The GreshamHS Xchange

School Days by the Numbers

Xchange — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:08:21 +0000

Well, students are back at school today in Gresham after a freak snow storm. The snow melted off after a few hours and now the city is being drenched with rain. The irony is that the district already had a budget reduction day on Tuesday and a day off for Martin Luther King day on [...]

Catastrophe Averted

Xchange — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:22:42 +0000

A reenactment of the moment.

It is typical for students at Gresham High School to work on very intricate projects. However, it is rare to have them working on one as intricate as making a 3D printer. All was going well until a small, itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, smaller than you can hold, piece [...]

Back to School

Xchange — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:43:13 +0000

Welcome back everyone! The semester is not yet over and this is now the time where teachers cram the most on you to make up for earlier in the semester. While you are worrying about that make sure to take note that the weather outside is awfully warm for this time of year and that [...]

US Geography: How much do you know?

Xchange — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:47:45 +0000

Recently in an IB History class at Gresham High School, the students were asked to draw a map of the United States and label the states and capitals. Hardly any student could accomplish this. The teacher then set up the challenge of having a quiz over the states and capitals in the class on the [...]

Holiday Bliss

Xchange — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:25:47 +0000

It’s the holiday season and people are bustling around trying to get all of their shopping done for the commercialism of the season. What about the “true” meaning of the season though? Is it really only about buying the gifts and giving them to people? Or is it truly about family and friends coming together [...]

Snoball: Just 3 weeks away

Xchange — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:32:14 +0000

To all of the GHS students out there, just in case you haven’t heard the multiple announcements about Snoball, it is in just under three weeks and is girl ask guy. (Boys, this doesn’t mean you are off the hook.) Good luck out there!

Oh, the Places GHS Students Will Go: Kentucky

Xchange — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:50:52 +0000

Not many people can say that they have participated at a national competition but for one Gresham High School student, she can say she definitely did. Student Shannon Ernst participated in the National 4-H competition for horse judging in early November. The event was held in Louisville, Kentucky where over 330 people [...]

Students Succeed with Google

Xchange — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:49:14 +0000

Screen cast of the edits made by Jordan Bures.

Telling a major corporation that they are wrong is tough. Having the same corporation admit they are wrong and absorb your input, that is a great honor. A handful of students did just that in Mr. Walker’s Web Design class.

During [...]

Success with Google: Part 1 of 2

Xchange — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:21:59 +0000

Recently some Gresham High School students set out to correct Google. These are their stories.

I told Google all the info on a place was wrong, I submitted a change, and it has yet to be approved or denied. I think that they are waiting for new pictures of that street to come in because [...]

Quote of the Day

Xchange — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:19:02 +0000

From One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the quote of the day: “Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave them eyewash.” Take from it what you will. Quotes [...]