Every year, Jesuit welcomes certain new things to its halls. From new teachers to new buildings to new classes, Jesuit does not stay idle during the summer while the students are away. This year was no different as Jesuit welcomed many new additions to the campus, but one of particular note was the new course AP Environmental Science.
AP...
This school year has been a great year for clubs. A multitude of clubs and organizations have been created, ranging from the Brothers for Others Club (which serves young people with Down syndrome) to the For the Love of the Lake Club (which promotes environmental awareness and responsibility). Out of all of these newly created clubs, however, some smaller...
The tall young man fully extends his right arm to the top of the brown pegboard, stabilized by four large brackets to the base of the machine. As he reaches full extension, still shorter than the peg board, the student tenses his right calf, straightens his right ankle by stiffening his toes and rotates on the ball of his...
Having worked since the beginning of the second semester, the junior class of Jesuit has recently completed their Rube Goldberg project, one of the most important projects of the year. Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist and inventor who gained popularity for his complex mechanisms that rendered simple results. The history of the Rube Goldberg project started four...
Launch day. Gliders in hand, the seniors of ACE Engineering march down to the gym. Gliders float and fly here and there. The final flights are a culmination of weeks of work designing and perfecting foam gliders to fly faster, farther, and safer. The students record the results, and then it's back to that classroom for ACE Engineering.
The ACE in...
Eighty feet below the surface of the ocean, just off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands, the RMS Rhone, a 310 foot sunken British packet ship lies still, resting on the sand. After 145 years, the RMS Rhone is teeming with life ranging from corals to stingrays to barracudas. Up at the surface, nineteen Jesuit...
Last year, amid the weekly grind of tests, worksheets, and laboratory reports, Jesuit’s honors biology students were asked to write biology essays for a well-known science essay contest, the DuPont Challenge. Two students of long time Jesuit biology teacher Mrs. Jan Jones, sophomores Jimmy Buckley and John Ford, were given special acclaim, winning honorable mention for their essays.
Each year,...
High schoolers performing cutting edge research…
WHAT?!?
It might sound crazy, but that’s just what rising seniors Peter Hundley, Jackson Petroll, Connor Thomas, and Nicholas Wilson did over the summer. UT Southwestern’s STARS program brought over 50 metroplex high schoolers together for an eight week paid research program.
“Rising Seniors apply to the program during their Junior year,” began Mrs. Boyle. “The...
