WEST SIDE ACADEMY
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By West Side Times Staff | November 8, 2019On Oct. 18, West Side Academy held its annual homecoming pep rally prior to the homecoming dance.
On Oct. 18, West Side Academy held its annual homecoming pep rally prior to the homecoming dance.
According to Forbes, “Student loan debt in 2019 is the highest ever.” The amount of money owed by recent graduates is in the trillions in the U.S. alone. Students all deserve the same opportunities as everyone else, and it doesn’t always have to be followed with years of debt to pay off.
Southeastern's back-to-school bash was like no other. That’s because this year’s host was Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), an automaker that is expanding its facilities on the eastside.
Every year during the beginning of homecoming day, Communication and Media Arts High School hosts its own Olympiad game in the school’s gym.
On Oct. 18, Communication & Media Arts High School held its annual homecoming dance at Shriner Silvers Garden.
During the second week of September, hundreds of volunteers from General Motors, Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision (SDEV), Ideal Group, and Detroit Cristo Rey gathered for what is known as teamGM Cares Week to improve areas of the city through community service projects.
The Cristo Rey cheerleading team has been putting in long hours of practice to improve their skills and incorporate six new freshmen members.
Now in its second year, Detroit Cristo Rey’s Environmental Justice Club continues making positive changes on the school grounds.
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.
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.
Seventy-seven Benjamin Carson High School ninth graders visited the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus on Oct. 15.
Benjamin Carson High School held its annual Senior Pinning ceremony for the class of 2020 on Sept. 25.
Six Ben Carson High School students traveled to Italy over summer vacation as part of a new study abroad program.
NAF along with the Fund II Foundation sponsored its second annual Lincoln Hills Restoration Retreat which is normally for black male achievement. But this year, young women were welcomed for the first time since the start of the organization.
Senior Ashenna Williams took part in a trip to Maine with the assistance of English teacher Andrew Kemp and College Transition Advisor Tracy Jones.
King welcomes new assistant principal Dennis Veal to the Crusader community.
In the days leading up to National Coming Out Day last October, the student body at Renaissance High School submitted 225 anonymous posts to a box dealing with mental health, sexuality, and other teen angsts. It filled a hallway that became known as the “Coming Out Wall. This project is now an exhibit at Affirmations, one of the country’s largest LGTBQ community centers.
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.
