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The student news site of Smoky Hill High School

Smoky Now

The student news site of Smoky Hill High School

Smoky Now

The job board by Smoky Hill's graduate center

A Look Into the World of Student Employment

Sam Kristjanson, Staffer May 11, 2024

As the school year wraps up, students at Smoky Hill start to get out into the workforce. In this article, we unwrap the world of student employment: what it's really like, and what are the most popular...

How Has High School Culture Changed?

How Has High School Culture Changed?

Faven Getnet, Staffer May 10, 2024

Over the years high school culture has been affected by experiences from the people who attend the school whether they be teachers or students. Many of them had lots of differing opinions on the matter. Athletic...

Class of 24' waiting to get called in inside the assembly.

2024 Senior Exit Assembly

Faven Getnet, Staffer May 10, 2024

 

Vaping Epidemic in High Schools

Vaping Epidemic in High Schools

Lily Gibson, Staffer May 2, 2024

An epidemic of vaping among adolescents has become a frequent trend in the past few years. Last year alone, “2.13 million (7.7%) students reported current e-cigarette use in 2023,” according to the...

Riley Chapman's (11) art on how social media controls your life

Unveiling the Digital Dilemma: Social Media’s Toll on Teen Mental Health

Blake Price, Staffer May 2, 2024

In today's digital age, social media has become an integral part of teenagers' lives, shaping how they interact, communicate, and perceive themselves and others. However, the pervasive influence of...

Dietary Restrictions and Fasting

Dietary Restrictions and Fasting

Simone Van de Sande, Staffer April 30, 2024

Many students choose to diet or go on fasts for many different reasons, from doing it as a religious aspect to doing it for health reasons.  “It depends on the mental aspect of why you're doing it...

Women of Color Achieve Ivy League Success

Women of Color Achieve Ivy League Success

Simone Van de Sande, Staffer April 22, 2024
50% of the most prestigious schools also known as the ivy’s are made of caucasian students.- college vine Throughout the years ivy’s have been predominantly white schools founded by white men. The highest acceptance rate for these schools being caucasian males. But this is coming to a chang e three women of color were accepted into ivy league schools. Breaking this continuous pattern of only white males going to top prestigious school.
Yearly registration verification more difficult because of students who didn't pre-register courses

Yearly registration verification more difficult because of students who didn’t pre-register courses

Faven Getnet and Rainey Sharp March 8, 2024

Every February, students are expected and reminded to complete course registration. Molly Mugge-Cozza, the GT Counselor at Smoky, has been taking students into meetings to discuss this. “So each...

2 of the selected featured books for Cherry Creek Reads written by Zaila Avant-garde

Cherry Creek Reads Week 2024

Faven Getnet, Staffer March 8, 2024

The Cherry Creek School District is now having its 6th year of 'Cherry Creek Reads' and is now coming to Smoky. Librarian Kyle Harmon said, “Reads week is a celebration of joy of reading across the...

Photo on the right via Ibbro Photography

Final Four Athlete and Best-Selling Author: Lorenzo ‘Zo’ Contreras is Doing Both

Gloria Namgung, Editor-in-Chief March 5, 2024

As basketball makes it to the ‘Final Four’ for the first time in twenty years, many of the athletes on the team are on the path to success-- one specifically, is on that path in more ways than one.  Junior...

College Fairs and Opportunities at Smoky

College Fairs and Opportunities at Smoky

Lily Gibson, Staffer March 5, 2024

Recently, Smoky has held a small college fair for students-- the Regional Officers of Admissions of the Rockies, 'ROAR' College Fair. The fair allowed students to get help registering and become more educated...

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