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Leander High School's online student-run newspaper

The Roar
Leander High School's online student-run newspaper

The Roar
The seniors celebrated by having a party during PRIDE time with cookie cake and Chic-Fil-A. The remaining requirements they have to compete are CAS, TOK and testing in May.

4,000 words later…

by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
January 24, 2018
Signs like these are hanging up all around the school. The last day to donate is December 14.

Lending a hand to the homeless

by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
December 13, 2017
Senior Patrick Wilbanks takes notes during a IB Psychology class. The main difference between IB and AP is that IB is more of a program while AP is a set of individual classes that don’t correlate with each other.

IB vs AP debate

by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
May 15, 2017
Junior Bronte Heerdink takes notes during a Psychology 1 class. They were covering the differences between violence and aggression.

Mind games

by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
April 12, 2017
Junior Emma Aldred works on her experiment for her Internal Assessment in chemistry. She is taking a Higher Level exam on the subject in her senior year.

Number one, IB and all

by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
March 3, 2017
IB has many requirements including that a student must take 6 total IB tests in their junior and senior year combined. It is recommended to do 3 higher level tests and 3 standard level.

Why I’m Doing IB

by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
February 27, 2017
The EE is a 4,000 word essay written by IB seniors. However, it is written online and not on paper.

The final countdown

by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
January 13, 2017
The IB wall outside of the nurse’s office covered with information. It has the names of the current seniors in IB and where previous candidates have gone to college.

Three reasons to do IB

by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
January 9, 2017
Some of the IB seniors were in the courtyard passing out crutches to students. Tickets were then entered into a raffle for $100, $60 or $40.

Crutching for cash

by Kyle Gehman, Editor-In-Chief
December 14, 2016
The teams were quizzed on various categories for various prizes. All the money raised was sent to Casa Marianella.

IB hosts trivia night

by Kyle Gehman, Assistant Editor
April 11, 2016
The website for IB students to get information on their EE's. The website has an IB calendar, link to the EE handbook and contact information for sponsors.

Extended essays near due date

by Austin Graham, Assistant Editor
December 2, 2015
IB sophomores in IB PRIDE time. For some students when there is study hall during PRIDE time it is helpful but for some since they can’t go to other teachers it is a problem.

IB enforces PRIDE time schedule

by Kyle Gehman, Staff Writer
November 5, 2015
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