• • September 16: SWENext Interest Meeting (One Lunch, Schola) •
  • • September 16: Pickleball Club Lunch Social (One Lunch, 250) •
  • • September 16: Astronomy Club (One Lunch, 223) •
  • • September 17: Ballroom Dance Club (One Lunch, 250) •
  • • September 19-21: NAS Oceana Air Show •
  • • October 4: Homecoming 2025 •
  • • Hall Dec (ALL CLASSES, FULL WEEK) •
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Kaia Jackson

Kaia Jackson, Staff Writer

Kaia Jackson is a senior and a first-year journalist for The Current. She is the SCA president, a varsity cheer captain, a member of National Honor Society and the yearbook staff. Outside of school, she enjoys reading, dancing and watching movies. Kaia is a musical enthusiast and loves to go see the Ocean Lakes Theatre Company productions. She drives a blue-green scion with purple polka dots named Sully.

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New movie “Civil War" presents liberty under the shroud of darkness. This movie poster art highlights some of the juxtaposition which can be found throughout the movie. (Civil War (2024) Animated Poster/Favorisxp/DeviantArt/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

New movie “Civil War” reminds audiences actions have consequences

Kaia Jackson, Staff Writer
June 4, 2024
(Left to right): senior Revanth Renukunta, senior Esha Singh, junior Urvi Jain and senior Nimish Nookala celebrate their culture at “Taste of India” on April 20, 2024. The group performed a folk dance from the Punjab region of India called the bhangra.

Dolphins showcase a Taste of India to the Hampton Roads community

Kaia Jackson, Staff Writer
May 8, 2024
Senior Ashley Henry shares a day’s worth of homework in yearbook class on March 29, 2024. She spent three hours completing her homework which included calculus, physics, and anatomy worksheets.

Education hunts for blood in the water and students struggle to stay afloat

Kaia Jackson, Staff Writer
April 17, 2024
Freshmen Anna Lewis, Emilia McFarland, Acelyn Juhas and Naysa Doan flood bins with gently used shoes for Soles4Souls. Founders Week is full of reminders to be an upstanding member of the Ocean Lakes community.

Ocean Lakes’ Dolphins support Soles4Souls during Founders’ Week

Kaia Jackson, Staff Writer
March 1, 2024
Elizabeth Acevedo speaks at the Dance DC Festival on July 22nd, 2011. That year the festival celebrated the history of hip-hop. (Pre-Kick-off 8th Annual Dance DC Festival/Elvert Barnes/Flickr/CC CY-SA 2.0)

Elizabeth Acevedo’s words inspire a sense of identity and love for all

Kaia Jackson, Staff Writer
March 1, 2024
Spirit The Dolphin smiles for a picture with The Current's certificate of adoption. The Current officially adopted Chance, a female bottlenose dolphin, on Feb. 1, 2024.

The Current adopts a dolphin in honor of Spirit

Kaia Jackson, Staff Writer
February 8, 2024
Senior Hailey Burns reads, “The Way I Used To Be” by Amber Smith in her dual enrollment English class, during independent reading time on Nov. 21, 2023.

Cozy books to cuddle up with this winter season

Kaia Jackson, Staff Writer
December 19, 2023
A painting which depicts a scene from a Midsummer Night's Dream. The fantastical show was bound to be comedic with its whimsical and mischevious characters. (Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania and Bottom/Edwin Landseer/Google Cultural Institute/Public Domain)

Shakespeare returns to the theater

Kaia Jackson, Staff Writer
November 14, 2023
Freshmen Maddie Murrell, Aubrey Spagnoli, Carmela Mendoza, Reese Longwater, Ethan Royce, Daxing Yang, Miles Pullman and Anisha Warusavitharana (from left to right) smile for a photo while playing Hedbanz during Finsgiving Celebration Nov. 18, 2022.

[Photo] Dolphins unite with full bellies at annual Finsgiving celebration

Sydney Teeter, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Drive Manager
November 23, 2022
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