All day on February 23, participating restaurants in Iowa City, Coralville and North Liberty will donate 10% of sales (excluding alcohol sales) to the Iowa City Community School District. Last year, the Foundation awarded over $77,000 in Excellence Fund grants to support programs such as School of the Wild, iPads [...]
This past Saturday, February 19th, the Interact clubs from both City and West High came together to host the annual ‘Dance for Humanity.’ Here’s a slideshow of photographs from the event. Photos by Eli Shepherd for The Little Hawk.
New regulations started at a national level have started to engage kids at a local front. This new rule stipulates that the amount of fruits and green vegetables available to children and teenagers across the country will be increased in cafeterias, while the amount of salt and fat will be [...]
Velma DELLA NUNO Roxie ALEX PEREZ Billy RYAN SHELLADY Amos GRANT FORSYTHE Mama MIRIAM THOE Mary Sunshine DAVID MAIZE Fred Casely SAM RAHM
MORP, a backwards prom, is coming to City High School at the end of the month. It is a “Sadie Hawkins Dance” of sorts, meaning that girls are encouraged to ask guys. The dance was coordinated by Sophie Neems with Student Senate. In addition the dance is set to kick [...]
The morning of Saturday, January 28th, City High’s Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Band I traveled to Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School for the Iowa High School Music Association’s annual state jazz contest. “We put forth our best effort and were rewarded for doing so,” Ryan Arp, director of the Jazz [...]
Large Group Speech is coming home. Well, metaphorically at least. The annual home show performance for City High’s Large Group Speech team is to be tonight, Friday January 27th, at 7:00 pm in Optsad Auditorium. “It’s a really diverse group of actors, a lot of people are new,” Alexandra Perez [...]
A few months ago, City High Senior Rachel Fehr had an idea. She felt that not everyone in the community understood City High for what it truly is, so she set out to make a video that provides a glimpse into the world that is “The School That Leads.” Below [...]
As part of City High’s renewed effort to add AP classes to its curriculum, AP Computer Science will be offered next year in place of the original Computer Science course, and, according to the to-be teacher of the course Danelle Knoche, should be a big improvement over the latter. “The [...]
A grant is in the works that could approve City High to buy two class sets of iPads, or around 40 individual units. If approved students could see them in the classroom as early as next year. “The idea of students carrying seven textbooks would be gone. There would be [...]
Friday, January 13th, Congressman Dave Loebsack gave insights into politics and his life. “Some of the questions were tought, but he did what he could in a professional manner,” Max Friedman, A.P. Government student, said. In the City High Little Theater a versatile group of students ranging from Economics to [...]
For The Red Avocado, the citizen protests at the City Council meeting on January 10th could have a lasting impact upon the future of their business. The City Council will hold an additional meeting following their normal convention, to discuss the topic of The Red Avocado’s scheduled demolition later this [...]
By Cassie Wassink and Renata Stewart During her years at City High, junior Erin Danielson has involved herself in a wide range of activities, from sports to music to volunteer groups and, despite some challenges along the way, she has thrown herself wholeheartedly into each and every one. “Being busy [...]
This Saturday the City High Math Club will be competing in Iowa Falls. Boris Perkhoukov ‘13 has been an avid math club participant since his freshman year. “The season has been going pretty well,” Perkhoukov said. “My freshman year we were really good and got to regionals but we lost [...]
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