About a year ago, Playbill announced Tony award winner Ivo van Hove would direct the revival of “West Side Story” on Broadway in 2020. Casting and planning the revival is a long process, but one many of our resident theater students dream of being part of. Junior Alexa Lopez experienced a callback for “Dear Evan Hansen” earlier this school year and also had a callback for “West Side Story” as Maria. Keep Reading
While Model United Nations is known for travelling across the country, they compete in local competitions as well. One of which took place April 12-14 at the University of Miami (UM). UM hoped that the conference taught students how to raise awareness on international issues and affairs through their 10 different committees. Keep Reading
Florida Scholastic Press Association (FSPA) -- the journalism convention to end all others. Or rather, to start all upcoming aspiring young journalists’ careers. I went to FSPA for the second year in a row, April 10-13, and let me just say, it gets better every year. Let’s dive into the marvelous world of scholastic journalism. Keep Reading
One refreshing weekend later and suddenly my spring break was cut short. No, there wasn’t a family emergency, but a family trip instead. I was set to go sleepless in Seattle March 26 to April 1 with my broadcast family for the sixteenth annual Student Television Network (STN) conference. The adventure began at 2 a.m. Keep Reading
Since the dawn of time, or rather around 2005, drug dogs roamed the school. The U.S. first began training dogs to identify drugs and other substances in 1971. Now, nearly 50 years later, we use drug dogs on a regular basis on school campus. When Mr. Dean Nolle took the title of Head Dean, he aimed to increase the usage of drug dogs. “We continue to use them, so I will leave it at that,” Dean Nolle said. “We feel it is still a good use of our time and resources.” Keep Reading