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The Over-Consumption Crisis

The Over-Consumption Crisis

Allison Thieng, Staff Writer October 8, 2025

In the current day, you can not simply be you. In order to fit in, it is felt as a standard that you must appear a certain way to remain relevant. You purchase the latest wear, you buy the newest beverage...

Fitness ASPIRE and the Benefits of Exercise

Fitness ASPIRE and the Benefits of Exercise

Nicolas Fewel, Staff Writer October 7, 2025

When you think of weight training, you might envision guys in skimpy tank tops yelling and slamming plates. Of course this does happen, but a lot of people go to the gym just to be around friends and to...

Highlight the Brain

Highlight the Brain

Matthew Powell, Staff Writer October 3, 2025

Can colors change how we remember notes? Something we students can all relate to is the moment during a test when a question feels eerily familiar, like you’ve seen it a thousand times. But for some...

How to Study For Your Finals / Midterms

How to Study For Your Finals / Midterms

Xavier Brooks, Editor-in-Chief December 9, 2024

The days before finals are rough on everyone. In the coming days, more and more students will find themselves studying more than they have all semester. Whether it's for finals or midterms, the earlier...

College Applications: Where to Start

College Applications: Where to Start

Mia Green, Student Life Editor November 7, 2024

Every year, millions of high school seniors face the tedious task of drafting the perfect college application. The stress of your future relying on that application can negatively affect your performance...

Helix Cheer: Senior Night

Helix Cheer: Senior Night

Isabelle Green, Sports Editor November 4, 2024

What is Senior Night? As the Fall Sports season comes to an end, seniors get to look back on their last football season as a Helix Cheerleader. Senior night is a night to honor graduating students in...

Club Spotlight: Scottie Restore

Club Spotlight: Scottie Restore

Xavier Brooks, Editor-in-Chief October 21, 2024

  Detention is something that, unfortunately, we are all much too familiar with. In the four years spent here, many Scotties will inevitably find themselves in the same detention room so many...

School Spirit at Helix

School Spirit at Helix

Nyah McRae, Staff Writer October 9, 2024

As homecoming week passed, we had seven days to remember all of the laughs, yells and most of all the spirit days! Many Helix students enjoy dressing up in solid white, Hawaiian, pajamas, or whatever the...

Michael Varela, a Helix Security Guard

Are We Safe at Helix?

Xavier Brooks, Editor-in-Chief October 6, 2024

For some graduating seniors, including myself, 2007 is looked upon fondly as our birth year. Thankfully, we weren't old enough to remember that 2007 was marked with the highest number of school shootings...

Let The World Hear Your Voice

Let The World Hear Your Voice

Xavier Brooks, Editor-in-Chief October 4, 2024

Helix offers a wide variety of different clubs and aspire programs. Aspires, for those unaware, are after school programs that cover lots of different interests for students to try out and explore. Attendance...

A teacher, Mr. Rhea, helping a student

Do Teachers Like Their Jobs?

Xavier Brooks, Editor in Chief October 4, 2024

Students go through a lot. You’ve heard the typical spiel– sports, clubs, AP and college classes– all of it more or less melts the time away. Before you know it, it’s midnight. And you are going...

New and Old Clubs at Helix

New and Old Clubs at Helix

Hayley Dunkel, News Editor October 3, 2024

  Helix has 47 clubs currently active on campus. With a new school year comes the introduction of new Helix Clubs and the continuation of many. I reached out to the presidents of four clubs to...

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