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May
21
2024
Connections from Hours Away

Connections from Hours Away

MS Corner
Since January, the students of Ms. Ripples' journalism class has been writing to students in Ukraine. Sounds crazy, right? While there are frequent air raids, they will write to us in bomb shelters. And we will make new connections, and learn what life is like across an ocean.  “I’ve learned to have a lot of sympathy for our friends. It makes us realize how lucky we have it,”  King said. When they have shared information about the war, they talk about how it is always scary during air raids. Even one of the student’s dad is 3-D printing missiles to…
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May
21
2024
Not So Foreign-Foreigners

Not So Foreign-Foreigners

MS Corner
In a war torn and foreign country, you’d expect everything to be different, but some things in Ukraine are more similar to here than you’d think.  Federal Hocking’s MS Journalism class has been writing back and forth with students in Kyiv, which is Ukraine’s capitol.  “This experience has been really eye-opening,”  Sebastian, who is a pen-pal of Maksym and Andrey, said.   Beginning in January 2024, Ms. Ripple’s MS Journalism class began writing back and forth with an English class in the Lycée Français Anne de Kiev, a French language school in Kyiv. Students have exchanged both written and typed letters,…
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Apr
26
2024
Helldivers 2 Review

Helldivers 2 Review

Reviews, Tech & Gaming
Helldivers 2 released on February 8th of this year and it’s already becoming one of the most popular live service games out there because of its gameplay, graphics and co-op play. The gameplay is fun and always keeps it thrilling during the entire mission. You can land with 3 extra helldivers that can be your friends or strangers over the internet. You can go across the galaxy, you can go east to fight termites(bugs) or you can go west to fight the automatons (robots). Each side is very different which needs different strategies to win. Once you land on a…
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Apr
24
2024
Call of Duty Mobile Arrives!

Call of Duty Mobile Arrives!

Tech & Gaming
Call of Duty mobile is finally coming out on March 21st of this year COD (Call of Duty) Mobile has been in the works for years now and we finally got a launch trailer that revealed a lot of new features. Cross-progression  You can upgrade your gun on the phone and it will transfer over on MW3 and MW2 the game will tell you if the gun will transfer. This also includes paid bundles, XP and stats but it doesn't count for COD Points for some reason. So when away from home you can upgrade or change something on your…
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Apr
23
2024
EPIC: The Review

EPIC: The Review

Reviews
EPIC: The Musical, the story of a man on a quest to get back home. Through the sea, a cave, and an impenetrable storm, Odesseus must travel to return home to his son, Telemachus, and his wife, Penelope, In the first three saga’s of EPIC. These sagas are "The Troy Saga", "The Cyclopes Saga", and the newest saga, "The Ocean Saga". The 4th saga “The Circe Saga” Is set to release on February, 14th, 2024. Over the three released saga’s there are 13 songs running 44 minutes and 43 seconds.  Not all of the saga’s from EPIC have been released…
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Apr
22
2024
PlayStation Accessibility Controller

PlayStation Accessibility Controller

Tech & Gaming
The disabled can now play PlayStation with their new controller with PlayStation accessibility controller. This controller can help people who couldn't play because of the difficulty playing with a standard controller..   With the P.A.C. (PlayStation Accessibility Controller) two of them can be connected with a dual sense controller to the PS5. It is highly customizable for people with different disabilities. You can have four different accessories that can be plugged into the controller for even more ease for the user. You can change the buttons/joystick on the controller. You can also adjust the joystick forward and backwards. The P.A.C. has…
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Apr
19
2024
Fallout: The TV Show

Fallout: The TV Show

Culture & Tech
The Fallout TV show trailer has been released. If you don't know what Fallout is, it's a game series set in a post nuclear war in places like Boston, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C, West Virginia, Nevada, and Southern California. The TV show is set in 2296 after nukes were dropped on America and is trying to get more people that don't play videogames to get into the Fallout series. The first game was released in1997 by Tim Cain, and later by Todd Howard  who said the “1980s role-playing video games Wizardry and Ultima III: Exodus” were inspirations for his future games.…
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