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The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

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The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

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Working on a project, sophomore Skyler Hansen examines one of the walls. Hansen explained that Geometry and Construction is usually divided up between two periods. “You do an hour of either geometry or construction, depending on what the teachers want to do at the beginning. Then the next hour, you do whatever you didn’t do in the first hour,” Hansen said. “In geometry, you’ll learn a specific set of [information], and in construction, you use that after you learn the geometry.”

FEATURE: Two Birds with One Stone

Arianna Waller, Reporter September 6, 2024

Imagine a class where math crosses with real world situations, not only solving for X, but creating it too. Requested by woodworking teacher Amanda Torbett and backed by math teacher Laura O’Neil, a...

Born to Teach: Ms. O'Neil

Born to Teach: Ms. O’Neil

gavin spence, reporter May 13, 2013

Most kindergartners do not know what they want to do when they grow up, but Laura O’Neil did. She knew she wanted to be a teacher. Since that childhood dream, O’Neil has taught at Lawrence High for...

The Free Press Guide to the Hallway’s

miranda davis May 26, 2011

Upper Left Classes in this hallway: math and science This hallway is full of future engineers and rocket scientists. It is known to have a distinct smell after an experiment conducted by the chemistry...

Hello My Name is…Laura Rightmeier

December 10, 2010
"I am smarter than my calculator!
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