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Through the valiant funding of taxpayers, public schools stand as the icon of equal opportunity for all children in America. Through the system developed by a society who have always prided themselves on the future of the next generation, government-funded school systems stand as the precipice of opportunity for everyone. Is that truly the case, … Continue reading Every School Matters

Phoenix Writer Emily Purvis interviews Senior Aubrey Lapp, Sophomore Evan Gebhart, and Physics teacher Steven Bode.

Have you ever struggled to feel like you belong? At New Castle High School, there’s an easy way to find your people, build new skills, and get involved: clubs! With so many groups to choose from, there’s something for everyone. Whether you’re passionate about the environment, love art, want to grow in your faith, or … Continue reading Find Your Place: Clubs at New Castle High School

New Castle High School’s students are now no longer able to carry a backpack on their person during school hours. Instead, students have been instructed to use small bags or trapper-keepers as a permanent substitution to the much more spacious backpacks. This change is seemingly random and without proper build-up, and yet when looking at … Continue reading Trapper Keeper Trouble

This fall the Trojan Marching Band (TMB) is going on a journey. Their debut contest of the season will be at Northwestern High School on September 13th to compete as an Indiana State School Music Association (ISSMA) Open Class C band. For clarification, the class that a school is selected to be in depends on … Continue reading The Trojan Marching Band Sets Sail

For the summer of 2025 and the foreseeable future, Ivy Tech will no longer be offering free summer classes to high school students. This move was confirmed by the college, but not everyone is thrilled about it. Sophomore Chris Cole has some choice words about the change, “I think it’s absurd, students should protest over … Continue reading Prepare to Cut Those Summer Classes

Harvard university, the oldest and most prestigious college in America, is currently under fire from the Trump administration regarding admission processes and antisemitism on campus. After a careful overview of Harvard’s campus activism, the Trump administration decided that admissions were unfair towards certain demographics, and that pro-palestine protests were getting out of hand and causing … Continue reading Potus vs Private Universities, Who Wins?

One of the most important things necessary for a student to succeed is a proper amount of sleep. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), “During sleep, your body is working to support healthy brain function and maintain your physical health.” Sleep, in its entirety, is the most important practice required for … Continue reading The Secret to Serendipitous Sleep

New Castle High School excels at offering academic experiences to its students. Whether it be the astounding AP classes or the incredible IVY Tech courses, it is not surprising that NCHS has a bountiful cornucopia of collegiate courses. These prestigious courses, however, only offer higher education about the pre-established STEM curriculum. What if a student … Continue reading A First Person Look at the Career Center

Education is built on the basis of making certain that students have the ability to perform in any given environment. A school does not expect students to remember how to properly find the distance between the radius and center of a circle, but they do expect students to gain the ability to handle difficult problems … Continue reading The Department of Education: What Does It Do?

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It’s that time of the year again! Election season is just around the corner and everybody knows what that means. Countless cases of politicians lying, numerous insults coming from candidates, and issues being brought up that we all know will not get fixed. Election season is a great way to get informed about why and … Continue reading Top Concerns for Voters in 2024

2024  RED RIBBON WEEK (Community Support in Henry County) Businesses welcoming –RRW students wearing their RED BRACELET (open…Monday, Tuesday , Thursday , Friday 8 am – 5 pm (closed lunch time) RRW students must be wearing their RED BRACELET

Students all around the world struggle with mental health issues. Some of these issues are caused at birth. Others are caused by external factors, such as school or work. Mental health is a serious issue that often gets overlooked or completely disregarded. A large factor of student’s mental health issues come from stress. Stress is … Continue reading Stressed students, that can’t be good

The human psyche is one of the most intricately, complicated programs in the entire world. Within 9 months of structural development, humans develop an organ that rivals modern day supercomputers. In fact, if one were to take just a cubic millimeter (smaller than a pinky finger) of a brain and analyze it, they would be … Continue reading Your Mind Matters Too

