Congratulations to Mr. Boylan on being awarded the “Teacher of Excellence Award” at the state Career and Applied Technology Conference on September 25th by the Iowa Industrial Technology Association!   Not...

Ames High has a long tradition of producing some really cool people. Down these halls have walked the likes of Ted Kooser, Neta Snook, and Brian Smith, names you don’t recognize but should definitely...

As I am writing this, the clock in the upper right-hand corner of my computer’s screen tells me that the time is 3:13 AM. Tomorrow is a Wednesday and I napped earlier, so I’m feeling pretty good about...

While most Ames High students are enjoying a few extra hours of sleep on a Wednesday morning, junior Antwone Moua-Phonvilai is up on the media center balcony, spinning on his head and pulling off flips...

Stranded on a lonely rock in the heart of the Mediterranean, senior Andrew Ellis spent the last six months pondering his own existence - and which bit of “pretty gross” Maltese cuisine he’d be forced...

I heard about Iggy Azalea at least a year before her explosion of popularity this past summer, but I had very little idea as to who she is or what her musical stylings are. Based entirely on her name,...

Picking up and moving to a separate school district might seem stressful and hard, but senior Robert Arms has a completely different philosophy: he takes it in stride. From his interest in the marines...

Most of us think that Ames is a mundane place in the middle of a monotonous state without much to do. We get stuck on Saturday nights doing nothing but sitting around because there doesn’t seem like...

At a powerful 4’11, freshman heartthrob Ben Eyles dashes around Ames High. He stops in one of his two study halls and takes a break. “Yeah, so one of the first days of highschool I went to four...

If you’re a member of that select group of Ames High students who know neither what senior Rylan Rudd looks like nor what kind of a human being he is, you’re probably a freshman who’s too short to...