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The Pony Express

The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

Young TikTok users express their concern over losing a platform that is used in their everyday lives. Society wonders what app people will respond to after getting this app taken away.

Students express opinions on phone ban, TikTok debate and school safety concerns

Rosie Druffner, Business Editor January 28, 2025

Kids today are constantly exposed to news through social media, but their views on big news stories like phone bans in schools, the Madison school shooting and the TikTok ban are shaped by how these issues...

Junior Wesley Voigt is using ChatGPT. Students all over the high school have been using ChatGPT.

AI takes over workplace

Colby Henjum, Business Editor January 27, 2025

With the use of AI on the rise, it has started taking jobs, but at the same time, AI is creating jobs. This has started discussions about how AI is used in the workplace. AI is starting to be used in...

Students are choosing pizza as their lunch option in the cafeteria. This is one of students favorites to pick as well as fast and easy. Pizza is a continuous item everyday.

Nutrition services hires new chef

Addy Howe, Business Editor January 25, 2025

Changes are coming to student meals. Nutrition Services hired a new chef to prepare school meals that are more appealing to students. New items will be brought in and tested with the hopes that more students...

Video Production teacher Debbie Drew sits in her office planning for her new English and Film class. She is starting the class with her English colleague Andrew Smith.

Debbie Drew, Andrew Smith create new English class

Bennet Lacska, Graphics Editor January 25, 2025

Next school year, English teacher Andrew Smith and video production teacher Debbie Drew will start a new English and Film class. The class will focus on modern literature and film studies and help seniors...

Concurrent enrollment provides students with new way to earn college credits

Concurrent enrollment provides students with new way to earn college credits

Jack Howell, Online Editor January 24, 2025

Next year, concurrent enrollment will expand at the high school to replace some of the AP courses. Concurrent enrollment is another pathway towards post secondary education, diverging from AP and PSEO...

Integration Coordinator Jacquelene Bayless and Caitlyn Willis Executive Director of Elementary Education present on the identity harm protocol to the school board on Dec. 17, 2024.  Before Bayless started sharing, there were several community members who tried to oppose this protocol.

District leader proposed new identity harm protocol

Andrew Linnell, Layout Editor January 24, 2025

Identity Harm Protocol is a protocol that is put in place to help protect students through out the district. This protocol is put in place to make students feel welcome and safe in all parts of the building....

Students in their AP US History class are working hard on their history work. They spend the whole class period trying to get every bit of work done. AP classes will no longer  have weighted grades fall for 2025

All college credit classes become unweighted in 2025

Layla Hill, Graphics Editor January 24, 2025

The state of Minnesota passed a new educational law that states that PSEO and AP classes have to have the same weight in GPA because they are both college credit classes. As of next school year, AP classes...

Sophomore Dustin Jurca puts his phone in the cell-phone caddy before class. The cell-phone caddy has been the high school's cellphone policy this year.

High school implements new cellphone policy

Caleb Gustafson, Photography Editor January 24, 2025

In May 2024, the Minnesota legislature passed a law requiring all school districts to adopt a cellphone policy by March 2025. While the deadline is in March, many schools across Minnesota implemented...

Environmental biology teacher Peter Stenross helps tree club members learn how to use the aquaponics table. This is one of the many things that the tree club does during their meetings.

New Tree Club helps clean and care for the environment

Mack Morrow, Photo Editor January 23, 2025

Juniors Bennett Balok and Rex Albiston started a new club called Tree Club. This new club's focus is caring for the environment and cleaning up around the Stillwater area. The club's advisor is environmental...

Junior Kylie McDermott does yoga with her mindful literacy peers. Mindful literacy students have yoga days every Friday, which means that once a week, they get to go to the wrestling gym for stretches and stress-relief.

Jill Rusignuolo creates a new mindful literacy class, exciting students

Elena Majeski, Layout Editor/Photographer November 25, 2024

Recently, Jill Rusignuolo, AP Language and Composition and English 11 teacher, has created a new Mindful Literacy class for students grades 10–12. The first batch of classes is starting this year. With...

This image shows the start of the school day at 7:40 a.m. This will change next year to 8:30 a.m. due to the new thoughts on how much sleep is needed for teens.

High school changes to an 8:30 a.m. start time next fall

Shaeffer Watson, Business Editor November 25, 2024

Studies show students need 8-10 hours of sleep to be better rested and take on a full school day, this can make teens be more prepared for their day. An 8:30 a.m. start time could be the difference between...

The 2024 yearbook, the Kabekonian, which won the Pictavo top 100 award. Seniors work collaboratively to get the yearbook put together and out to students before the year ends.

Kabekonian wins a top 100 award

Charlotte Hanson, Political Cartoonist November 25, 2024

The 2024 senior students have already graduated. Some are in college, studying and preparing for their future careers. But their efforts at the high school are still being recognized, because the 2024...

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