A moment of silence spread through the school at 10:15 this morning in honor of the tragic events of September 11th, 2001. Beyond that, the high school, already quiet from the reduced amount of students in 2020’s hybrid model of schooling, was generally going about the most normal routine of a very abnormal year. …
Year: 2020
First Days Back After COVID Bring Many Changes
Your first day back to school can be one of the most nerve-wracking days in your childhood. What if you had four of them, all in a row? Because of PA Department of Education guidelines during the COVID pandemic, Tuesday, September 1 to Friday, September 4 were all the first day of school. “I…
Avonworth Celebrates Class of 2020 With In-Person Graduation
116 Avonworth High School seniors graduated Friday evening at Lenzner Field in an outdoor, socially-distanced ceremony for the class of 2020, a notable change from the traditional early June ceremony with community members filling up the bleachers, While “Pomp and Circumstance” played over the field’s speakers, 31 masked students entered the field single file, finding…
Allegheny County Restrictions Cause Prom at the Priory to Be Canceled
Avonworth’s Prom scheduled for July 9th at The Priory in downtown Pittsburgh has been canceled. The event, aimed to give the senior class a second chance at Prom, will not take place due to the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus, Mrs. Dwulit announced in an email the morning of Friday, July 3rd. The high…
Protest In Pittsburgh During the Black Lives Matter Movement: An Interview with Editor-in-Chief and Photographer Keyaira Cameron
On Sunday, May 31st, at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests, my co-editor-in-chief Keyaira Cameron heard about the Pittsburgh protests and decided to attend as a photographer. Here is a transcript of a conversation we had about the experience of documenting the protest as a photographer and her thoughts about the protest in…
Seniors Celebrate Graduation in Car Cruise Across District Neighborhoods
The Avonworth community gathered to celebrate the unconventional graduation of the seniors on the evening of Friday, June 5th. In place of typical graduation ceremonies was a car parade that involved about a 3rd of the graduating class. At the start of the procession, both the Avonworth administration and teachers of the senior class gave…
That was 2019-2020: All the Changes You Didn’t Expect in Your Lopes Life
Every school across the nation will have stories about the day in March when pandemic life shut down their regular routines for the rest of the year. For Avonworth, this was a very noticable change, but there a number of other ones too that are important parts of the story of 2019-2020. Here are a…
A day in the life- Quarantine Edition – Peyton Bauer, Sophomore
With the year coming to the end it is hard not to look at how this year has differed from others before. With the rise of Covid-19, school and other factors of daily life for a high school student have changed. So what does a normal day look like for a high school student look…
Day in the life of Keyaira: Quarantine Edition
Quarantine has served to be both a blessing and a curse for a variety of different variables. On one hand, I have become extremely more productive in working on video projects or finding more ways to exercise. On the other hand, my motivation for doing schoolwork or keeping myself busy has drastically lowered. I am…
A Day in the Life of a Sophomore: Quarantine Edition
As you could imagine, there is not much of anything to do during these odd times of quarantine. I haven’t been doing much of anything myself as a sophomore, however I have been trying to keep myself productive so I dont become anymore of a couch potato that I already am. This morning I had…