CASS TECH
Cass Tech football team adapts to change
By Khalil Myles | November 24, 2020The Cass Tech football team continues to deal with schedule changes due to COVID-19.
The Cass Tech football team continues to deal with schedule changes due to COVID-19.
Detroit Public Schools Community District and Wayne State University sponsored their annual college fair for 11th and 12th grade students.
This election year, the group 482forward began a new program called Political Action and Covid Crisis Intervention Team (PACCT) to help boost voter registration and ultimately, voter turnout.
This year's Cass Tech STEM Expo moved to a virtual format. The STEM Expo has been an annual event at Cass Tech for 15 years.
Cass Tech hosted a virtual Spirit Week for students 9-12. Spirit week lasted from Oct. 12-16. Students participated by dressing up and changing their backgrounds to the theme of the day.
Cass Technical High School has a rising club For Girls Only that is changing and motivating girls who attend the school.
Every year at Cass Tech, there are a few students who score a 1500 or above. The state of Michigan's average SAT score was 985 in 2019. The test scores are scored in the spring session of the SAT every year.
In November, 34 Cass Tech seniors were given a 10-question survey on their opinions about Cass Tech’s attendance policy.
Cass Tech senior Brandon Campbell has been awarded a full ride to Princeton University through the Questbridge Match Scholarship.
Citizen Detroit is a nonprofit organization whose goals are to help encourage and teach minorities in Detroit about politics and voting. On Jan. 31, Citizen Detroit, Detroit Public Community School District, and the Detroit Election Commission partnered together to give Cass Tech students an opportunity to do a simulated vote. And the Detroit Election Commission helped eligible students register to vote.
On Nov. 6, some Cass Tech students went to the TEDxDetroit event at the Masonic Temple.
Cass Tech's Triangle Society held their third annual Legacy Week, Nov. 10-15.
Cass Tech students Quinell May Jr., Anjel Mantel, and B'nathaniel Orlu were awarded a full sponsorship in the fall to perform in Spain and Portugal as integral members of the Community Chorus of Detroit (CCD).
On Sept. 24, Vans presented Cass Technical High School’s music department with a check for $10,000 and instruments for the orchestra department valued at $10,000. Cass along with five other Detroit Public Schools received money to help subsidize the music curriculum of their respective schools.
Cass Tech’s chess champion Sharisse Woods traveled to Mumbai, India, this fall, to be apart of the World Youth Chess Championship.
On Sept. 19, Eastern Michigan University President James M. Smith and Vice President David Turner visited Cass Technical School to have academic discussions with students.
In late September, Gucci presented Cass Tech’s Fashion Design Club with a $10,000 check, which was the start of a partnership between f Cass Tech and Gucci.
Sen. Bernie Sanders made a special appearance at Cass Technical High School on Oct. 27.
Cass Tech sophomore Muhammad Ali has developed the school’s very first Muslim Student Association.
Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB) is a yearly, two-day high school poetry festival in which youth poets from across Michigan are invited to compete, participate in workshops, and experience slam poetry from authors their own age.
