Firth High School weekly update

FIRTH — This week at Firth High School, basketball and wrestling started up again after the holiday break, and the school received new Chromebooks for students.

Basketball

The Firth Girls’ basketball team had three games this week. On Tuesday, Jan. 5, Firth played South Fremont, whom they beat a month earlier. The game started slow, with Firth taking some bad shots. In the second half, the game sped up.

“It was a very physical game,†senior basketball player, Nicole Mckinnon, said. “Team morale was up; It was great having both parents there to offer moral support.”

The game ended with South Fremont winning with a score of 41-31.

The Firth Boys’ basketball team had two games this week. On Wednesday, Jan. 6, Firth faced Bear Lake at their home court. The game was extremely close, with Bear Lake scoring a layup, winning the game, with a score of 39-38 within seconds of the end of the game.

“We got outplayed and outworked,†Firth Basketball coach Scott Adams said.

Thursday, Jan. 7, the Cougars took to the road for a rematch against Westside High School. Westside came out strong, taking the lead early, and retained that lead throughout the game. The final score was 37-43.

Wrestling

The Firth Wrestling team had a meet at Grace High School on Jan. 6. Grace won most of the matches scoring a total of 24 points. Firth’s Jaime Ortiz beat Grace’s Wylie Johnson, scoring Firth’s only six points.

The wrestling team is currently competing in a two-day tournament in Rexburg this weekend.

Chromebooks

Firth High school recently updated their Chromebooks. The new Chromebooks are the Dell Chromebook 3100 2-in-1. These Chromebooks include 32 GB’s of storage, two type C charging ports, a high-resolution touch screen, a tablet mode, and more.

The old laptops were close to reaching their Auto Update Expiration. According to Google’s support website, that means the computers would no longer receive the software updates needed to function properly.

The old Chromebooks had other problems as well. Students reported that the old Chromebooks were difficult to turn on and had problems with the keyboard.

“Typing was like dipping your hands in peanut butter, and the keys were always getting stuck,” Firth High School student Hyrum Olive said.

The school requested five Chromebooks but received 275. Firth High School has 251 students, so it was enough for every student to get a new Chromebook, while still having extra in case Firth gets new students or if some break.