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![Register at collegeboard.org for the June test.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-02-at-3.17.59 PM-1200x658.png)
As technology advances, it is no surprise that standardized testing will change with the rest of the world. Students have officially taken their...
![Brinn Marks, 12th grade, and Caleb Moniz, 11th grade, express their relief as Golde and Tevye, respectively, during the song “Tevye’s Dream”](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-30-at-12.48.23 PM.png)
Amidst the hustle and bustle of tech week, fans and actors are sad to say “The show must not go on,” or at least not yet. Actors and actresses...
![Aylie Owens, seventh grade, led some of her peers to pray over the dancers and their hardships.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/unnamed-1200x900.jpg)
For an event deemed the “HOPE” Dance Concert, the young dancers must summon all hope they can muster to rise above hardships this year. After...
![Students have officially taken their last written SAT and will now begin taking digital tests. Changes to the test include shorter test length, shorter reading passages, and questions that are more in line with the school curriculum.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SAT_logo_2017.svg.png)
As technology advances, it is no surprise that standardized testing will change with the rest of the world. Students have officially taken their...
The department of education has begun to release millions of students' FAFSA results, kickstarting the waves of paperwork in university financial...
![The Definition of a Protege](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/unnamed-2.jpg)
Watching from the sidelines beneath the white wash of the fluorescent lights suspended high above, you rest comfortably. You had just performed the gymnastics routine you have honed over the course of the last twelve months, staying late, attending every...
![Brinn Marks showing off her win! Gold for Team USA Dragon Boating.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/d599c0f1-4d29-401c-8ff8-ecdc4984efe3-e1709083592834.jpeg)
At six years old, Brinn Marks, a current 12th grader, had a dream. After seeing the British Olympics’ opening scene, Brinn realized she wanted...
![Graphics by Blake Vasek](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/graphics4greaver-copy-1200x675.png)
oSound the horns, roll out the red carpet! It is time to meet this year's homecoming court as the vote for the 2023-2024 homecoming king and...
![Lets make this October a memorable one with boxes we pack and pray over for cancer patients. Help us be the light to otheres!](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Help-us-raise-funds-for-breast-cancer-Care-Boxes-857x1200.jpg)
Whipping the water with the paddle, searing through it with a determination and resilience so bold, you can see it in her everything. Brinn...
![Solar Eclipse 2024](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-2.05.06 PM.png)
![Support your Journalism Team: Eat Ice Cream!](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Jack-the-Dipper-Fundraiser-1-927x1200.jpg)
![SAT10 Recap-Elementary Edition](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1.png)
![There is plenty to discover in the city beautiful](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-28-at-1.23.46 PM-1200x521.png)
![It is wildly impressive that some old, otherwise boring, Founding Father could be metamorphosized into a timeless figure, bursting with charisma and clever comebacks to Aaron Burr’s antics.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/unnamed.png)
![Dual Enrollment Tier-Ranking](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Seminole_State_College_Lake-1200x795.jpg)
![The Bell Jar](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-12-at-12.48.26 PM.png)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. An intelligently written book separated into chronicles of the main character’s, Esther Greenwood, later...
![The last line of “Song of Myself” is notoriously ambiguous, urging the audience to formulate their own interpretations. Whitman closes by simply saying, “I stop somewhere waiting for you.” Meant as perhaps an invitation.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Walt_Whitman_-_George_Collins_Cox-969x1200.jpg)
Let’s face it: I’ve never been a big poetry person. Sure, I’ve memorized the occasional Shakespeare monologue or Robert Frost piece for...
![Book Review: I Am a Cat](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/81waMFxU2SL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg)
“Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.” Natsume Soseki I...
![“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/61Gvk5ZlZnL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg)
I’ve read many books over the years, and most just slip into the background of my distant memory, the title remembered but never the content....
![Book Review: Paper Towns](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/81WBJQUEFsL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg)
Being a senior in high school comes with a flood of contradictory emotions. You long to graduate, but can’t ever imagine actually leaving....
![Brinn Marks, 12th grade, and Caleb Moniz, 11th grade, express their relief as Golde and Tevye, respectively, during the song “Tevye’s Dream”](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-30-at-12.48.23 PM.png)
Amidst the hustle and bustle of tech week, fans and actors are sad to say “The show must not go on,” or at least not yet. Actors and actresses...
![Hosts: Kevi Stafford and Lynn Rush, staff, and Preston Richmond, ninth grade, and Lexie Williams, 11th grade](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024-02-16-BHM-Open-Mic-106-1200x801.jpg)
The 2024 Black History Open Mic began with the hosts, Ms. Kevi and Coach Rush, introducing an educational video showing black history and culture...
![The Orlando Museum of Art or OMA is struggling to deal with the aftermath of their 2022 legal troubles after an FBI raid.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Orlando_Museum_of_Art-1200x800.jpg)
Consider the art museum, what it means to society, and why these seemingly unviable institutions exist in our community. Recently,...
![After a hard-fought season, the OS Lions finished 2nd place overall in the State Tournament, bringing a trophy with them back to One School.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/yVBNGk3M7dwJfBPdk656TbrT-1200x801.jpg)
The OS Lions Varsity Basketball Team moved on from their successful regular season and waded into the murky waters of the Sunshine Christian...
![To start off the game, Jeremiah Schilling, sophmore, jumps in the air for the tip-off, giving the Lions the first possession of the game.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02-20-Lions-Vs-Liberty-22-1200x800.jpg)
In their first year of eligibility for the Sunshine Christian League State Tournament, the OS Lions Varsity Basketball Team clinched the second...
![Ethan Prendergast, #2, reaches for a missed shot from the other team, while Jeremiah Schilling, #11, and Noah Miller, #5, block the other team.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Ethan-Shot-1200x957.jpg)
The week of December 4th to the 8th marks two wins for the Varsity Lions basketball team. In the first win, Tuesday, December 5th, the Lions...
![Jayden Keppel, Lions #12, jumps to make a basket to help the team towards their epic win against Liberty Christian School.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/11-29-23-Basketball-BG2-12-1081x1200.jpg)
The teams ran from side to side, passing and throwing the ball to their teammates and out of bounds, saved, and then threw it to the hoop and...
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![The scholars pose after their win.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1F1A1901-900x600.jpg)
Here reactions and interviews straight from the game.
![Youve Got This!](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Screenshot-2023-05-05-at-10.18.03-AM.png)
Staff, The scholars wanted to wish you the best of luck for the upcoming game. Check out their motivational video.
![Impacts of Veganism](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Desa_Cattle_Dairy_Farm_Kundasang_28_December_2023_16-800x1200.jpg)
![Antimatter falls like matter, upholding Einsteins theory of gravity. Graphic by the U.S. National Science Foundation.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/092623_ev_antimatter_fall_feat-1030x580-1.jpg)
![A diagram of the elliptical pattern of the hypothetical Planet Nine.](https://osotanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-18-at-9.17.51-AM-1200x608.png)