Week of Nov. 2 – 6

Ten Orchestra students auditioned on Nov. 2 and made it to the All Suburban Conference. [Sarah O’Beirne, 12]

Nearly one hundred government students worked the polls from 5 a.m. to p.m. for service hours on Nov. 3. [Claire Pellegrino, 11]

The U.S. Army came to lunch periods on Wednesday, Nov. 4, and sophomore Lance Griffin was given a t-shirt for doing 50 pushups. [Emma MacNeil, 10]

Teachers and faculty members handed out tickets to students to get free ice cream bars at lunch for being awarded the best ranked public high school, by startclass.com, in the state of Missouri on Nov. 4. [Airely Rodriguez, 11]

Red Cups return for the holidays at Starbucks and are officially being sold at all locations, but not everybody is happy about them. Click here to find out more. [Claire Dreller, 12]

History teacher Jeff Chazen held an online video conference on Nov. 4 to answer questions before the AP Government test. [Ellie Widowski, 11]

AP Physics II learned about optix demonstrations by placing a naked barbie doll in a fish tank. [Mallory Henak, 12]

On Wednesday, Tom Herpel’s Latin class learned the Latin behind the names and spells from Harry Potter. [Nell Jaskowiak, 9]

Teacher Charlie Cutelli read children’s picture book “Diary of a Fly” to his Forensics class on Thursday, Nov. 5. [Molly Sewester, 12]

“Hello” by Adele sits at number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100. [Peyton Gaskill, 9]

Teacher Amy Cohen’s biology class studied stages of mitosis through microscopes on Thursday, Nov. 5. [Shanna Bailey, 10]

A thirteen year old boy with autism from New York City says he performed the heimlich maneuver on a classmate at school on Nov. 6 having learned the technique from television show, “Spongebob Squarepants”. [Kjell Hagen, 11]