When leaving Ms. Kelly Lutzker’s class it's not unusual to walk out with a couple of bucks. She hands out Lutzker bucks which are fake money that students earn at the end of the week for completing...

Originally from Egypt, Dr. Hany Eldeib is starting his first year as a math teacher at West Po.. He came to America for the first time in 1978 for a summer internship, and ended up coming back and staying...

Head over to the Kogelman Theater on May 17th at 6:30, where West Potomac High School’s fivetwofive. are hosting their 2024 album release listening party for their new album, Growing Pains. fivetwofive....

"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...

Senior Antonio “Tony” Amaral, who starred as Professor Callahan in West Potomac’s Legally Blonde, was recently nominated for a prestigious Brandon Victor Dixon award, an honor given for “excellence...

West Potomac senior Sarah Salama was honored as a recipient of the 2023 Student Peace Award on March 19, along with 27 other Fairfax County students. The Student Peace Awards of Fairfax County began in...

I started taking journalism my freshman year of high school, unaware of the positive impact it would have on me down the line. It’s been a class I have consistently enjoyed throughout each year, even...

Most of our senior sign-offs have a message to them, something to say about how they want the school to change or their concerns about the world they’re going into, but I want to take a different approach...

In celebration of Pi Day, March 14, The Wire hosted a Pi for Pie Day competition through all lunches. Students were encouraged to come up to our table and recite as many pi digits as they could recall....

Seniors Fionn French and Saira Nagda, who qualified as Semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) in Fall of 2022, have heard back on their status in the process of becoming finalists...

Mary Prater, a senior guard and team captain on the girls basketball team, surpassed the 1,000 point threshold for her high school career last Tuesday in a 43-27 win at West Springfield. She was eight...

This year’s West Potomac High School Teacher of the Year is Shari Terry. Terry, in her 27th year as a teacher and 17th year at West Potomac, is a beloved physics teacher and club organizer. Principal...