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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 […]
“Homer-o-stasis” lab
There is nothing quite like a “Homer-o-stasis” lab. For this homeostasis lab our Biology students had to keep their Homer Simpson alive for five minutes. This involved keep his temperature, water level, and yellowness steady, even though water was pouring out of the bottom of Homer’s cup.
Zeljka (Schelly) Shares the Significance of Her Yearlong CHS Exchange
Hey, my name is Zeljka and I’m visiting from Germany. I have always wanted to do an exchange year in America, to grow, step out of my comfort zone, and become more independent. I also realize who my true friends are, appreciate everything more that I have in Germany, and am also finding myself. That’s […]
CHS Students Travel To France
Eleven students and two teachers traveled to France for a two week adventure which included an exchange with Lycée Privé Charles Péguy in Gorges, France. Click the button below to learn all about the areas they explored on their trip, including their time in Paris. Read about their Trip Here!