Who Let the Dawgs Out?

Best season yet ends with a loss for girls’ basketball team By: Zoe Martinez With this years basketball season coming to a close last week for the girls basketball team, they return home with new achievements and high spirits despite the devastating loss against Seven Lakes at the playoffs. The Lady Dawgs displayed nothing short of drive, determination, and hard…

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Finding Balance: Two Students, Two Perspectives on Ideal Weekend Length

 By: Izza A and Basheer A In the ongoing conversation about the ideal length of school weekends, students have different opinions on how the duration impacts their overall well-being and academic performance. Two distinct perspectives emerge from Hania Sandho and Abeerah Aziz, offering a glimpse into manyways extended weekends affect students. Sandho asserts that the additional days off provides much-needed rest. According to her, the regular two-day weekend…

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“Behind the Business”

First-time DECA competitor makes it to state. Two weeks ago, junior Hayley Soo, alongside her partner, made it from district to state competition in the DECA program. The recent district competition for the business program took place at Ridge Point high school where she was surprised to receive the achievement.  Hayley had just joined DECA this year. She was a junior in…

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Freshman Sensation: Ira Mutta Takes Third Place in Debut Debate

By: Gaurika Gupta; Journalism 1 Feature Freshman Ira Mutta made the bold and courageous choice to compete in a debate tournament on October 6, 2023. While this may have been an ordinary choice for a high schooler, Ira decided to take this step as a freshman without any prior experience in competitive debating. She was aware…

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Student Spotlight Ava Renee

This weeks Student Spotlight of week 1/17-19 is Ava Renee, and is the Queen of Hearts in the school play! Debuting Alice in Wonderland on the 18th! CLUBS/ACTIVITIES: Troupe 5448’s Reporter/Historian, Precision Athletics Volleyball Club, & Volunteering. CAREER/COLLEGE PLANS: My dream is to go premed to become a pediatrician and one day open my own…

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Jaidin Upadhyaya

This week Jaiden took a lead and decorated all around the school for this holiday season!Giving us a AHS Winter Wonderland! GRADE LEVEL: Senior 

 CLUBS/ACTIVITIES: National Honor Society President, Austin Accelerated President, Former Speech and Debate President, Rho Kappa Parliamentarian, Senior Planning + Sign Committee Member, John Hopkins University Global Health Summit Student Speaker,…

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Sachin Gopalakrishnan

THIS WEEKS STUDENT SPOTLIGHT IS Sachin GopalakrishnanWeek of 11/13-11/17 GRADE LEVEL: Sophmore 
 
 CLUBS/ACTIVITIES: Varsity Basketball   CAREER/COLLEGE PLANS: St. John’s University (where my dad went), if not there I want to go anywhere i can play basketball and get a free education FAVORITE SUBJECT: Math because it’s always been the most natural/fun subject for me FAVORITE…

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