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The Student-Run News Site of Carnegie Vanguard High School

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AP physics 1 as seen on the CollegeBoard website.

Students respond to AP Physics 1

By Anjali Martinez, News Editor December 4, 2023

On August 28th, the class of 2025 found yet another AP on their schedule for the year - AP Physics 1. Carnegie has now returned to its former requirement of AP Physics 1 as a mandated science course for...

Turner and her husband at their wedding in 2003

Maisha Turner: from rejecting rejection to inspiring CVHS students in STEM

By Natalia Nguyen and Cindy Cui December 3, 2023

If Maisha Turner’s life was a Free Body Diagram, her family would be the center of mass, with outside forces from every angle. Her life would have a positive magnitude of acceleration, but with an ever-changing...

Jonathan Lowe, wearing a Captain America costume while drawing a free-body diagram.

Jonathan Lowe: nostalgic softie or introspective problem solver?

By Neela Ravi and Kevin Pham November 30, 2023

In a world that’s constantly racing forward, CVHS AP Physics teacher Jonathan Lowe likes to turn back time. Although, if you answered that you went backward for negative six years on a Physics FRQ, he...

HISDs new policy is to only offer on-level and AP courses for classes with an AP but no Pre-AP equivalent.

‘Oh, you’re joking’: AP Physics 1 to replace HADV class

By Jerry Fan, Copy Editor April 24, 2023

Days after students' course requests were entered into PowerSchool, CVHS sophomores refreshed the page, only to find an unexpected change. Students who had selected HISD Advanced (HADV) Physics had been...

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