For many students, the thought of coffee is one of the first things on their minds in the morning. What some don’t think about is the amount of waste their cup of joe creates.

After use, coffee grounds…

Inspired by the social studies department at Lebanon Trail High School, the social studies department on campus is wearing “Vote.” T-shirts every Tuesday leading up to Election Day on Nov. 3. Hear…

21 days.

It’s been 21 days since freshman Carsten Swallow potentially saved someone’s life.

September 17 was just another normal day for Carsten as he sat in his 2B class expecting to learn Spanish….

Then-kindergartener Malcolm Hill sits with his dad in the bleachers at a Frisco High School football game in 1998. A racial slur is chanted by fans.  

“Go c—-s!” Hill remembers being yelled…

From baking alongside her mom to making it a daily part of her life, sophomore Hannah Beeler has cultivated her talents into creating her own business, the Tearose Bakery. For over a year, Beeler has run…

Hosted by junior Hamsa Madhira, this podcast talks about various socio-political issues, ideas, and experiences that are personal to her identity as a South Asian and Immigrant. This week, she will discuss…

Bob Woodward, one of the journalists who broke the Watergate stories, released exclusive tapes from a series of interviews he conducted with President Trump from January to March of this year, tapes that…

What most people consider a quick break turned into a little over an hour long ordeal when soccer player and senior Kallin Brown realized she was locked in a bathroom Thursday morning with no one around.

“I…

Scissors, thread, stitches, and a camera.  

Simple materials on their own, but with the potential to save lives together. 

Most people have been staying home to help slow the spread of COVID-19….

It’s likely the dream of most cover or tribute band singers: the chance to perform with the real band. For local AC/DC tribute band, Back in Black, it happened in 2016. That’s when lead singer Darren…

Over the years technology has been accepted as useful in the classroom. However, in recent  years technology has been developed to help athletes excel on the field with the Redhawk soccer teams using…

With COVID-19 closing campus until at least May 1, a short video from the orchestra officers grew into a much different kind of viral sensation. Over the last few days, a pieced-together performance of…

What started off in Wuhan, China in late 2019, is now a global pandemic impacting people everywhere. To get an idea of what is happening in other areas, Wingspan reached out to students across America…

“We’re a little bit in uncharted waters,” Frisco mayor Jeff Cheney said on the Frisco Town Hall on Coronavirus Monday evening.

In light of declaring COVID-19 a public health emergency, Cheney…

Gov. Greg Abbott held a virtual town hall Thursday night to discuss his statewide executive order and address public concerns over COVID-19. 

Abbott’s executive order provides the following restrictions: 
…

In over 20 years of teaching and four years of education, nothing could have prepared AP Literature and Humanities teacher Beth Evans for what she had to say. 

The news was unlike any lecture, lesson,…

Texas is amongst the states that holds low voter registration and turnout, ranking 47th compared to all the other states in terms of voter turnout for the 2016 presidential election.

Although 15.8…

For nine years, the Redhawks were his high school favorite, watching as his two siblings suited up in the red and black.

First it was his older sister Sarah.

Then it was his older brother Joshua.

Then,…

Wreaking havoc on the nation as well as the world, a deadly strand of coronavirus first took its course in China in late January and since then has killed over 600 people across the planet.

In response…

With a winning record and almost 500 wrestling matches in the past four years, freshman Mitchell Borynack entered high school as one of the team’s most experienced athletes, bringing the Redhawk…

Hitting the masses less than a month ago on Jan. 8, Cheer has become a hit sensation on Netflix. Rated 95 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, numerous students and staff members on campus have been binge watching…

Anxiety. Depression. Atypical anorexia.

Symptoms to some, but a checklist of disorders for junior Rachel Wilson. And on World Suicide Prevention Day, she decided to share her story via social media.

The…

In 1933 the world took a dark turn, when the systematic persecution of millions of people occurred because of their ethnic, religious and political views.

In 2019, the state of Texas passed Senate Bill…

Processed foods.

It’s a term most of us have heard, but few understand.

Yet by most accounts, anywhere from 60 to 80 percent of what we eat is processed which means that the food in question has…

The 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed Monday to honor the civil rights leader and his contributions to American society. 

