Tech updates needed within this technological age
By Ohio Meshanko, Promotions Manager
November 6, 2019
In recent years, many MCPS classrooms have been completely overhauled to accommodate a modern learning and teaching experience. The widespread adoption of Promethean boards and chromebooks, specifically, have allowed for lessons to be planned and organized faster and cleaner than with markers or ch...
Students to access WiFi next year
By Julia Heimlich, Circulation Manager
February 28, 2013
Students across Montgomery County will finally have free access to a wireless connection on any personal device in schools beginning in the 2013-2014 school year, thanks to an MCPS Board of Education vote this past September. This type of technology will offer a wider digital curriculum and enhance teach...
Gym-Pact app motivates users to hit the gym
By Allie Curwin, Staff Writer
May 1, 2012
If the up-and-coming bathing suit season isn’t enough motivation to hit the gym, the new Gym-Pact app may be able to help. Using money as an incentive for working out, Gym-Pact offers a creative and effective way to help users get in shape. Users commit to working out a set number of days per week, agreeing...
iBooks take weight off students’ shoulders, literally
By By Nicole Weltmann, Staff Writer
February 24, 2012
Four binders, four journals and two textbooks are what sophomore Erik Roberts carries each day in his backpack, each adding up to a large amount of weight being carried each day back and forth from class to class. According to a July 2009 New York Times article, the average weight of a middle-school...
CHS gets new computers
By Online Opinions Editor, Emilie Plesset
September 8, 2011
With every new school year come changes and this year CHS students discovered new flat screen computer monitors in place of the old CRT monitors and an upgrade to the computer program Windows 7. According to Media Services Technician Scott Selman, MCPS schools receives new technology every four yea...
Wi-Fi, new computers welcomed at CHS
By Lauren Price
Sonia Shekar
Staff Writers
March 22, 2011
Looking at the ceiling recently, students may have noticed new little white boxes with green lights on the ceilings. They’re not smoke alarms, but rather one of 50 Cisco Wi-Fi Hotspots that were recently installed as a part of “Tech-Mod,” a renewal of CHS’s technology in order to meet educational...
Food trucks serve up cheap, delicious treats
By By Jane Zankman, Staff Writer
March 21, 2011
Listening for the faint jingle of the ice-cream truck has become a thing of the past. Restaurants on wheels, otherwise known as food trucks, offer tasty and exotic food at a low cost. Hungry people can receive text messages from Twitter and Facebook directing them to where they can enjoy deep-dish pizzas,...
The ‘Look at Me’ Generation
By By Andrea Mirviss, Editor-in-Chief
June 3, 2010
A typical teenager girl turns on her computer, signs on to Facebook and updates her status with what she did that day and what she will do for the rest of the day. She may spend the next hour or two flipping through her friends’ Facebook pages, and she will probably check the top of the screen constantly...
The ‘Look at Me’ generation
By Andrea Mirviss, Editor-in-Chief
May 28, 2010
A typical teenager girl turns on her computer, signs on to Facebook and updates her status with what she did that day and what she will do for the rest of the day. She may spend the next hour or two flipping through her friends’ Facebook pages, and she will probably check the top of the screen constantly...
3D technology could have unwanted side effects
By Dina Khatib
Online Observations Editor
March 22, 2010
Ever since 3D technology was first developed in the movie industry, filmgoers have flocked to select theaters, museums and entertainment venues showing movies and digital shorts using this revolutionary technology. With the increasing popularity of 3D movies in the past devade, this craze will only...