With the weather starting to get warmer and the sun coming out from behind the clouds, spring sports are starting off with a bang. With soccer, lacrosse, softball, baseball, track, and tennis teams . Being on a sports team is a lot of commitment, there are practices nearly every day and games or meets, but it is a great way

With the year’s end looming, many upperclassmen anxiously await scholarship results. Layan Q. was one of these stressed students until Wednesday, February 16, when she was announced as a winner of the University of North Carolina’s Morehead-Cain Scholarship. The Morehead-Cain Scholarship is awarded to a select group of academically prestigious applicants who demonstrate leadership, character, and physical vigor. The scholarship

By Briana Tayloer As students begin to sign up for their 2022 fall semester classes, it is important to be thinking of college and AP classes. Advanced Placement, or AP, classes are a great way to get a head start in your path to college. However, many students have trouble balancing how many AP classes to take and struggle to

The holiday season has been over for months now, as a majority of the key holidays only occur towards the end of the year; However, there are other holidays riddled throughout the year with one being Saint Patrick’s Day.  Unbeknownst to most, the Irish holiday was originally known for its religious significance centuries ago. It’s celebrated every year on the

All the world was a stage at the Regional Shakespeare Competition, and Apex senior Aryana Figueroa along with nine competitors from various schools in the state, its players. On the evening of February 17, the ten thespians stepped onto the campus of William Peace University to perform both a monologue and a sonnet of the Bard’s prose to compete for

When most people think of robots, they conjure up the image of a distant future, however, robots are very much a part of present day society at Apex High, where they take on a more competitive form in the First Tech Challenge (FTC) robotics team. Most recently (February fifth) the team traveled to a tournament in Sanford, where they faced

ACT now and start preparing Picture this, you’re a junior in the Wake County School System and it’s already mid-February but you still don’t know anything about the ACT, you’re nervous and don’t know where to start or how it’ll end up. If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place. In this guide you’ll learn how to

Spring sports are starting this week, but if sports are really your thing, you love to stay active, and are taking a dance class, then National Honors Society of Dance Arts might be for you.  The National Honors Society of Dance Arts, (NHSDA) may be new to Apex High School, but is starting off strong by allowing dancers to get

Whether you’re enrolled in high school or still in middle school chances are you’ve heard of the SAT. To most students the SAT is one of the biggest tests they’ll take during their teenage years, and that’ll probably remain true moving forward; however, the one main difference that future test takers might encounter is that the SAT will be fully