He gets out of bed and gets ready to go to Rice University.

Junior Varun Manickam attends the Houston Community Climate Summit for the first time.

Manickam, Houston Youth Climate Strike’s political…

About 2,000 students staged a walkout in protest of Bellaire principal Michael McDonough’s reassignment yesterday morning in the bus lane.

Starting at 11:10 a.m., waves of students — some hoisting…

The crescent moon determines when they fast. Their belief in Allah reaffirms why they fast. But, most of all, their joint struggles define who they are when they fast.

Every year, 2 billion people distance…

In honor of the Day of Silence last Friday, students showed their support of the LGBTQIA+ community by wearing masks and stickers passed out and organized by the Gay-Straight Alliance club.

“The…

He sits in the open-wheel race car with its distinct open cockpit and halo trying to extract the most from the machinery under him. The vibration of the tires against the track rattle the entire car, and…

The sparkle in a kid’s eye.

Their crooked smiles.

The joy radiating off of them.

Despite the obstacles he has faced, those moments make everything worth it for him.

Last summer, sophomore…

Reselling apps like Depop, Poshmark, Vinted and Mercari have grown tremendously over the years. Depop’s sales have increased by 80 percent from 2017 to 2020. Resellers can sell their old clothing, jewelry,…

For many athletes at Bellaire, competing at the highest level possible has been a dream of theirs since they were kids. Nearly eight million students currently participate in high school athletic programs…

As she steps up to the gym floor ready to toss the flagpole, the October winds betray her; the swift breeze over-rotates the flag and hits her head. Seconds later, she loses consciousness.

In autumn…

He grabs his keys and runs toward his car. He needs to get home as quickly as possible. All he wants to do is say goodbye to a child he and his wife had been fostering for three months. Thirty minutes…

There were around 100 students absent every day before winter break, according to attendance clerk Amy Gayosso. On Jan. 3, the first day back, there were 570 absences. That’s about 15 percent of the…

As ‘finals week’ rapidly approaches, students not only devote effort to attaining their desired exam scores but make a last attempt to keep or change the grade they have for semester one by making…

Senior Catrina Coe steps into the Freedom Place shelter, immediately aware of the eerie stillness surrounding her. Similar to every other time she has stepped inside of this shelter, Coe is engulfed by…

While running from the cops, a driver killed Bellaire alum Fnan Measho while he was working as a valet on Oct. 1 at Prospect Park. Measho was a college freshman at the University of Houston and the breadwinner…

A solitary chair sits in the hallway outside of room 1733, a small space that doubles as school nurse Chanthini Thomas’ clinic. Three air filters are placed throughout the room, bought by Thomas herself….

Steffanie Alter, AP Literature and Advanced English II teacher, takes a break from grading papers after Rosh Hashanah. She peers across the room to the clock on her wall and realizes it is way past when…

The wailing of her baby wakes her up. In the pitch black, she navigates through the mess of her bedside desk to find her phone. It’s 5 a.m. 

The crying comes from her second child, whose whining…

After her father missed her sixth birthday, Ligoriana Dillon’s life changed forever.

A happy, normal little girl living with her mom and dad in their apartment, Dillon’s life took a turn when her…

Pulling on her snow boots and beanie, sophomore Nava Teller sprinted out of her apartment and was met with a crisp gust of air. Her front yard was blanketed in a polar-white sheet of snow and the wind…

The monotonous tone from the engine of the car lulled her half to sleep, and it was only after an hour when she realized her phone was fully charged. In the car she bundled up in two blankets and four…

Like every other junior that day, Claire Claypool attended her usual classes on March 12, 2020 — English with Ms. Humphrey, US History with Ms. Good and French with Ms. Florian — not knowing that that…

Noon is the busiest time of day for senior Lizbeth Gonzalez. She greets guests, seats them, manages seating charts and responds to requests, all while thinking about her next math test. 

Two years…

English teacher Gretchen Bonnes draws a line to indicate the start of a new day. Each week, she decides to use one color pen for her bullet journal. This week, she chose purple.

Using the blank pages…

Senior Ashley Barahona drags herself out of bed at 8:30 a.m. and joins her classes in the dining room, right next to her 12-year-old sister Giselle, a student at the Energized for Excellence Academy. 
…

Her Instagram account boasts 2,500 followers. She posts every two to three days, spending up to an hour to create each post. Each of her posts focuses on a current event, from transgender rights to The…

Jan. 13 marked the first anniversary of the fatal school shooting that claimed the life of beloved Bellaire student Cesar Cortes. In commemoration of the tragic day, parents, teachers and students attended…