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Quiz: Which school subject should you teach?

Quiz: Which school subject should you teach?

Natalie Bednarski, news writer April 7, 2023

Every student studies a wide variety of subjects daily, but which class would suit you best to teach? Based on your personality, style and preferences, take this quiz to find out which subject would fit...

What's your favorite subject? Quiz

What’s your favorite subject? Quiz

Nicholas Copeland, sports writer September 23, 2022

 

This is a list of the most difficult AP classes in each subject that KHS offers. The ranking is based on my opinions and contains advice for anyone interested in taking the class.

The most difficult AP course for each subject

Kailey Shirrell, social media editor February 28, 2022

When creating a class schedule, students may wonder how many Advanced Placement (AP) classes are too many. This is a list of the most difficult AP classes in each subject that KHS offers. The ranking is...

Photos courtesy of the Ora Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation. left, Kelly Moffitt, center and Fraye Beyene, right.

Addressing sySTEMic problems

Tom Mueller, editor-in-chief August 24, 2020

Growing up, the only people she knew with college degrees were her teachers. She expected to cut hair for a living. After losing her aunt and uncle — the people who raised her — to cancer, however,...

Daniel David intends to enroll in a pre-med program in India.

Sci-ched For the Future

Tom Mueller, features writer May 21, 2018

The bell rang, signaling the beginning of the ‘15-16 KHS school year. Students throughout the campus sat down and prepared to begin classwork. Among them was Daniel David, then sophomore, who just moved...

Summer of science

Chloë King, blog/podcast editor September 14, 2015

This is what confusion looks like.

Take all the ribbons you want

Chloë King, web staff May 12, 2015

So, a few months ago, I won one of ten Academy of Science Honors Division scholarship, which was the product of several months of work, lots of nerves, around 100 dollars, and many prepared presentations. Last...

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A museum worker inspects a replica of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), a species that went extinct 3,000 to 10,000 years ago. In March 2012, scientists in Russia and South Korea announced a partnership to try to clone the mammoth and generate a living specimen

Mammoth madness

Chloë King, web staff April 27, 2015

Most people have seen Jurassic Park, but if you haven’t, here’s a quick run down. A bunch of phoney science is used to mix insect DNA with dinosaur DNA, and this full set is used to make modern...

Denouement

Denouement

Chloe King, web staff March 24, 2015

Wow. I guess I’m done.   This weekend I participated in the Academy of Science’s Honors Division Science Fair. To make a long story short, I was among the top 10 finalists, and I won a scholarship...

Skinny science

Skinny science

Chloë King, web staff February 18, 2015

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are mental disorders, but they can have many physical affects as well; suffering from an eating disorder can change the way a body works years after the patient it...

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