Events
Mini Lycée Day 2022
Mini Lycée days are similar to our regular Lycée Days, but with a twist. You only have 15 minutes to share your knowledge, play your game, or complete your activity. This form of Lycée Day was created last year by the student body. It is completely run by the students, and this year’s second installation […]
CHS Spring 2022 Production of “The Insect Play”
The Theater Department of Community High School presented Karel Capek’s socio-political satire “The Insect Play,” in the June M. McBroom Theater for two nights. Written in the years following the horrors of World War I and the rise of Fascism throughout Europe, the Czech playwright tackles delicate issues of love, family and war as a […]
Mountain Day 2022
We had the perfect weather for our yearly hike up to the Mill Mountain Star where we enjoyed lunch and hanging out with friends.
News
Resistance Fashion Show
The Fashion as Resistance class explored historical uses of fashion as a tool of resistance and their final project was to curate an end of semester fashion show.
Video Game Exhibition
Our first Game Night was a huge success! The Video Game Design students set up an exhibition of their creations and made them available for all to play. A board game designed by a senior student was also available. Additionally, traditional games such as Mariokart, Halo, Smash Bros, Just Dance, and various board games were also enjoyed. Everyone had a […]
VECCA Poetry Reading
Les Epstein gave a reading at the Valley Educational Center for the Creative Arts (VECCA) in Woodstock VA on May 18.
Blue Ridge Literacy Fundraiser
Blue Ridge Literacy Board Secretary, Stephanie Martin, led a Civics Trivia Night at Crystal Springs Grocery to raise funds for the organization. It was a fun opportunity for attendees to test their knowledge of the Naturalization Process and Civics skills to see what category of American Citizens they qualified for! The winners were: Outstanding Americans: Ghost The […]
Xan receives the Hendrix-Murphy Book Award
Congratulations to Xan W for receiving the Hendrix-Murphy Book Award for his distinguished scholarship and leadership in creative writing. He received a copy of “Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology” edited by Maggie Dietz and Robert Pinsky.
Compost Trailer
The Roanoke Field Studies class took a trip to Community School and spoke with Davey Stewards, of Harvest Collective and Star City Compost, who gave them a demo of their compost trailer currently housed there.
Roanoke Parks & Recreation
For our third and final Community Service Day (CSD) of the school year, CHS partnered with Roanoke Parks & Recreation. Students read and discussed popular and scholarly articles that address the complex history and myriad benefits of public parks. Afterwards, they volunteered at Fishburn Park, Highland Park, Fallon Park, Wasena Park, and the Roanoke River […]
Trip to Western Virginia Water Authority
Our Roanoke Field Studies students toured the Crystal Spring Water Treatment Plant and Snow Steam Pump thanks to Sarah Baumgardner of the Western Virginia Water Authority.
Garden Variety Harvest Visit
Roanoke Field Studies students took a trip to the new location of Garden Variety Harvests at Lick Run Farm. The group met with founding farmer, Cam Terry, and learned about what it takes to start and run an urban farming business on land held in agricultural conservation by the Southwest Virginia Agrarian Commons.
Follow The Water
NASA’s motto in exoplanet research is “Follow the water,” because liquid water is the best indication we have that a planet might be habitable. The Chemistry lab students were tasked with testing samples from the “latest NASA mission” to figure out which (if any!) of the clear liquids they tested was water. They spent several days […]
Ambrielle Viney (’19) Receives the NODA Outstanding Student Leadership Award
Orientation Team Leader Ambrielle Viney (CHS Class of 2019) is honored for making Hollins “Feel Like Home” for new students. As a Roanoke-based commuter student, Ambrielle Viney ’23 doesn’t live on the Hollins University campus. But that hasn’t impeded her ability to fully embrace or feel a close-knit kinship with the Hollins community throughout her […]
Original Space Operas
Students in Film History: Sci-Fi Cinema developed screenplay treatments, character biographies, and advertisement campaigns for original space operafilms. Paula S.’s space opera, As Above, So Below, follows a Venusian biologist who is sent to earth to observe and study the evolved differences in the Earth people versus the Venusians. Unfamiliar with the advanced technology and unadapted to […]