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Melissa Settle, Best Buddies Club officer and senior, chats with her friend during lunch. This year is Settle’s fourth year in the club, and she said the SRT Christmas caroling has been a well-liked event in previous years.

Best Buddies to carol during SRT

Riya Chinni December 3, 2018

To celebrate the holiday season, the Best Buddies Club will be caroling during SRT on Dec. 7 as well as doing a “gift-back” with the Kendra Scott store at The Fashion Mall at Keystone. For the fundraiser,...

Best Buddies club sponsor Christine Ellis and Halle Throgmorton, vice president and senior, discuss the Best Buddies article in the HiLite. Throgmorton, who said she loves all of the club’s events, said, “Getting to know everyone, just the whole family atmosphere, getting together, always makes my weeks and months.

Best Buddies reveals details about upcoming Halloween party

Riya Chinni November 1, 2018

The Best Buddies Club will host a Halloween party tomorrow, Oct. 31 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Main Cafeteria as their last event for October. The party will have several activities so that the Best Buddies members...

Club officer and senior Melissa Settle works on homework during SRT. She said she’s excited to see how all the buddies will interact with each other as the year goes on, and especially to see them together at the Halloween party.

Best Buddies to host Halloween party, attend other clubs’ Halloween celebrations

Riya Chinni October 18, 2018

The Best Buddies club plans to host a Halloween themed party for its club members on Oct. 31 after school since the holiday falls on a school day this year. The club also plans to collectively participate...

Best Buddies club members Anne Schuh, Sky Simpson, Molly Shaffer and Melissa Settle chat after the second call-out meeting. The club had two call-out meetings for this year, with in total over 150 students attending.

Best Buddies to host Match Party for club members, has three new sponsors

Riya Chinni September 4, 2018

The first event for the Best Buddies club this school year will be a “match party” for its members on Sept. 6 where the buddies will meet their peers for the year for the first time, after match interviews...

The New Top Dog: New Superintendent Michael Beresford discusses upcoming background, plans as superintendent

The New Top Dog: New Superintendent Michael Beresford discusses upcoming background, plans as superintendent

Riya Chinni, Veronica Teeter August 14, 2018

Why did you decide to step into the position of superintendent? I was at a point in my career where I’ve had a lot of experience and I just felt that it was time to go ahead and move out of the assistant...

Sophomore Jiwon Yu

May 18, 2018
Artist and sophomore Jiwon Yu uses colored pencils to work on her Frida Kahlo portrait. Yu said she added her own twist to the portrait in order to personalize it.
Sophomore Natalie Wells

Sophomore Natalie Wells

May 18, 2018
Artist and sophomore Natalie Wells colors in final touches with white chalk on one of her pieces. Wells said she tries to redraw pictures and express what she’s feeling at the moment.
Junior Jacob Freedman

Junior Jacob Freedman

May 18, 2018
Artist and junior Jacob Freedman displays his semi-realistic piece that he said depicts a monster and a human. Freedman said he was trying to demonstrate different emotions through the facial expressions of each figure in the painting.
Equal Weight: At end of year, CHS administration  should reconsider regular weight of Precalculus

Equal Weight: At end of year, CHS administration should reconsider regular weight of Precalculus

Riya Chinni May 18, 2018

Walking into precalculus, Iwas prepared for a challenging year. However, I did not expect such a shift in mathematical thinking. I knew what I signed up for when I chose regular precalculus—a difficult...

Senior Eli Lucas stands in front of a colorful angel wing mural in the freshman center. He said being accepted as transgender was very uplifting. A YouTuber himself, Lucas said watching other transgender YouTubers gives him an “If he can do it, so can I” attitude.

Transparency: As Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31 approaches, CHS student shares his insight about the environment for transgender students at Carmel

Riya Chinni March 23, 2018
March 31 marks international transgender Day of Visibility— a day established in 2009 as a way to celebrate transgender people and to raise awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide.
Anne Schuh, Best Buddies club president and senior, fills out a worksheet for one of the buddies’s speech classes. Schuh said, “It’s March— Disability Awareness Month so just getting the message of Best Buddies and inclusion, just spreading that message same as last year.”

Best Buddies to host St. Patrick’s Day party during SRT

Riya Chinni March 12, 2018

The Best Buddies club plans to host a St. Patrick’s Day party on March 19 during SRT where the club will serve food and host games for the club members to enjoy. Anne Schuh, Best Buddies club president...

Zoe Koniaris (third from right), CHS Action Together Club co-president and sophomore, participates in the Jan. 21 Women’s March.

The Future Is Female

Da-Hyun Hong and Riya Chinni February 23, 2018

Bryn Walker, vice president of CHS Democrats Club and senior, said she strongly believes in equality for all; however, although she said she thinks society has made progress in addressing discrimination,...

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