By Chris Loustaunau, Editor-in-Chief In no world would I have thought that I would find Snoop Dogg Cheese Puffs in my new Principal’s office. But Mr. Alejandro Escamilla, the newly appointed LEE principal , surprised me in more ways than one when I sat down with him. He shared his profound vision for education and his passion for […]
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Edder Martinez, Staff Reporter The advancement in AI has made it into one of the most defining parts of this decade. First starting with AI like DAll E a new AI has become part of the cultural zeitgeist, Chat GPT. This program is able to generate essays not imagined before. Chat GPT is a chat box not too […]
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Julissa Duran, Staff Reporter On Thursday, September 15 NESA Creative Writing will premier three thrilling escape rooms full of sorcery, ghouls, and adventures across the sea. The escape rooms will work as an interactive activity to go hand-in-hand with Allied Campus Theater’s fall show She Kills Monsters. The themes for the rooms will be scourcers, vampires, and pirates. […]
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Luke Daines & Ashley Patterson, Staffers Nearing the STEM floor, a hot new topic is in the air. STEM students and teachers alike, buzz about the new Anatomy Table. Purchased with recently approved grant money awarded to STEM Director Jennifer Jensen, STEM hopes to offer biomedical and advanced science pathway students a more interactive glimpse into the human body. […]
Read moreEdder Martinez, Staffer Teacher, and staff shortage have become commonplace ever since the Covid 19 pandemic; Even as the pandemic dies down staff shortages have not. With the 2022-23 school year beginning, several schools are still reporting vacant teaching positions. This has led to larger than usual classroom sizes, overworked, overtired tired staff, and the school having to […]
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Kaitlin Arocho, Editor-in-Chief It’s getting towards the end of the year with only six weeks left of school and that means it’s the perfect time for the senior class to have as many events as the schedule will allow. One of these events, the annual senior awards ceremony, took place on Thursday, April 21, at 6:00 pm. This event […]
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Chris Loustaunau, Staff Reporter Would you go to an all you can eat seafood festival? Would you go even if our own Mayor says he loves it? Well, the annual Paella Festival is a perfect opportunity to try other people’s paella and even for restaurant owners to test their skills and see how their skills match up to the […]
Read moreLesly Rodriguez, Staff Reporter Culinary competition season kicked off in early September with a first place Gumbo Cook-off win at the Medina Lake Cajun Festival, and LEE’s student chefs haven’t taken their foot off the as since. When Chef Jordan-Davis and six of her advanced students decided that they wanted to compete in this year’s Gumbo Cook-off, they chose […]
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Miriam Barba, Staff Reporter Model United Nations San Antonio, or more commonly known as MUNSA, is crucial to the ISA Community. This year’s MUNSA XXVI theme was Ignite. According to the MUNSA website,“The theme of MUNSA XXVI: Ignite welcomes the conference into a reawakened eagerness with the return of a campus-based assembly.” The conference started Jan. 6 and lasted […]
Read moreMadison Munoz, Staff Reporter On Saturday, October 9, NESA’s Creative Writing majors put on their first show of the year. The show, Lore, featured poems, scripts, and musicals, written by Creative Writing majors. Lore was a cross major production, meaning the Creative Writing department got to collaborate with other NESA majors. Instrumental Music students played alongside the reading of […]
Read moreMarissa Estrada, Staff Reporter Dia De Los Muertos (The Day Of The Dead) is a holiday that originated in Mexico. The holiday is about honoring lost loved ones and ancestors, and is celebrated by welcoming the dead with music, food, and dancing. Nov. 1 and 2 are El Dia De Los Inocente, or Day of the Innocents, referring to […]
Read moreKaitlin Arocho, Editor-in-Chief On Thursday, Sept. 30, NESA’s Instrumental Music majors had their first concert of the year. The concert consisted of twelve songs, ranging from classical “Sonata No. 8, Op. 13” by Beethoven to the more mainstream classic “Isn’t She Lovely” by Stevie Wonder. The concert had five piano solos, five collective orchestra pieces, one acoustic guitar solo, and […]
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Maria Yesenia Velasquez, Staff Reporter Elections in schools have always been important to many students. For the homecoming court, all grades are able to elect one female and one male student to represent them. However, for the first time in LEE and ISA’s history, there was someone elected that fit neither of those categories. Carter McManus (12) was […]
Read moreCJ Fisher, Staff Reporter Mr. Daniel Everidge may be a first year teacher, but it is not his first year on the LEE campus. He graduated from NESA in 2002 before pursuing a career as a successful actor in the performing arts. But luckily for the aspiring performers in the Musical Theater department, Mr. Everidge has decided to step off […]
Read moreKaitlin Arocho, Staff Reporter We are in the midst of election season for Senior Class President. The person elected to be President will be in charge of coordinating senior class events, promoting senior class activities, and further down the line will be the one organizing class reunions. Voting will be Friday, September 13, during lunches. There will be stations […]
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