Results from the Statewide DECA Conference
March 1, 2020
Roleplay Medals (best role-play the judge had in the event): Cara Mack- Business Services Marketing Nik Vashi- Entrepreneurship Blake Connolly & Chris Guccio- Sports Team Decision Making Kathleen Cochrane & Katie Noble - Travel & Tourism Team Decision Making Test Medals (highest scores ...
ACT undergoes changes to increase opportunity for students
January 15, 2020
Starting Sept. 20 of 2020, the ACT test will undergo changes that will implement more opportunities for students to increase their scores. A few of these options include specific section retesting, superscoring and faster results with online testing. Specific section retesting is just one of the several...
Trio Earns Superior Rating at Spanish Competition
December 9, 2019
How's your Spanish speaking skills? Seniors Anthony Lamberti and Hope Dominique and junior Mary Kathryn Hederick tested out their skills at a Spanish competition at UNC-Chapel Hill Dec. 5. After many days spent in preparation prior to the competition, the students all agree they were satisfied...
MVP Math Elicits Mixed Feelings
Hannah Kinstle and Mikaela Keldsen
November 27, 2019
There has been some public disagreement regarding the math curriculum and the way the lessons are being taught, involving the MVP Math Curriculum. At the end of last school year, a group of students were interviewed about the use of MVP math books, which is the current method teachers are using to...
Vaping Illnesses Continue to Rise
Kathleen Cochrane, Assistant Editor
November 26, 2019
The risks of vaping are becoming increasingly more dangerous. It started off with people sharing stories via social media about collapsed lungs, but it is now to the point of talk shows talking about the risk towards brain development. On the morning of Oct. 10, NPR’s Jon Hamilton did a story about...
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November 25, 2019
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Student Involved in Dress Code Revision
Anna Thomas, Reporter
November 20, 2019
Katie Noble is a senior that used her leadership qualities in order to change a controversial Wake County policy, the dress code. Her innovation of the dress code caused a promising difference with students and how they choose to express themselves. Her initiative gave her the ability to collaborate...
Academy Interns Attend First of Eight Seminars
Sienna McGarrigle and Bella Madariaga
November 15, 2019
Student interns for the town of Wake Forest recently attended the “What is Business?” seminar at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre. This was the first of eight seminars provided by the Wake Forest Career Readiness Academy that student interns will be attending over the course of the school year...
Students attend carpentry apprentice contest
Grace Berkhead, Staff Reporter
November 1, 2019
In the school's ninth year of participating in the Carolina Department of Labor Carpentry Apprentice contest in Raleigh, two students, Ike Perry and Drew Cady, got to participate for the first time. The two students partnered together to use what they learned from Mr. Bobby Hoffman’s Carpentry class,...
Students Bound by New Honor Code Rules
Colby Brown, Opinion Editor
October 25, 2019
Wake Forest High School has undergone a major change this school year with the addition of the new WCPSS Honor Code to our school. Geoff Belcher, chair of the English Department is one of the faculty members who wrote these new rules, in compliance with the WCPSS county-wide rules, and he believes...
