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Students, Work Based Learning Coordinator discuss benefits of unorthodox jobs

Evelyn Foster • September 25, 2023

Junior Vivian Vreeman spends her Saturday mornings surrounded by birds, snakes and African tortoises. It’s been this way since June, when she first got her job as a junior naturalist at Cool Creek Park...

Q&A with freshman Franklin Vrtis, board game design, business

Jasmine Zhang • April 29, 2023

Freshman Franklin Vrtis created "Roundabouts," a board game based on the City of Carmel. Here is his story. What made you want to design a board game based on Carmel roundabouts? We moved here from...

Q&A: Principal Tim Phares on polytechnic courses, new pathways to graduation

Archit Kalra and Chenyao Liu • November 11, 2022

What are polytechnic, or Career Technical Education (CTE), courses? You're gonna hear the term polytechnic, Career Technical Education. All those things have to do with when the state changed graduation...

CHS students, career coach evaluate career decisions based on a variety of factors

Alivia Romaniuk • August 12, 2021

A few years ago, junior Lars Medlin attended a Dungeons & Dragons (DnD) convention. At the convention, he had the chance to meet and talk to lots of different people, including an aerospace engineer...

Proposed bill to create paid-internship programs, impact new graduation pathways requirement

Natalie Khamis • January 24, 2019

The Indiana General Assembly convened for its first session on Jan. 3 to discuss the enactment of new Senate and House of Representatives legislature for this year. During one of these sessions, Jeff...

Students should make themselves more employable by trying new things

perspectives • May 18, 2012

Since the recession began in late 2007, we have been peppered with phrases like “real-estate equity losses” and “sub-prime loan rates.” However, only recently have these “grown-up” phrases...