SPIRIT
Story by: Kylie Ilhardt
February 25, 2020
For the first home football game of the season on Sept. 9, students wore all black to show their spirit. As the senior football players looked up to the stands, they noticed a crowd they had not seen in past seasons. A student section filled with black-clad Warriors dressed with paint on their fac...
Warriors of Jupiter: Becky Hampton
Story by: Noah Mildner
February 25, 2020
After searching in a cluttered closet, Art and Photography teacher Sarah Knudtson walked over to senior Rebecca Hampton to pass on the treasure she just found. Excitedly, Hampton thanked Knudtson and immediately got to work on the plastic plate in front of her. The metal etching tool became a natural e...
Warriors of Jupiter: Michael Fleming
Story by: Katie Hiebert
February 25, 2020
Jupiter High’s Advanced Placement U.S. History teacher Michael Fleming has been an educator for 37 years. Although he loves teaching social studies, he is eager to begin a new chapter of his life after he retires in June. Fleming has always loved history and even studied the subject in college. He e...
Jupiter High sophomore creates student app
Story by: KC Barnes
February 19, 2020
Jupiter High sophomore Seth Goldin created the app SwiftGrade for students to access the SIS gateway from their home screen. SwiftGrade was approved by the Palm Beach County School District on Feb. 18 and has already collected over 2,000 active users. “SwiftGrade is a mobile application that allows students to ch...
Warriors doing good
Story by: Nicole Christie
February 19, 2020
Key club and Jupiter Environmental Research and Field Studies are hosting community service events. Dance Marathon on Feb. 29 and the Green Run on Feb. 22. “{Key Club works} to help the kids at Shands. We are lucky enough to meet a lot of them, and they even join us at our event to speak and...
Why do kids vape? We didn’t know, so we asked them.
Story by: Jason Dobuler and Noah Mildner
February 11, 2020
Sadly, vaping is a regular part of life for more and more teens, whether they are “hitting” it themselves or watching friends or classmates vape. High school students jokingly refer to the restroom as the “Juul Lounge” or “Juul Room” because of how common vaping is in school restrooms across...
The rise of anti-Semitism in American high schools
Story by: Lindsey Fine
February 11, 2020
Boarding the bus on her way home from school, then freshman Brielle Cohen walked through the narrow aisle and took her seat just to be faced with drawings of Swastikas and other anti-Semitic doodlings. Sitting in classes, Cohen has been told things like“Jews shouldn’t be here today because they all ...
JERFSA student impresses at the 29th annual Southwest Florida Water Resources Conference
Story by: Logan Dellapina
February 10, 2020
Jupiter High School sophomore Emily Richter wowed at the 29 annual Southwest Florida Water Resources Conference on Jan. 24 at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers, Florida. Richter was the only student from JHS selected to attend the conference. Teresa Thornton, Richter's teac...
Jupiter High students start their own successful businesses
Story by: Nicole Christie
February 5, 2020
Jupiter is home to two successful entrepreneurs who aren't even out of high school yet. Senior Luke Shaw has his own painting business. Junior Austyn Roth has his own landscaping businesses. Both students are hugely successful in the area and have plans to grow their ventures in the future. In Oct. 2019,...
Warriors of Jupiter: Dennis Connolly
Story by: Angelina Ginossi
December 16, 2019
Dennis Connolly, Jupiter High’s water polo and swim and dive coach, retired Dec. 9 after working at Jupiter High for 17 years. After living in Portland, Maine for 50 years, Connolly moved to Florida 20 years ago. “If you add those two together, I’m 70 years of age,” Connolly said. Conno...
Warriors of Jupiter: Johnathan Mosley
Story by: Savannah Woods and Angelina Ginossi
November 21, 2019
Senior quarterback Johnathan Mosley lead the varsity football team to a winning record of 6-4, winning their last home against South Fork High School. Mosley moved to Jupiter, Fla. last year after living in Naperville, Illinois since birth. “The biggest challenge from moving was probably st...