By Iny Li, Burlingame High School - CA
• May 31, 2024
Sophomore Micah Chew hadn’t expected much from his spring break. While taking a quick trip to Taipei, Taiwan, to ease his mind before the upcoming finals and Advanced Placement testing, and to celebrate...
A small group of students gathered during fifth period today to protest against the Israeli military offensive in Gaza.
The students, who varied in numbers from less than a dozen to about 20 throughout...
On May 24, high school students from various DC, Maryland and Virginia (DMV) schools marched on the nation’s capital to show support for Palestine in the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. The strike—which...
By Domenica Peloso, San Juan Hills High School
• May 29, 2024
When the classroom teacher tore his ACL, a long-term substitute teacher was hired in preparation for his seven week medical leave of absence. On February 27, 2024, after just two weeks in the classroom,...
By Chloe Lewcock, McCallum High School
• May 24, 2024
As Austin ISD seniors finish applying to college and receiving decisions for their futures, an issue surrounding GPA and class rank has arisen. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the district changed the grading...
By Peter Philpott, Cherry Creek High School
• May 24, 2024
TEDx CherryCreekHS, a project led by freshman Michael Zhang, is going live at the Parker Arts Schoolhouse theater on Aug. 31. His goal: to reach out to the students and faculty of Creek, and get them involved...
Teacher and student representatives of Mountain View High School’s news publication, the Oracle, filed a lawsuit against MVHS Principal Kip Glazer and the Mountain View-Los Altos Union School District,...
By Abby Eckert, Delaware Valley Regional High School
• May 22, 2024
Del Val sophomore, Kadence Melamud, has qualified for the Junior Open Agility World Championship (JOAWC). The event is run by the World Canine Organization, which is the largest international federation...
Over Spring Break, approximately $25,000 worth of tools and other equipment was stolen from the school. A police investigation is ongoing concerning the stolen items which included two tool boxes and other...
This story contains an alternate format that can only be viewed on the original site. View this story on The Hawk Eye. It was originally published on May 16, 2024.
By Madison Aboud, Altoona Area High School
• May 17, 2024
It began as just an idea.
Senior Sarah Saylor was the driving force in having music classes be weighted.
“I first went to Mr. Detwiler with my idea and created a slideshow presentation that I spent...
“Is this the rock from your school?”
These words echoed in junior Sagan Pandita’s mind as he read sentence after sentence and viewed screenshot after screenshot suggesting a McLean student was...
This story was submitted by Isabella Shory (9, J&C).
The PA signal sounded on the overhead speakers.
Class had begun a few minutes earlier, and we had just finished singing “Happy Birthday”...
By Raj Jaladi, Parkway West High School
• May 14, 2024
At some point, most people experience their computers being slow or iPhones running out of space. A new way of computing called quantum computing may never run out of space and reach speeds 100 million...
For many midwesterners, the Fourth of July is tainted with a reminder of the tragic event that took place at Highland Park’s annual Independence Day parade in 2022. Nearly two years later, Lake County...
By Maya Silberman, Liberty High School - TX
• May 10, 2024
School Board Elections are here and many citizens can see certain hallmarks of the impending elections pop up in the months before: signs lining the roads, inboxes flooded with campaign emails, and a record-breaking...
Alison Eberts loves teaching. She loves her students, her coworkers and the community of the school, but as of April 5 she is a former employee of Ann Arbor Public Schools. She left AAPS to take a job...
As detailed by the Portola Pilot at the start of this school year, students in Portola High’s Small Business Management class formed Portola Printing, the school’s first T-shirt business. As the year...
Editor’s note: Update, May 7, 6:15 p.m. — The encampment was shut down on the morning of May 7. An updated story is here.
“Disclose, divest — we will not stop, we will not rest.”
...
By Kailyn Holty, Woodside High School - CA
• May 9, 2024
For many seniors, spring is quantified by the nervous checking of emails and mailboxes for the magical “Congratulations” scrawled across their college acceptance letters. Yet, the real fear for many...
By Alexa Sweeney '25, Nonnewaug High School
• May 9, 2024
WOODBURY -- Region 14 offers an array of complimentary services to students and the community, ranging from athletic physicals to healthy heart assessments. Sandra Snabaitis, Nonnewaug High School’s...
By Peyton Dorsey, James Bowie High School
• May 7, 2024
Senate Bill 4 (SB 4) is a bill approved by Texas lawmakers during a special legislative session in 2023 that establishes the act of crossing the Texas-Mexico border in between legal ports of entry as a...
