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The Foothill Dragon Press

The Student News Site of Foothill Technology High School

The Foothill Dragon Press

The Student News Site of Foothill Technology High School

The Foothill Dragon Press

The Foothill Dragon Press staff took home 10 first place awards at the Ventura County Star high school journalism awards ceremony. Credit: Melissa Wantz/The Foothill Dragon Press

The Foothill Dragon Press takes home 18 awards from Ventura County Star ceremony

Hailey Tallman May 17, 2013

Motivated young journalists, printed or published online, gathered on the patio outside of the Ventura County Star office yesterday evening to receive awards for the best news, features, sports and other...

Senior Holly Tokar is ranked 11th in the country for pole vaulting. Credit: Cindy Tokar. Used with permission.

Tokar smashes records in pole vaulting, perseveres through injuries

Anna Cogswell May 12, 2013

Ranked 11th in the country for pole vaulting, senior Holly Tokar has been smashing records left and right locally. Breaking the Ventura High School stadium record on March 9 with a 12'3" jump, Tokar...

Singer Lexi Rule performs at the Schools For Salone benefit concert. Credit: Bethany Fankhauser/The Foothill Dragon Press

Local student musicians perform to raise awareness for Sierra Leone and West Africa (33 photos, video)

Hailey Tallman May 12, 2013

Filled with electric guitar solos and grinning faces, a benefit concert was held at Community Presbyterian Church last night to raise money for the people in poverty in Sierra Leone. Hosted by Foothill...

Editor-in-Chief, Rachel Crane, gets doused with water, a tradition started three years ago when the Dragon press won its first Pacemaker. Credit: Aysen Tan/ The Foothill Dragon Press

The Foothill Dragon Press honored with most prestigious student journalism award

Anna Cogswell May 10, 2013

The Dragon Press is now one of only seven online student publications to receive both the Pacemaker and The Golden Crown this year after receiving NSPA’s highest honor weeks ago. The National...

Junior Kienna Kulzer won in the category of High School Fiction by entering a creative writing piece in the Art Tales contest. Credit: Emily Chacon/The Foothill Dragon Press

Kulzer wins first place in creative writing competition, Art Tales, with “A Thousand Ways”

Benjamin Limpich May 7, 2013

“There are a thousand ways to die,” is Foothill junior Kienna Kulzer’s opening statement in her short story that won first place in the City of Ventura’s fifth annual Art Tales writing contest. In...

Ventura High School senior John Nye attends "A Night to Remember," a prom put on by Mission Church for the special needs community. Credit: Jackson Tovar/The Foothill Dragon Press

Church rallies behind special needs community to provide a night that will not be forgotten

Anna Cogswell April 30, 2013

Warm cheers and smiling faces greeted guests who to anxiously stepped out of a limousine onto a red carpet fully equipped with "paparazzi," security guards, and an exclusively roped off entrance to...

A drug-sniffing dog searched four classrooms today and two students were pulled out of class due to an alert on their belongings. Credit: Aysen Tan/The Foothill Dragon Press

Drug-sniffing dogs return to search four classrooms; two students pulled out of class

Megan Kearney April 25, 2013

Foothill classrooms were searched by drug-sniffing dogs for the second time this school year during third period today. Four classrooms were randomly selected to be searched, down from the six chosen...

(From left) Sophomores Evan Askar and Allison Champagne and juniors Veronica Lopez and Noah Davis are just a few students at Foothill who play sports. Students entering Foothills freshman class in 2014-2015 will no longer play sports for Buena or Ventura high schools. Photo illustration credit: Aysen Tan/The Foothill Dragon Press

BREAKING NEWS: School board approves start of new era of Foothill athletics; sports teams to start in 2014

Glenda Marshall April 23, 2013

Ventura Unified School District trustees unanimously approved the superintendent's recommendation to launch a Foothill athletics program Tuesday, with the first teams beginning to play in the 2014-2015...

Senior Luke Ballmer placed fourth in the category of national extemporaneous at the Speech and Debate State Tournament. Credit: Bethany Fankhauser/The Foothill Dragon Press

Speech and debate team finishes season, Ballmer places fourth overall in National Extemp at State

Rachel Crane April 23, 2013

Senior Luke Ballmer’s love for rap music proved useful Sunday night when he began his semi-final round at the Speech and Debate State Tournament with a recitation of Snoop Dogg lyrics.  After that...

Juniors Blake Knutson and Matthew Goodkin-Gold, senior Cole Citrenbaum, and juniors Michael Morales and Christopher Short perform at the "Love the Earth" benefit concert. Credit: Aysen Tan/The Foothill Dragon Press

Fourth annual “Love the Earth” benefit concert raises funds for memorial garden (20 photos)

Lucas Wiltjer April 21, 2013

Buena's Environmental Club put on the fourth annual “Love the Earth Concert” to fund the school’s Amy Reinert Memorial Garden which provides fresh produce for the Buena cafeteria and the ASB...

Junior Norint Tung is one of the juniors in Bioscience who is participating in job shadows this week. Credit: Aysen Tan/The Foothill Dragon Press

Juniors have opportunity to shadow medical professionals in action

Anna Cogswell April 20, 2013

Juniors of the Bioscience Academy were bustling around campus sporting black scrubs as they came from and prepared to leave for job shadows provided by the Ventura County Medical Center. Beginning...

Sophomore Susannah Chilton and junior Kristina Garcia dance the night away at Pride Prom. Credit: Stevi Pell/The Foothill Dragon Press

Second annual Pride Prom gives confidence to GSA community (19 photos)

Stevi Pell April 20, 2013

The Poinsettia Pavilion was a buzz with dozens of rainbow balloons, flashing lights, and formally dressed LGBT supporters on Friday night. Bustling since 7 p.m., the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender...

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