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Akina Whalen

Akina Whalen, Staff Writer

Aki is a second-year journalist who loves sweet tea.

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Lauren Ventura and her father learn in Carbonneau’s astronomy class. Feb. 26, 2020.

Best of Big Chill

February 28, 2020
Students Kelly McCarty and Elijah Torres study budgeting vocab terms in economics and personal finance. Taken Jan. 30, 2020.

Budgeting basics

February 13, 2020
Boys basketball competes against Kempsville. Jan 10. 2019

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Students line up to receive breakfast. Photo taken on Dec. 18, 2019.

Student performance directly correlates with breakfast

January 2, 2020
According to one of Fara Wiles freshman classes, the many distractions include phone stimuli, phone notifications, and classroom peer conversations.

Evolution of the Attention Span

December 6, 2019
Featured on left, David Lee, and Maren Kelley on right. TARC Club discusses fin shapes on rockets using program Rocket Sim.

Team American Rocketry Challenge club prepares for national competition

November 24, 2019
Girls volleyball stretches towards a spike. October 22, 2019.

Girls volleyball falls short of rival Kellam

October 25, 2019
Spikeball players compete in final beach tournament on Sept. 21 at 47th Street.

Spikeball celebrates final beach tournament

October 6, 2019
OLHS Alumni Alexis Dixon returns and leads the induction as a speaker.

AVID celebrates inaugural, re-commitment ceremonies

September 23, 2019
Students use charcoal in the study of features. Photo by Akina Whalen. March 21, 2019.

Art students’ charcoal study showcased

April 9, 2019
According to Huffington post, these conversation hearts were originally called motto hearts, their precursor was a trendy fortune cookie-like treat sold during the Civil War called a cockle, which had printed phrases rolled up inside its scallop-shaped shell. Printing words directly on the candy was the bright idea of Daniel Chase, the brother of NECCOs founder. Photo from Google Images, edited by Fara Wiles.

Why we eat candy hearts on Valentine’s Day

February 10, 2019
The step team practices after school with co-captains Lay-Lay Hoffman and Aliyah Webster leading.

Step team prepares for upcoming performances

December 4, 2018
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