A Mardi Gras theme for Homecoming partied over into spirit week for 2024. Traditional themes like PJ day on Monday and Twin Day on Tuesday were followed by more recent trends, Country v Country Club on Wed and White Lie Day on Thursday. Friday was the first Color War day of the school year, setting…
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Avonews Regional Journalism Competition Includes High Profile Media Speaker
Point Park shifted their Fall Media Day into Newsapalooza, a gathering of local and regional professional journalists, while also hosting the 10th annual PSPA Regional Journalism Competition. Avonews staff and advisor Mr. Tuffiash attended keynote sessions before competing. See KDKA coverage of the event, and skip to :40-:42 to see the staff pictured upper right…
September 2024 Photo Gallery
Students finished out the first month of the 2024-2025 school year with a campus noticeably into year two of construction. See below for glimpses of hallways, decor, and a look around AHS. Photos from social media editor Caroline Boothby and members of Journalism 1, including Paxon Masters who contributed the feature image.
First Week of 2024-2025 School Year Brings Transformation and Transition As Construction Continues
Tuesday, September 3rd, the first day back after a lengthy summer break, saw students returning to a dramatically renovated school from the one they left on the last Friday in May. The view to the left of the new front entrance in late May 2024 Same location, September 2024 Building front in late April,…
First Day of 24-25 at Avonworth High School: A Mosaic of Emotions, New Beginnings, and a Transformed Environment
The first day of the 2024-2025 school year at Avonworth High School in Pittsburgh, PA, was a day filled with mixed emotions, new experiences, and a completely transformed environment. After an extended summer break that stretched from June through August, students returned on September 3rd to a school that looked dramatically different from the one…
End of Summer Construction Photo Gallery 2024
Year two of construction at the high school meant a post Labor Day start for students. Teachers returned on campus in late August to a noticeably different campus, and even in those few days before students returned, final touches for landscaping and interior design were still happening. Here is a glimpse around campus during those…
Last Week of 2023-2024 Photo Gallery
For the class of 2025, the last handful of school days were the first taste of life as a senior in the year ahead. Senior Class Sponsor Mrs Negron, pictured below, joined Dr. George and Mrs Reilsono to meet with upcoming seniors during Lead. Negron, along with Ms. Wahl, both stepped down after sponsoring 11th…
2024 Senior Edition Out Now
Physical Copies distributed to the graduates in the class of 2024 during graduation rehearsal, held indoors due to rain on Wednesday, May 29th! To read an online PDF, click here Additional coverage on Instagram. Thanks to Editor-In-Chief Zion Schenk, pictured bottom left with oncoming editor-in-chief Emma Noss, for many many unexpected hours of layout and…
Guest Editorial from Reese Theobold: Why are AHS Students Not Reading, AP tests, Why Do Students Feel Unmotivated after AP Exams are done?
Why are Students Not Reading? Every year of school we take an English class, and ever year we read at least one or two books in that class. But those books never seem to captivate us the way our independent reading or streaming shows might. So why do we get so bored reading books for…
Guest Editorials from Reese Theobold: The Legacy of Lucy Ha
The Legacy of Lucy Ha On June 23rd of 2022, my family had the pure luck of receiving Lucy Ha as our exchange student for the school year. I was the one who had led the charge of having an exchange student, as my sister was going off to college and I was terrified of…