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Art Students Rack Up Awards

By Caroline Hannon May 14, 2015

The art program at Prep is led by Lena Barlow, Addie Louis, and Lisa Shive.  Every year students submit their art work into the Scholastic Art Competition.  The competition for the scholastic art awards...

Year-End Wrap-Up: JCL

Year-End Wrap-Up: JCL

By Ian Payne May 14, 2015

The Junior Classical League, or JCL for short, is a club much like Spanish, French, and Asian club that encompasses the Latin and Greek Classes. A club that promotes the classics from ancient Greece...

Year-End Wrap-Up: Math Honoraries

Year-End Wrap-Up: Math Honoraries

By Brock Newman, Megan Dallas May 14, 2015

Mu Alpha Theta: Jackson Prep mathletes took first place this year at the Mississippi College math competition on February 13th, thanks to the efforts of Marina Joel, Robert Wasson, Sarah Kennedy Duncan,...

Year-End Wrap-Up: NHS, NJHS

Year-End Wrap-Up: NHS, NJHS

By Hays Dubberly May 14, 2015

National Honor Society (NHS) is a premier organization established to recognize high school students throughout the nation. Students must demonstrate excellence in areas of scholarships, leadership, service,...

M.A.S.H. hits Jackson Prep Theatre

M.A.S.H. hits Jackson Prep Theatre

By Ian Payne April 28, 2015

  Jackson Prep students put on a theatre version of the hit comedy movie and TV show, M*A*S*H, on April 24th, 25th, and 26th.  The play briefly showed the lives of fictional military doctors and...

Students gather to watch a Rolling Stones cover. Photo courtesy Brook McCulley.

Coffeehouse Celebrates the Release of Earthwinds

By Healy Vise April 24, 2015

On April 24, 2015, the Earthwinds' Coffeehouse was a success.  Earthwinds released its forty-fourth volume. This year's issue consisted of four sections: art & photography, music, poetry, and prose....

Photo courtesy of Juanita Ward.

Faculty Defeat Seniors on Basketball Court

By Paul Andress April 23, 2015

Every year the seniors take on the faculty in a basketball game to raise money for a Guatemala mission trip. During the summer, the varsity boys' basketball team takes a trip to Guatemala to spread God's...

Robotics Team Accepts the First Tech Challenge

Robotics Team Accepts the First Tech Challenge

By Megan Dallas April 22, 2015

With so much talent in the robotics club this year, club leader and physics teacher, Mr. Clay Conn, decided to split the students into two teams. Each team was asked to design and program a robot to compete...

MASH cast

Prep Players To Perform M*A*S*H

By Sarah Kennedy Duncan and John William Creel April 22, 2015

For the spring play the Jackson Prep Players will be performing M*A*S*H.  M*A*S*H was a TV series from the seventies and eighties, and before that a much-lauded 1970 motion picture. Both were based...

Chivalry In The Hallways

Chivalry In The Hallways

By Holt Crews April 22, 2015

Every year, Mr. Nathan Devine’s Senior English class does a week long project on chivalry. Each boy is matched with a girl and asked to act chivalrous towards her for the entire week. Observers...

Music, Writing to Meet at Earthwinds Coffeehouse

Music, Writing to Meet at Earthwinds Coffeehouse

By Haynes Horsley April 22, 2015

On April 24, Jackson Prep's literary magazine will be holding its annual Coffeehouse. The Coffeehouse is put on by Earthwinds on the same day that they release their new magazine. The event allows students...

2015-2016 Pacers Announced

2015-2016 Pacers Announced

By Paul Andress April 21, 2015

Your 2015-2016 award-winning, intergalactic, and world famous Pacers are... Captain: Emily Ellison 1st Lieutenant: Anna Miller Rebich 2nd Lieutenant: Mollie Merrell Sophomores: Avery...

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