As a federal holiday, many government agencies and offices…

The Trump administration is targeting Iran with sanctions, days after Iran fired missiles at a U.S. occupied base in Iraq in retaliation for an American drone attack that killed top Iranian general Qasem…

Planning on majoring in lighting design and production, senior Kyle Strickland usually puts his talents on display in various theatre productions in the area.

However, every December for the last 6…

Eight weeks of a regular season, playoffs, and pre-quarterfinals prepared junior Andy Trinh for his quarterfinal win on Wednesday.

Next up for Trinh is the High School Esports League’s national semifinals…

It was supposed to be a normal 20 week checkup and sonogram for former Vandeventer Middle School coach and teacher Brittany Manning on Nov. 14, 2018.

It quickly became something else.

“They told…

Out of forty one freshman football players on campus there’s one in particular that stands out from the rest. In a predominantly male sport freshman Shaniyah Hart takes the field as a defensive linemen…

The afterglow of Friday’s win over Wakeland 45-35 continued with highlights from the game aired on NBC’s broadcast of Sunday Night Football between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings.

“Seeing…

45-35, the score that broke a two year, 20 game losing streak for the Redhawk football team and led to the team’s first win of the season on Friday against Wakeland at the Ford Center.

It’s a score…

Hours and hours of training.

Thousands upon thousands of steps adding up to hundreds of miles.

All the work is going to be put to one final test as senior Amelia Jauergui, sophomore Jada Williams,…

In 1974, the Marines and Navy totaled about 2.5 million members, but in 2016, that number fell to about half a million. Today, the Army is the one with the most members, with it alone having half a million…

What started out as the only school in Frisco in 1939 now serves as the Frisco ISD’s Student Opportunity Center (SOC). In this four-part special report, Wingspan explores the history of the building…

He’s not waiting for a traffic light to turn green, or having to sit behind a line of cars in the process.

He’s not having to worry about the steering wheel or using his blinker either.

Instead,…

Trees were breaking, roof shingles were falling, families were hiding, and yet most people on campus never expected a single thing Sunday night.

“It was very sudden,” yearbook adviser Kimberly Breen…

Columbus Day will be observed on Monday as a federal holiday commemorating the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492. 

But the ocean wasn’t so blue for Indigenous peoples, as after…

Cheerleading arrived in the United States with an all-male pep club in the 1880s at Princeton University.
Now more than a century later, in 2019, there’s been a nearly complete role reversal as about…

Help me understand this. 

What is this obsession with Tik Tok?

Allow me to elaborate. When Musical.ly caught the internet by storm in 2014, it was cool. It was different. People could lip synch…

In what was advertised as a free trip, a select few, including English Teacher Vanessa Melvin,  were chosen for a week long insider experience with the U.S. Marines, in bases all across the country.

“The…

The College Board has laid out a new system for AP test registration in the 2019-2020 year. Students in Frisco ISD must now register for their exams by Nov. 1 for full year and fall semester courses. That’s…

I don’t remember coming to America.

At three years old, there’s only so much you can store away. The one memory I can somehow conjure is vague, but present nonetheless.

I’m three years old….

It was a sense of deja vu for NYC FC’s Keaton Parks on Sunday. A 2015 Redhawk graduate, Parks took to the familiar pitch of Toyota Stadium, trading the red and black of his high school days, for…

Schools and libraries across the nation are hosting Banned Books Week, Monday through Friday, an event that highlights controversial books, and defend students’ rights to reading books written from all…

Diving deeper into the education and science behind soccer, FC Dallas launched their STEAM FC program on Thursday at Toyota Stadium powered by NEC and sponsored by CoServ and Southern New Hampshire…

Already considered amongst the top volleyball players in DFW, senior outside hitter Jenna Wenaas received a stars and stripes invitation over the summer as she was one of 19 girls asked to try out…

Just 33 days after a former Plano Senior High School graduate is accused of perpetrating a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso that left 22 dead, El Paso’s Eastwood High and Plano Senior High continue…

Stalking their prey, they scan their hit list, and wait. They wait for the perfect opportunity to strike.

Ambushing their victim, they draw their weapon and pull the trigger.

Screaming, they reel…

“You are not beautiful. It’s disgusting”

“Cut out your skin. Scrape it out”

“You look like a cow”

“Are you contagious?”

“No one cares enough about you let alone how ugly…