International Night is the most popular nights of GSMST's school year. Every year, the students and faculty spend about three hours dressing up the ground and main level of the school with colorful banners and elaborate decorations of the seven continents of the world, while other preparations happen the cafeteria.
During this preparation period, parents come in with traditional dishes...
Picture this. You're 14 years old and starting your first day at the Gwinnett School of Math, Science and Technology (GSMST). You are no longer the big fish in a small pond. The high school looming before you seems like an ocean compared to your middle school. The seniors, who look more like giants than human beings, stomp through...
Rivalries are often characterized by animosity and tend to create separation within a community, but two local schools are actively changing this. Dacula High School and Mill Creek High School have established a way to use their intense hometown rivalry as a fuel for philanthropy through a good old-fashioned food fight.
Last year, the schools' student councils joined forces for...
On August 21 at about 2:35pm, the United States was in awe of a total solar eclipse. Everyone, no matter who they were, dropped everything to get a glimpse of the simple miracle of nature. In that moment, each person watching was just a tiny part of an infinite universe. We were together as one witnessing one of the...
In a country of increasing political tensions, it has become incredibly difficult for many citizens to be comfortable living in the only land they know. Torn by controversy, many Americans pray that the all-too-consistent terrorizing events cease to continue. Once a foreign act of hostility, these events now seem to be happening every other week. Charlottesville, the latest act...
Over the summer, Collins Hill High School created a new vision statement, which is “Growing leaders for tomorrow through scholarship, service, and spirit.”
Right now, the focus is on the new class of freshmen. Assistant principals Dr. Martin and Dr. Nichols are carrying out the school's vision statement by talking about leadership habits and attitudes leaders have and should follow...
Within the past decades, united as a country we have all gone through many hardships - the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Great Recession, and the Sandy Hook shootings, for instance. Although the events happened in many different states, they impacted all of us, and affected us to make a change.
It has been many years since those events happened....
The arrival of a new school year across Gwinnett County allows for great sense of opportunity amongst the vast number of students. More specifically at Collins Hill High School, amongst the various clubs that are available, Future Business Leaders of America is one to keep an eye on.
Through cooperation, bonding and team building, FBLA strives to support all those...
In the wake of the horrifying events of Charlottesville, Virginia, many students across Collins Hill High School are looking for a way to come together.
It seems like everywhere we turn, students are lost in the battle between two ragged sides. Sometimes, it even feels like the world is transpiring against us, and we are fighting for something lost decades...
The horror recently witnessed in Charlottesville, VA has distressed many across the country, as this type of divide has driven an unspoken wedge between individuals. Now more than ever, we must work to restore the harmony that has been lost in our own communities, whether it be through major or minor actions.
At Collins Hill High School, we believe in...