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The Student News Site of The Kinkaid School

The Falcon

The Student News Site of The Kinkaid School

The Falcon

Dynamo makes an incredible playoff run

Dynamo makes an incredible playoff run

Ayush Krishnamoorti December 14, 2017

After dismantling Sporting Kansas FC and upsetting the Portland Timbers, the Dynamo’s loss to the Seattle Sounders was a disappointing ending to an amazing playoff run. The Dynamo started off the season...

From the other side of a 66-year-old rivalry

From the other side of a 66-year-old rivalry

Olivia Marrus November 9, 2017

Car doors slam as fans dressed in varying shades of purple and gold or red and black make their way across opposite sides of the parking lot. The smell of grilling hamburgers from the Falcon Family Feast...

Senior Artists Showcase Talents One Last Time in Annual Senioritis Exhibition

Senior Artists Showcase Talents One Last Time in Annual Senioritis Exhibition

Sterling Elias May 13, 2017

[dropcap]R[/dropcap]arely can students, faculty, parents, and other members of the Kinkaid community be on the sandy beach beside Galveston’s Pleasure Pier in one instant and in the middle of a Korean...

Michelle Gielan to Deliver Commencement Address

Michelle Gielan to Deliver Commencement Address

Kirk Hachigian May 13, 2017

[dropcap]M[/dropcap]ichelle Gielan, a national news anchor that has become a positive psychology researcher, will give the keynote address during this year’s Commencement Exercises on Friday, May 19...

Thirty-Seven Kinkaid students tell the story of their 596 peers

Thirty-Seven Kinkaid students tell the story of their 596 peers

Ali Ammons May 10, 2017

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he 2017 Kinkaidian yearbook will be distributed to the Upper School after the Honor Day assembly on May 16. Traditionally given out at the individual grades’ End of the Year (EOY)...

Gold Triumphs in 255-253 Victory

Gold Triumphs in 255-253 Victory

Sarah Kate Padon April 21, 2017

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n Thursday, April 20, the Gold Team won the 92nd Field Day, continuing their two win streak. Gold snagged the win with the seniors pulling through in the tug-of-war. Although the win...

Smoothie King Franchisee: Care and efficiency keep customers coming back

Smoothie King Franchisee: Care and efficiency keep customers coming back

Ella Morgan March 6, 2017

Now more than ever, it seems there just aren’t enough hours in the day to just stop and talk to others. We go through our days rushing to the next location, buying our to-go meals without stopping to...

Wells Fellow program invites noted political commentator

Wells Fellow program invites noted political commentator

Ella Morgan March 6, 2017

The first speaker in the 2017 Wells Fellow series, Mr. James Carville, spoke in a special assembly on Monday, Feb. 27. Mr. Carville, fittingly known as the “Rajin’ Cajun,” is an American political...

Diving Team Resurrected by Two New Freshmen

Diving Team Resurrected by Two New Freshmen

Marley Orange December 9, 2016

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]reshmen Kate Riley and Eliana Estes will be the first students to form the Kinkaid diving team since 2013, when the program ended, because there were no more participants. The swimming...

Open Gradebook Pilot to Roll Out in Spring Semester

Open Gradebook Pilot to Roll Out in Spring Semester

Kirk Hachigian December 8, 2016

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n Friday, Dec. 2, Head of Upper School Peter Behr unveiled plans for an open gradebook pilot starting the 2017 spring semester for ninth and tenth grade level courses. What this means...

Starbucks Lets America Down...Again

Starbucks Lets America Down…Again

Ella Morgan December 6, 2016

[dropcap]B[/dropcap]REAKING NEWS: Starbucks has officially released another coffee cup that is even more offensive than last years! Due to the backlash they received for their “Holiday Red Cups” last...

Stills from William Gage’s fall film, “Snaggletooth.” William Miner (11) as Quas, and Grace Manes (11) as Izzy.

Lights, Camera, Action!

Hana Keleta December 5, 2016

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s the director shoots the camera with his back hunched to get the perfect focus, on the other side of the camera are the actors playing their role as an ill patient in the hospital....

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