Category: Campus Life

2025-2026, Campus Life, Uncategorized

What Is Model UN And Why Should Students Join The Club?

At McCaskey High School, a wide range of clubs are offered to support the diverse interests of all students campus-wide. For example, an argumentative student could join McCaskey’s Debate Club, or a student who likes taking pictures could join the FOCUS Photography club. However, none of these clubs stands out quite like McCaskey’s Model United Nations does. But what actually is the club, why should … Continue reading What Is Model UN And Why Should Students Join The Club?

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2025-2026, Campus Life, Uncategorized

Have you heard about the IB Sciences?

By: Eleni King Martin Within McCaskey’s IB Diploma program lies a much more complex set of classes. The International Baccalaureate (IB) Science department allows students to explore many different fields of study, while still gaining the valuable experience of a well-rounded education. IB prioritizes critical thinking and solving problems, both of which go hand-in-hand with a scientific education. McCaskey offers five different IB science classes, … Continue reading Have you heard about the IB Sciences?

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2025-2026, Campus Life

What Is IB Global Politics

     At McCaskey High School, a wide variety of IB courses are offered for students. IB, also known as International Baccalaureate, is an international organization that offers courses to high schoolers worldwide. These range from more art-focused courses such as IB Visual Arts, to the more in-depth, philosophical IB Theory of Knowledge. One of these courses is the rigorous IB Global Politics, which is taught by … Continue reading What Is IB Global Politics

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2025-2026, Campus Life

IB World Languages

By: Sofia Escudero In the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, one subject that many students complain about is World Languages. Learning French, Spanish, or German can feel hard, confusing, and sometimes unnecessary. A lot of students ask, “Why do we even need this?” However, IB World Languages provide students with important and useful language skills that will become essential to them later in life. Learning these … Continue reading IB World Languages

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2025-2026, Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Uncategorized

The Behind the Scenes of McCaskey’s Stage Crew!

McCaskey’s fall play and spring musicals are always amazing productions because of our extremely talented directors and cast. But when they bring the talent, who brings the set, the lights, the props, the stage? Obviously, it’s our stage crew in McCaskey’s stage design and production class. But what does the whole process look like, and what do we actually do for our biggest production of … Continue reading The Behind the Scenes of McCaskey’s Stage Crew!

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2025-2026, Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Uncategorized

MCCASKEY’S HIDDEN TALENT: THE ART DEPARTMENT

By: Eleni King Martin McCaskey is known for having a fantastic performing arts department, and great athletic teams, including the track and field and wrestling teams. However, the lesser known art department, though just as accomplished, is another amazing part of our school. For the students who don’t wish to be limited to the required 0.5 credits of art, there is a whole world of … Continue reading MCCASKEY’S HIDDEN TALENT: THE ART DEPARTMENT

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2025-2026, Campus Life

Meet McCaskey Chemistry Teacher Mr. Hatch

J.P. McCaskey High School has a lot of unique chemistry teachers. Every single one of them has their own unique ways of pushing their students towards success. Teachers do this through challenging them with projects or simply helping them with a problem. However, one chemistry teacher at McCaskey stands out. This teacher has become the life of room 252. That is thanks to McCaskey’s very … Continue reading Meet McCaskey Chemistry Teacher Mr. Hatch

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2025-2026, Campus Life

Dr Reese: the Heart of McCaskey

By: Eleni King Martin Being a student at McCaskey, you’ve most likely seen Dr. Reese somewhere. Whether it’s walking to class, eating at breakfast and lunch, or just being around campus, Dr. Reese seems to be everywhere. But, have you ever wondered what Dr Reese actually does or what he wants to do? Well, us too. After spending a day with Dr. Reese, my fellow … Continue reading Dr Reese: the Heart of McCaskey

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2025-2026, Campus Life, Sports

A Look into the Construction of the New McCaskey Football Stadium

By: William Looker-Fenn  Over the years, the football stadium at McCaskey has shown its age. The track was old, and the field had divots. It was clear that the football stadium needed to change. As a result, the decision would approve a plan to build a new football stadium for J.P. McCaskey High School. Despite being a large and expensive investment, the changes were vital. … Continue reading A Look into the Construction of the New McCaskey Football Stadium

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2025-2026, Campus Life, Uncategorized

McCaskey’s Spirit Week

By Sofia Escudero Last week, students and staff came together to celebrate Spirit Week, a fun-filled tradition designed to boost school pride and community. Each day brought a new theme, encouraging creativity, teamwork, and plenty of laughter across the halls. The week kicked off with Twin Day, where friends wore matching outfits. From identical hoodies to full-on costumes. Students were dressed as all kinds of … Continue reading McCaskey’s Spirit Week

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2025-2026, Campus Life

2025-2026 HOCO KING AND QUEEN!

By: Eleni King Martin On Saturday, October 17th, our student body celebrated our school at the annual Homecoming Dance. The night before, at our second-to-last football game, the students of McCaskey High School voted who would represent our school as Homecoming King and Queen. The elected students are two accomplished and well-known seniors, Gregory Medina and Keira Koser-Martin!  “I love McCaskey because of the inclusiveness … Continue reading 2025-2026 HOCO KING AND QUEEN!

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2025-2026, Campus Life

Learn more about McCaskey’s 2025-26 Homecoming Court!

By Elisabeth Palacios This year’s homecoming court was an amazing group of students that are involved all across McCaskey, and if we could crown each one of them Homecoming King & Queen, we would! These students include: Benjamin High, Gregory Medina, Zayd Mattar, Darrian Rom, Aaron Canestrare, Rameer Jackson, Shawn Mapp, Gilliana “Gigi” Ortiz, Danaj Kellum, Saniya Cruz, Dymazhia Lavender-Gray, Yakima Citron Cruz, Janeva Hicks, … Continue reading Learn more about McCaskey’s 2025-26 Homecoming Court!

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2025-2026, Campus Life

What Happened at the Fall Fling?

William Looker-Fenn On October 17th of this year, McCaskey held its first-ever Fall Fling. But what exactly is the Fall Fling? The Fall Fling is an event hosted by J.P. McCaskey High School at the end of Homecoming week, celebrating the hard work of students and staff throughout the school. The event featured food trucks, games, and other entertaining activities and attractions. Photo taken by … Continue reading What Happened at the Fall Fling?

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2025-2026, Campus Life

Night of Lights- Homecoming Dance 2025

By Jenny Ward (Guest Writer) This year’s homecoming dance was a continuation of a long-standing McCaskey tradition. Once again taking place at the Lancaster Marriott, this year’s theme was ‘Night of Lights.’ The theme was inspired by last year’s prom theme of the same name in an effort to budget more effectively, thus creating a more immersive homecoming and prom experience through decorations. The 2025 … Continue reading Night of Lights- Homecoming Dance 2025

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2025-2026, Campus Life, Sports

Meet the New Head Coach of McCaskey Football Dr. Mealy 

By: William Looker-Fenn       Over the years, the J.P. McCaskey High School football team has become notorious for losing. This is exacerbated by the fact that they have had a losing record for the past 14 seasons, with their last winning record being an impressive 7-4 in the 2010-2011 season. However, the 14 straight seasons of losing could not be ignored and this would end … Continue reading Meet the New Head Coach of McCaskey Football Dr. Mealy 

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