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A fear frequently confronted by budding artists stems from the prospect of having their work put on display for others to critique. Art teachers have had the opportunity to teach their students to overcome this anxiety by example. Art teachers Nicole Walter, Carol Trost and Kim Jenkins all submitted work to the fourth annual Artist-Teacher Exhibition. Walter’s and Jenkin’s submissions were each selected for display at the exhibition.

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Generally, high schoolers and beam welders do not mix. However, administrators have praised the renovation crew’s concern for safety, communication and efficiency. “Construction crews are kept well informed of school hours and bell times,” FCPS field construction representative Dennis Howard said. Crews make sure to keep work near the trailersContinue Reading

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Inside the main building, Statesmen are greeted with the sights, sounds and smells of construction – wires hang from ceilings, wooden boards replace doorways and dust fills the air. Outside the main building, however, are clean, shiny new classrooms. These trailers, which stand on top of the tennis courts, houseContinue Reading

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For a teacher who taught Auto Collision for only two years, spending the majority of last year coping with lung cancer, it did not make a difference: Craig Troup’s passing left a trail beyond the capacity that two years would. Troup’s cancer was diagnosed last September. However, he still continuedContinue Reading

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Crash. A massive oak tree broke through Isabelle and Sophia Therriault’s home at 2 am.
This tree, “big enough that it would have taken four people to wrap their hands around it,” fell on their house during Hurricane Irene, Isabelle Therriault said. When the loud bang woke up Sophia, she ran upstairs to tell her parents. “I thought [at first] that just the cars in the driveway were hit,” Sophia Therriault said.
The tree hit the bedroom and landed on the Therriault’s parents’ bedroom.
“They were able to get out with only a few cuts and bruises,” Sophia Therriault said.
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In terms of career-based opportunities, Marshall offers a bevy of organizations, clubs and support groups. There is DECA for marketing, Future Business Leaders of America for business and Skills USA for general workplace and leadership development. ACE Mentoring, another career-centric club, gives Statesmen a more specific opportunity: the chance toContinue Reading

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When an issue is so contentious that teachers have parents on both sides of the issue trying to influence curriculum, it can make the topic more “time-consuming” to teach, according to biology and IB Environmental Systems and Studies teacher Barbara Brown. The biology curriculum dealing with evolution has resulted inContinue Reading

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“I would like to think … that parents trust their teachers’ judgment,” English 10 and IB Film teacher Pierce Bello said. Bello said that he hopes “parents trust [him] to choose works of art both written and visual (for film) that teaches students something about life or about the curriculum.”Continue Reading

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Sophomore Tomiko Tamashiro Pardo lived in Japan for about six years before moving to the U.S. at the age of seven. Nine years later, on the morning of March 11, Tamashiro was woken by her father and led to the television where the Japanese news was broadcasting one of theContinue Reading

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” I enjoy drawing unconsciously as a way to keep my thoughts and ideas flowing,” senior Caroline Goh said. Goh won a silver medal for digital art on the national level of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Goh’s work was a digitalized self -portrait of herself titled “Look atContinue Reading