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is … Desert Pines High School! Congratulations to all
the Desert Pines' students who participated in radio station
KLUC's High School Elimination 2 contest; they won a free
night at GameWorks on Oct. 9, paid for by KLUC.
During the month of September, all high schools in southern
Nevada were invited to participate in an online contest from
KLUC. The rules were simple: just log on to www.kluc.com,
find your school and vote for it. You could only vote once
a day.
At the end of each day, Bo Jaxon, one of the crazy DJ’s
at KLUC, would tell listeners on the air which schools survived
that day's voting. The private schools were eliminated first,
and then one by one, the rest of the schools were eliminated.
Last year Vo-Tech was the winner, and they put up a good
fight this year, too. In the end they made it to the top five,
but the last two schools in the running were Shadow Ridge
High School and of course, the winner, Desert Pines.
My sister, mother and I voted every day. It was really easy.
Desert Pines student Jordan Chesin also voted every day in
his teacher Miss Gunn’s class.
“My teacher is really cool, and she let all of us vote
during class when we had time,” Chesin says.
Many teachers also got involved with their students in the
voting as well. My dance teacher Ms. Dooley at Shadow Ridge
let some of her students vote after class also. Most students
said they voted at night while they were online chatting with
friends or working on homework assignments.
Many of Desert Pines' students came to this “Big Party”
at GameWorks on Las Vegas Blvd. All they had to do was walk
up to the registration table, show their school I.D. to the
KLUC staff, and they received a wristband for free game play,
dancing, food, music and lots of free stuff! DJ Kekoa was
upstairs spinning all the favorite music and creating a fun
lightshow. The staff from KLUC was giving away CDs, T-shirts
and concert tickets. There was also a dance and karaoke contest.
It was a fun night for all the Desert Pines students!
A big thanks goes to KLUC for hosting this fun game of survival
for the schools of southern Nevada. I think it is great when
local radio stations have fun contests and events for us to
participate in, and KLUC has always been doing just that.
I will definitely be voting again next year in hopes that
my school will make it to victory!
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