By Jennifer Valencia Staff Writer At Everest Public High School, Celebration of Learning is a time to showcase all of the work and effort that has been put forward in the Expeditions courses. Students get to show their parents how they have worked hard toward their personal passions and interests. Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is a course that teaches students how a
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By Teresa Faasolo Staff Writer Students from Everest Public High School spent the last few weeks of school in their Expeditions classes, where they explored their interests on a personal and professional level. At the end of the year, students showcased their learning to parents and school staff at an event called Celebration of Learning. Here’s some insight from students
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By Madison Chamness Staff Writer Technology is everywhere, entwined in almost every aspect of our daily lives. At Summit Public Schools, students realize the immediate future of using technology in most professions. Students use Chromebooks as valuable learning tools to build professional skills. The Expeditions classes featuring technology also show the creative side of this ever-growing industry. Digital Storytelling In Digital Storytelling, students
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By Shawn Wilson Staff Writer Art is all about expression and personality, something the students taking arts Expeditions courses at Everest Public High School showed during Everest’s Celebration of Learning. Visual Arts Students in the Visual Arts course were tasked with creating art pieces that represented themselves and their own interpretation of an image. The students all created a picture
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Here we have one of Summit Preps freshman mentor group. celebrating one of the school’s yearly Mentor Theme Day.
Read moreBy CC Logan and Indigo Rossi Staff Writers According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the high school dropout rate has been steadily decreasing since the 1990’s, and, as of 2014, was at the quite low 6.5 percent. However, this isn’t always a good thing if education quality is sacrificed. In a report by ets.org, an organization dedicated to
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By Shawn Wilson Staff Writer The crowd leans forward in their seats. Waiting in anticipation, with bated breath, as the game’s conclusion creeps closer. A final play is met with a chorus of cheers as the champion leaps into the air, the rush of exhilaration and adrenaline released as pure emotion. Your thoughts might spring to basketball or football, perhaps
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By Jennielyn Buesa Staff Writer Overwhelming – that’s the word I’d use to describe what it means to be 5’1’’ and to have to climb a six-foot wooden wall. The wall is one of seven obstacles students who are enrolled in the Law Enforcement Academy face during their nine-week course. Participating students range from age 14 to age 19 and
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By Marleth Giron Staff Writer Many students at Everest like to draw and show their creations to everyone. I consider myself an artist, and I like to show my drawings to people. I first started drawing when I was around eight years old. I would draw simple drawings with my mother. I can still picture some of the drawings her
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By Mako Oshiro Staff Writer A mentor group is one important part of Summit Public Schools. A mentor group is a group of students who stick together all four years of high school; within the mentor group, the goal is to try to build community. Kristy Chun, a freshman mentor and science teacher, said that her goal in building community
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