Mr. Minh Huynh is one of the many adored teachers here at West Potomac High School. Mr. Minh has worked at West Potomac for 11 years as a math teacher, he has taught 9th grade pre algebra all the way up to 12th grade calculus. He attended George Mason...

  On January 12th, 2025, The Washington Commanders won their first playoff game since 2006, beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23-20. The Commanders came into the game as the #6 seed, after an improbable season with low expectations in the beginning....

After one short weekend in the movie theaters box office, Wicked Part. 1 earned 164 million dollars making it wildly…popular. The multi-Tony award winning musical Wicked is the 4th longest running musical in Broadway history, and with every other show...

This week, West Potomac students, rising and current, are set to view materials reviewing Academic Advising and have the chance to attend various events related to the 2025-2026 school year course selection process. One such event, Rising 9th Grade Family...

Jimmy Carter, (100) Passed away yesterday December 29, 2024 due to natural causes, at his home in Plains, Georgia. A former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Carter was known as a man of the people who was dedicated to his work as a philanthropist...

Over 500 hours performed, 91 stops, 152 dates, and almost 2 billion dollars in sales, Taylor Swift’s Eras tour has become one of the most successful tours in history. Every show, Swift performs 40 songs and sings for around three and a half hours. Starting...

Kong Dog is an exciting new addition to Beacon Center, offering Korean-style corn dogs that have caught the attention of West Po locals. The restaurant serves an affordable menu, with prices ranging from $6 to $9 per corn dog. The variety is impressive,...

Mr Driscoll is a Career and Technical Education teacher, who teaches Economics and Personal Finance, Accounting, and Digital Applications.  He graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor's degree in Business Information Technology, and then he went...

Back in March of 2024, Kendrick Lamar’s name was all over the news, claiming the #1 rap song of 2024 with his single “Not Like Us,” teasing fans with a 20 second snippet at the beginning of the music video. Surprisingly, after his success with Not...

  Starting on December 5th, at our very own West Potomac auditorium, the Alexandria Community’s Nutcracker begins. This holiday tradition that happens every December is full of West Potomac’s very own students, as well as students from neighboring...

Local journalism is a dying profession. Since the start of the 2000s over one-third of the country's newspapers and two-thirds of its journalists have been lost according to a study from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.  The...

Ms. Symone Jenkins, English teacher for 9th and 10th grade at West Po, loves teaching English because of being able to see each student's progress in writing overtime and seeing how far her students come from the beginning to the end of the school year. Ms....