Cell Phone Policy
How many hours does the average teen spend online? (10, 9, 5)
What is 9?
Name the Principal of Hopkins West Junior High
Ms. Mattei (Serita)
A fully grown brain weighs approximately how many pounds? (5pds, 2pds, 3pds)
What is 3 pounds?
This WNBA superstar graduated from West Middle School and Hopkins High School.
Who is Paige Bueckers
What famous person got married at Madison Square Garden?
What places should cell phones be placed?
Staff container, student backpack, locker OR leave it home.
What is the name of our Associate Principal?
Ms. Scott-Hills?
The brain does not reach maturity until individuals are 25 and research is now saying it's more like what age...
What is 29...because of what technology has done to our developing brains?
The MN Vikings are sponsoring a new sport for girls. What is it?
Flag Football?
A huge outbreak of cyclospora diarrhea affected 17,000 Americans. It was caused by...
Lettuce
What happens if staff member sees a phone in your pocket or sweatshirt?
They will ask you to give it to them and it will be turned into the office for you to pick up at the end of the day.
Hopkins West Middle School was built in what year? (1966, 1959 or 1979)
What is 1966?
When your phone buzzes or you are winning a video game you have a physical reaction in your body/brain caused by a release of a chemical....what is the chemical?
What is Dopamine
Who won the 2026 FIFA World Cup Soccer championship?
Spain
Dolly Parton, famous country singer, died. Which was she NOT known for: giving books to children, $15,000 scholarships to high school graduates, 2 million to help stop climate change, or 1 million to develop COVID vaccine
2 million to stop climate change
True or False: Staff will give students a warning if they see or hear the phone.
False: There are no warnings
When you enter a classroom where should your iPad be placed until the teacher asks for you to take it out?
Backpack
True or False: Teenagers can multitask.
What is false..multitasking is a myth.
Which team is predicted to win the WNBA Championship this fall? (New York Liberty, MN Lynx, Dallas Wings)
Who are MN Lynx
Which social media platform was required to pay 18 billion for harming children?
Meta
What happens if a student refuses to give up their phone and an administrator has to get involved?
Phone is turned in the next day as well and call home is made.
Approximately how many students attend West? (1550, 950 or 640)
600
During sleep the brain is pruning. What is pruning?
Pruning is the brain sifting through memories, forgetting certain things so as to remember what’s important.
This amazing basketball player left his team and will play for what team?
Who are the Philadelphia 76s?
Many parts of the US experienced extreme heat waves. Because of this, many people died from.....(it's not heat stroke)
Drowning (more people went swimming to avoid the heat)