Your School, Your Story
By: Ben Brown Are you bursting at the seams with restless energy as summer is just a few weeks away and looking to hit the ground running as soon as the last bell rings? A great way to let out all that energy is a road trip. The road trip. The ultimate 12 hour road... Continue Reading →
By: Emma Zeller In our age of education, there are more opportunities offered to students in the classroom than ever before. Countless schools are creating specialized programs in order to hone the talents of students. Tulsa Tech is a great place to find these courses. Sarah N'genda, 11, is a talented singer and aspiring musician... Continue Reading →
By: Matty Mooney Black owned businesses and entrepreneurship has been around forever, since the beginning of the GreenWood District in the early 1900’s. Supporting our local small businesses should be celebrated and there are many great black owned small businesses around Tulsa to check out. So, use this spotlight to shop small, safely, and socially... Continue Reading →
By: Natalie Eaton During this difficult year of 2020, it is now more important than ever to support local businesses. They know their customers much better than national chains and they invest their dollars right back here into our community. This month we got to know two local businesses. The Pink Lily: Just a little... Continue Reading →
By: Emma Zeller In Jenks, everyone’s looking for fun things to do. Small towns are great, but there aren’t many options when everyone’s bored after a long day of school. Jenks needs a hangout space for highschoolers, somewhere with a good atmosphere and no stress where students can go to just relax! Local Jenks cafe,... Continue Reading →
By: Izzy Pankey When it comes to the purchases you make at the grocery store, your choice of product has a major effect on our environment. Consumers produce 2,072 pounds of waste per year and only 34% of those consumers recycle. Most of that waste produced and recycled still has some life in it, so... Continue Reading →
By Camille Jones and Lily Heritage Hundreds of animals squeezed inside a small enclosure, daylight escapes them. The smell of feces so overwhelming that there isn’t anything else to focus on. Animals groan and squeal at the conditions. If you’re in Workun’s AP Lang class, you may have heard about these practices. That is not... Continue Reading →
By Lily Heritage As students, we all know the struggles of waking up early for school, sitting through 7 hours of classes, and then finally getting home, only to have homework waiting for us. It can be exhausting. It’s easy to blame the teachers for assigning so much work, but have we ever considered the... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/-7x9Sqe7e2E Do you want to improve your cooking skills? Would you like to master the culinary arts? Would you like to watch a video of someone making brownies and then contemplate the possibility of making them later? Well Trojan Torch has you covered with our new short-term series Cooking With Cami! In this episode, our... Continue Reading →
BY Taylor Hatheway Sanjeev Musuvathy and Rylee Buchert, both seniors at Jenks High School and teammates in policy debate, spend 40 to 50 hours per week working on debate-related activities. All of this hard work has paid off, resulting in the longest winning streak in the history of Jenks debate. In policy... Continue Reading →
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