Each year Mr. Tinker’s sociology classes put on a game show for the student body. This year, as we all know by now, it will be Don’t Forget the Lyrics. The hosts will be Justin Baumiller and Briar Dewhurst. Ten pairs of students signed up to compete on the game show, but time constraints will only allow for about seven of them. Those with the chance to compete will have the opportunity to win an iPod Touch, courtesy of Mr. Tinker. The classes are keeping to the general idea of the original show, with necessary changes due to technology. Instead of a computer filling in the missing lyrics, Baumiller will write their guesses on a Smart Board. Another change is the way the winner will be determined. The winning team will be the ones with the highest percentage of correctly guessed lyrics. Each member of the winning team will receive an iPod Touch. An important goal for the show is to make it relevant to teenagers at Freedom. Therefore, the songs selected for the game show were picked based on popularity. Students also got creative with category names to make the show more fun. “We made categories we thought would be funny, that would make other people laugh,” says junior Sierra Boggs. The biggest components in the production of the show are the PowerPoints that serve as karaoke tracks. There are five categories for each pair of contestants to choose from, and two songs in each category. That’s 70 or more songs that must be made into karaoke-like PowerPoints. “Each PowerPoint takes like an hour and a half to make, but my first one took three hours,” says junior Deborah Fanning. Mr. Tinker’s three sociology classes have been working on the game show since the beginning of October. It was originally scheduled for Friday the 13, but was moved to the day before Thanksgiving. “It will be pretty cool, it should be pretty fun,” says junior Matthew Notarianni.