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The Student News Site of The Kinkaid School

The Falcon

The Student News Site of The Kinkaid School

The Falcon

Student art is featured in the coves downstairs in the Student Life building

Transformations art exhibit brings art students together

Eliza Griggs, Opinion Editor September 19, 2019

The transformations art exhibit, which can be found downstairs in the Student Life Building, is a project involving the lower, middle, and upper school art students. The sign in front of the exhibit...

Makeshift engineers in the Student Center

Makeshift engineers in the Student Center

Ayush Krishnamoorti, News Editor September 18, 2019

It's lunch on Tuesday, Sept. 17 and the Student Center is crowded as usual. Seniors crowd around the dark green ping pong table, watching an intense match between No. 1 ranked Corbin Kinder and unranked...

Black-and-white prints developed by students in photography pile up after coming out a dryer. Students developed the prints in the school's darkroom.

Photos in dark come to light

Charlie Sole, Staff writer September 11, 2019

Entering the darkroom in photography classroom in the Student Life Building, visitors must get into a 360-degree rotating door that is only open on one side so the room remains dark.  Once in the darkroom,...

Photo by Camila Vicens

Class bonds over first day activities

Sally Buck August 22, 2019

Senior Sally Buck grabbed the hot seat of the journalism classroom -- the couch. Sitting next to fellow seniors, Madi Babine and Maggie Johnston, she pitched a story idea for The Falcon student newspaper.

The Man Behind the Camera

The Man Behind the Camera

Jordan Jafarnia November 12, 2018

Whether on the sidelines, in a balcony, or behind the curtains, if something is going on at Kinkaid it’s almost a guarantee that Mr. David Shutts will be there, hiding behind his camera lens capturing...

Image courtesy of Huffpost.

Politics in the classroom

Emma Stout November 11, 2018

In a seemingly polarized nation, education can be a tool for young voters to develop moral codes. By Emma Stout and Olivia Marrus.  Let’s face it. We live in a completely polarized, partisan nation....

house-race

The 2018 Midterm Elections: Can Democrats win in red Texas?

Megha Neelapu November 8, 2018

“Sometimes you can get there with consensus and compromise, but sometimes you have to fight for it,” said Ms. Lizzie Fletcher, when she talked to Kinkaid students in February 2018. And Ms. Fletcher...

Dr. Trusty takes role as interim headmaster

Dr. Trusty takes role as interim headmaster

Sarah Kate Padon November 8, 2018

Strolling down the hallway, smiling and waving at every person who passes by, Dr. Ed Trusty, the Interim Headmaster at Kinkaid for the 2018-19 school year, is a friendly face to all as he continues to...

A year after Harvey

Madi Babine and Sally Buck September 28, 2018

Sitting up in bed as she rubbed the morning off her eyes, Sofia Escalona (11) knew something was wrong. She hopped out of bed and her feet hit water, not the cold wood floor she was used to. “Niñas,...

A student-led movement is changing how Americans address gun violence

A student-led movement is changing how Americans address gun violence

Megha Neelapu April 25, 2018

Young people have a history of being abused and killed. One third of homicide victims are between the ages of 15 and 24; more than two-thirds of women who suffer from intimate partner violence first experience...

Terrorism changes as tech advances

Terrorism changes as tech advances

Sally Buck April 25, 2018

Sitting around the dinner table with your family, you turn on the news and immediately hear the booming reporter’s voice: there has been yet another terrorist attack. Fear runs through your veins. When...

Public Transportation Underused

Public Transportation Underused

Ayush Krishnamoorti April 25, 2018

Kinkaid students rarely take advantage of extensive network of buses and rail It is rush hour on one of the busiest Houston streets, and the bus slows to a stop. One person gets on, two people get off....

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