Staff writer Cayla Vaughan Imagine people having fun under the sun. Eating, singing, playing. But you need to pull out a sterilized needle to take your blood sugar, just to discover you can’t join in on the fun until you’re at a safe level again. It is estimated that about three million Americans have type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin. Insulin is a hormone needed to allow sugar to enter cells and produce energy. Type 1 diabetes is genetic, and not contagious. You cannot catch type 1 diabetes, nor can you get it from eating too much sugar. Here at Imagine Prep there are many students with type 1 diabetes. One of those students is freshman, Christian Earl. “I was 11 when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes,” Earl said. “I was kind of in shock, but I wasn’t really happy and I wasn’t really sad.”
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Staff writer Juliette Fournet The Global Perspectives class is a Cambridge class; Imagine Prep is one of the rare schools in America that offers this class. For the first time this year the Prep offered this class to middle school students taught by Mrs. Amy Boven and Ms. Lauren Meunier. Global is a class where students get to research some problems and things going on in the world and study them. “It's a research-based class where they're looking into different issues and topics around the world,” Boven said. Staff writer Kiersten Moss
There is one field trip every year that students at Imagine Prep are always excited for. Students hear about it months before the day and rush to the front office to turn in their field trip forms. This trip is the Renaissance Fair field trip. Staff writer Kyra Koellen This year at Imagine Prep the graduating class is about 53 students. Guidance Counselor Mrs. Sabrina Poggi says this is the biggest graduating class so far. Saying goodbye to our seniors of class of 2017 we wonder what their plans are after they graduate and how they feel right now and how their time at Imagine Prep has been. Poggi makes sure all the high schoolers, especially seniors and juniors are on track to graduate with the rest of their class. Contributing reporter Carlie Hess
Every coin can make a difference. A couple pennies, two dimes, or maybe just one nickel can get someone closer to a cure for cancer. This is what Pennies for Patients is, a coin drive to help Leukemia and Lymphoma patients. This year High School Student Council members had students of all grades donate to there first hour teachers to raise money for this great cause. Tim Hulstrom, the teacher in charge of High School Student Council says that Pennies for Patients is an important fundraiser to help the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. |