Blog

Feb

15

2024

Foreign Summer

MS Corner

Summer is essential throughout any time of life, it’s where the memories are made. But could you imagine spending summer in a foreign country? For Guadalupe and Rayko Pustavrh, no imagination is needed. Guadalupe (15) and Rayko (13) Pustavrh are Argentine exchange students from Mendoza in Federal Hocking Middle and High School. You might be confused on the “summer” part, and that is because our winter is actually summer in Argentina, and so they are visiting us on their summer break. They’ve been coming to FH for four years now, after meeting the former FH superintendent and being persuaded to…

Jan

25

2024

Capstone Learning Experience – How It Improved My Skill Set

College & Career, Life-Long Learning

By Jaden W. The Federal Hocking Capstone Learning Experience (CLE), or formerly known as The Senior Project, is a large independent project that every Federal Hocking graduate must complete. The main purpose of the CLE (or at least from what I can gather) is to push a student to either improve upon something they love, or a chance to try something new, and to prove that a student is ready to go out into the real world outside of high school. As intimidating as it seems, the CLE is an opportunity to improve upon oneself, and to possibly find an…

Jan

17

2024

When Gamers Go Too Far

Tech & Gaming

War Thunder is a military online action game made by Gaijin entertainment located in Budapest, Hungary. This game has been in the spotlight on many gaming forums due - not the game, but its player base. Players are known for getting into heated arguments regarding nationality, political views, and balancing issues within the game (along with countless other topics). Due to these disagreements classified documents have been leaked to the public five times on the War thunder forums. The following are all examples of when a player starts to only think about being right, and not the consequences of their actions.…

Jan

08

2024

What Happened To Driver’s Education?

News

Drivers Education is a course that adolescent drivers may take in order to hone their skills behind the wheel. Many schools adopted the idea of Driver's Ed, But slowly they stopped offering this elective, why is that? First, a short history lesson. Driver's Ed was introduced in the year 1934 and was extremely successful. The main goal was to reduce accidents on the road. It taught teens how to drive safely, seeing as over 15,000 Americans had died in car accidents by the year 1920. The course would teach students how the car works, along with the rules of the…

Jan

05

2024

Thrift, Teach, Sleep, Repeat

MS Corner

Mikayla Rhodes is an intervention specialist at Federal Hocking Middle School. Rhodes originally wanted to be a physical therapist, but later changed her mind and started down the path for early childhood education. She is now getting her masters in educational leadership. She is inspired by people and that's what keeps her going. “I think people are such interesting creatures,” Rhodes said. Rhodes plans to stay in special education and doesn't plan on becoming a principal. She hopes to move to central Ohio as her boyfriend lives in Johnstown. An Intel plant is opening there and she feels it will…

Jan

04

2024

Days of the Week – Ranked

Reviews

Most people can agree that some days of the week are just better than others. Many days come and go without a second thought, but this list will tell you which days to look forward to. Note that this rating is based on a full 7 day week, with school Monday - Friday. Last place is occupied by Monday. Monday is by far the worst day of the week due to it being the first day after a weekend. Usually Monday is filled with work review and sometimes a quiz. The whole day is spent nearly falling asleep at your…

Jan

02

2024

Social Studies to Math

MS Corner

Lori McNabb is a math teacher at Federal Hocking Middle School in 7th grade. McNabb had worked at Belpre before and she started teaching social studies, but eventually went to teach math. Her old math teacher inspired her to become a teacher. McNabb was inspired because one of her teachers wouldn't move on from a subject until everyone knew what they were doing and understood it. McNabb loves her students, she thinks the kids are hard workers and cares about what they are doing and what they are learning. When she had her first interview to be a teacher for…

Dec

14

2023

First Year of Teaching

News

Carrie Towne is a 6th grade teacher at Federal Hocking Middle School. She likes helping people learn and grow as individuals. Her favorite music is pop. She has a 20 year old daughter and husband. She lives on a small farm in Meigs county. She has 11 cats, three dogs, a chicken and goat. Towne’s favorite food is Mexican and Chinese. One thing that inspires Towne is when people show good character. Towne’s pet peeves are disrespect and people who refuse to help themselves. She has travel ambitions. “I want to travel to the Grand Canyon for the last time.” …

Dec

12

2023

From 7th to 6th

MS Corner

Rebecca Castelino is a 6th grade teacher at Federal Hocking Middle School. Castelino teaches social studies. In past years of her career, she has taught science and math. She said she enjoys teaching social studies because it is a subject that is so in depth and interesting. Her favorite era in history is the Revolutionary war. In her spare time, she enjoys nice peaceful walks. This is because at home she lives with her mother and father and they constantly have errands for Castelino to run or some type of task. Her house is always full of noises and sounds…

Dec

08

2023

A Coach’s Dream

MS Corner

Chuck Robinson, the middle school health class teacher, absolutely loves his job. Robinson used to coach football, and enjoyed being a positive influence. “I helped them become their best selves.” Robinson adores working with kids and this influenced his career choice because he wanted to help others. Besides coaching, Robinson loves to play sports himself. In high school Robinson played football. And now Robinson gets to recruit his own football team because he is one of the FHHS football coaches. Robinson gets joy from a lot of things but mostly from “watching kids compete.”