FIRST Lego League and FIRST Tech Challenge.

Spartronics Team 4915 had an amazing season last year. Their robot, ATLaS, made it to World Championships and finished in the top 5% worldwide.

What makes robotics so unique is the presence of 13 professional mentors at every meeting. These mentors are engineers, programmers, and marketers who work in the professional world and live on the island. They teach team members about their respective fields, and help them build the robot.

Due to last year’s success, the team has grown significantly. This year they have 50 members, twice the size of last years team. They also have 16 girls, quadruple the number last year. In fact, there were enough girls to attend the Girls Generation Competition, a competitions run by and for girls. The ladies fixed, drove, and cheered ATLaS on as they won 2nd place.

This year’s challenge has been difficult to solve, but with tons of support and a successful season behind them, Spartronics 4915 has placed well in competitions at Glacier Peak, Shorewood, and their regional competition in Cheney. Due to the success of the team throughout this year’s season, they have qualified for another trip to World Championships with GAEA.

On April 9th, 2015 the team is hosting a fundraiser all over the island celebrating STEM, and teamwork in the hopes of sharing their excitement about the world of robotics as well as raising money to send their robot across the country to the World Championships in St. Louis.

They did not choose April 9th for no reason, in fact April 9th, 2015 is a once in a lifetime day for Spartronics team 4915, as 4/9/15 is the same number as their team number.

Join the team for 49 minutes and 15 seconds at ACE Hardware, Town & Country, the Pavilion (where their robot ATLaS will be demoed!), Westside Pizza, and Safeway.

Credits: BHS-BCB host: Jonathan Coonan; BHS-BCB audio editor: Finn Mander; authors of podcast notes: Finn Mander and Aila Ikuse; BCB social media publisher: Barry Peters.

Have nothing to do on a Friday night? Come on down to the Bainbridge High School where the two High School Jazz bands will be performing in their annual community Swing Dance!

In this episode of Bainbridge on Campus, Finn Mander interviews the Bainbridge High School band director, Chris Thomas about the upcoming Swing Dance. To name a few points of their conversation, they discuss the origination of the classic Swing Dance, which has been around far longer than most of us can remember, as well as dance styles associated with the two High School Jazz bands. You will also have the opportunity to listen to one of this year’s Jazz bands!

The High School Jazz band has had a very successful history over the past few years, including being asked to play at Governor Jay Inslee’s inauguration in 2013, and winning prestigious awards in local Jazz competitions such as the one they visited recently at the University of Washington where they placed third in finals.

You’re in for a treat on Friday night, so make sure you pick up tickets at www.bainbridgebands.org, or purchase a ticket for $15.00 at the entrance to the High School commons at 7:00PM. While you’re at it, don’t worry about your hunger or thirst as refreshments will be provided!

All proceeds will benefit the band program.

On Campus Host Charlie Hanacek sits down with Ashley Alnwick, Leah Potter, Claire Fowler, and Sophie Carson, who are all leaders of Biomedical Engineering Club at BHS, to talk about the club, it's future, and an Ebola poster made in apparently poor taste. Biomedical Engineering's advisor is BHS Biology teacher Charisa Moore. Be sure to stop by their meetings on Thursday afternoons!

Are you interested in joining Radio Club, or maybe just want some cool podcasts to follow on the bus to school or work? Ryan Cox interviews Charlie Hanacek as the up and coming BHS Radio Club. Highlights include future live streaming, and sweet shows, and why now is the time to get involved! For the aspiring student radio broadcaster, the club meets Thursday mornings at 7:45 in Mr. Dunn’s room. Also visit us at www.bestofbcb.org