New Castle High School students have been given the opportunity to participate in a volunteer opportunity after school at the New Castle Armory, Thursday, September 26 from 6p.m. to 8p.m. 321 Go kids, a well-established local business, has announced that they will be hosting the event. Throughout the course of the event, a wide variety … Continue reading Future leaders in action

The newest challenge for teens across Indiana is Senate Bill 185, otherwise known as, the bill that puts a state-wide ban on phones during school. The bill entailed guidelines for schools in the state to prevent students using their phone in class. After being passed last year, it is now currently being enforced in every … Continue reading The Fine Print of the Phone Bill

by Collin Pence Pickleball is such a growing sport that it was only a matter of time before it reached New Castle High School. For the 2024-2025 academic year onward New Castle High School will be welcoming a new pickleball club for students of any grade level. The official callout meeting will take place the … Continue reading Pickleball palooza at New Castle High School

As the years come and go, people create memories with the invaluable experiences they accrue. At  NCHS, the same is true for both the teachers and the students. Teachers will create an incredibly intricate system of education that is enjoyable for the students. Sadly, another incredible teacher is retiring from NCHS, in fact, they are … Continue reading Mrs. Hamilton: Sewing The Seeds of Knowledge

New Castle High School–or Chrysler High School for the wiser–has been standing tall ever since its construction was completed in 1958. Thousands of students have been through the halls that defined the later childhoods of the many current residents of New Castle. Said students who were molded by the many excellent teachers who instilled their … Continue reading Robert Hamilton: The Catalyst of the Classroom

At the time of writing this, TikTok’s ban bill has recently passed the house with a unanimous 50-0 vote, meaning that everyone in the house decided against TikTok’s existence under a chinese company. While teenagers around the world begin to give up on the Legislative Branch, the TikTok bill makes its way toward the Senate, … Continue reading TikTok Is Getting BANNED?!

Senior Wyatt Brewster is a student at New Castle High School. Brewster is a twin to Sam Brewster and has two younger twin brothers. Brewster has gone to New Castle schools since kindergarten. Brewster plans to study finance at DePauw University. Brewster says, “School eats up a lot of our time 10 months out of … Continue reading Wyatt Brewster, NCHS The Financial Guru

New Castle High School is one of those schools that works hard when it comes to updating the current curriculum. Ever since COVID, it’s been difficult for many schools to recoup and change their fundamentals. Challenges existed, but NCHS pressed through, and from that came many teachers and (less) students who actually know how to … Continue reading Agriculture’s new plot of land

Pick up a contest form outside of B119. The NCHS winner will be decided by the Phoenix staff and the winner here at school will get a LARGE pizza at lunch. Students will then be entered in the SOS Sagas contest for national recognition. The national winner has a chance to get their story published … Continue reading SOS SAGAS Hunted Writing Contest

Schools and how they work have always been questioned by both parents and students. It’s something so elementary, yet people have a hard time understanding, “What’s the point?” What is the point of sending a child to school where they are ridiculed, taught ineffectively, and put aside? Not all schools are like this. The majority … Continue reading Education; a withering necessity

“With artificial intelligence, we’re summoning the demon.” It’s safe to say that Elon Musk isn’t the biggest fan of artificial intelligence. His beliefs echo a widely held sentiment in America today: AI is simply too dangerous to take a chance on using it for good. With the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the first publicly accessible … Continue reading ChatGPT: Friend or Enemy?

Winner: Jasmine Windisch

Mark your calendars, Trojans! Our first spirit week of the year will be on the week of September 12th-16th! New Castle will be having Dress up days, cookouts, Dances, and more! To kick off this week’s festivities, New Castle will be hosting the Glow Zone Dance. The Glow Dance will take place on Saturday, September 10th. … Continue reading Spirit Week!

