Happy Leap Day!

It's the hoppiest day of the year!

By: Malory Strehl & Abby Kokal

February 29th only comes along once every four years, but why? What makes leap day so important? We’ve got the answers to all your leap day questions here at the North Yearbook headquarters!

What is leap day?

Leap day is a day that is added to our calendar every four years and is dated February 29th.

Why do we need a leap day?

A leap day is needed because each revolution around the sun takes more than 24 hours, and without a leap day we would lose six hours a year! Over 100 years that time would accumulate to almost an entire month difference between our calendar and our actual position in orbit.

How can we celebrate leap day?

Leap day may seem like a wasted day, but around the world people have found cool ways to celebrate! Celebrations include throwing parties and spending time with family and friends. Other traditions include setting four year goals and seeing if you accomplish them on this unusual date. Another way to celebrate is to LEAP!

Fun Leap Day Facts!

• People born on leap day are called leaplings or leapers
• The Titanic sank during a leap year in 1912
• Amy Adams and Matthew Goode starred in the 2010 movie entitled “Leap Year”

PROM FASHION SHOW!!

The 2016 Waukesha North Prom Fashion Show was a huge success! Thanks to the donations from various local dress and tux businesses, thirty eight girls and thirty one guys were able to rock the catwalk in the newest prom fashions. The excitement continued with the announcement of the food that would be at the dance, the 2016 Prom Court, and the giveaway of a free $250 tuxedo package.

Winner, Valentino Duddles, with the representative from Debois Tuxedos, the sponsor of the drawing. 

Models in the show!

2016 Prom Court
Back Row: Jackson Venske, Paris Briley, Jared Estes, Matt Ewert and Spencer Muffler
Front Row: Mackenzie Fink, Rebekah Janssen, Anna Bedalov, Alexis Butts and Nichelle Thomas 

State Diving

Waukesha North Junior Nick Lee made his second trip to Madison Wisconsin to compete in the State diving meet. This year during the competition he made it through the first cut of athletes and into the second round this year. He placed 17th an improvement of 3 spots from last years 20th placed finish. Nick hopes to see further improvement during his final season of high school diving. 

In The Spirit of Sadies!

The week leading up to Sadies, or the Winter Formal, is very hectic. But, the spirit days help calm those nerves. This year's spirit week included pajama day, twin day, jersey day, hat/flannel day, and North spirit day. Then Saturday, all three Waukesha schools come together at Waukesha West to dance the night away. We asked two Sophomore couples to give us their thoughts about the week and Sadies. It's interesting to see how their answers differ.

Lexi Burgos and Sam Hallett

What was your favorite spirit day theme and why? 

"North spirit day because it's really fun and I can show off my school pride."
"The North one because I have the most North stuff."

How do you feel about the combined school Sadies?

"I am excited because there will be a lot of people and it will be very fun. Also, I get to see all my friends that go to different schools that I don't get to see day to day."
"I don't like the idea because there will be too many people. It would be more fun if it was just North."

Joe Laste and Morgan Weyer

What was your favorite spirit day theme and why? 

"I liked pajama day because I was really comfortable."

"I liked jersey day because I love wearing jerseys and I could show off my favorite team."

How do you feel about the combined school Sadies?

"It'll be very cool because I can see many people I haven't seen in a long time."

"Indifferent because it's still going to be the same experience."

So you don't miss out on the photos from the dance, go buy a yearbook today!

By: Sarah Wilke and Mirnesa Halilovic 

Shooting for a Cure!

Shooting for a Cure!

Over the course of the month, the Girl's Basketball Team raised a total of $2,016. The players and the coaches started the month by selling shirts, with the saying "Shooting for a Cure" on them. They also went door to door to different businesses to ask for donations for the raffle. Another thing they did was sell homemade cupcakes during all three lunches. Their fundraiser ended last night with the pink out game. During the game, there was a bake sale, a raffle, and a frisbee toss in which the winner won a $50 visa gift card. Last night was also the night the North Dance Team and the North Pep Band performed. Also, it was the night that the Junior Northstar Girl's Basketball Team got to be recognized.

     Kiara Ramirez, Liz Sweet, Cailin Demareth, Kassie Wicherski, Cianna Colon, Ellie Serynski, Emma Lausier, Kalea              Lorenzi, Camryn Szolyga, Megan Johnson

Deadlines, deadlines and more Deadlines!

As of now your 2015-2016 Northern Lights Yearbook is almost 60% done! It's a slow process but its all finally coming together. We might be biased, but the book gets better every year. We've put in tons of details, covered too many events to count, and been focused on covering everything with top notch stories and photos. As we work, one thing we like to do is recognize the creators of some of these awesome pages. So for our third deadline of the year, the staff voted on and named the pages deemed: Best Story, Best Photo, and Best Overall Page. 

 Taylor Butryn and Malory Strehl received: BEST PHOTO for the Prom Fashion Show Page

 Lexi Witek, Sydney Budelier & Sarah Wilke received: BEST STORY for Cancer Survivor's Page 

Henry Laste received: BEST OVERALL PAGE for the *new* Quiz page

Congrats to the page winners for Deadline 3! 

And remember, you don't want to miss out...
Buy your yearbook to be able to see these amazing pages, you don't want to forget everything that happened HERE this year :)

Groundhog's Day

Yesterday was Groundhog's Day and our lovely groundhog Phil did not see his shadow. Mr.Phil, who is our go to of whom we project over television, resides in Pennsylvania. 

Canada's groundhog, Sam, as well as Georgia's Lee and New York's Chuck all came to the same conclusion as Phil - they didn't see their shadow. 

By none of them seeing their shadow, hopefully it means our spring will be earlier rather than six weeks later. Maybe we can put away our jackets, and our spring sports can start strong for the upcoming season. 

Remember when the weather gets warm and spring comes, don't forget to thank the groundhogs!