Hernandez and Stevens Win Woodgrove Idol
Written by Katherin Gomez
April 22, 2019
Filed under Student News
In pursuit of the title of Woodgrove Idol, 11 students performed in the annual vocal competition held on March 21 in Dentime. Brendon Hernandez and James Stevens took home the grand prize, a microphone-shaped trophy. The duet performed a song by country artist, John Denver, “Take Me Home, Country...
Woodgrove’s Top 5%
Written by Dominique Cruz and Cora McQuaid
February 13, 2019
Filed under Student News, Top Stories
Twenty members of Woodgrove senior class were honored in December as part of the county’s excellence in Education Banquet, which recognized the top five percent in each senior class throughout the county. In 1983, Al Sowards, LCPS’s gifted program manager, first recognized the academic achievers in the ba...
LCPS Faces Security Concerns
Written by Connor Grahamn, Kylee Harrell & Lorallye Partlow
December 20, 2018
Filed under Local News, Student News, Top Stories
Sam Hermens, a LCPS itinerant specialized facilitator for reading who works for Loudoun County, was caught taking pictures up the skirts of female students. A Woodgrove staff member noticed the unusual behavior of Hermens, whom he originally perceived to be a student, and immediately escorted him to...
Cheating Epidemic Spreads Across LCPS
Written by Meghan Dunster, Rebecca Faletti, Maryam Khan
December 20, 2018
Filed under Student News, Top Stories
Some might call it an open secret. To others, it is an epidemic. To a few, however, it may be what their academic career depends on, for better or for worse. No matter what you call it, cheating is a very real fact of life at every level of education, and it cannot go ignored. The recent advent of photo...
Curbing Teen Suicide in Loudoun County
Written by Chris Tuttle
June 2, 2017
Filed under Features, Local News, Top Stories
On October 15th, 2014, the pressure of life became too much for Woodgrove High School student Ryan Bartel. The teenager who had loved history and military strategy ever since he had received an encyclopedia as a young boy, wrote a note to his parents and told them that he couldn't "perform and operate...
Forever Onward
Written by Jenn Glazebrook, Brittany Nelson, and Lorallye Partlow
May 22, 2017
Filed under Local News, News, Top Stories
Mr. Bob McMillen, earth science and astronomy teacher at Woodgrove, passed away on March 28, 2017. Students and staff were shocked at the sudden loss of a man who was loved by so many. McMillen graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Science Education from California University of Pennsylvania, and...
Puneet Kaur Awarded $20,000 College Scholarship as Part of the Sixth Annual Foot Locker Scholar Athletes Program
Written by Foot Locker Scholar Athletes Press Release
May 1, 2017
Filed under News, Top Stories
Puneet Kaur, from Round Hill, VA, has been awarded $20,000 as one of 20 exceptional young student-athletes honored in the Foot Locker Scholar Athletes Program. For the sixth consecutive year, Foot Locker Foundation, Inc. is recognizing students who demonstrate academic excellence and exemplify strong...
Dominion’s Beloved Principal Brewer Returns to School after Lengthy Suspension
Written by Chris Tuttle
April 25, 2017
Filed under News
Dr. John Brewer, principal of Dominion High School has been out on leave since December 2016 following an investigation that he wrote a letter of recommendation for a former band director who was found guilty of inappropriate behavior with a student in Florida. Dr. Brewer was terminated from his position...
Woodgrove SCA Ends School Year with Flurry of Activities
Written by Lauren Markowski
April 24, 2017
Filed under Student News
The Student Council Association has had a busy school year, and they show no signs of slowing down. The SCA just finished helping the Global Ambassadors Club with the foreign exchange program, held multiple fundraisers for St. Jude's Hospital, and they are currently in the midst of election season. The...
Preparation for a Perfect Prom: PromWishes
Written by Kailyn Noble
April 21, 2017
Filed under Features
The Junior Woman’s Club of Loudoun will be giving away free prom dresses, shoes, and jewelry on April 1 at the Teen Center Rust Library in an event called PromWishes in order to provide high schoolers cheap options for prom. Until March 25, they accepted donations at multiple locations in the Leesb...
Foreign Exchange Students Visit Woodgrove
Written by Maryam Khan
April 21, 2017
Filed under News
The Global Ambassadors Club recently hosted 33 foreign exchange students from China, Hungary, Panama, Poland, and South Africa for ten days for an international summit. Students came to not only experience America, but educate Woodgrove students about their respective countries. The students arrived...
Woodgrove Presents “Beauty and the Beast”
Written by Rachel Tapia
April 21, 2017
Filed under News, Top Stories
The Woodgrove High School Theatre department will be presenting “Beauty and the Beast” on April 21, 22, 28, 29 at 7 PM and on April 22 and 29 at 2 PM. Woodgrove High School will also host a “Tea with Belle” at 12:30-1:15 on April 22. The Tea with Belle will have a $15 fee which includes a mati...
Dolce and Ciabatta sandwich
Theater Director David Noland.
Photo by Rebecca Faletti
Bottom left (clockwise): Katerina Niemann, Georgia Orfanides, Emily Reeps, Jenna Kennedy, Everly Soyka, and Julia Condie in their rendition of the “Cell Block Tango.”
Photo by Rebecca Faletti
The Titans pick at the 2016 NFL Draft in Chicago, Illinois.
Photo used with permission from Creative Commons
A display of a several popular colleges in Woodgrove's Career Center.
Photo by Logan Johnson
Nathan Hammond, founder of e-hallpass, demonstrating the app.
Photo by Rachel Schneeberg
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