Clubs meeting during SRT time on 9/7 are: 8/24 IMPORTANT SRT UPDATE: Student Resource Time has been moved to after 6th hour. SRT will no longer take place after third hour to better accommodate Career Center students. SRT will now take place from 1:50-2:45pm on Wednesdays. Lunch schedules have also changed and will be the … Continue reading Student Resource Time-What is it and How Will it Work? (UPDATE ON CLUBS MEETING 9/7)

Every year on March 17th, people around the world celebrate Irish culture and heritage with various styles of drink, parades, wearing green to avoid pinching, and in some cases, dying a river green to celebrate St. Patrick’s day!  St. Patrick’s day originated on  March 17th, 1631 when the church established a day of feasting honoring … Continue reading St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations Around the World

The next time you’re bored, instead of looking down at a screen and scrolling through social media, or watching tv, why not try out a new game?  The Rose City Game Library is a non-profit organization that provides a free community gathering space for all ages to enjoy. The RCGL has over 500 games and … Continue reading The Rose City Game Library

1st place winner Christmas Eve By: Sam Horak You wake in the morningSnow you start adoringRight before Christmas dayAs your thoughts start to say How winter can be mysteriousWith Christmas taken so seriousChristmas lights so brightWhat beautiful sight Winter’s snow covers the treesCold enough to make you freezeSnowflakes are so uniqueAll of them are antiques … Continue reading 2021 Winter poetry contest

School is a place for learning and gaining new experiences. However, some of those experiences are not always entirely positive.  Everyone is aware of the COVID global pandemic, but there is another pandemic that is ravaging the young adult population.  According to The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 11.7% of US Citizens … Continue reading The Drug Crisis in Teens

What does it mean to give back? Giving back simply means helping someone who is less fortunate than you are. Now giving back includes many different things whether it is volunteering at a soup kitchen, giving up old toys or clothes that you no longer use or no longer fit, or even as simple as … Continue reading Westminster Food Drive and giving back

The annual Metropolitan Gala is an event that is often recognized as the pinnacle of red carpet fashion. Over the years, the Metropolitan Gala has become known for its lavish and ravishing fashion. Many stars and well-known public figures collaborate with luxury designer brands to create a look that will stun everyone. The Gala has … Continue reading The Hits and Misses of the 2021 Met Gala

After multiple different decisions and a back and fourth debate on whether or no backpacks should be aloud in school the decision was finally made to allow them the rest of the year. With only allowing backpacks at the beginning of the year and not giving out lockers, students got very comfortable having everything they … Continue reading Backpacks- A debate

New Castle Students Adjust to New School Schedules Due to the COVID-19 pandemic raging at the start of the 2020-2021 school year, it was decided that the school day would have to be shortened to 8:00-2:32 for the high school building to limit close contact between students and to give teachers some time to prep … Continue reading New Castle Students Adjust to New School Day Schedule

The phoenix is happy to welcome all new, incoming teachers to New Castle High School this year and hope you stay around for future years to come. Raeanne Schlotterbeck What do you teach here at NCHS?“I teach Family & Consumer Sciences and Career Exploration.” Before teaching at NCHS what did you do?“I taught at Richmond … Continue reading Meet the new teachers

Teaching is one of the hardest, and yet one of the most rewarding professions on the spectrum.  New Castle High School for many years has prided itself on having some of the best teaching staff in Indiana.  Due to the COVID pandemic, many teachers have had to reach outside their comfort zone and into the … Continue reading A Farewell to Some of the Greatest Teachers NCHS Has Ever Seen

2020 can be called the year of technology. 2020 has been as unconventional as can be. Months on months of virtual education have been a huge learning curve for everyone, students and staff. Returning to brick and mortar learning in August was an exciting day for everyone. Things were running smoothly until students hit another … Continue reading NCHS Technology Services Save the School Year

After a journey across the stars, the NASA owned rover, named Perseverance, will finally have its big day. After leaving Earth on July 30th, 2020, the tiny rover finally touched down on Mars’s surface on February 18th. Perseverance and other rovers in the future will help search for clues for big questions: did life ever … Continue reading Perseverance touches down on Mars in search of life