Morning Announcements Go Live

By Shyla Burrell

The newest addition to the school and its technology is the videotaped morning announcements. The link for these announcements can be found daily on the high school web page

Mr. Cangemi, the director of STEM started “The Breakfast Club”, a group of juniors and seniors who are well rounded and interested in the technology needed for putting together daily announcements. The idea behind now recording our morning announcements is to allow the students and teachers to have an interactive experience when listening to the announcements. It also gives the students of the club a chance to learn the inner workings of a broadcast.

Boys Junior Varsity Basketball Team Started its Season

By Vanessa Tribie and Victoria Akingboye

The Junior Varsity Basketball team coached by Mr.Senia started their season on Tuesday, December 5th against Valley Stream North.  

With an almost all-new team, this year will require some rebuilding and a lot of practice. 

The players on the team include Brian Pierre Louis, Kalobe Threewitts, Marques Valme, Jalen Jean, and David Cadet.  

Girls Basketball Just Getting Started

By Kai Warner and Aleyna Zaim

It takes long afternoon practices, tryouts, and hard work to put together a great team.

Of the 20 girls that attended the first meeting and tryouts, only 13 girls made the final cut.  

Although the season has just started for the West Hempstead Girls Basketball Team, they started off strong.  

Teachers Get Pied for School Trip

By Sabrina Rodrigues

The Virtual Enterprise class once again sponsored the pie in the face raffle on Wednesday, November 22nd.

Teachers were asked to volunteer to take a pie in the face to raise money for the school trip to Virginia.

"This year was better in terms of teacher participation with 24 teachers up from last year's 12, including some from administrative team," said teacher Mr. Silberman.

Tennis Team Takes it on the Road

By Eilyn Maldonado and Briana Pierre Louis

This season the girl's tennis team learned how to serve, rally and pass, use forehand and backhand, follow through on shots, smash and also how to keep score.

The singles and doubles teams varied, no one had a permanent spot.

Our singles players were Laura Eivazi, Alina Czavar, Shanelle Yanqui and Sarah Mojica.

Our doubles players included: Rabiya Khan, Unsha Monaj, Paola Cardenas, Cindy Cardona, Sarah Mojica, Kim Lazo, Krista Baumann, Laura Padilla, Abby Isseon, Lauren Sharma Galarza, Eilyn Maldonado, Vanessa Tribie, and Briana Pierre Louis.

Red Ribbon Week Teaches Us About Dangerous Decisions

By Fizza Dar

Red Ribbon Week is a week-long event (October 23rd- 27th) used to spread awareness about the use of drugs, alcohol, and other harmful products.

The high school community and SADD team up for this yearly event to inform students about the dangers associated with destructive decisions.

Mr. McEntee and SADD members handed out new stickers for students and staff to wear in support of this week’s events.

Are You Curious About Our Learning Experience?

By Aniyah Kalies Granger

This year, the class of 2020 had the opportunity, to visit Madame Tussauds in New York City, on October 27th not only to have fun but the chance to learn and discover new things about the people who made a huge impact on society today. The experience was fascinating.

On our way there, we had D.J Jamira play us some tunes. Since we requested the music, we were jamming and having fun, and of course snapchatting. We arrived at the museum, around 9:45, but before we entered, we took a group selfie, which was beautiful.

Fun Fridays Help Students Make Memories

By Harpinder Kaur


Student Council started a new trend this year, Fun Fridays. Various events take place on Fridays after school for all students to enjoy and have a good time.

These events create new memories for students by playing games, singing, dancing and even providing free snacks.


Student Council not only comes together for good causes like helping other communities including ours but also helps students interact more.

A Sophomore Look at Homecoming

By Omosefe Ikpia

This year’s homecoming started off near the Chestnut Street School. We marched from there back to the school to watch a game between our Girls' soccer team and Friends Academy.

In addition to the game, Homecoming also had many other features like the Stuff the Bus project in which we donate anything helpful to support those affected by the hurricane, there was also many stations of little games, face painting and a bouncy house for the kids, included in the parade was our banner where we think of something creative to go along with our sophomore theme for the year.