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The student news site of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

tjTODAY
The student news site of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

tjTODAY

Katherine Hughes, Staff Writer

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At approximately 3:30 p.m., the march officially began. Delays were primarily due to more people than anticipated showing up, which forced organizers to change routes.

[Photo] Women’s March photo gallery

Katherine Hughes and Sabria Kazmi, Guest Writer and Team Leader
January 30, 2017
The Jefferson Physics Team goes to an American Physics Society Meeting. Next year, they hope to go on more field trips to places where real-life physics is practiced.

The Jefferson Physics Team has a successful year

Sabria Kazmi and Katherine Hughes
June 21, 2016
Students from Weyanoke Elementary School judge the all-iBET beauty competition. Jocelyn Liu won the beauty competition with her Wall-E robot.

Freshmen Vie for Medals in Robot Competition

Katherine Hughes and Madeline Old
June 15, 2016

Mapped Opinions of Trump Around the World

Sabria Kazmi and Katherine Hughes
May 27, 2016
Donald Trump gets off his plane to speak at a rally. Family and friends of Jefferson students have mixed opinions on Donald Trump and a Trump presidency could affect the U.S. and the world.

Opinions on Donald Trump from around the world

Katherine Hughes and Sabria Kazmi
May 12, 2016
Freshman Lockout Photo Gallery

Freshman Lockout Photo Gallery

Katherine Hughes and Sabria Kazmi
May 9, 2016
Students who attended the special Muslim Student Association event designed girih tiles and traced them onto larger sheets of paper. Girih tiles are a set of tiles that create geometric patterns and are used commonly in Islamic architecture.

Special Muslim Student Association event connects Islamic art and math

Katherine Hughes, Staff Writer
May 1, 2016
Ted Cruz, who received only slightly more than 14% of the popular vote, didn’t gain any delegates in the New York primaries. The frontrunners in the two parties were successful, which led Ted Cruz and John Kasich to pledge to work together to deny Donald Trump the GOP nomination.

New York is Prime Territory for Party Frontrunners

Katherine Hughes and Madeline Old
April 25, 2016
Head Coach Jackson Kibler coaches from the sidelines in a lacrosse game. He has been the head coach for two seasons.

Lacrosse Coach Profile: Coach Jackson Kibler

Katherine Hughes, Staff Writer
April 8, 2016
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, and other Democratic and Republican party elites should be scared after the outcome of the second Super Tuesday primaries. Although Hillary Clinton appears to be on the path to the nomination on the Democratic side, things can change in a moment as this election season has shown.

Super Tuesday scares candidates and party elites alike

Madeline Old and Katherine Hughes
March 20, 2016
Donald Trump spoke about a possible 2012 presidential run at the 2011 CPAC conference. Five years later, he's doing shockingly well.

Virginia Primary Allows Jefferson Students to Voice their Political Opinions

Madeline Old and Katherine Hughes
March 4, 2016
Scholastic Journalism Week, lasting from Feb. 21-27, is a time for student journalists to celebrate their work and other students' work. Through various activities, including complimenting other schools on their good work and writing thank you notes to teachers, counselors and students who have helped them, student journalists can reflect on their experiences as journalists.

Tight course requirements unfortunately leave little room for Journalism

Katherine Hughes, Staff Writer
February 27, 2016
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich performed well in the New Hampshire primaries, though not well enough to beat first-place finisher Donald Trump

New Hampshire Primary Results Shake Up Presidential Race

Madeline Old and Katherine Hughes
February 14, 2016
Winter Storm Jonas, which has deposited upwards of 30 inches of snow in the D.C./Metro area, caused FCPS to close schools last week. Many neighborhood roads have not been cleared by snow plows yet.

Winter Storm Jonas gives Jefferson students unexpected snow days

Katherine Hughes, Staff Writer
January 23, 2016
Cram Grams are being sold to alleviate stress on students during midterm week. The other design for the Cram Grams has a bunny and says "some-bunny is rooting for you!"

Cram Gram fundraiser faces delays with snow days

Katherine Hughes and Minna Kuriakose
January 22, 2016
A bin sits atop cubbies in the Einstein commons to collect items for sophomores Soham Ray, Dean Zhang, and Patrick Toulme's winter clothing drive.

Teams of Sophomores Complete Service Learning Projects for Health

Natalie Homnyom and Katherine Hughes
January 9, 2016
Priyanka Chopra, a woman on the top 15 list of 2015, attends a red carpet event. Chopra was one of the highest paid Hindi film actresses before beginning to also work for ABC.

Top 15 of 2015: Women

Katherine Hughes and Sabria Kazmi
January 2, 2016
"Was Al Gore hot?" is one example of a fake Facebook event that has collected more than 13,000 RSVPs. This event has an attached poll that asks this question and answer choices included "he's no Biden but he's up there" and "I don't think Al Gore was hot, but I 'get it'".

Fake events on Facebook have begun to appear on newsfeeds as students say they are attending virtually

Katherine Hughes, Staff Writer
December 14, 2015
Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) is an Irish girl who immigrates to America in the new movie "Brooklyn". "Brooklyn" entered theaters Nov. 6th and presents the struggles with being an immigrant, both in today's world and in the 1950s when Eilis emigrated.

“Brooklyn”, a new movie, represents the struggles immigrants face today by showing struggles of the past

Katherine Hughes, Staff Writer
November 30, 2015
Sophomores Shivani Mullapudi and Shriie Ganesh used lunch breaks during the William and Mary High School Model United Nations conference to perfect their working paper on global immunization.

Model UN attends annual College of William and Mary conference

Katherine Hughes, Staff Writer
November 25, 2015
Students enjoy the music and decorations at the Viennese Ball.

Members of orchestra prepare for the Viennese Ball

Katherine Hughes, Staff Writer
November 17, 2015
2016 Presidential candidate Donald Trump

We should “dump Trump” while we still have the chance

Katherine Hughes, Staff Writer
November 9, 2015

Back to the Future day and where we’re going

Katherine Hughes, Madeline Old, and Sabria Kazmi
November 5, 2015
The Varsity Volleyball team huddles before the game begins.

Volleyball quarterfinals bring Jefferson one step closer to success

Katherine Hughes and Christine Zhao
November 4, 2015
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