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The student news site of Yorktown High School

Yorktown Sentry

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Prom Gallery 2023

Prom Gallery 2023

June 8, 2023

Last years seniors dance at Prom 2022.

Prom 2023: ‘A Night Under The Stars’ Will be one to Remember

Ian O'Neal, Reporter May 23, 2023

Get ready for our school’s 2023 Prom! This year’s dance will be themed ‘A Night Under the Stars’. It will certainly be a glittering evening and a memorable night for our graduating seniors. Prom will be June 2nd from 8:00 PM to midnight. Like...

Yorktown Hosts Gene Yang, Cartoonist Behind New Disney+ Series American Born Chinese

Yorktown Hosts Gene Yang, Cartoonist Behind New Disney+ Series ‘American Born Chinese’

From struggling self-published cartoonist to the brains behind brand new Disney+ series American Born Chinese, Gene Yang’s rise to prominence is inspiring. Our school had the privilege of hosting Yang as a guest speaker on May 4, 2023, where he talked...

Adapted from Titian; Venus of Urbino; 1534; The Uffizi Gallery, www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/venus-urbino-titian

Will Virginia’s New Sexual Content Policy Lead to Safer Schools, or Censored Ones?

Reese Colbert, Staff Reporter April 17, 2023

Governor Glenn Youngkin implemented a new sexual content policy in Virginia schools last month. The policy, published by the Department of Education, requires teachers to reference a list of all instructional materials that contain “sexually explicit”...

Credits to Yuichiro Chino, Getty Images

How AI Is Impacting Academic Honesty

Aidan Lohmeyer, Reporter April 12, 2023

Students across the country are using artificial intelligence software like ChatGPT to enhance their writing or to simply write for them. In recent years, there has been a massive leap in just how advanced this technology is getting, and teachers are...

Yannick Tanda: Collecting Computers For Those In Need

Yannick Tanda: Collecting Computers For Those In Need

Lily Dezfulian, Reporter March 21, 2023

As a safety officer, Yannick Tanda is a common sight within our school; he is well known and loved by students. Along with patrolling the halls, he has always aspired to make a change. Tanda is in the process of creating a nonprofit computer lab for high...

By Jeff Turner, licensed under CC BY 2.0

A Look Into 2023 Men’s March Madness

Mary-Frances Dempsey, Reporter March 17, 2023

Every year, sixty-eight American college basketball teams participate in a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournament known as “March Madness.” The teams are sectioned into four groups and compete in a single-elimination...

Gazette Leader Continues Sun Gazettes Legacy

Gazette Leader Continues Sun Gazette’s Legacy

Celeste Wetmore, Head Editor March 10, 2023

On February 1, 2023, all hopes seemed dashed for Northern Virginia’s Sun Gazette. The newspaper’s parent company, HPR-Hemlock LLC, had tried and failed to secure a buyer for the local fixture. After a somber conference call between the paper’s previous...

Humans of Arlington

Humans of Arlington

Mary-Frances Dempsey, Reporter February 28, 2023

Launched in 2010, Humans of New York quickly became a national sensation, gaining over twenty million followers on Instagram and millions of website visits each day. The photoblog spotlights random individuals stopped on the streets of New York City,...

Courtesy of the family of Jesus Collazos

The Life and Legacy of Jesus Collazos

Scarlett Gray, Staff Reporter February 24, 2023

In the past year, Arlington honored late local mailman Jesus Collazos by proposing a bill to name the United States Postal Service Post Office on George Mason Drive after him. This bill was proposed by U.S. Representative Don Beyer, from Virginia’s...

The Team Striving for a More Equitable Yorktown

The Team Striving for a More Equitable Yorktown

Claire Stromseth, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Coordinator February 24, 2023

In the summer of 2020, our school established an Equity Team with a goal of advocating for curricular and institutional changes. The team’s vision is to ensure an equitable, inclusive, safe and anti-racist school community. “We want to continually...

The Nationwide Issue of Food Waste and its Arlington Impact

The Nationwide Issue of Food Waste and its Arlington Impact

Zoe Davis, Staff Reporter February 17, 2023

We’ve all done it. Thrown away the apple we bought that suddenly looks unappetizing. Tossed out the healthy side salad that we now don’t want to eat. In the moment, it doesn’t seem like a big deal. In reality, however, food waste is a major problem...

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