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The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

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The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

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Stadium sustainability: MU combats waste at football games

Abby Kempf October 27, 2015

Seniors Emily Getzoff and Wendy Zhang pick up trash at a Roots and Shoots meeting outside of RBHS. photo by Devesh Kumar University of Missouri-Columbia football games are a hub of human activity, and...

infographic by Claire Simon, infographic information: Assistant Principal, Brian Gaub

Schools move toward a green future

Alice Yu May 11, 2015

By adopting energy efficient methods, educational institutions could very well save money and save the planet at the same time. Going green may cost schools an average of $3 more per square foot, but those...

Students show off achievements from internships at SIRS

Students show off achievements from internships at SIRS

Abby Kempf May 4, 2015

Last Friday, students from the EEE internship class showcased their hard work and research findings at an event called Student Internship and Research Showcase (SIRS). Held in the PAC lobby, SIRS covered...

Say goodbye to yesterday

Say goodbye to yesterday

Joy Park May 3, 2015

[heading size="15" margin="15"]Students explore the new role technology plays in the classroom[/heading] During the school day, the RBHS media center is a near constant jumble of students working on assignments...

Code could become mainstream

Code could become mainstream

Brett Stover April 17, 2015

Next year, southern Missouri’s nearest neighbor, Arkansas will become the first state to require public high schools to teach coding classes. President Barack Obama also recently went as far as to suggest...

Teens display trend of distracted driving

Teens display trend of distracted driving

Abby Kempf April 15, 2015

When learning something new, a person must pay close attention to what they are doing in order to develop skill; So it seems counter-intuitive for inexperienced teenagers drivers, to be pulling risky moves. Nevertheless,...

art by Ellie Stitzer

The two faced resource

Grace Vance April 7, 2015

Lack of sleep. Loss of focus. Isolation from family and friends. These are not symptoms of drug addiction. This is the price nearly one in 25 teenagers in high school may pay for excessive internet use,...

Many RBHS students spend time during the day on the social media site Instagram. Recently several specific hashtags have been banned. Photo by Mikaela Acton.

Is social media more important than money or power?

Layla Kheiralla March 28, 2015

Online reputation becomes increasingly valuable Tumblr has more than 221.7 million blogs and 102.7 billion posts; 200 billion tweets are sent on twitter a year. Facebook has 1.23 billion monthly active...

A recipe for the internet

A recipe for the internet

Rochita Ghosh March 27, 2015

Spark IFTTT announces new program IFTTT is a web based program in which users can put the internet to work for them. They can create short conditional statements, called recipes, which accomplish certain...

Wireless chargers: Separating you from the outlet

Wireless chargers: Separating you from the outlet

Elad Gov-Ari March 23, 2015

Within the age of technology, devices are limited by the length of their power chords. Phones, tablets and computers are all bound to the brutally short battery life and to the even shorter charging cable. With...

Turning on devices turns off relationships

Turning on devices turns off relationships

Caylea Ray March 15, 2015

Whether it’s a smartphone or a basic flip phone, text messages, social media updates and other calls from the social world are constantly competing for attention from cell phone users. With such easy...

The Science of Love

The Science of Love

Grace Vance March 14, 2015

[heading size="18" margin="10"]Explaining how sweat leads to relationships[/heading] It isn’t ideal to fall in love with someone who runs by on the trail, breathing heavily and sweating through their...

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