Students from every year of the band program performed at the Northwest Area Band Festival last night. The festival was earlier this year in the hopes that more children will enroll in the program.
The Jazz Ensemble performed as people and performers took their place. The seniors, in their last Area Band Festival performance, played the “Star Spangled Banner.”
Throughout the hour-long concert, Snead recognized the muscians of all ages according to their elementary school.
Following tradition, the combined bands, 5th grade through high school,performed “Cougar Fight.”
“I thought everyone did well tonight,” Snead said. “Hopefully by having it earlier more students will enroll.”
![Junior Venti Neaderhiser and senior Dylan Paflas work on their robot March 21 in Room C. The robotics team worked on their robot, Fred, to prepare for the FRC Worlds competition. “I was working with the bumpers on our robot that protect [the] frame [for] when we hit or bump into something,” Neaderhiseri said. “We have put a lot of work into building and coding the robot and have run into many difficulties but we have overcome every issue.” photo by Jack Pischke](https://smnw.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/JPischkeRoboticsteam-7-1-1200x795.jpg)
