The truth about New Year’s resolutions
Audreanna Dunton, Assistant Business Manager
February 12, 2020
New Year’s resolutions are a long lasting tradition among many people, but are they truly effective? New Year’s resolutions can really motivate people to kickstart their goals and dreams. However, if people don’t follow through with them month after month, they are pretty useless. New Year...
Presentation educates students on climate change preceding UN Summit
Eli Reynolds, Graphics Editor
October 16, 2019
“Scientific evidence for warming of the atmosphere is indisputable,”
Loy Norrix Journalists Take Big Steps at MIPA 2019
May 18, 2019
Each year, the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association holds a ceremony awarding various Michigan school publications and student journalists’ hard work and unique content they’ve published throughout the previous year. At the 2019 MIPA awards ceremony, there were a total of 4,112 entries submitted ...
Calculus is About Change
Noah Bond
December 21, 2018
Calculus, while it is generally an easy class to complain about, is also one of the most useful classes later in life. The work is long and hard, the problems are tedious and it doesn’t seem to have any real life application. In what situation will the typical high school student need to know the ...
Social Media Will Shape the Next Generation of Politicians
November 14, 2018
As of June 2018, Statista reports over 1 billion Instagram users worldwide, a staggering one seventh of the world’s population. However, that figure pales to the 2.23 billion active Facebook accounts recorded over the same time span. These statistics reveal what has been imminent ever since the initial rise of Faceb...
Augmented Reality: The Future of Technology
Gavin Rutherford
October 9, 2018
Nowadays, most Americans own cell phones. We can use them to text, call, look things up, play games and we’re still developing new capabilities. So, what if we could make these everyday activities even more streamlined? With the release of the iPhone X, Apple has introduced the ability to use aug...
Advanced Art Prepares Students for Their Future
makennasandt
May 24, 2016
As the days pass and get closer and closer to the deadline, AP Studio Art Portfolio students feel the stress of finishing their artworks. They start at the beginning of the year on their portfolios that they will submit in May. The artwork they submit will determine if they receive college credit ...
What will Norrix be like in 50 years?
kristinfuller
May 20, 2015
Opening in 1960, Loy Norrix High School has had 55 years of history. It’s seen building renovations, fashion fads, and technology updates among many other changes. However, what will Loy Norrix be like 50 years from now?In the past, the school has been dubbed the "Glass Castle", there has been tro...
America Is Not The Most Perfect Country In The World
luisjuarez8
December 3, 2014
The United States of America is the greatest country some may argue. America over the past 238 years has gone through a lot, beginning from the Revolutionary War, to more recent times such as 9/11. From 1945, Post-World War II, to 1988, fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a time when America competed agai...
Innovative Grant Brings 3D Printing to Loy Norrix
jillianko
May 20, 2014
“This is the future of manufacturing,” physics teacher Trevor Stefanick said of the newest technology to breach the walls of Loy Norrix. The industrial robot to which he referred is a 3D Printer, the Makerbot Replicator 2. 3D printing is the process of creating any three-dimensional object from a...
