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The Student News Site of The Kinkaid School

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Students smile after chatting with Friedman and Lubin.

Filmmakers Sam Friedman and Jake Lubin visit the Motion Picture Club

Elliott Crantz, Assistant Sports Editor February 16, 2022

 The Motion Picture Club had a virtual meeting with Sam Friedman and Jake Lubin, creators of the short film “The Kiss Script”, on Feb. 9. Held in the library on Zoom, members of the Motion Picture...

Holthouse and Butler pose with their creation.

Sophomores design prosthetic arm over interim term

Cooper Buck, Photo Editor February 7, 2022

Many students spend their interim term learning gardening, 3-D printing, or about public art. However, sophomores Hudson Holthouse and Blake Butler spent their time on something else. Over interim term,...

Apple iPhone X on office desk with icons of social media applications on screen.

Social media-savvy senior celebrates peers’ college decisions

Trace St. Julian, News Editor February 2, 2022

Senior Bryan Akin always has people sliding into his direct messages on Instagram.  And no, despite his tall, athletic, six-foot stature, those DMs are not going to his personal Instagram account;...

Harper Paddock, junior, enjoys vanilla ice cream in "Fast Food"

Fast food fanatics have ‘power’ of choice

Isabelle King and Stella Hall, Contributors January 21, 2022

“French fries from McDonald’s are fake,” said Johnny Griggs, a junior in the “Fast Food” class. “They’re not real fries. It’s like chemicals.” McDonald’s is arguably most notable...

Rob Satcher, freshman. and Jack Denechaud, sophomore, show off their distilled scene to the whole class.

Theatre classes raises curtain on writing process

Madison Marshall, Contributor January 21, 2022

All of a sudden, the only thing that filled the room was a booming pop sound that disrupted not only the quiet environment that was needed for the script-writing portion of class but also started the rowdiness...

Students count their scavenger hunt items in Fiesta Mart to determine the winner.

‘¡Buen provecho!’ is what students waited to hear during field trip

Bridget Gray and Sika Hounfodji, Contributors January 21, 2022

“¡Buen provecho!” Ms. Vanessa Zamudio said to her students before digging into Mi Pueblito’s authentic Colombian food. “Buen provecho” is Spanish for “enjoy your food.” Students ate traditional...

Blakely Brown, sophomore, focuses on the setting in front of her and draws the environment she sees.

Students learn benefits of creating art in nature

Lindsey Karkowsky and Natalie Josephson, Contributors January 21, 2022

“A lot of the world focuses too much on how many details there are, but it doesn’t talk about how it interconnects,” said Dr. Adam Capitano. Upper School chemistry teacher.  Dr. Capitano’s...

Juniors Chanee Woo and Alice Ma counting out syllables for a haiku they have to write for their class.

‘Freaks and Geeks’ turns lives of teens inside out

Cami Culbertson and Shelby Haskett January 21, 2022

Dr. Jenny Howell enjoys watching “trashy” shows.  “I turn my hobby, which is watching sometimes trashy television, into a class,” Howell said.  She brought her hobby into a class named...

Students in “Booky Fun” dive into the creative world of making children’s books.

‘Booky fun’ sparks teens’ childhood imagination

Allison Whitman, Contributor January 21, 2022

“The Man on the Moon” written by Alice Ma, a junior, is about the journey of a girl who loves the sky. One day she looks up and sees the man on the moon, and she wants to go visit him.  Ma wrote...

Juniors Nick Bhasin and Alexander Farahbod and sophomore Cole Hartung position units on the game board for Diplomacy.

Betrayal creates enemies in ‘Diplomacy’

David Liu, Contributor January 21, 2022

“Betrayal is the best part of the game,” said junior Alexander Farahbod.  Diplomacy, a game where players play as countries in 20th century Europe and fight for dominance of Europe, is a game full...

Freshmen Elijah Lemon and Alex Torres Holloway watch a clip from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."

Harry Potter books provoke questions about ‘fat phobia’

Sika Hounfodji and Bridget Gray, Contributors January 21, 2022

The sound of students from Ms. Brittany Cousins’ classroom could be heard as they discussed fat phobia by describing multiple overweight characters in Harry Potter books and how their author J.K. Rowling...

Ms. Mary Anne Webber, education director at the Houston Audubon,  shows a barred owl to students in the class, "Birds of a Feather."

Topics fly in class focused on birds

David Liu, Alexander Miles and Ian Overman, Contributors January 21, 2022

One might never expect a bird known for its aggressiveness to be near campus, even less inside classrooms.  But, in the interim course “Birds of Feather,” students made up-close observations of...

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