Sam Stuve, Academics and Arts editor
• February 14, 2018
20 teams, 3 divisions, 3 champions. It’s winter, which means it’s I-Ball (Intramural Basketball) season. This season is expected fun and entertaining for players, coaches, and even the referees....
Zain Al Qalawi, from Jerusalem, Palestine, attends a small private school with only 40 students in each grade. There aren’t very many activities offered to the students, classes can’t be chosen,...
The clock reads 3:45 on a Friday, and the janitors are hard at work cleaning the vacant classrooms. The halls are dead. The school as a whole almost seems abandoned. But one place is still very...
As you shuffle into homeroom on any given Wednesday and head over to your seat, only one thought is racing through your mind: “Is today one of those Wednesdays when I get to watch Shout?”. Ames High...
The bright glare of the stadium lights glimmers off the gold of trumpets, saxophones, and horns. The Ames High Band marches into position. There is a certain tension in the stands. Before the national...
Sam Stuve, Academics and Arts editor
• October 18, 2017
Every school year, there some new and fascinating activities going on at Ames High; the formation of a new club SACRE (Students Advancing Civil Rights Education) is high up on the list. What is SACRE...
The Friday night lights shine over the bright green astroturf field, marching band instruments glimmer in the light and pom poms shine. The student section and cheer squad screams along with...
During the FIRST Robotics build season, Boyd Lab is
alive with students operating machinery, designing parts and assembling a complex robot. This group of future engineers are the students who make...
It’s Wednesday afternoon. You slump aimlessly into your homeroom class and are met, yet again, with the empty feeling of no one volunteering to bring treats. It isn’t looking good, but all is not yet...
Sonja Paulson, Features and Profiles Editor
• April 24, 2017
School is always stressful, but recently, students that are in AP Literature and Composition are more stressed out than normal. Why? Well, on top of their normal course load, juniors have a 200 point,...
