The girls’ varsity basketball team's head coach, Derrick Hamilton, has announced his retirement after more than 32 years of coaching.  “It’s time, he said. One of my players is [senior] Ana Gent, and when I went and recruited her six years ago, I told her you might be the last player that I recruit and I might retire when you graduate.” Coach Hugh Bain has been chosen take over the program. “Sometimes you have to step away, and let others have their shot,” Hamilton said. “I want Coach Hugh to take this program into the future.”  Sophomore Chloe Garoust said she already...

Focus, the Brevard Public Schools grading system since 2018, will soon be expanding to include other aspects of management. During the summer, all systems currently relying on AS-400 — including attendance records — will become part of Focus, and Guidance Director Mike Drake said the switch will yield benefits. "Focus [is] a little more user-friendly and a little more with safe, flexible as the things you can do with it," he said. The transition to Focus will yield a more modern user interface in comparison to the current AS-400 user interface. "[AS-400] looks archaic," Drake said....

With college admission results beginning to come out, senior Maddie Eason worries about picking the college that is right for her.  “It’s definitely between UF and UCF,” Eason said. “I’m getting honors and scholarship money from UCF, but UF is ranked higher on national charts, especially for my major of biology on the premed track.” Sophomore Anjani Sharma fears she won’t get into a prestigious college or a college that will suit her interests. “After seeing the 2022 class college acceptance rates, I have been a little worried about the colleges that I will get accepted...

In the past year, Instagram has been accused of promoting numerous negative traits in teenagers. Recently the social media platform has made a change to their options that allows users to hide the number of likes they receive on a post. “I think this new option is better for the mental health of teenagers because it allows for people to take away the comparative aspect that is normalized on the platform,” sophomore Ava Dalessandro said. “Wondering why your post got less likes than another person's post or even one of your previous posts can cause some to question themselves and their appearance.”...

Using what they have learned in dynamics, the AP Physics students propel their constant cars with the power of a mousetrap.

When she was younger, Sophomore Anna Vittitoe loved to dance and would look for role models to further passion. One of the places she looked was social media. “As a dancer, I was taught that skinny and smaller bodies are the standard," she said. "The combination of this mindset with these beautiful bodies I was seeing on Instagram that were completely unattainable really impacted my mental health and caused even more insecurities." The widespread social media platform Instagram, which can be found on almost any teenager’s phone, has been under fire recently for promoting eating and mental...