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Quiz: Which arts teacher are you?

May 21, 2018

Filed under Entertainment, Life, Showcase

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My senior year reflection: perseverance and commitment

Elyse Luecke, Managing Editor

May 18, 2018

Filed under Blogs, Life

Under the email signature of middle school principal Rebecca Irving, there is a quote that says, “Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.” The past four years have shown me nothing but the truth in this statement. Freshman year I auditioned for choir with...

Graduation Livestream

Aurora Phillips, Engagement Editor

May 18, 2018

Filed under 2018 Yearbook Spring Supplement, GCAAtv, Life

Tune in on Saturday, May 19 at 10 am for a livestream of the graduation ceremony.

Departure to Denmark: A semester abroad

Chase Doctor, Staff Writer

May 16, 2018

Filed under 2018 Yearbook Spring Supplement, Blogs, Life

On August 6th, 2017, I started school at Ega Undoms-Hojskole--over 4,500 miles away from St. Louis. After junior year, I had all the credits I needed to graduate high school except for one half practical art credit. I didn’t want to graduate early and start college at 17, but I wanted to do somethin...

GCAA holds third annual prom: “Masquerade”

Kaitlyn Eckhard, Staff Writer

May 14, 2018

Filed under 2018 Yearbook Spring Supplement, Life, News

On April 21st, juniors and seniors took the dance floor at prom for ‘a night to remember’ at The Vault on South Grand Boulevard. The theme chosen for the night was Masquerade. ...

“Hamilton” provides students with opportunity to perform on the Fox Theater stage

Elyse Luecke, Managing Editor

May 13, 2018

Filed under 2018 Yearbook Spring Supplement, Life, News, Showcase

Nearly 4,000 students and teachers from 42 high schools in the surrounding area attended the performance of Hamilton back in April at the Fabulous Fox Theater. As part of the Hamilton Education Program by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, high school students were invited to see the...

Quiz: Can you guess these staff members by their baby photos?

Aurora Phillips, Staff Writer

May 9, 2018

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In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, see if you can guess these staff members from baby photos. (function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src='https://embed.playbuzz.com/sdk.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','playbuzz-sdk')); ...

Arts and academics: teacher collaboration and observation

Kennedy Brown, Staff Writer

May 4, 2018

Filed under 2018 Yearbook Spring Supplement, Life

Teachers and administrators came together in March to observe one another's classes and gain a new perspective about the inner workings of different classes. Educators all around the school participated in these observations. Teachers were given papers that included boxes to state positive an...

Parent Teacher Organization and staff join forces to help students in transition

Aliena Yost, Staff Writer

May 2, 2018

Filed under 2018 Yearbook Spring Supplement, Life, Showcase

Parents, counselors and teachers have helped students that are in transition and are in need of additional help. They have become more aware of students and their actions, especially since there has been an increase in students that are in transition. Being in transition is when a student doesn’t hav...

Students meet with prominent black St. Louisans for cross-curricular STEAM Museum project

Foundations of Journalism Students and Photography I Students

February 20, 2018

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While the month of February focuses on black history, the students in Travis Armknecht and Caitlin Munguia's classes chose to look not only backward but also forward by interviewing prominent black St. Louisans. For sophomores Xia Brown and Jessica Carter, both in the music pathway, meeting...

Google Arts and Culture’s new “selfie” feature receives mixed reviews

Paisley Regester, Staff Writer

January 30, 2018

Filed under Life

Google Art and Culture’s new, free app has recently gone viral. The app analyzes and matches an individual’s face to the subjects of famous paintings. The paintings are collected from a database containing over 6,000 exhibitions, with contributions from 1,500 museum partners located in seventy different...

Charles Pierson, junior

Aurora Phillips, Staff Writer

December 12, 2017

Filed under Humans of GCAA, Life

"Being at this school, and especially being at an art school, you’re constantly thinking about the future, at least in my perspective. I’m constantly thinking about the future, and what’s next for me, and whether or not I should stay on this path, do performing arts, or do musical theatre, or if...