By Hadi Rahim and Jessica Hudnut There are many important issues facing the students of Apex High School: bus driver shortages, mental health, and navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, just to name a few. But it’s time to talk about the most important issue of all: Why nobody goes to Taco Bell for lunch. Every day at lunch, Juniors and Seniors
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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
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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
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As we start our 2nd semester at Apex High, it is important to stay safe when it comes to COVID-19. With the new Omicron variant being highly contagious, the school had some options on how to handle it. They could go back to virtual schooling, they could close down until cases get better, or they could stay in school and
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By: Amber Wilson Six more weeks of winter have been announced this Groundhog Day! Punxsutawney Phil and Sylvia the Apex Armadillo both saw their shadows yesterday, and have agreed that the cold weather will stick around a little longer. Groundhog Day originated from various celebrations of the midway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. It was believed
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By Allison Hurley For our Apex seniors, there are eighty-four school days left until graduation, but with the start of their last semester of high school, Senioritis can have an immense impact on many seniors. Seniors, you have worked diligently for the last four years, but it is too soon to stop now. It is more than reasonable for seniors
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By Hadi Rahim and Jessica Hudnut The bus driver shortage is like the pandemic; it never seems to go away. Last Wednesday, six routes were not running, leaving dozens of students without a ride home. Students have become accustomed to daily afternoon announcements of bus routes that will not be running as they rush to their phones to find a
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Just this indoor season alone, Ella Arnold broke two junior records and qualified for states in one of her races. She crushed the current Junior year record for the 500 with the time of 1:22.85 seconds on December 17, 2021, and shattered the Junior AHS record in the 1000 on January 14th, 2022 with a state-qualifying time of 3:10:63. When
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By: Kate Sinodis, Rose Andrews, and Kylie Radford On Friday, February 4th, an (HBCU) Historically Black Colleges and Universities and career fair will be held in the aux Gym during both lunches. Recruiters will be visiting from many of North Carolina’s HBCU colleges; so students can learn about what these institutions have to offer. The fair will be hosted by
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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
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