The Fox Hill building project is very certain about making better learning experiences for students at Fox Hill. According to BCAT, the committee in charge chose the small option and have a smaller school of 325 students. The school is estimated to be 108 million and 91,000 square feet which is much bigger than the original school.

“I am mad because I used to go to Fox Hill and I don't think it needs to be that big for a small number of students,” Steven Howard, BHS sophomore, said.

According to BCAT, the school building administration is saying that they will pay for Fox Hill to be rebuilt and if they want to build one big school for Fox Hill and Pine Glen. However that option is not available anymore.

 ”The school was built in 1960 and I’m excited for students and faculty to have a new building,” Mrs Graham, BHS, librarian, said.

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With the holiday season right around the corner, the Burlington Mall has set up it’s annual holiday season scene. When I visited the mall on November 19th, I could feel the holiday season vibe being injected into my blood. With the combination of lights, Christmas trees, decorations, and music the mall provides an excellent opportunity to feel the power of the Christmas season. Best of all, the mall provides the opportunity for young children and families to meet and take photos with Santa Claus, an opportunity that can put a smile on any kids face. The bright lights, decorated trees, and large scene, clearly attracted many families who hoped to meet the man himself. 

In my photos I hoped to capture the beautiful and festive environment the Burlington Mall provides to its people through great lighting, depth, and numerous angles. This story is newsworthy because of its prominence as the Christmas photos taken at the mall where located in Burlington. Furthermore, it has great timelines as Christmas is right around the corner and many start their festive actions around this time in November. I did face the challenge of waiting a long time for Santa Claus to arrive at the Burlington Mall, resulting me taking my photos a day before the due date. I picked this series in hopes informing those interested about the opportunity to feel the Christmas spirit at the Burlington Mall.

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My photographs take place at Suzanne’s Dance Connection, the studio I grew up dancing at and currently do. I captured moments of my teammates demonstrating hard work in the studio. This was done throughout a typical week of classes for the Senior Company dancers.

The story of motivational and hard working dancers is newsworthy because it informs the audience of the dedication dancers put into their craft. Furthermore, because of the stigma around dance not requiring much energy. Many believe this due to the content performance dancers are forced to exhibit despite the pain and strength dance demands. This photo series shows dancers when they are not performing. Instead they are in the studio preparing for upcoming shows and competitions, free to show how hard they work.

My goal was to capture dancers in moments of training. Not necessarily capturing big tricks or leg extensions, but real techniques we use to practice our skills to accomplish those difficult moves. The series includes moments between and during class of dancers focused in their craft. I demonstrate the rule of thirds, low angle, eye-level shots, depth, framing and more in my composition. This is to fully illustrate the environment in the dance studio.

The challenge that occurred in the process of creating my photo series was finding time to step away from my class to take photos. Due to the fact I was taking photos of my teammates, I had to take a break from our class when it was appropriate. I had to constantly seek moments that were worth capturing and if I was even able to stop dancing to photograph them. The successes I achieved was being able to get the whole teams consent to take these photos when I see photo potential. Also finding instances of individuals practicing on their own was another success in conveying this story.

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To celebrate the publishing of 2023’s fall newspaper, there was a celebration hosted in the lower library of Burlington High School for thirty minutes on November 7th. People got to read the newspaper, play some related games, and, of course, eat snacks! This was actually the first ever of its kind, so it’s very prominent to, really, the history of Burlington High School (or BHS). My photo series is also based on human interest, so if anyone wanted to know what happened, I can give them a glimpse into it. And I decided to have most of the pictures with people filling the frame, since it showed how much people actually joined in. It was a very lively time, so that’s why I added color to those specific pictures. A challenge I had was the time limit. I only really had around thirty minutes, even less. So, I tried to get good pictures as fast as I can. Without further ado, here are the photos!

Disclaimer: The photographer was a part of the celebration as a part of her elective.

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Italy is one of the many grand capitals of tourism. People often go during the summer for the beaches and the history and the monuments of history. However people can be extremely disrespectful to the culture and cause big problems with gentrification. Poorer neighborhoods turned into tourist traps for people who could easily figure out when researching, people living in back alleys due to shops being open. Restaurants also give a special tourist menu to people they hear speaking italians so they can make you pay more for something like pizza or pasta. On top of that people are disrespectful of historical landmarks such as the teenagers that carved their names into The Colosseum, crossing the Trevi Fountain to fill a water bottle with the fountain water. Italian citizen have expressed their feelings about this time and time again but people don’t listen.

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My photographs tell the story of a horse show in Rhode Island. A show team called the “Pony Pals” traveled to Rhode Island to compete in a horse show. The event was many hours long and it was very cold. But everyone on the team (to my knowledge) showed up to cheer each other on even if one or two of their teammates weren’t competing, everyone showed up to show their love and support for each other. 

This is newsworthy because it shows timeliness and human interest. It shows timeliness because this event happened this past weekend (11/19/23), and it shows human interest because people might have interest in seeing what horse shows might look like if they’ve never experienced one themselves. But even if they have been to a horse show/competition before people still might just like to check out the photographs.

My composition choices were that I decided to not really include pictures of anyone riding. And I only did this because there were no really good photographs that I were able to take since I had to really zoom in on my phone, so I decided to leave them out. Which was a little disappointing, but I’m just trying to stay positive about the outcome!

A challenge I experienced in creating this series was the stress of having to wait until the day before the projects due to actually take the photos and do the slideshow. But even more so, if I wasn’t getting the pictures I wanted or the lighting right it would get a little bit frustrating.

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Every Thursday evening at the Woburn YMCA, the Burlington rotary club hosts special needs athletes to play basketball and make friends. To make sure that they have as much exposure as possible, I chose to do my photojournalism story on this. I’ve been a coach of this team since it’s beginning in 2019 but been involved with Special Olympics since 2016.  I wanted to take ‘action shots’ not just standing still photos and catching people off guard. I went into portrait mode on the iPhone for some of the shots but then I did a burst photo for most of them which takes a whole bunch of photos and then you can pick what you want to keep and what you don’t. There was really no challenge in taking these photos, everyone was so kind about me taking photos of them and they did a really good job of acting natural. With my brother being on the team, I tried to not even take photos of him. I probably took 50-60 photos and chose my 6 best ones.

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This photo series serves to highlight the teenage life, or day-to-day basis of a teen as is. I think big medias, movies and tv shows don’t portray correctly most of times what it is like to be a teenager, mood fluctuations, pressure of others, disregard of worries and still caring. I think my photos represent many parts of what it’s like being a teenager, the lighting choice is used to highlight darker or brighter moments every teenager goes through, what is important to us and what we wish to leave behind. It was hard to find the right fit of photos, but it was very interesting messing with the light and shadows.

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This series explored the food that students can purchase at the Burlington High School cafeteria and the social connections students make over lunch.

Disclosure: Subjects of the photos are friends with the reporter.