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By Gabby Fiorino Features Editor The girl on fire is back and ready to fight back even harder against those who forced her make choices no young woman should have to make. The Hunger Games series is returning with its third installment, a two part movie Mockingjay Part 1. This movie picks up where and…
By Tyler Conway Staff Writer Now that the school year is in full gear your academically ready for the tasks headed your way. However, are you ready for the plot twists thrown at you every Thursday night from the new ABC hit show How to get Away with Murder? That’s right murder, the word that…
By HaeMee Lee Editor-in-Chief Team Rocket is blasting off again! 24 students, known as Team Rocket, of Mrs. Contney’s Advanced Object-Oriented Design and Advanced Data Structures classes entered the Zero Robotics International Space Station (or ISS) Programming Challenge, an international high school competition run by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to Zero Robotics, “the goal…
By Seth Tow, Editor-in-Chief On November 13th, in less than ideal conditions for soccer, or really any sport, River Hill Boys Soccer completed their undefeated season in 2014, capturing the 3A state championship. With the win, the team’s final record for the year was 18-0-1. The Hawks defeated the Huntingtown Hurricanes 2-0 on a wet, frigid…
By HaeMee Lee Editor-in-Chief Chances are you’ve already heard of Alex from Target. Twitter feeds and news reports are thoroughly covering the topic of this mysterious boy known as Alex from Target. No, this is not Target’s attempt at a marketing strategy, though it could be one. Alex Laboeuf is a 16-year-old Target employee in…
By Carol Bello Features Editor & Alexa Marquis Staff Writer A significant request among most River Hill students during the 2014 Leadership Conference was adding a third Hawk Time to the weekly schedule. There were many great ideas brought up, but this was by far the most prominent. Students collaborated with teachers and collectively agreed…
By Tyler Conway Staff Writer & Gabby Fiorino Features Editor 180, 90, and 45 degrees are all angles that students thought they would only need to know in the classroom. However, with the rapid trend of the dance move “twerking” making its way to school dances and social events, Carroll County students must now reflect…
By Seth Tow Editor-in-Chief & Dylan Mitchell Staff Writer Recent revelations expanded on former University of North Carolina basketball player Rashad McCants’ allegations in June that academic advisors wrote his term papers at UNC. A self-report by the university revealed that over 3,000 students, including many student athletes, over an 18-year period took fake classes….
By Shereen Ashai, Kirsten Kruus & HaeMee Lee Ask any senior what they’re stressed about right now. Their immediate response will be college applications and essays. For the past months, they have been perfecting their essays to an exhaustive extent to enhance their applications. The prompts for these essays vary from personal experiences to college…
By Shereen Ashai, Kristen Kruus & HaeMee Lee Phablet – (n.) a smartphone that combines the features and functions of a phone with those of a tablet, like a large screen. A play on the words “phone” and “tablet,” phablets have been taking over the phone market, especially because the recently hyped iPhone 6 and…