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After a successful townhall meeting on Dec. 8, student leaders and faculty discuss the plan for the next one. The next townhall they plan on doing will be in partnership with BCC and their SGA to form a better relationship between the schools.

Student-organized townhall addresses allyship

Summer Laird, Layout and Design Editor
January 14, 2022
Students work on an assignment using a Chromebook. Students in MCPS participated in exclusively virtual learning for most of the 2020-2021 school year.

MCPS Enrollment Drop Highlights Expanded Opportunity Gap

Maeve Sanford-Kelly, Managing Editor
January 6, 2022
Internships are a good way for students to develop their skills and engage with the community around them. Many take the opportunity to learn more about what they are passionate about.

Students navigate internships

Tissa Amaira, Senior Feature Editor
January 6, 2022
Many students at WJ express unhealthy connections to celebrities. These manifest in a variety of ways, from obsessive factual knowledge to heavy accumulation of celebrity memorabilia.

Students are unhealthily obsessed with celebrities

Annabella Opipari, Online A&E Editor
December 31, 2021
Participants in the Study Circles Program reconvene to move into deeper conversations about race and equity. The work is heavy and draining at times, but the students are what make the efforts worthwhile. The WJ students were unique in their ability to think critically and deeply; their ability to form connections with each other in such a short span of time, and the coalition and friendship that took place, program facilitator Darwin Wong said.

Study Circles Program returns to WJ with bigger plans

Nour Faragallah, Online Managing Editor
December 22, 2021
The National Honors society is considered to be the most popular and prestigious among other high school honor societies. But when you look behind the mission and vision statements, you start seeing them as aimless organizations.

Honor societies are pointless

Nour Faragallah, Online Managing Editor
December 20, 2021
Nachtrieb heads down the hatch of a submarine on summer training.

WJ Grads in the Military

Caeden Babcock, Print Editor-in-Chief
December 20, 2021
Senior Grant Mateo shows off his interests, from stunts to cosplay, in his Wild Card college application video. Mateos pursuit of an Acting major was largely inspired by his love of action movies.

Student artists apply to specialized college programs

Sophia Meytin, Staff Writer
December 20, 2021
Definition of Leadership: Party decorators or leaders?

Definition of Leadership: Party decorators or leaders?

Nishi Tripathi, Special to The Pitch
December 17, 2021
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