Hi, my name is Scout Crooke, and I’m a senior at SSFS. This is my third year on Newspaper and I enjoy writing about topics related to life and science. In addition to being a Staff Writer, I am an editor for the Wildezine.
Whether it was the fact that we only had one “snow day” this year or that December and January averaged a temperature of about 43℉ and ranged from below freezing to as high as 70℉, people have...
In September of 2019, Sandy Spring Friends School’s International Business Internship Program (IBIP) team of seven upper school students began their business partnership with the Leadership Initiatives...
During this school year, the Lower, Middle, and Upper school will be collecting used up/dried up markers in collection boxes located throughout the entire school campus.
Last year, Apple sold about 15 million AirPods. Airpods are very common in our community and are still gaining popularity. These small devices that cost about $150 use Bluetooth radiation so that no cord...
Scout Crooke, Staff Writer and STEM Editor April 25, 2019
Are we alone in the universe? Is planet Earth alone in terms of hosting life? Could there be some other form of life? Are there other Earth-like planets out there? What type of planet star system enables...
These days, capitalist society has taken materialism to the max. With the plethora of stores all around, people are bound to buy all sorts of things. Just take Black Friday. Shopping mania occurs in malls...
Take a moment and picture yourself and how you are just one person sitting or standing wherever you are now. Then picture the people around you in the room who are also just ordinary people who you are...
Every year, about 1.5 million adoptable, healthy cats and dogs are euthanized because the shelter they are in is either too full or there are not enough people adopting them. Of that 1.5 million, about...
Marine parks like Seaworld are part of a billion-dollar industry that keeps marine mammals, such as dolphins, seals and orcas, in cruel conditions. These animals are kept in small tanks where they suffer...
If a student spends four years at SSFS and spend $10 at the Beestro each week, they will spend $1,440 before they graduate. Spending a small amount of money at the Beestro, even once a week, adds up in...
“You can't take any one hurricane and say ‘Oh, this is climate change.’ But, when you are looking at a trend... it's hard not to understand what is happening."
