The beginning of the school year is an exciting (and often chaotic) time for everyone. Students and teachers alike are adjusting to new schedules and rushing to complete everything that needs to be done in preparation for the rest of the school year. As students move from class to class, many have noticed that their teachers’ desks are overflowing with
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By: Briana Taylor This past Friday, September 9th, forty of Apex’s Cross Country team had the opportunity to participate in the annual event, Friday Night Lights. Friday Night Lights is held every year at Kernersville on the State Meet track course and is a vastly anticipated event for cross country runners throughout the state. With a team of over one
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Most people know September as the start of a new school year, the beginning of autumn, or the month of Labor Day, but what most people may not know is that September has been National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (SPAM) since 2008. Suicide is obviously a sensitive, tragic topic, but it impacts millions of people around the world, so prevention
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This school year, six early release days have been added to WCPSS school calendars. They come as a way to allow K-5 teachers to complete training for a new way of teaching reading. For teachers at Apex High School, the early release days will be an opportunity to participate in staff meetings and meet with their Professional Learning Community (PLC)
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When applying for colleges, students are inclined to organize the schools they are interested in by likelihood of acceptance, labeling various institutions on a spectrum ranging from “safeties” to “reaches.” To most applicants, the idea of “reach” schools renders visions of the sprawling brick and green of prestigious academia, high on a hill, a distant dream that serves as a
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The rules of carpool exist for a reason. Parents and school officials are concerned about the dangers of dropping students off outside of the carpool lane. Everyone seems to agree that dropping off on US 64 is a bad idea, but there are mixed thoughts on using Laura Duncan Road as a drop-off location. As Ms. Hofman, our principal, writes
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This semester, Ms. Piper’s AP Environmental Science students completed a lab using an RTI International PurpleAir device to study air pollution. PurpleAir is an organization that makes sensors meant to “empower community scientists who collect hyper-local air quality data to share it with the public.” PurpleAir sensors measure particle pollution (PM2.5), and can be installed by the general public. Each
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My journey here at Apex High has been full of changes. From starting at the Green Level campus to attending school virtually, and then returning to the new AHS campus, it’s been nothing short of hectic. Now don’t get me wrong, change keeps things interesting, but the one thing that I’ve proudly kept consistent is this Newspaper class. Looking back
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By: Kate Sinodis and Rose Andrews On Thursday, May 26th, a few days after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Apex High School held a memorial, as well as an informative event in the courtyard during both lunches in order to honor those who died, and to serve as a call to action for change. Students Emma Fornes, Stanley Wilson,
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By Briana Taylor and Ada Bartels With the end of the school year rapidly approaching, the students in Apex’s AP Visual Arts classes are marking their calendars for June 3rd: a day to celebrate their strokes of genius at Downtown Apex’s Peak of the Vine. With classes ranging from 2D to 3D visual arts, the show will capture the time,
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