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Feet Meet 2025
Feet Meet 2025
Jenalee Hastings and Maddie Calhoun June 11, 2025

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Student’s Summer Jobs
Ryan Bacharach, Staff Reporter • June 9, 2025

  As the temperature gets warmer and the school year finally nears its long anticipated end, summer vacation is nearly here. With that...

Ask a Senior: Narrowing Down Your College Search
Ask a Senior: Narrowing Down Your College Search
Lilly Hall, Campus & Features Editor • May 6, 2025

*All students interviewed for this story are seniors at Valley. With nearly 6,000 colleges in the U.S, over 80 in Virginia alone, narrowing...

Welcome banner at the class-wide senior lunch on Decision Day, May 2.
Decision Day for the Class of 2025
Enaya Bokhari and Ash Woerner May 5, 2025

While National Decision Day resides on the first of May, Valley tends to have the senior oriented day fall between the first or second depending...

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Why Teach?
Ryan Bacharach, Staff Reporter • April 3, 2025

Teachers shape the minds of the next generation and prepare them for future occupations that they might plan to pursue. A student's education,...

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Major headlines tend to shift more towards his shakeup of the bureaucracy with “shutting down” the DOE, ending USAID, or the havoc wreaked with the erroneous deportations.

However, not as much light has been shed on Trump’s foreign policy which is in response to an international system that is shifting before us.

Such shifts in perceived global threats and the position of the United States then begs the question of the world’s most prominent military alliance: NATO — and what its future entails, if there should be any. 

Read the rest at the link in our bio!

By Enaya Bokhari | News Editor

Major headlines tend to shift more towards his shakeup of the bureaucracy with “shutting down” the DOE, ending USAID, or the havoc wreaked with the erroneous deportations.

However, not as much light has been shed on Trump’s foreign policy which is in response to an international system that is shifting before us.

Such shifts in perceived global threats and the position of the United States then begs the question of the world’s most prominent military alliance: NATO — and what its future entails, if there should be any.

Read the rest at the link in our bio!

By Enaya Bokhari | News Editor
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The emergence of AI chatbots, notably Chat GPT, has brought forth various debates on the legitimacy of this tool in the space of academia. 

First launched in late 2022, Chat GPT has a generally notorious reputation in academic spaces as it has only made cheating much more accessible and easier. Don’t get it twisted, the concerns AI presents to students are very real and valid. 

But how far do these concerns stretch to where the very essence of using AI at all is erroneously demonized?

Read the rest at the link in our bio!

By Enaya Bokhari | News Editor

The emergence of AI chatbots, notably Chat GPT, has brought forth various debates on the legitimacy of this tool in the space of academia.

First launched in late 2022, Chat GPT has a generally notorious reputation in academic spaces as it has only made cheating much more accessible and easier. Don’t get it twisted, the concerns AI presents to students are very real and valid.

But how far do these concerns stretch to where the very essence of using AI at all is erroneously demonized?

Read the rest at the link in our bio!

By Enaya Bokhari | News Editor
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Theater teacher Diego De La Espriella and senior Ben Demase speak on Demase's original musical, "The Gunslinger."

See the rest of the video and article by Ash Woerner at the link in our bio

Theater teacher Diego De La Espriella and senior Ben Demase speak on Demase`s original musical, "The Gunslinger."

See the rest of the video and article by Ash Woerner at the link in our bio
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The description of the senior CAS project is simple: develop a plan for an activity that allows for creativity, activity and community service. Nearly every senior chooses to do a CAS project, many seeing it as a simple way to get out of school early without doing all that much work. 

For Ben Demase, however, his CAS project is a chance to make Valley history by writing, composing and directing his own original musical, “The Gunslinger.”

Read the rest at the link in our bio!

By Ash Woerner | Editor

The description of the senior CAS project is simple: develop a plan for an activity that allows for creativity, activity and community service. Nearly every senior chooses to do a CAS project, many seeing it as a simple way to get out of school early without doing all that much work.

For Ben Demase, however, his CAS project is a chance to make Valley history by writing, composing and directing his own original musical, “The Gunslinger.”

Read the rest at the link in our bio!

By Ash Woerner | Editor
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