Category: School Life

Auditorium Beat #4 – A Photo Gallery
Here I have shared with you some of the pictures I have taken along the journey. Life truly is fraught with such perils. If it is fine with you we may never meet again. Remember to eat food and drink water. As with journeys like these, there are things you can never go back to….

Ska: “The Genre That Our Generation Needs”
It would seem as if much of modern America´s youth are listening to one of two things regarding their music interest: either what can be found on today’s popular radio, or specifically selected stations on apps like Pandora or Spotify. With the exception of some straggler groups interested in other genres, our generation is relatively…

A Question of Survival #2
Christian Guzzo, Avonworth senior, when asked about the Question of Survival, sides with Ove and would go for the doorknobs. “I agree with Ders. I’d climb the bleachers and throw them at the zombies. Maybe a better strategy would be to flail the sack around and make my way towards the doors in an attempt…

Comments and Suggestions for the May/June Avonews Edition, 2017
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Shriver Beat 5/23
Mr. Shriver has been privileged to go on four trips with select students throughout his more recent years teaching at the high school, traveling to Puerto Rico twice, Ecuador, and the Galapagos Islands. He will add Iceland in the coming weeks, but this wasn’t a trip he had in mind for a while. “I hadn’t planned…

Matt’s Sports Wrap Up Beat #5… The Final Beat
Since this is my final sports beat ever as a student at Avonworth it’s time to speak the truth about Pittsburgh sports. I’ve learned that the Pirates weren’t as bad as everybody thought they were since in my first two years in high school they made the playoffs. Also that the Steelers can’t win important…

Ryan’s Metal Beat #5: Avenged Sevenfold Goes Even More Progressive
Avenged Sevenfold goes an extra step towards progressive metal. This song is the 8th track off of their 7th studio album The Stage. It’s entitled “Higher” and it’s related to a fail NASA launch test. It’s mainly sung, however, about the aftermath. The first verse, to me, best explains the lyrical topic in specifics. …

A Question of Survival – Day 1 of 5
Years ago, Avonworth students Anders Ove and Joe Engelmeier began heatedly debating about a vital choice that they hypothetically would have to make in a certain life-or-death situation. Word of this debacle spread to other students who took a stance on the issue, ultimately taking one of two sides. According to Ove, “this choice essentially…

Shriver Beat 5/17
Throughout your freshman year at Avonworth High School, whether you’re in honors or not, you share a common enemy that awaits you at the end of the year: your Biology Keystone Test. As the year begins to wind down, finals and keystone prep begin to flood the halls, nervous students telling their colleagues about their…