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New Coach, Same Goals: Cross country coaches and athletes discuss the legacy of old head coach and plans with… This seventh consecutive state championship, as well as a fourth-place finish in the 2016 Nike Cross Nationals, Mark Ellington of the women’s cross country team will not be returning this upcoming season as Head Coach, citing family reasons to retire…
A New Legacy: Principal Tom Harmas discusses CHS culture, plans as incoming principal Q: Why did you agree to become the principal of CHS? A: I think anytime that you look at everything that is Carmel High School from the outside, you think what a great school with students who come ready to…
Waking Up is Hard to Do In recent years, more and more researchers have published studies supporting the stance that high schools should indeed start later. The focal point of these studies is the idea that teenagers just aren’t getting enough sleep. According to a recent…
The Future of Jobs: In an increasingly automated future, what will we do if robots take our jobs? On a bright and sunny day, senior Alexa Dow works at Juice Bar, a local smoothie and juice hub. As customers file in to enjoy a freshly-made green smoothie, Dow takes and makes numerous orders for them. The help she…
Speak Freely. Americans should be respectful of those who speak languages other than English. For months now, my Facebook and Twitter timelines have filled with horrifying videos of immigrants being berated by Americans for speaking their own languages. In grocery stores. In parks. In restaurants. This phenomenon has spread almost everywhere. “Speak English, you’re…
Q&A: Assistant Principal Joe Schaller discusses upcoming eclipse, CHS participation in viewing. Who gets the privilege to watch the solar eclipse? The people who have their parents do a permission form, so any student who has gotten a permission form turned in or by the end of today will be able to…

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LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE: Kenley Williams, Drawing 3-4 student and junior, lays the foundation for her most recent piece during class on Tuesday, Sept. 3. The drawing students had recently been assigned black and white drawings using colored pencils, requiring a variety of blending and shading techniques. Williams, as well as many other students, utilized a gothic subject for her piece in order to work with a variety of shadows.
Maddie Kosc
QUEEN OF HEARTS: Junior Maylee O’Brien plays a round of tongues in her shortened Pre-Calculus class on Sept. 27. O’Brien said that the Green Day schedule is her favorite part of homecoming and she looks forward to it every year.
Shruthi Ravichandran
EXAM PREP: Gabriel Marshal, senior and IB English student, prepares for her summative "Paper 2" assessment as year 2 IB English students prepare for the IB exam in the spring. Marshal says " IB English is definitely harder this year than last year, we have to write this super long essay about contrasts in poetry." With IB English students' "Paper 2" underway, Mrs. Rhodes will be hosting evening sessions for students to practice an IB "Paper 2" in the coming weeks- look out for those dates!
Lily McAndrews
MORNING WAITING: Junior Kehan Wang waits outside the media center in the morning on Oct. 2. Wang said she usually waits outside the library in the morning.
Calina He
AMBIDEXTROUS ARTISTRY: Sophomore Ali Strzynski uses both of her hands to draw the human manifestation of envy during Drawing 3 on Oct. 15. Strzynski said shading was the hardest part of the drawing process, but drawing with two hands helped expedite the process.
Ray Mo
HOT COFFEE: Senior Lilly Gallagher buys a hot coffee from the Carmel Cafe and Market as senior Kamryn Kichefski takes her order. The Carmel Cafe and Market employees each have specific work times during and after school.
Victoria Nopporn
SPREADS FOR SENIORS: Bryan Nguyen, Senior Ads Editor and senior, edits a spread for the yearbook during B4 on Oct. 17. Nguyen said that senior ads are due on Dec. 6. Nguyen also said although he has a few ads right now, he will be swamped with more ads closer to the deadline due to most students submitting the form near the due date.
Richa Louis
HONORS READS: Sophomore and Honors English 10 student Molly Crosby reads her assigned reading book for quarter 2 on October 21. This is the second assigned book for the school year. Crosby says that so far she loves her class and is glad she chose to take Honors English even though she is not enjoying this book so far.
Olivia McKee
LEARNING THROUGH LANDSCAPES: Sophomore Marianne Cadio works on her chalk pastel landscape in Drawing 3 on October 22, 2019. The purpose of the piece was to get a feel for chalk pastel, a relatively new medium to most students, before creating their final project. “I’m creating a city street from Tokyo,” Cadio explained. “I chose this place because it has a lot of memories attached to it.”
Chloe Sun
DISCUSSION STARTERS: Senior Adam Meroueh considers the questions from boxes that the Let's Talk Club left throughout the library on Oct. 29. Meroueh was reading about the death penalty and thinking about his stance on the issues.
Calina He
SERIOUS SAWING: Jewelry student and sophomore Kendall Frobig cuts her design out of metal with a saw frame in the jewelry classroom on Oct. 28. The jewelry piece is for the Culture of Care week project, where students create a piece to give to someone who inspires them. Frobig said, “My take away from this class is that there are so many ways you can be creative, I never thought I’d be working with metal and creating wearable pieces, but here I am.”
