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The Falcon

The Student News Site of The Kinkaid School

The Falcon

The Student News Site of The Kinkaid School

The Falcon

Senior Kaveen Shah tries mint chutney, a tangy sauce usually eaten as a side with appetizers.

Falcons celebrate Diwali with lavish feast

Shaivi Moparthi, Staff Writer November 15, 2023

The aroma of delicious spices, melodies of Bollywood pop music and excited chatter filled the entrance to the Temporary Upper School as students, teachers and parents waited to try an array of traditional...

Sophomore Fife Famurewa (right) hands out care packages in the village of Ourika, which was affected by the earthquake in Morocco.

Sophomore serves Morocco earthquake victims

Emerson Heath, Enterprise Editor October 16, 2023

It’s uncommon for many teenagers to choose to spend their school break serving a country struck by disaster, but sophomore Fife Famurewa did. A high-magnitude earthquake struck the villages surrounding...

Kinkaid alumnus Mr. Canaan Estes (right) with his friends in Israel; he was in a Young Judaea gap year program.

Alum caught in conflict in Israel

Eshaan Mani, Editor-in-Chief October 11, 2023

When Kinkaid alumnus Mr. Canaan Estes, ‘23, flew to Jerusalem, Israel, for his gap year before college, he didn’t expect to be escaping a warzone some months later. Mr. Estes had been participating...

The World Schools Debate team composed of seniors Wills Leighton, Kaveen Shah and Catherine Moursund, as well as junior Caroline Pielop, at a tournament in Dallas.

Debate season starts with success

Alex Cai, Staff Writer September 27, 2023

The Kinkaid debate team continued its success at the Grapevine Classic, which awards bids to the prestigious Tournament of Champions.  Located just outside Dallas, the Grapevine Classic, which is in...

Freshman Lucas Cohen wears a lanyard in order to display his falcon card.

New policy requires displaying Falcon ID

Isabel Cooper, Staff Writer September 12, 2023

Most of the rules Mr. Josh Ramey, dean of students, addressed during the assembly on the first day of school  were not surprising to Upper School students: no chewing gum, no wearing airpods in the hallways...

Head of School Jonathan Eades stops to snap a fun photo of Mrs. Erica Baker, Coordinator of Student Life and Engagement at Club Fair.

Belonging week kicks off with a bang

Eva Humble, Photo Editor September 8, 2023

Music pumped through the speakers as Upper School students excitedly moved from booth to booth, filling the quad.  Monday, Aug. 28 marked the beginning of a new Kinkaid back-to-school tradition: Belonging...

With the Houston skyline draped behind them, seniors Wills Leighton and Ladin Strauss, sophomores Caroline Kubitza, Grace Essalih, Caroline Letzerich, Lindsey Morgan commemorate their time at Hines, a Houston-based real estate firm. They were among the first class of student to go through Kinkaid’s new summer internship program developed by Kinkaid’s Alumni Board Committee.

First summer interns make program official

Cami Culbertson, Multimedia Producer September 8, 2023

Kinkaid students and alumni connected through internships that guided Falcons toward their desired careers this past summer.  For senior Camron Baldwin, that meant interning with Vinson & Elkins...

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