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Assistant Editor Sarah Barney
TRAVEL OUTSIDE YOUR TOWN With a grin on her face, Shelby Zeigler 11 adventures along the rocky coast just off of the scenic Route 1 State Highway in California. Zeigler and her family had climbed down to the water after parking and noticing an optimal location to explore the shore.
Stockbridge High School is one of those schools: Existing in a little farming village with students coming from even smaller towns nearby, it is not exactly a well-known school. A large amount of kids go hunting with their families, and there are always multiple students wearing camouflage clothes. A typical ride into school includes passing corn or soy fields, not to mention the corn field just across the road from the school’s front doors. The student parking lot is dominated by trucks, most tainted with dirt and mud. However, the students that bring life into these white brick walls are much more than just what some may call hicks. The seniors scored the highest ACT scores ever for a Stockbridge High School class. This came unexpected from the 2016 class who had generally secured a reputation as troublemakers amongst teachers. “The senior class had small groups of people that ruined it for everyone else,”
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Corey Baird FA said. “Sometimes, people talk about a class and put everyone in it under the same umbrella. If you say something enough, people start to believe it. I don’t think the seniors are a bad class; they just had a few people ruining it and now those students are either gone or matured, and the class has done better as a whole.” Perhaps more unexpected is the booming underwater robotics program. Coming from the humble origins of testing robots in a watering trough, the class has since diversified into two teams. The first team, called the Palau team, travels to the Pacific island of Palau and attempts to recover MIA airplanes. The second team, referred to as the InvenTeam, works using the money from the Lemelson-MIT grant. “When people find out where we’re from and what we’re doing, they’re shocked,” Poppy Cox 11 said. “The InvenTeam has been working on a remote underwater camera
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