Veronica Teeter
TMP in SRT: Juinors and AP Seminar students, Eli Kurlander (left) and Cate Jacobson (right) rehearse their team multimedia presentation (TMP) during late start SRT on Oct. 30. Kurlander and Jacobson worked alongside two other group members in order to answer the following question: to what extent do dairy farms affect the quality of life in California?
Maddie Kosc
SPECTACULAR SENIORS: Flutist and senior Jaehee Kim and oboist and senior Alyssa Smith warm up during SRT on Nov. 1. Kim and Smith rehearsed for Holiday Spectacular 2019: "Senses of the Season" that will take place on Dec. 4 to 8.
Richa Louis
DANCING THE DAY AWAY: Junior Savannah Kahn dances with friends during the rave held by Mr. Andrews in the E halls to celebrate Homecoming on Sept 27. Kahn said “being able to party with friends and seeing CHS come together for Homecoming always make this day fun.”
Veronica Teeter
OUT OF THIS WORLD: Juniors Eric Lee and Emma Domke show off their school spirit on space themed day of homecoming week, on Sept. 25. On Wednesday of 2019 CHS homecoming week, each class had a different dress-up theme that related to their theme for playhouse building, which took place later that day. Lee, president of the junior class, helped lead playhouse building along with selling Chick-Fil-A earlier that morning for the class competition.
Maddie Kosc
THE EARTH IS DYING: Junior William Van Horn annotates an article about climate change and prepares to debate about it in AP Seminar on Sept. 4. Van Horn says that so far he really enjoys AP Seminar and prefers it to any of the other English classes he has taken so far.
Shruthi Ravichandran
EGG-CELLENT CHEF: Carmel High School Culinary student and senior Abby Vernon whisks an egg while cooking on Sep 6 in the CHS culinary classroom. Vernon said she loves being able to learn something that she knows she will need in the future with teachers who help her understand mistakes.
Veronica Teeter
RADIO FOOTBALL: Senior Jace Dery works on his football radio show on Sept. 9. Dery was on his release period to put in extra work for his show.
Calina He
SURVEY DURING SRT: Vidhur Bynagari, calculus survey student and senior, sits with calculus survey teacher Matthew Wernke during SRT on Sept. 10. Bynagari said that he asked Wernke for help in order to review for his calculus survey test on Friday.
Richa Louis
INTERVIEW PREPPING: Senior Robert Sanchez prepares the radio set up for interviews. Sanchez tells how college representatives are coming to Carmel High School and are speaking to him for interviews about the colleges. He plans to make a series with the all the interviews as a way to get the word out about what they have to offer.
Thea Bertolini
KEY SPEECH: Sophomore Nicole Sale gives her officer speech for Key Club in the Freshman Cafeteria during late start on Sept. 18. Sale competed against two other sophomores for a position as Key Club class officer. Key Club’s next meeting will be on Oct. 9 in Media Classrooms 1 & 2.
Ray Mo
SENIOR SMILES: Senior Ruby Sanders shares a funny story on her phone with her friends during her release period on Sept. 19. Senior schedule requires students to take four fully weighted classes in order to be eligible.
Victoria Nopporn
FUELING UP: Paige Zurcher, sophomore and member of Carmel Swim Club, drinks her chocolate milk while she eats breakfast after morning swim practice on Tuesday Sept. 17. That morning she had completed a leg focused workout in the CHS weight room. Zurcher said chocolate milk is an excellent source of protein for after practice recovery and she drinks it daily to keep healthy.
Olivia McKee
COMPLEX CIRCUITRY: Seniors Alana Tragesser and Deetya Iyer tinker with their circuit board during their Digital Electronics class on September 16. The circuits were designed to output a signal (a light) every set number of milliseconds. Tragesser said that in the class “they’re learning how to program circuits and [to know] which wires go where.”
Angela Chen
TOURIST TIME: Senior Amanda Durham participates in Tourist Day, which is part of the annual school spirit week leading up to Homecoming. “It’s my last year at CHS, so why not go all out?” she said.
Chloe Sun
SPILL THE BEANS: Senior Gabbi Pinegar works at the Carmel Cafe & Market during lunch on October 9. The cafe is run by Carmel DECA and operates during school days from 7:00 to 2:15. Pinegar said, “I like that it gives a real world experience of what it would be like to work at an actual coffee shop, but it’s located here so it’s more relaxed.”
Angela Chen
PIANO PRACTICE: Sophomore Caleb Beik improvises a small tune while warming up for a concert practice on October 3. Beik states, “I’ve been playing piano since I was three years old, it’s something that comes natural to me at this point. I love being able to express myself with music”. Beik explains when he has free time during class periods he practices his skills during them.
Thea Bertolini
GENES, GENES, GENES: Junior Lauren Lee takes self-guided notes from an online stimulation from which she learns about the proper way to cut genes in order to create vaccines in her Medical Interventions class on Oct. 31. The class will then use this information to help them in a lab the following class.
Shruthi Ravichandran

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