Gbemi Odebode

Editorial: Construction at AHS Not Student-Centered Schools are supposed to be places of learning, so when my attempts to understand the Ideal Gas Law in AP Chemistry are interrupted by jackhammers, I […]

Throughout the week of Monday, May 23, students in Algebra I, Honors Algebra I, Biology 9 and 10, and all sophomores for Literature geared up to take the Keystone exams, combining with the first full finals week […]

As the 2021-2022 Avonworth school year winds to an end, ending on May 26th for the seniors and June 3rd for underclassmen, waves of change are beginning to sweep through the school. 
The school renovations, […]

While juniors were getting excited about PROM just five days away, the 9th and 10th grade students also looked ahead to the future. But unless they plan to intern at the Pittsburgh Zoo, they were thinking about […]

The 2022 AHS art show offered something new alongside the works of art – a chance to help fund Pittsburgh Bee Keepers as they battle colony disorders that have rapidly destroyed the bee population in the […]

Four Avonworth high school students ranked in the top ten of the Atkins Center for Ethics at Carlow University’s annual essay contest. 
The essay contest was open to students in 11th and 12th grade who were […]

During LEAD on April 8th, senior Sage Hardiman lead a walkout protest on hundred of homophobic laws that have been enacted across the country by lawmakers in the past year.

 
Notably, there has been […]

9th grade English and Integrated teacher Mr. Wells is going to have a big transformation to his beard style. In a fundraiser for the freshman class, Mr. Wells is going to shave his beard on Friday, April […]

Support for Ukraine on the Avonworth campus has remained subtle but everpresent.

Statewide, support for the victims of the conflict has been strong. According to the PA State website, “Pennsylvania is home to […]

For their graduation project, Izabella Johnson, Elle Theobald, and Alexa Nelson worked with administrators to find a place for and paint a mural. Struggling with the renovation plans and finding a permanent place […]

About 30 students joined Mrs. Long on a field trip to visit the Maxo Vanka murals at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Millvale.

These paintings took on new and increased meaning as at the time they were […]

On Friday, February 25, Special Olympics sponsored a Polar Plunge fundraiser at Avonworth high school.

The Polar Plunge’s goal was to raise money for Special Olympics Pennsylvania. This was a state-wide event, […]

AHS students and teachers welcomed back the 9th-grade A. W. Beattie field trip, making its first rerun since 2019.

A. W. Beattie is a college and earlier career exploration program that serves the nine schools […]

On Thursday, February 3, Avonworth high school went forward with an FID day due to winter story conditions.The winter storm, unofficially named winter storm Landon by the Weather Channel, has spread across the […]

On Friday, January 21, Avonworth high school had its first indoor pep rally since 2019 in the high school gym to celebrate the winter sports season and increase school spirit.
 

The first semester of the 2021-2022 school year is drawing to a close with the grading period ending on January 12. This means that students have a limited amount of time to either maintain or bring up their 2nd […]

On December 7th, 2021, for 15 minutes, allocated during MOD C/D, all Avonworth High School students participated in something called the PASS survey. The PASS survey is an online resource that school districts […]

COVID-19 put the lives of every student in the entire world on halt, and over the course of just this year, so much has changed about the way we gather. 

With the return of mostly in-person schools beginning […]

Schools seem to have lost, or completely abandoned, their mission of teaching students how to explore and succeed in their passions.
 

 
Over the last 20 years, with the exponential increase in t […]