Distance learning will continue through the rest of the school year, which will now end on May 29 instead of June 19. DCPS is also considering starting the 2020-21 school year earlier. “In closing...

DCPS is closing schools for the rest of March to help slow the spread of COVID-19, or coronavirus. Spring break will now take place from March 17 to 23 instead of its original April date. During the following...

The pool entrance, reserved for juniors and seniors, seems at first to be a convenient option for those looking to bypass the longer lines at Wilson’s main entrance. But if you’ve ever had the experience...

After school one day in October, juniors Vincent Kamani and Nadeem Elamine decided to head to the Tenley music store Middle C. They invited their friend, junior Jack Davis. In the atrium, they ran into...

Senior Seb Murrell’s heart was pounding and his body ached, but all he could think about was the next stroke. It was the biggest regatta of the year, and everything was on the line. Pausing between breaths,...

Everyone knows that cheating happens at Wilson. It can be sliding a paper over so the person next to you can copy, mouthing an answer from across the room, or telling the kids in seventh period about the...

You get down to the atrium hungry and lunch-less. Searching through your backpack, you manage to find $4—just enough money for a slice of pizza at Angelico. You ask your friend to go get it with you,...

It’s round six of the 2018 North American Scrabble Championship. I’m sitting in a huge convention center surrounded by 400 other word fanatics. Across from me sits a middle-aged man from Pennsylvania....

Custodian Byron Kelly, who had been working at Wilson for three years, died Saturday, January 5. He was the night foreman of the custodial staff, but he went beyond his role as a supervisor and co-worker—for...

A new force is working to change Wilson’s name: the DC History and Justice Collective. They planned a forum, which will take place on February 12 at Wilson, to discuss the legacy of President Woodrow...

Principal Kimberly Martin and three Wilson students recently went on the Today Show to discuss vaping at Wilson. The interviews were part of a segment on juuling and a organization’s efforts to combat...

Since Principal Kimberly Martin started at Wilson, she’s become increasingly on edge. Her heart beats quicker and her stress hormone levels are higher. She said some of her principal friends who transitioned...

One day at rehearsal, Karen Harris, the director of Wilson’s production of “Rent,” told the cast that they were going to be filmed for a documentary about the show  day. “The people that were...

I’m not what you might call a Wizards fanatic. To tell you the truth, I don’t know much about the Wizards, which is why I jumped at the opportunity to go to a game one Saturday night with fellow Beacon...

“Put your phone away.” These four words have been repeated over and over again in the classroom since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. For teachers, it can be exasperating to have to repeatedly...

Only one Wilson academy goes on college tours, visits local fish wholesalers, and meets executive business owners. Next year, however, it might not be able to due to a decrease in funding. The Academy...

Senior Andonny Garcia’s childhood was pretty conventional. He grew up playing with Legos and attended Shepherd Elementary School and Alice Deal Middle School. But, as an undocumented immigrant, it wasn’t...

Next year, students will only be in school for three weeks in February. The other week they will be on a February break. This is just one of many new additions to the DCPS calendar for 2018-19. The calendar...

Before hundreds of thousands of people would gather on Pennsylvania Ave. to protest gun violence, a smaller rally took place nearby in a park on Capitol Hill. A 16-year-old girl named Lauren, whose boyfriend,...

  “Intense.” “Busy.” “Fun.” This is how members of the robotics team describe build season, the six weeks they are allotted to build the robot. As I stood in front of the...

Senior Isaiah Hall has been singing since he was five years old. His love for singing inspired him to enter the DC-CAPital Stars competition this year. Now, he has advanced to the final round of competition....

It’s build season. For the next month, the Wilson robotics team will gather in the engineering lab nearly every day after school and on the weekends to build a robot. The robotics competitions...

When it comes to food trends, DC has them all. The sushi-burrito (which I’ll call a sushi-rito) is one of these trendy dishes that has popped up around the city in establishments like Buredo, Seoulspice,...

Countries all around the world use the letter grade system. Though the letters and the percentages assigned to them slightly vary from country to country, most people are familiar with the system. People...

Wilson has an extensive number of clubs, but for junior Zola Canady, there were not enough. She took it upon herself to expand the computer science program outside of class, creating the Computer Science,...