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Hello fellow classmates, I'm Jack Phillips. My academic goals for this school year are to get no more than one B, and get at least 5 A's. My personal goals revolve mostly around my prestigious position of Team Manager for the soccer team. I hope to manage our team to the state finals, because in all honesty, the team would be lost without a manager... This summer I went on a trip to Zion National Park and Lake Powell with a group of 16 of my friends and several teachers from my middle school. A number of the people that I got to share this experience with are in the academy. This trip was a lot of fun, and living without technology for about two weeks was awesome. If I had a superpower it would be telekinesis, because with telekinesis I would be able to fly, move super heavy objects without moving, and effectively immobilize anyone, making it the most powerful superpower. I am fully geeked out by astronomy. Even though I have only been doing it for two years, I have had a lot of fun learning about the constellations, and being able to see distant nebulae and star clusters has been a blast. With my reflector telescope, I can zoom almost 300x and see more than most people would think. My picture is a picture of Saturn at 250x zoom, and in my opinion is one of the most beautiful things to look at in the night sky.
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