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Standing Together

Standing Together

Laxumi Chandrakumar February 20, 2024



Students, teacher, food bank CEO address importance of community involvement, volunteering

Students, teacher, food bank CEO address importance of community involvement, volunteering

Isaac Hsu May 11, 2023

Clubs at this school can come and go, but some desire to have lasting effects within the community. Julia Dong, Key Club co-president and senior, said she believes in the value of giving back to the community...

Students, Director of Transportation evaluate environmental benefits, disadvantages of electric vehicles

Students, Director of Transportation evaluate environmental benefits, disadvantages of electric vehicles

Avery Carlisle May 2, 2023

Junior Akul Chinthala’s family is part of the small number of American families to own an electric vehicle, specifically a Tesla Model 3. He said his family decided to purchase the vehicle partially...

Ashlyn Walker, co-executive director of Confront the Climate Crisis and junior,
speaks during a climate rally at the Indiana Statehouse. Walker said, “I think climate change is a bipartisan issue...It affects everyone in the world.”

New climate education requirements may draw more students to consider their environmental impact, engaging in advocacy

Chenyao Liu March 6, 2023

Last year, senior Elise Varhan had a choice to make. As an IB student, she needed to complete a science credit. Instead of going with the traditional branches of science, she decided to take an environmental...

Elsa Barron,
community
organizer
with Hoosier
Interfaith Power
and Light (HIPL)
and Christian,
speaks at a
climate rally
in the Indiana
Statehouse.
Barron said,
“The good
work that is
happening
through things
like creation
care is still good
work, and it is
important to
continue it.”

Students, activist are inspired by religion to improve environment, engage in activism

Sumedha Kota and Claire He May 19, 2022

Senior Luca Kim, who identifies as a Christian, said she believes there exists an important intersection between Christ and the environment. According to Kim, faith has helped her connect with the Earth.  “Church...

Sophomore Sara Standish picks up a tree sapling. Green Action Club (GAC) was giving out tree saplings as a part of city councilor Miles Nelson's 10,000 Trees in Carmel Campaign.

Members of Green Action Club address ever-changing environment, climate change

Maryam Hafeez May 17, 2022

Junior Gracie Belt, one of the co-President’s of Green Action Club (GAC), considers herself an environmental activist. “I’m one of the founding members of Green Action Club,” Belt said.”We...

With the conclusion of Carmel Clay Public Library’s Art-ivism for World Needs event, take a look at students past Art-ivism works

With the conclusion of Carmel Clay Public Library’s Art-ivism for World Needs event, take a look at students past Art-ivism works

Dariush Khurram January 18, 2022

Katie Blackthorn, Young Adult Department at Carmel Clay Public Library Could you describe the Art-ivism event? Every year, Students Rebuild will issue a challenge. All of them are typically art-based...

Seen But Not Heard: Age should not define the credibility of activists

Seen But Not Heard: Age should not define the credibility of activists

Josie Cruzan October 24, 2019

More and more often, young people are actively involved in the political conversation of the United States. While young people have been actively involved in politics since Joan of Arc, teenage leadership...

Fired Up: In light of Amazon Rainforest fires, Carmel community circumvents bystander effect to have impact on global issues

Fired Up: In light of Amazon Rainforest fires, Carmel community circumvents bystander effect to have impact on global issues

Grace Xu and Sam Hawkins September 20, 2019

In the psychology realm, there’s an intriguing phenomenon dubbed the “bystander effect,” in which the presence of more bystanders around an incident causes fewer people to actually help. Now, imagine...

Carmel students address climate change; think globally, act locally

Avery Thorpe May 3, 2019

According to The National Climate Change Assessment, “Over the last 50 years, much of the United States. has seen increases in prolonged periods of excessively elevated temperatures, heavy downpours,...

A Greener Tomorrow: Earth Day creates student activism  in climage change, ways to help the Earth

A Greener Tomorrow: Earth Day creates student activism in climage change, ways to help the Earth

Kassandra Darnell, Maddie Kosc, and Angela Qian April 19, 2019

On march 15, senior evan Kenyon spent his afternoon listening to speeches from students all over Indiana and participating in chants about climate change while marching around downtown Indianapolis. The...

The Best Entertainment Events of the Year: Read the opinions of Entertainment Reporters Lily McAndrews and Ashwin Prasad

The Best Entertainment Events of the Year: Read the opinions of Entertainment Reporters Lily McAndrews and Ashwin Prasad

Lily McAndrews, Ashwin Prasad December 13, 2018

The impact of Black Panther—Lily McAndrews The best Entertainment event of the year was the release of Black Panther, the best movie 2018 had to offer. From the movie’s production, direction and...

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