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Hispanic Heritage Month Sparks Discussion About Puerto Rico

Hispanic Heritage Month Sparks Discussion About Puerto Rico

Sofia Marcia, Reporter
November 1, 2017

The Hispanic Heritage Parade made its way through the halls of West Potomac, organized by Spanish teacher Yamalie Colon. The festival was held for people from hispanic backgrounds. Students danced brought...

Bilici (sitting) surrounded by colleagues, some of whom are now in jail, two months before the government takeover.

Abdulhamit Bilici: How Turkey Lost its Largest Newspaper

Abdulhamit Bilici was the editor-in-chief of Zaman, the largest newspaper in Turkey, before it was taken over by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Fired and receiving threats of imprisonment,...

New Principal Tanganyika Millard

New Principal Tanganyika Millard

Amanda Ghiloni, Editor in Chief
June 16, 2017

At a faculty meeting the morning of June 16, region superintendent Terry Dade announced West Potomac's new principal Tanganyika Millard. Tanganyika Millard was most recently the principal at Bryant...

World Languages Department Hosts its 6th Annual Soccer Tournament

World Languages Department Hosts its 6th Annual Soccer Tournament

Spencer Bao, Reporter
June 14, 2017

On June 8, the World Languages department hosted its sixth annual soccer tournament, in which six teams played. This year’s teams were Borrosia Dormot, Blue Eagles, La Mano de Dios, Legendary, Dream...

Chance the Rapper Comes Close to Home

Chance the Rapper Comes Close to Home

Ava Arthur
June 12, 2017

On June 4th, Chance the Rapper came to Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, VA for his “Be Encouraged” tour. DJ Oreo opened for Chance and got the audience ready for the main act. The popular rapper sang some...

Club Feature: Hispanic Leadership Club

Club Feature: Hispanic Leadership Club

Spencer Bao, Reporter
June 12, 2017

The Hispanic Leadership Club is an emerging group of students that all have one goal in mind: to unite the Hispanic community within West Potomac. This is the club’s second year and is led by junior...

Wrapping It Up: Class of 2017 President on Senior Year

Wrapping It Up: Class of 2017 President on Senior Year

Claudia Santa Anna, Senior Editor
May 24, 2017

This article is a follow-up from an article from October. Click here to read it.     In October, the senior class sent out a survey asking about Class of 2017 senior privileges. These...

Manchester Bombing

Manchester Bombing

May 23, 2017

On Monday May 22nd, a shock-wave was sent throughout the United Kingdom after 22 were killed and 59 were injured after a suicide bombing attack in Manchester at an Ariana Grande concert. The attacker has...

Princess for a Night gathers donations to give female students free prom dresses

Princess for a Night gathers donations to give female students free prom dresses

Cooper Rosenberg, Reporter
May 23, 2017

Need a dress for prom? Don’t want to go and spend hundreds of dollars on a dress you’ll likely only wear once? Then Princess for a Night has you covered. Princess for a Night (PFAN) is a project that...

ESOL Program Sees Population Growth

ESOL Program Sees Population Growth

Spencer Bao, Reporter
May 21, 2017

In the last couple of weeks, ESOL has seen multiple new students arrive on campus. In fact, the total number of “level 1” students has doubled. ESOL stands for “English for Speakers of Other Languages,”...

A Basic Guide to Irans 2017 Presidential Election

A Basic Guide to Iran’s 2017 Presidential Election

Shahtaj Ali, Editor
May 18, 2017

The Islamic Republic of Iran will hold its 12th presidential election, along with its local elections on May 19. Reformist incumbent Hassan Rouhani will be running for a second term, at one point declaring...

A Look at Best Buddies Prom

A Look at Best Buddies Prom

Grace Zdebski, Reporter
May 15, 2017

Every year the Best Buddies program hosts a prom that brings together different schools around the Northern Virginia area. The goals of this event is to help raise money for the the Best Buddies program...

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