Your last chance to buy the Career Transition Class’s (CTC’s) famous chocolate was Wednesday, May 21st. CTC partnered with Leadership to sell chocolates at the Spring Carnival, an event that celebrated the end of the year with games and activities. HF’s senior class president, Max Vaughan, said that he loves the CTC chocolate! 

Fashion Design and Illustration is an art class where students work on designing and making clothing. In the class, students learn how to make bags, shirts, pants, and dresses using a sewing machine.

Have you ever wanted to get a head start of your career? At Wilson Tech, students get a head start on their future by learning skills that employers need! Juniors and seniors in the 21 school districts in the townships of Babylon, Smithtown and Huntington, Lindenhurst, Amityville, and Farmingdale can attend Wilson Tech.

High school is hard, and some people think it’s harder than it should be. Many students constantly try their hardest to get the best grades possible, but it is not enough.

Our peers in the Harborfields High School Music Program have earned recognition for their musical talents and top scores. Thirteen students were chosen for the New York State Council of Administrators of Music Education (NYSCAME) All-County ensembles!

The remaining 16,000 students are semifinalists, and among them are Harborfields High School seniors Francis DeGregorio, Alexander Meagher, and Andrew Walden.

College tuition has been increasing over the past years and is becoming unbelievably costly and highly unaffordable for many. Many students have to take out student loans, in which they have to pay for years after they graduate. Many also fear that they will be unable to pay off their loans and go into debt because of it. These two factors have been pushing many students away from going to college.

Filming and video editing generally aren’t things you associate with health. And yet, that’s exactly what Mrs. Hallaran’s 10th-grade class spent over two weeks working on recently. The end goal? Compile a bunch of videos and eventually present them to the middle school.

Are you able to speak more than one language and want to do something with that? 

Look into getting the Seal of Biliteracy. The only qualifications you need to qualify is to know how to read and write proficiently in a second language and apply for the Seal.

Every year U.S. News comes out with rankings of Universities.  Private schools that have billions of dollars were generally at the top of the rankings and public schools were always towards the bottom.  But this year, it was quite the opposite. 

For those unaware, ChatGPT is an Artificial Intelligence that responds to prompts given by humans.  Many students across the country have used this program to write their papers for them while teachers and administrators have to try harder to discern what is and what is not plagiarized work.

We humans create so much waste and dump it back into the environment when we are done, which can be seen by our oceans. The World of 8 Billion video project focuses on educating students, teachers, etc on new over- arching topics each year. For this video, waste consumption and production was the topic, and the main focus was ocean awareness. I was assigned this video project for Advanced Science Research. 

I had always looked forward to being a high school senior. To feel at the top of the world and to actually enjoy my last year as a kid. However, the Corona Virus Pandemic had different plans in mind for the classes of 2020 and 2021.

Many people have different experiences when it comes to studying with music. Some say it helps them instantly and they then have better grades and remember topics better. While others say that music makes them more distracted and they find it harder to focus on their work. Many people believe that studying with music can help them to remember topics and important notes. This can be because they will be able to remember what part of the song they were listening to when they were studying.

This is the first video in a series that was created to assist parents that may have general questions with virtual learning topics. This video, and other resources are also available on the Curriculum page of the district website (Harborfieldscsd.net) under the Power Empowerment Program (PEP).

Created by: Katie Hudson, Jess Volpe, Casey McGrath and Bonnie Cheskes

Many high school students are having trouble this year when it comes to applying to college. Although some people may think we must be having a pretty “easy year” with everything going on, it seems to be the opposite. Applying to college this year is one of the hardest parts with everything going on.

Wondering how to visit prospective colleges in light of Covid-restrictions on campuses? Graciela Carrero-Sagona shows you how to take a virtual tour starting here!

For the entirety of their high school career, seniors have been working relentlessly to keep their grades up in order to get into the college of their dreams. But once seniors start to get their letters of acceptance, we start to see a trend where grades plummet. This phenomenon is known as Senioritis. We know that Senioritis is a decline in seniors grades and motivation, while most seniors get senioritis after they start getting accepted into college. What we still don't know and what many seniors would like to find out, is how to cure Senioritis.