Aaliyah Holmes Tunnel Vision

In June of 2016, Shavon will graduate from 8th grade, and go to high school. In 2013, while in 5th grade, Shavon was inducted into the National Elementary Honor Society. She served as the vice president. Last year, Shavon was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society. She served as the treasurer. A few months later, Shavon received another accolade. It was the Latin award for getting one of the highest scores on the National Latin Exam during her first year in Latin class. When the school year ended, Shavon became certified in babysitting.

Olivia Plamann is a fifteen year old sophomore at Sartell High School. Her friends call her Liv, and she was born on June 10th, 2001 in St. Cloud, Minnesota to her two parents, Pat and Joy Plamann. Olivia also has a younger sister, Ella, who attends the Sartell Middle School. Olivia is a very talented dancer, and she has been on the Sartell High School dance team for two years now. When she is not dancing, Olivia enjoys to play with her two dogs, named Packer and Baxter, and she also enjoys watching Netflix. Olivia’s favorite show to watch on Netflix is Glee. She also enjoys to listen to music, particularly of the pop genre. She cannot pinpoint her favorite artist, however, her current favorite song is Coffee by Miguel. Once Olivia graduates

Alexandra Robbins follows many students who strive to be the best, but her findings show some of those students eventually become very stressed and their sanity falls victim to their overwhelming work while in pursuit of their perfect future. Julie, portrayed as the superstar, participates in many extracurricular activities in order to receive acceptance into the college of her dreams. “Her class schedule consisted of 5 AP classes followed by an hour-long thrice-weekly environmental education internship at a natural science museum. At 2:30 each day, she returned to school for cross country practice.” Julie’s busy schedule displays her desire to ‘build up’ her resume for college to seem

After that moment was over, Claire decided right there and then at that moment that she would one day attend Louisiana State University. “Who knew that one day would change my life forever? One day I could may become a Tiger myself and maybe an LSU cheerleader on top of that.”

Se told us her life story and about the choices she made in her life. She shared that her mother was an alcoholic and her parents were divorced. She said she used to always would hangout with the wrong crowd. One day however in home economics she decided to not do drugs with her friends and thats when her life started to change. She later left her mom and got ahold of her dad who helped fund her schooling at a privet catholic school only if she payed for half. After attending school she decided to go off to college were her prefacer later told her she could push to get her masters. Later she even got her doctorates. We then returned to our small group discussion we talked about what sort of choices we have had to make in college so far and how have they affected

Hard-working students dedicated to their work succumb to stress and panic when the pressure of college and the need to do well intensifies. For Nayla Kidd, who grew up under a household which valued education, this was a nightmarish reality. While in college, Kidd’s mother obtained both a doctorate in toxicology at MIT as well as a masters in public health from Johns Hopkins (Svrluga). From the start, the pressure was on for Nayla, and her family reputation was on the line. On top of maintaining amazing grades, “Nayla Kidd ran track and did horseback riding in high school… she taught a popular belly dancing class at Columbia--[and] loves to DJ” (Svrluga). Her extensive resume reveals her true love for

The Salutatorian Addresses, given by Emily Nortnik, Shelbi Ledesma, and Hannah Branson, took the class of 2017 back through the last 13 years of their lives. There were good times and there were challenges, but together they faced life’s ups and downs while unknowingly making cherishable memories. Valedictorians, Lily Lockhart and Elizabeth Ward, graduated with GPAs above 4.3.

Carolina Flores has had an extraordinary experience at Casco Bay High School. She had a passionate smile as she said, “I would redo my four years here again.” Her journey before a CBHS was different. Her 8th grade year everyone kept telling her only weird go to CBHS or it's a hard school. But her mother didn't wanted her to go to Deering High school because her older sister had a horrible experience at DHS. “My older sister didn't want me to same experience as she did in high school,” Carolina said. But right now she is so grateful and thankful for mother forcing her to go Casco. She learned how to come out of her comfort zone, for example, her biggest millstone was being a dj at her 10th grade year for the Halloween dance.

She moved to Florida and has lived here ever since. Some hobbies and sports that she is interested in are staying fit, painting canvases, and cross country. She has an interest in painting canvases because she enjoys expressing herself through art. She also loves cross country because it helps her stay fit. Amanda plans to use her education to follow her dreams. She wants to attend the Art Institute of San Francisco and pursue the major of interior design. The most exciting place that Amanda has visited was Amsterdam; she liked it because it was

Arizona seventh-grader Olivia Vella choked up as she stood in front of her last week, delivering a powerful six-minute monologue about the reality of being a teenage girl today.The 13-year-old openly discussed the struggles young people face during those "awkward" middle school years. The peer pressure to look and act a certain way, the bullying ,all the challenges of transitioning into adulthood.

Not only is Amanda a wonderful person but she has also devoted herself to her studies and extracurricular activities while at Kent Denver, a prestigious private high school in Denver, CO. This past year, Amanda made it on the Headmaster’s List, awarded by the

While growing up Erica didn’t face many personal or family struggles. The worst struggle was losing their home. Erica was a rebel in middle school. Growing up in the 90’s wasn’t that easy. Skinny jeans were not invented yet so she just to wear rubber bands at the end of her jeans so they could look better with her Jordan’s. By rebel she meant she became more social and became more interested in boys. Wasn’t allowed to have boyfriends. Was very dedicated to softball. Softball kept her on track to keep her grades up. Her friends didn’t like her focusing on her goal of going to college. Is planning to get her masters at Ucla or Csun. She is the oldest of her siblings. She wants to become a teacher but her desire to teacher has nothing to do with her father being a teacher. When she got to college that’s when she faced some struggles she was in an abusive relationship everything

You may know Braedyn from seeing her support our football team or being a part of an OVAC worthy performance. As one of your Homecoming Princesses, she is excited to represent her class among with friends who were also nominated. Over the years, Braedyn has taken many classes at Linsly. However, the one that rises above them all is Mr. Felt’s Junior english class. On the other hand, as of now Pysch is her favorite class. Like many of us, Braedyn is a fan of chocolate chip pizza and Chipotle tacos. Even though the year is far from over, Braedyn says, “The thing I'm most looking forward to after high school is going to college and meeting new people.”

Growing up in Denver, Colorado, Lance Starr has always been the ideal child and student. He attended Stapleton High School and graduated top ten percent in his class. He had never touched a drink or done anything illegal in his life, and it never even crossed his determined mind. After getting accepted to his dream school Stanford University, he ended up having to drop out because he could no longer take out any more loans to continue his third year of school. Right away Lance got a job working as a construction man. The student loans continued to struggle him. After working hard for four years, Lance received a manager position in North Carolina and met the love of his life, Mary Jane. She taught at the local high school near where he lived,

Anne is a 22-year-old Caucasian female currently enrolled in college. She is enrolled as a full time student majoring in Criminal Justice. She lives in a single room on campus and is three hours away from her family. She is currently in the Later Adolescence stage of development and is dealing with several different life issues.