Stanford University was originally called Leland Stanford Junior University, but the name got shortened. It’s a private research university in Palo Alto, California. Stanford is known as one of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the world.

My trip to the zoo was very fun and hot. We did a lot of walking in the sun, and we saw a lot of animals like gorillas, tigers, and lions. While we were eating, there were pigeons flying over us....

On April 28th at Friendship Collegiate Academy, Friendship Collegiate’s Golden Dolls put on a grand Cirque du Soleil inspired performance. 

I’m not really into cooking but the way my grandmother told me a story about a family  recipe I became interested. One day my grandmother was cooking salmon and shrimp.... 

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was issued in 2002 by President George Bush. This was made to help children, but it turned out to stress them out with too much testing in 2016. Now President Obama wants to stop it.

Marcell Gibson has always been into science and technology, so it was no surprise that was his major in college. What had my head spinning was that he landed a job at one of the biggest corporations in America.

On May 12th, Friendship Collegiate Academy highlighted all of the ¨Knight Worthy¨ achievements honoring high performing students...

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.