NASA planning to deflect planetary killer asteroids
Aiden Deming, Tech Reporter
March 18, 2020
Asteroids have existed in our solar system ever since its birth 4.6 billion years ago. Only until recently, has life evolved and taken hold of our planet, but life is fragile and susceptible to large amounts of change over the century, asteroids being one of them. In the year 2029, where the asteroid...
BREAKING NEWS: Big tech corporation Amazon officially runs out of toilet paper
Aiden Deming, Tech Reporter
March 12, 2020
Big tech corporation in delivery services, Amazon, has now officially run out of toilet paper. Amazon displays "currently unavailable" and "temporarily out of stock" messages to Amazon consumers. Currently, there is no news regarding when Amazon will restock its supply of toilet paper, as well as other...
The growth of women in STEM
Brooke Selvidge, News/Technology Reporter
December 18, 2019
The amount of females in STEM is increasing as the field is becoming more equal. Writer for College Factual Carly Stockwell indicates in her study that, "7% of females graduated with a classified stem degree in 2016 while, while 15% of males graduated with a stem degree in college...The breakdown of...
YouTube Content Creators Under Threat From COPPA
Aiden Deming, Tech Reporter
December 11, 2019
YouTube as it is currently known is being squeezed into a small niche. In 2018, Google and YouTube were fined by the FTC for their alleged violation of COPPA, otherwise known as the Child's Online Privacy Protection Act by allegedly collecting the information of children 12 and under. COPPA passed in...
Sonic The Hedgehog redesign leaves audiences stunned
Aiden Deming, Tech Reporter
November 20, 2019
After 6 months of waiting, the new Sonic the Hedgehog trailer is finally out and has received monumental praise from critics and fans of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The Sonic the Hedgehog trailer has gained 23 million views and a like ratio of 895,000. With the amazing reception, the film has gathered,...
The most popular apps on campus
Brooke Selvidge, News/Technology Reporter
November 13, 2019
As technology has progressed and the internet has become more present in everyday life, many kids have gravitated towards using social media to communicate with friends from school and people from around the world. The ASB president ran a poll asking students what social media app they used most between...
Interstellar comet heading for inner solar system this December
Aiden Deming, Tech Reporter
October 23, 2019
Comet 21/Borisov has arrived in our Solar System. The comet now named after it's discoverer, 21/Borisov is now projected to enter the outskirts of the inner solar system, right outside of the orbit of Mars. From 7.73039e+13 mile journey, its closest approach to the sun will arrive on December 8, 2019,...
Students gravitate to technology as a way of cheating
Aiden Deming, Tech Reporter
October 16, 2019
Students have joked, "If you're not cheating, you're not trying hard enough." And although students may laugh off the comment in a nonchalant way, the reality is...they're not kidding. Cheating is a common phenomenon among high schoolers and continues to grow at an alarming rate. According to the Ce...
Hearing assistance: making connections easier through your phone
Brooke Selvidge, News/Technology Reporter
October 14, 2019
In 2018, students from New York University created an app that translates ASL into text. The creation of apps like this could benefit people who do not understand sign language across the world as they add languages, and greatly improve communication between deaf and hearing communities. Don Lugo's sign...
“Mario Kart Tour” app races to first place
Angela Gutierrez, Arts & Entertainment Reporter
October 8, 2019
Towards the end of September, Nintendo released their Mario Kart Tour racing app that quickly became the number one racing game on the app store. Ever since then people have been playing nonstop trying to beat their best scores and racing against friends. Nintendo claims in their app description that...
Hundreds arrive in Lincoln County for viral Area 51 meme
Aiden Deming, Tech Reporter
September 20, 2019
Last night, avid supporters of the "Storm Area 51" movement began demonstrations outside of the Groom Lake Base entrance. When the original Facebook page for "Storm Area 51" was created back in mid-July 2019, 2 million people vowed they would "rush" the base and with 1.5 million interested. What started...
Netflix’s take over of mainstream television is on its way
Anthony Romero, Editor-in-Chief
February 1, 2019
As technology develops, so does the consumers demand for higher quality products. Cable TV has been around for years, but sadly all things come to an end. Streaming companies are at their peak right now, getting ready to take over mainstream cable television anytime now. Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, Ama...
Karly Ortiz, Managing Editor
March 27, 2020 • No Comments
After a near-unanimous vote by Congress, Trump signed into action a $2.2 trillion dollar "economic rescue" package as a result of COVID-19's impact on the economy as well...
Edward Lillie, Broadcast News Editor
March 25, 2020 • No Comments
School district closures have been a widespread precautionary step as the COVID-19 outbreak seems to get worse and worse by the day. Some school districts have even shut down...
Karly Ortiz, Managing Editor
March 20, 2020 • No Comments
COVID-19 is a respiratory virus that was first reported on December 30 by Wuhan China health officials. In the last three months, the virus has become a global pandemic...
Opinion: Virtual learning is here, and I’m looking forward to online school
March 19, 2020
With the outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, I...
Opinion: Feeding into the hysteria of the Coronavirus
March 13, 2020
While the Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, is serious,...
Angela Gutierrez, Arts & Entertainment Reporter
March 4, 2020 • No Comments
Being in high school means stress. College preparation tests, rigorous classes and maintaining good grades are all factors that contribute to my stress being a junior, so...
Gary Garcia, Sports Reporter
February 28, 2020 • No Comments
Curtains Closed, stage is set, the sound of the audience whispering and talking amongst themselves in the background. Eddie Lillie walks out on to the stage with a clipboard...
Angela Gutierrez, Arts & Entertainment Reporter
February 4, 2020 • No Comments
Lip sync battle is coming to Lugo! The theatre department is putting on a show February 27 and 28. There are three teams total. One of the two advanced theatre groups is led...
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Review: Homecoming game halftime performances
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