NEWS BRIEF – International Student Leadership Week Celebrates AHS Students
Lucas Behrens, Journalism Production Student
April 19, 2018
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You may have seen these yellow pieces of paper in the entrance way. The AHS Student Council asked teachers to submit a student's name with a word that describes them. The council members then posted the names along with the characteristic.This is to celebrate International Student Leadership Week. This is the second year the student council has done this event. The...
NEWS BRIEF – AHS Rounds Up New Leaders for 2018-2019 School Year
Reagan Pellett, Journalism Production Student
April 17, 2018
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The members of Student Council took a vote to elect six officer positions Tuesday morning. Most positions had only one nominee with the exception of vice president. By the end of the meeting junior Sarah Schorle was elected president, sophomores Lucas Behrens and Katie Saluk battled for vice presiden...
NEWS BRIEF – Dress Code Comes Up Again
Connor Church, Journalism Production Student
April 16, 2018
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The dress code has come up again at AHS due to the weather getting warmer, with coats and jackets changing to shorts and t-shirts. Many students don't know what the dress code is and they can accidentally violate it. If a student is caught violating the code, the student will be asked to remove the...
AHS Journalism Travels to Ames
April 13, 2018
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The AHS Journalism Department was given the opportunity to attend the Innovation and Leadership in Media conference held in Ames, Iowa at Iowa State University (ISU) on Wednesday, April 4. Students were able to look for new ideas to improve the journalism program and discover new techniques from the perspec...
Read Across America Day at AHS
April 12, 2018
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Dr. Seuss once said, “The more that you read the more things you will know, the more that you learn the more places you’ll go.” National Read Across America Day was held on Friday, March 2, in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday. and classes from pre-kindergarten through third grade were invited to com...
Students Walk Out to Support Parkland
April 10, 2018
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For 17 minutes on March 14, students from Atlantic High School had the opportunity to walk around the track as part of a nationally organized event to remember the 17 students who lost their lives during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla. and advocate for stricter gu...
NEWS BRIEF – Senior Breakfast this Friday
Katie Schmitt, Journalism Production Student
April 2, 2018
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ATTENTION: Class of 2018, the next senior breakfast will be held on April 6, at 7:15 a.m. in the multi-purpose room. This is the second senior breakfast that AHS has hosted this school year. Senior class officer Alexis Handel said, "The reason we're having another senior breakfast is because it was a...
NEWS BRIEF – Students Learn CPR
Callie Richter, Journalism Production Student
March 30, 2018
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Students taking Health I this semester experienced what it's like to do CPR these last three days. Health teacher Tucker Weber instructs his classes using several plastic mannequins, CPR masks, and AEDs. The students watched videos beforehand which gave them a real-life situation in which they would...
NEWS BRIEF – Cheer Tryouts
Emma Templeton, Journalism Production Student
March 29, 2018
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"There is not a better feeling than cheering on the team," according to freshman cheerleader Molly McFadden. Try-outs for the 2018-19 cheer squad will be held tonight, Thursday, March 29, in the AHS multipurpose room, after school. Freshman Riveá Keen said going out for cheerleading helps people...
NEWS BRIEF – Food Drive to Combat Local Hunger
Kylie Neal, Journalism Production Student
March 28, 2018
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Junior Akhat Suleimenov is hosting a fundraiser from now until April 16 at the Atlantic High School. The fundraiser is to raise money and collect food for hunger issues here in our community. The goal is to help families who are struggling with money, who don’t have enough food or who are unable t...
NEWS BRIEF – Two New “Students” Here at AHS
March 27, 2018
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Science teacher Taylor Williams introduced two new animals into her classroom on March 26, 2018. Students in her sophomore biology classes got the opportunity to suggest names for the two leopard geckos. The critters sit on the front corner of her room for all the students to see. Williams let her students...
NEWS BRIEF – Soldier Speaks to Hinzmann’s Classes
March 26, 2018
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Sergeant Nathan Allen, a former student of Atlantic High School, was a guest speaker today, March 26, in Terry Hinzmann's Modern World History class. Hinzmann likes to invite realistic speakers in order to give his classes first-hand accounts of events that have happened during different wars. Sergeant...
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