In the most recent edition of the Gavel, the People Issue, we covered a group of students that have come from different backgrounds all over the world to call Holmes home. These ESL students interviewed each other and wrote news stories about one another based on their lives before and after coming to America….Continue Reading People Issue: ESL Students share journeys to make Holmes their home
By Lizbeth Perez, Staff Writer It would just be a house if there was no family. Families can create an environment of comfort, unconditional love, a judgement free zone, and they can have more of an influence on a person’s life than anything else. For some, family is their source of motivation. Junior Ryan Schuessler…Continue Reading Making Moves: Vegan, chess-player, and advanced student, Schuessler fueled by big ideas
By Dezaray Villarreal Victoria prepares for her AVID class, as she pulls out her binder she thinks to herself, “Can I really get into college?”, “Will I be able to afford this?”, “How am I going to do this?”. These types of questions are ones that every student that aspires to go to college thinks and…Continue Reading AVID program shapes students for better futures
Her grandmother enters her room one night, tears falling down her face, as she tells her that her cousin passed away. In that moment, she couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She lays on her bed, in shock, thinking to herself, who could’ve done something so horrible to her cousin. For sophomore Amber Garcia, that…Continue Reading Garcia deals with grief over tragic family death
In between classes and at lunch, you might hear a conversation like this: “Dude, did you go to the football game last night? It was so intense!” “No, I went to this show and got to meet this cool band that performed.” Many students would rather go to a music show than a school event because…Continue Reading Local Venues provide off-campus activities for students into music
Holmes students went around campus and rated our school bathrooms from worst to best, and this is what they came up with. Top Five Worst Restrooms Lockerroom D-Building B-Building H-Building A-Building Top Five Best Restrooms Auditorium Nurse I-Building ROTC Cafeteria …Continue Reading Top Five Best and Worst Restrooms
AVID seniors work hard starting their freshman year toward the goal of getting into the university they’ve always wanted to attend. Over the weeks of this school year, these seniors have put in the time and effort doing things like completing college applications, rewriting essays, revising resumes and spending countless hours during the week before school, after school, during…Continue Reading AVID Students earn big bucks for college thanks to Yzaguirre and hard work
Many students may not know what goes into being a part of the Cyber Patriot team, and for some, they may not have even heard from the group. Regardless of what their peers know or don’t know, this year’s team is making history by advancing to nationals for the first time ever. Some people think that working with computers can’t be an…Continue Reading Cyber Team Advances to Nationals for First Time
When it comes to Husky football games, we have plenty of songs and chants to keep our games full of spirit. Gavel Online staff sat down and picked some of their favorites. Here are our top five Husky football game traditions: The band playing “Hey Baby” and singing along in the student section. Singing the Husky Fight Song…Continue Reading Top Five Football Game Traditions
As a staff, we have just wrapped up our social media challenge that tested our strength to stay away from social media for a entire week. These are our final thoughts, and reflections on the challenge that explain how we remained/lost the challenge, what we learned, what we did instead, and our possible future with…Continue Reading Social Media Challenge: The Outcome