parking lot
Logan Adams-Bacon, reporter
March 4, 2020
Almost everyone in the high school has to deal with the parking lot. If you are someone that owns a car, you have to park in it and spend 20 minutes getting out of it. If you are walking to school you have to deal with people driving around and almost hitting you. And if you are getting dropped off ...
Building Inclusivity: Seniors Becoming a Collective
Zoe Mamakos, Co-editor
October 25, 2019
We all know it’s coming. The end of an era, of everything we’ve known for 18 years of life. The last year of high school. The last year of childhood. Where the people you’ve known: the people who have defined you, simply become memories and photographs of all the crazy stories that you te...
2019 AHS Senior Sendoffs
WEB staff
May 30, 2019
Musa Abd'Alim ISU elementary education Shayna M. Abel DMACC nursing Garang Akok Wartburg undecided Sarah Arbuckle IOWA human physiology Grace Arndt IOWA health and human physiology, danc...
Mike Scaramellino
Oliver Chen, Co-Editor in Chief
May 20, 2019
As he finishes his second year teaching at Ames High, industrial technology teacher Mike Scaramellino will be saying goodbye. “I love just working with the kids. It’s a lot of fun. We have great shops, great equipment, a great administration, and everybody is great to work with,” Scaramellino...
Mr. Lachen
Logan Adams-Bacon, Reporter
May 20, 2019
Mr. Lachen, a name known by many and loved by all. But now he has a daughter, and needs to stay home to care for her and teach her the ways of science. He wants to leave to make sure that his daughter is raised right and grows up to love science as much as he does. When interviewed, Mr ...
The final mic drop: Spence’s farewell after 9 years at Ames high
Zoe Mamakos, In-depth Editor
May 17, 2019
Imagine the perfect scene. A gym, lacking air conditioning, fills with over a thousand students. Full of underclassmen, upperclassmen, the best teachers, the worst teachers, and the okay teachers all together in one space. The skippers have skipped, the ISU class attendees are at their classes, and the ...
Ann Lee leaves behind a loving legacy
Seth Bequette, Academics & Arts Editor
May 17, 2019
“You did not wake up to be mediocre today!” is the phrase written across Ann Lee’s whiteboard just inside the doorway of Room One. Throughout the room the walls are filled with newspaper clippings and photos of Lee’s students and their successes. Anything from play posters to photos of students...
Last class of Klass
Seth Bequette, Academics & Arts Editor
May 17, 2019
With six languages and a plethora of curriculum under his belt, Daniel Klass is Ames’ High school’s very own “Renaissance man.” The multilingual humanity’s teacher is a regular attendee of the philosophy plus periods, and has taught at Ames for fourteen years, but the 2018 to 2019 term will b...
Rhonda Schmaltz
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
May 17, 2019
After 20 years working at Ames High, business teacher Rhonda Schmaltz will be retiring at the end of the semester. In her time she has taught numerous classes including accounting, desktop publishing, intro to business, and personal finance. “I went to college to be an interior designer and m...
Bearing with the Block Scheduling
Seth Bequette, Reporter
April 18, 2019
As soon as students found out, they were horrified: Block Scheduling. Quickly everyone was convinced doom was coming to drag students from their forty minute classes into some new tortuous ninety minute version. Ames High is set to have a test run of block scheduling during the 2019 - 2020 school...