9th-grade students are finally discussing the changes that they want to be made in the Avonworth School District. In 9th grade seminar, students wrote down three changes they hoped to see. The most prominent change for the freshmen was for an open MOD. Unlike other high schoolers, the 9th-grade students do not have this opportunity. Many…
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100 Mile Walk
“It is the greatest feeling when you finish the walk. To know how much the money we are raising is helping all of the families that are in the hospital. The walk over the past 50 years has raised 1.6 million dollars for the Free Care Fund and knowing that I have helped raise that…

Lil Swang, Avonworth’s Breakthrough Artist?
Freshman Neo Miller has been causing a lot of noise among Avonworth students ever since he released his first song as “Lil Swang” on SoundCloud. The song was called “Bankrupt” and caused a lot of controversy, leading to its removal from his account. His most statistically popular releases are “Luv the Hate” with 6,986 views…

Gaming Community Finds Voice
“Gaming is a way of joining communities together under one thing” Or so says Fabian Vazquez, a junior, who recently moved to Avonworth from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. He is endeavoring to create an after-school gaming club for the students here. When asked “why gaming?” he replied with the above quote, elaborating that gaming is…

Netflix: A Year in Review
To All The Boy’s I’ve Loved Before, 13 Reasons Why, Stranger Things and more. Netflix originals are one of the popular forms of content from 2018. Netflix has surged in popularity this year with the number of subscriptions passing Wall Street analysts predictions by over 1 million in just the first quarter. Netflix has and will continue…

Best Avonworth Memories 2018
1) The Boys Soccer Team defeated Greensburg Central Catholic in the WPIAL championship on November 1st, making Avonworth history! They moved onto states and made it all the way to the championship. The game was at Hershey on November 16th, with 3 fan buses travelling the 4-hour ride to go support their team. The boys…

Thousands, Including Avonewsonline Staff Member, Attend Vigil for Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting
On a raining Sunday evening in November 2018 over two thousand people gathered together in the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland, more than a thousand others flooded out of the doors into the rain to make known that “The tree of life will never be uprooted by hate.” On Saturday, October 27th…

A School Without Water Fountains?
What if you had to get your water from a truck and you could only get a small amount once a day? As the Journalism 1 class worked with National Geographic’s Out of Eden Project, they learned a startling statistic about how many people are already living this way, and how they will be out…

What’s New in the Lopes Lounge?
The Lopes Lounge has officially opened for the 2018-19 school year. Many students are excited for the lounge this year and are anticipating the new drinks to come. The fall drink for this year in the Lopes Lounge is the Pumpkin Spice Cappuccino. When Junior Dominique Raught was asked what she thought about the new…

Avonworth is Painted Yellow For Childhood Cancer Awareness
On Thursday, September 27th, students and staff alike donned their yellow t-shirts and gold ribbon pins to raise awareness for Childhood Cancer. The first Student Council fundraiser of the year started off successfully. By the end of the day, $244.87 was raised by teachers, administrators, and students by donating and buying ribbons to show their…