Category Archives: Honors Features

Longer, more in-depth features written by Honors students over the course of a semester.

From Nicaragua To The United States: The American Dream

By Ashley D’Ambrosia I always know when my grandfather is at my house, because I can hear the sound of the piano…

Curriculum Focus: LGBTQ+ History And Education Nationwide

By Emma Blackwood “It is hugely important that every child understand the complexity of human history in all different dimensions in order…

Minds In Motion: Teaching Dance to Richmond Youth

By Lilly Brand It was Thursday, my favorite day of the week. I couldn’t contain my excitement after school as I arrived…

Walker Hill (’20) Experiences Ghana

By Haley Jenkins Collegiate’s Walker Hill (‘20) joined Mia Garland, a Douglas Freeman High School senior, and Katie Yohe, a teacher at…

Uncle Calvin, Seven-Time National Fiddle Champion

By Maggie Bostain Reclined in his chair, his bare feet propped up, wearing faded jeans and a blue button-down shirt, a smirk…

Bringing Light to Our Darkest Hour: A 9/11 Reflection

By Caitlin Long September 11th, 2001 is a date every American knows as a one of great defeat and sorrow. The September…

Growing Up in a Digital Age

By Sarah Garman Rohr As a 17-year-old girl, born in 2001, I am part of a generation that spent its childhood on…

A Silent Epidemic

By Hayley Dunn NPR calls it a “silent epidemic.” It can’t be seen, and it’s not something that people talk about on…

Effectiveness Through Separation: The Gender Divide in the Middle School

By Ann Ross Westermann Since the 1986 restructuring of Collegiate’s Mooreland Road campus, when the Girls and Boys Schools merged, Collegiate’s Middle…

Concussions, Football, and Collegiate

By Stephen Laming Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. CTE. The degenerative brain disorder appearing in headlines over the last decade. CTE is an emerging…