By David Moss, Marquette High School
• May 7, 2024
Only a year after moving to St. Louis, Ed Bolton, chemistry teacher, experienced a massive emergence of periodical cicadas in 1986.
“They were everywhere. They covered the grass and the cars,” Bolton...
By Emma Stadolnik, Lake Forest High School
• May 6, 2024
Approximately 25 students and a handful of parents gathered just outside the front lawn Thursday in a walkout in support of Palestinians. The students were met with a group of opposing protestors - consisting...
Right after teachers finished adjusting their class schedules following four snow days in short succession, the roof came down on them. Literally.
So far this year, a series of compounding ceiling leaks...
By Nate Williams, McCallum High School
• May 3, 2024
Students walked out of fourth period today and rallied by the main entrance to protest the presence of law enforcement and the arrest of students at UT Austin’s campus this past week. Organizers created...
By Kate Davis, James Bowie High School
• May 3, 2024
On May 2, 2024, students filled the courtyard during second lunch in protest, some of them walking out of their second-period class to join the event. Students expressed their support for Palestine in...
By Josephine Lim, Hagerty High School
• May 1, 2024
In his 16 years as a bus driver, Charles McCain has seen a lot. From crying elementary school kids to obstinate high schoolers, his job requires adaptability. This year, students are not the only ones...
Have you noticed a difference in the lettuce served in the school cafeteria these past few months?
Usually, Solon High School gets its lettuce and other vegetables from a hydroponic farm in Hudson....
Journalism editors asked USD 497 school board members serving on the district’s policy committee today to better protect student journalism and overall student privacy rights.
Students suggested policy...
By Mary Wang, Brimmer and May School
• April 30, 2024
While educators are tackling the unethical use of AI-generated content, another mighty cheat-code has quietly sprouted from the dark: AI humanizers.
Upon typing in the keyword “AI humanizers” into...
By Shaila Holland, Middleton High School - WI
• April 30, 2024
The room is silent, save for the quiet, rapid breathing of hundreds of students as they fix their gaze upon the paper in front of them. To anyone who has taken one of the many AP exams offered through...
The first time junior Mark Cole* smoked was in fourth grade.
Smoking and vaping among teens has become increasingly prevalent — by the time they are in 12th grade, 46.6% of teens have tried illicit...
By Sarah Kluckhohn, St. Louis Park High School
• April 26, 2024
This story contains an alternate format that can only be viewed on the original site. View this story on The Echo. It was originally published on April 25, 2024.
Jackson-Reed’s Arab Student Union (ASU) filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday accusing Principal Sah Brown and the District of Columbia of censoring pro-Palestinian speech, including the school’s...
By Vanessa Morales, Daniel Pearl Magnet High School
• April 25, 2024
Amid the lowest math scores of the past decade, math teachers Tuan “Duke” Huynh and Gonçalo Fino De Sousa are working together to support students to remedy the problem.
To help, Duke and Sousa...
At the beginning of the school year, Ames High School joined more than 1,500 schools nationwide who have implemented RULER, an approach to social and emotional learning developed by Yale University in...
By Bailey Holmes, Stillwater Area High School
• April 25, 2024
Every year, the Environmental Science and Fish and Wildlife classes take on the task of raising rainbow trout. Students learn the different aspects of taking care of freshwater creatures and float into...
By Lilli Robey, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School - KY
• April 24, 2024
FCPS established focus groups for marginalized students to hear their voices and protect them from harassment or discrimination. The groups include BIPOC males, BIPOC females, Multilingual, Migrant, and...
Westport Public Schools received calls for a reform of its policies regarding racism following a peaceful protest on Feb. 27, outside of Staples High School and Bedford Middle School. The protest was in...
By Keerthi Eraniyan, California High School - CA
• April 24, 2024
The decision by Cal High administrators to remove Muslim Student Association (MSA) posters supporting Palestine last month has created controversy about free speech rights and censorship on campus.
In...
By Ariya Lee, Chantilly High School
• April 23, 2024
As part of the EPA’s first Clean School Bus Program, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) was awarded $16,590,000 on Jan. 8 to purchase 42 electric school buses to improve air quality and advance environmental...
At 11:24 a.m. today, Assistant Principal of Facilities Dr. Mycal Hixon sent a message to all Gunn staff that the school’s water had been shut off after the A- and B-building construction team hit a water...
