While many of us are stuck at home scrolling through Tik Tok or watching reruns of our favorite television shows, there is a strong contingent of students who are creating meaning through a range of projects, organizations, and initiatives despite being quarantined. These pioneering individuals are pursuing their passions, responding to community problems COVID-19 has exposed, and finding ways to stay connected despite the social divide.
Read MoreHundreds of businesses have been closed across Oregon in recent weeks, but grocery stores, convenience outlets and supermarkets have remained open, deemed “essential businesses” by the CDC.
Read MoreCraig Engels is a rock star. Not the kind that plays the electric guitar and has records go platinum, but the athletic variety. When he arrives at a track meet, crowds gather, often wearing t-shirts bearing his visage or, occasionally, sporting a fake mullet, one of Engels’ characteristic hair looks. In a sport lacking the media attention of its counterparts, Engels has emerged as an ambassador for everything that makes running special.
Read MoreThis month, for the fifth time in the span of just 10 months, Republican lawmakers packed up their offices and headed out of town. The Oregon State legislature was not in a recess and the Rebpulican lawmakers were not leaving for a planned vacation.
Read MoreIn a typical week, Stephen Gomez rides past the red steel gridirons of the Broadway Bridge 16 times, pedalling back and forth over the bridge’s multi-use path. Gomez, an avid bike rider of 20 years, enjoys the freedom of travelling on two wheels, and the countless health benefits that come with it.
Read MoreMost Catlin Gabel School (CGS) Upper School students can recite the graduation requirements backwards and forwards - a minimum of 18 total academic credits, with four years of English, three years of social studies, three years of the same foreign language, three years of science, two years of health, and two semesters of Lifetime Fitness (with a possibility for exemption based on participation in after-school sports).
Read MoreWinterim is back once more, but the program returns with a new name, a new focus, and a new schedule. This year’s immersives pilot program will be twice as long, situated across the waning weeks of the academic year, and feature offerings never before seen on (or off) the grounds of Catlin Gabel School (CGS).
Read MoreToeing the line at Catlin Gabel’s sole home cross country meet on a rainy Friday afternoon, senior Lila Fenner’s mind was elsewhere. In her final year of high school cross country, the responsibility as team co-captain is ever-present for Fenner and co-captain Will Leonard.
Read MoreCindy Murray doesn’t shy away from failure. In fact, she sees it as a critical part of the Catlin Gabel (CGS) experience. “When high school students struggle, they gain resilience and grit,” Murray says.
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