Jaquette’s journey through physics
Connor Lynch
December 3, 2019
Students share thoughts about Jaquette’s physics teachings Ventura High School’s physics teacher, Christopher Jaquette, strongly encourages students to wonder about the subject. Jaquette considers physics as a, “fundamental science, and therefore a basis for a lot of other studies.” Jaque...
What’s behind door number 57?
Katie Medina and Riley Ramirez
October 10, 2019
A glimpse into the world of Pierre Chamaa Ventura High is filled with many diverse teachers who are truly the backbone of the campus. With each teacher comes a new story, one of which being Pierre Chamaa’s. This year in Ventura High’s Math department, Chamaa teaches Math 3 Honors periods 3, 6, an...
Wallets welded shut
Koleton Petty
September 20, 2019
The underfunding of VHS Welding and Fabrication class Manufacturing is the second largest industry in Ventura County according to Datausa.io. Datausa.io also states nearly 43,000 jobs in the county involve manufacturing. Because VHS has two periods of Welding and Fabrication classes, each having aro...
Seniors bid goodbye to Company Show Choir at the last concert of the year
Tanya Turchyn
June 4, 2019
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AP Art History explores the Big Apple
Trinity Taylor
April 9, 2019
https://vimeo.com/329445070 Filmed/edited by: Trinity Taylor
A class for the working students: Work Experience
Sam Hicks and Douglas Sandford
March 1, 2019
Every Wednesday for a zero period from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., a group of working students meet in math teacher Mathew Cherrie’s classroom for a class known as Work Experience. Work Experience is a class at Ventura High School for working students who can gain credits for having a job and attending ...
Gachas Got Ya!
Garrett Jaffe
February 27, 2019
For as long as I can remember, I have been interested in history. At five, I was clad in knights armor frolicing around my yard imagining myself to be a great king conquering my neighboring kingdom. And although I could not yet read, or hardly begin to grasp the complexity and profundity of histor...
Follow us inside “the nation’s largest printing plant”
Caroline Marsden
February 13, 2019
Thursday, February 7, Journalism and AP Government attended a tour of the Los Angeles Times Printing Plant in Downtown Los Angeles. ...
Journey to the South Pacific with us
The Cougar Press, Summer Yovanno, Avenlea Russian, and Janelle Chavira
December 13, 2018
https://vimeo.com/306289780 The musical, South Pacific, was held at the Rubicon Theatre. VHS students walked to the theatre to see the performance on Friday, December 7. Filmed by: Avenlea Russian and Janelle Chavira Edited by: Summer Yovanno
An inside scoop on the Robotics team
Nathan Marshall
December 2, 2018
The Robotics team at Ventura High School is open for student outside of VHS. They compete in events outside of the city of Ventura and against other Robotics teams. Meeting after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m., Robotics isn’t an after school or extracurricular activity, but a class that they get high school credit for. In an interview with VHS senior Jame...
Apex helps you reach your peak
Sailor Hawes
November 29, 2018
Do you need to make up credit for a class? The Apex Program is the place for you. Math teacher Evan Spellman is the advisor for the after school Apex Program offered at Ventura High School. According to apexlearning.com, “Apex Learning digital curriculum is designed to actively engage stude...
Brad Steward, promoter of a “well rounded” education
Gavin Cross and Lola Bobrow
November 19, 2018
Some might know Ventura High School math teacher Brad Steward by his sometimes philosophical math lessons and choice to use the term “opportunity” instead of test. Others might know him as the freshman football and golf coach who took the 2000s varsity team to CIF and won against Arroyo Grande. ...
