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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
