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Participants sit with their Hogwarts houses as they prepare to play “Harry Potter” Trivia.

Harry Potter Trivia brings Mead’s nerds together

Adah McMillan, Copy and Design Editor October 30, 2018

I read a lot of books. Sometimes I read three or more in a week—and a lot of the many books I’ve read are absolutely amazing—but one series tops them all and will always top them all: Harry Potter....

Surviving the October Slump

Surviving the October Slump

Shelby Lewis, Copy and Design Editor October 30, 2018

Ah, the October Slump—the big sleep—everyone’s enemy. So many people have fallen victim to this epidemic of exhaustion that comes right around the end of October and into the beginning of November....

Varsity Football steamrolls Denver North in a blowout victory on senior night

Varsity Football steamrolls Denver North in a blowout victory on senior night

Aiden Owen, Photography Editor October 29, 2018

Varsity Football beat the Denver North Vikings 49-6 Friday night. This marks the fourth straight win for the Mavericks—all of which have been blowouts—and the fifth blowout of the season. The Mavericks...

This is the Men’s Soccer team here at mead after their first win against Estes Park.

Improvements are being made by the Boys Varsity Soccer

Diego Cordero, Reporter October 29, 2018

As the season comes to an end the Varsity Soccer team looks back on all that happened. Starting this year the soccer team was in high spirits to make a change in the program, and that they did. They...

Math teacher Ian Hempe sitting down grading students papers.

How the traditional grading system often keeps us down: a student’s perspective

Wyett Derr, Writer October 25, 2018

Why do we have a grading system? What do grades do for us that can help us be more confident about ourselves and make us want to work harder? Are we only as smart as what our grade says we are? Do people...

40 years after the events of Halloween (1978), Michael Myers returns for another chilling set of murders on his quest to finish off Laurie Strode

40 years after the events of Halloween (1978), Michael Myers returns for another chilling set of murders on his quest to finish off Laurie Strode

Matthew Silbernagel, Content Editor October 24, 2018

40 years later, and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is still petrified after the murders of her friends in 1978. She is now a grandmother, with two failed marriages and a daughter (Karen) who wants nothing...

Walk in Their Shoes

Walk in Their Shoes

Ulyana Pyrlik, Photographer October 24, 2018

Mead High School met Mikulas Hlava as a foreign student. Miki is a Czech Republic representative and sent here by the Greenheart Exchange Program to get a new experience. “My dad heard about this program...

Trey Ward (#5) celebrates a pick-6 early in the first quarter at the away football game vs. Holy Family

Trey Ward (#5) celebrates a pick-6 early in the first quarter at the away football game vs. Holy Family

Aiden Owen, Photography Editor October 24, 2018

This play was featured as #5 in the 9News Play of the Week.

Members of both the Speech and Debate team as well as the class sign in to the Congress event after school from previous 2017-2018 season.

The Speech and Debate team has high hopes for the new year with a new coach

Makinsey Hamblin, Guest Writer October 23, 2018

This year, the debate team started off without a coach after previous coach Mrs. Oakes became a district special education coordinator which led her to being unable to work with the team.  Mrs. Oakes...

Meads new bell schedule receives conflicting views

Mead’s new bell schedule receives conflicting views

Jenna Jameson, Reporter October 22, 2018

This year at Mead High School, the schedule is different from last year. Last year, the everyday schedule consisted of ninety minute classes with a fifteen minute breakfast break between the first and...

The players jump up in excitement after Klatt dismisses them with 3 We Are Mead

Celebration, wins, and Homecoming: our 2018 celebration

Aiden Owen, Photography Editor October 22, 2018

Homecoming Friday: A day filled with excitement and fun from the assembly to the parade to the football game. Note from the author/photographer: I wanted to do more with this day, but -- as things go...

Just in time for Halloween, The Haunting of Hill House illustrates how a psychological horror series can have a meaningful story, just as well as jump scares and ghosts

Just in time for Halloween, The Haunting of Hill House illustrates how a psychological horror series can have a meaningful story, just as well as jump scares and ghosts

Matthew Silbernagel, Content Editor October 19, 2018

The Haunting of Hill House presents the life of the Crain family, in both the past and the present. From when they were all kids, being haunted by their worst nightmares, to grown adults still dealing...

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