On March 15th, 2016, Friendship Collegiate Academy hosted its Annual Senior Superlative Show to showcase the most outstanding seniors in school.  Here’s the winners for each category.

Uplifting people’s consciousness: Kameisha Hodge was one of FNN’s best writers. It was no surprise that she has written three books, Atlas of Consciousness, Double Consciousness: An Autoethnic Guide to My Black American Experience and Unconsciousness. Now is she helping  young authors  put their work on paper.

Do people still say “hello” when passing each other on the sidewalk? Are pedestrian manners a thing?  What is Etiquette?  Etiquette is alive and well in DC. Etiquette is polite behavior and good manners in a community space. It is a nice way to create a respectful environment.

On April 10, 2016, two students from Friendship Tech Prep left to travel to Flint, Michigan so we could initiate “The Flint Friendship Project”. It was a project that is constructed for Friendship Tech Prep Academy and the International Academy of Flint to help develop a different understanding of Flint...

Today on March 16, 2016, the senior class was given the opportunity to listen to Derrick Watkins, aka Fonzworth Bentley, a musician and author best known for being Sean (Puffy) Combs’s personal valet. He came to talk to the students about how we are all CEOs right now and that we represent our own brand....

On a cloudy fall day in 1961, a Tupolev Tu-4 bomber flies over the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Soviet Union. Reaching a height of 35,000 feet, the pilot drops the Tsar Bomba. The Tsar Bomba was a 100 megaton nuclear bomb.That's like someone getting 100 million tons of TNT and detonating it....

Questions have been raised around news articles asking, "Should scholars dissect real animals?” We believe that we as scholars should dissect real animals. We believe that we should dissect real animals because if we don’t, we will never get the real experience with real animals....

No Objections Here: I am truly in awe when I see one of my classmates achieve success on an epic scale. Studying law takes great amount of focus and dedication.... 

Have you heard of CES, also known as “Consumer Electronics Show”. It is an electronics and technology trade show that attracts thousands. It is held in Las Vegas Nevada each year....

On March 18, 2016 at Friendship Blow Pierce Elementary School, Ms. Gibson’s 3rd grade class had a political debate and rally that you can see in the video above.  The debate was about how school funds should be used....

Video games, video games, video games! That’s all kids are talking about. But what if there was a place where you could play video games for hours at a time, not get into any trouble, or even have to sneak around to do it? What about at school? At Woodridge, there’s a room where scholars can play all the games they want until 6pm!

In November, 2015, Friendship Collegiate students took a fabulous trip to the Journalism Education Association in Orlando Florida, to improve their skills in journalism....

On April 12, 2016, Friendship Armstrong Elementary had a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Reading Room. In the Reading Room, the first thing I noticed was the artwork and I saw the bins with the grade levels on them, so if you're in a rush, you don’t have to ask the teacher. 

March 17, 2016, Ms. Grace's 4th grade class is celebrating Marian Anderson for Women's History Month. Both Marian and Beyonce...

For 2016 Black History Month we wrote a play about our African Ancestors. We videotaped our performance and showed it at our school’s Black History Month Showcase. The play was about how our African Ancestors taught us kids that we came from greatness. We used our imagination to write the...

Minecraft is a fun game in which you can construct anything you imagine. Although it requires high level skills, one can achieve that with practice.  Once you learn the basics, you will quickly move to the next level.... 

Many of you have seen the Super Bowl Halftime Show, but not many of you may have watched Super Bowl commercials. One of these ads was for the new Lays flavor competition. In this competition people can vote for their favorite flavor online to choose which Lays chips stay on the shelves and which are off to the dump.... 

Hacktivists are hackers who fight for a cause. They fight for political justice and they promote social causes. But you will never know who’s a hacker because they look like everyday people....

During September of 2015, Friendship News Network, Tech Prep Bureau went to the Newseum. This trip was so we could learn about history. It was fun and interesting and it was important to me because I wanted to learn about 9/11.

On January 8, 2016, there was a science fair about sustainable houses. The fair was located in the cafeteria at Blow Pierce Junior Academy. This was hosted by the 8th graders....