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Students in line for Brew-Tea-Ful products.

Brew-Tea-Ful Cafe Energizes Student Body

If you are down in Gunston and you smell freshly brewed coffee or a sugary pastry, that must be the Brew-tea-ful Cafe! The Pulley Career Center coffee shop program started up in 2018, and resumed after...

Leap year comes once every four years. At least one student at West Potomac has a birthday on leap day.

Leaping into 2024 with 366 Days

Delaney Dean and Alanah Pagan
February 29, 2024

Three-hundred sixty five days a year. Students learn that when they are in elementary school, but it’s not exactly true. Every 4 years there is an extra day in the year, and it’s called a leap year....

Photo Credit: Julia Nikhinson

Upcoming Virginia Primary: Who’s on the Ballot and How to Vote

Thomas Brown, Student Issues Editor
February 29, 2024

Super Tuesday is coming next week and Virginia along with many other states will hold their presidential primaries. Many West Potomac seniors will have the opportunity to vote in this race so we’ve...

Student Marie Wheeler painting with water colors

Wonderful paintings made by the Spanish 3 students

Ali Ahmed, Visual Editor
February 21, 2024

For kids taking Spanish 3 either right now or in the near future they’re required to do a series of paintings for the class based on five famous Spanish Painters. These five famous painters are Grecco,...

West Po students making Black History Month bracelets during lunch.

The Club Hub: The Black Student Union

Owen Mclenithan, Staff Writer
February 16, 2024

February is Black History Month and the Black Student Union (BSU) is getting ready to work during lunches doing African American trivia and making bracelets every Friday for the month.  The president...

Freshman Swims at States This Weekend

Freshman Swims at States This Weekend

Addison Hood, Reporter
February 14, 2024

"They wouldn't even let me on the swim team because I needed help to swim one lap without basically drowning," Hadley Petronello, freshman, said. Much has changed since that 6-year-old summer season...

Seasonal depression affecting students mental health.

Keeping Busy to Prevent Seasonal Depression

Katie Olson, Writer
February 14, 2024

During this winter season as the holidays are just ending, students of West Potomac High School might be starting to feel symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder more commonly known as Seasonal Depression...

Fantasy Football Fallout

Fantasy Football Fallout

Thomas Greene
February 12, 2024

Around this time of the year, the last thing any student want to be is the loser of their fantasy football league. Fantasy football leagues are a group friends or other participants that draft a team full...

Snow Day Policy Reinstated

Snow Day Policy Reinstated

Rhett Butler
February 12, 2024

We’ve had some snow already and there may be some more in the forecast, and students, teachers and staff are all thinking the same thing: Is school canceled or not? FCPS awarded the first snow day in...

The Young Democrats and Young Republicans clubs have been absent from West Potomac since 2020

The Disappearance of the Young Republicans and Young Democrats Clubs

Thomas Argroves, Owen Mclenithan, and Finn Johnson
February 12, 2024

As of 2020, the Young Democrats and Young Republicans clubs disappeared from the West Po clubs roster after running from 2001-2020. There was also a Democratic Socialist club for a short time, but it’s...

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District Choir Comes to West Potomac

Josephine Keller, Associate Editor
February 8, 2024

District choir, an event for select students around District 10 to perform in an ensemble, is being hosted at West Potomac this year. The choral students participating had to complete an audition to...

Mrs. Janet Babic, pictured with her family, started the year off as the school based technology specialist, and has now become the Administrative Principal for English.

Teacher Feature: Mrs. Babic

Emma Fetterolf, Writer
February 6, 2024

Janet Babic has been at West Potomac High School for six years; she came from Hayfield High School in 2018. At Hayfield Mrs. Babic taught all kinds of history from world history to US history. In addition...

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