By Simone Davis, Solon High School
• April 19, 2024
House Bill 68, or the Ohio Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act, which bans gender affirming care for minors and restricts transgender students’ participation in sports statewide will go into effect...
By Kara Kim, Carlmont High School
• April 18, 2024
With climate change accelerating the rate of wildfires and other natural disasters in California, getting access to home insurance for residents is becoming increasingly difficult.
Standard home insurance,...
By Sarayu Bongale, Liberty High School - TX
• April 18, 2024
To advance their mission to support and empower refugees in their local community, co-founders of Rallying for Refugees, juniors Anvi Saxena, Aashi Oswal, and Ellen Li, received the Build a Bright Future...
By Adrienne Vera-Perez, Southwest Career and Technical Academy
• April 17, 2024
On April 15, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris visited campus and participated in a public moderated conversation, focusing on the progress being made in an attempt to reduce gun violence within schools.
This...
By Kriti Dhaduvai, Parkway Central High School
• April 17, 2024
If you are in level four or five of a World Languages class, you may have encountered the AAPPL or STAMP tests. In the past years, these tests used to be administered only to students who chose to do Seal...
“I was in shock,” Coppell High School senior Sunya Ajani said. “I was sitting with my friends and we couldn’t believe that we were actually living through this. We were never going to see this...
This Wednesday, April 10, the JCPS Board of Education voted 4-3 to end busing to all magnet and traditional schools except for Central High School and Western High School. The last-minute meeting was called...
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![With the AISD rank and GPA discrepancies, some students had significant changes to their stats. College and career counselor Camille Nix worked with students to appeal their college decisions if they got rejected from schools depending on their previous stats before getting updated. Students worked with Nix to update schools on their new stats in order to fully get their appropriate decisions. “Those who already were accepted [won’t be affected], but it could factor in if a student appeals their initial decision,” Principal Andy Baxa said.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/53674616658_18d367e00f_o-1200x676.jpg)
![Junior Mia Milicevic practices her forehand at tennis practice with the WJ girls tennis team. “Sometimes I don’t like [tennis] because you’re alone but most of the time, I do like it for that reason because it really is just you out there. I do experience being part of a team at WJ but in tournaments and when I’m playing outside of school, I like that rush when I win a point because I did it all by myself, Milicevic said. (Courtesy Mia Milicevic)](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/c54807e1-6ab6-4b0b-9c65-bfa256bc7587.jpg)
![The Jaguar student section sits down while the girls basketball team plays in the Great Eight game at the Denver Coliseum against Valor Christian High School Feb. 29. Many students who participated in the boys basketball student section prior to the girls basketball game left before half-time. I think it [the student section] plays a huge role because we actually had a decent crowd at a ranch game. I think that was the only time we had like a student section. And the energy was just awesome, varsity pointing and shooting guard Brooke Harding ‘25 said. I dont expect much from them [the Golden Boys] at all. But the fact that they left at the Elite Eight game when they were already there is honestly mind blowing to me.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_7517-e1716250578550-900x1200.jpeg)
![BACKGROUND IN THE BUSINESS: Dressed by junior designer Kaitlyn Gerrie, senior Chamila Muñoz took to the “Dreamland” runway this past weekend. While it was her first time participating in the McCallum fashion show, Muñoz isn’t new to the modeling world.
I modeled here and there when I was a lot younger, maybe five or six [years old] for some jewelry brands and small businesses, but not much in recent years,” Muñoz said.
Muñoz had hoped to participate in last year’s show but couldn’t due to scheduling conflicts. For her senior year, though, she couldn’t let the opportunity pass her by.
“It’s [modeling] something I haven’t done in a while so I was excited to step out of my comfort zone in a way,” Muñoz said. “I always love trying new things and being able to show off designs of my schoolmates is such an honor.”
The preparation process for the show was hectic, leaving the final reveal of Gerrie’s design until days before the show, but the moment Muñoz tried on the outfit, all the stress for both designer and model melted away.
“I didn’t get to try on my outfit until the day before, but the look on Kaitlyn’s face when she saw what she had worked so hard to make actually on a model was just so special,” Muñoz said. “I know it meant so much to her. But then she handed me a blindfold and told me I’d be walking with it on, so that was pretty wild.”
Caption by Francie Wilhelm.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/53535098892_130167352f_o-1200x800.jpg)
