Do you know what the top three games of the year are so far? Gamestop has just released a list of the most popular games. And there are even more scheduled to come out later this month.

Earlier this month on October 3rd, 2017,  Woodridge had the first Scholastic Book Fair of the school year. For one long week, the fair was a huge hit. The best sellers were Dork Diaries and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Trader Joe’s is finally bringing health to the hood. Well, Southeast Washington, DC. is technically really not the hood anymore. Southeast use to be considered one of the poorest neighborhoods in D.C.

On September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration announced by executive order that the  DACA program will be rescinded. When Trump’s proposed cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was announced, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, “The executive order denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs.”

On June 9th, 2017, the up-and-coming artist, SZA came out the cut with a debut album. The album was ranked in the top 50 that came out in 2017. The name of the album is CTRL which stands for “control” on the keyboard.

On Friday, October 6th, Friendship took on Archbishop Spaulding High School in Severn, Maryland.

Recently, President Trump announced that he plans to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S military. That is unacceptable and illegal. A series of tweets from President Donald Trump on July 26, 2017 stated the following "After consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military."

On September 28, 2017, reporters from FNN Tech Prep had the chance to visit the wonderful Newseum to see many different exhibits and to play around in the Interactive NewsRoom. Many of us have already been to the Newseum but each time we go we are able to learn many new things. We finally got to see the new and improved FBI exhibit and learn some new things about one of our favorite topics which is 9/11.

The 2017-2018 school year has been here for almost 5 weeks now! Plenty of scholars were very excited because they were able to meet new teachers and finally get to be in a higher grade. Whether you’re a newcomer in high school or middle school or were here last year, you have a brand new set of goals for the school year and a whole new set of challenges.

I’m pretty sure you guys are CLEARLY aware that Rihanna is back at it again! She’s come up with a new product. It all started with her music. Then she partnered with PUMA by selling slides and shoes.

Did you know most kids are nervous and a bit scared of the first day of school? Well, this year was different. Why?  The eclipse was a big deal this year and all the excitement took place on the first day of school.

produced by Ms. Spell and her pre-K readers at Friendship Chamberlain Academy

Photos by Dontay Younger. 

On Friday, September 8, 2017, the Friendship Knights came in ready to take home the win against the Eastern Ramblers at Eastern. The team collaborated to insure that they would not only win, but stop the Ramblers from scoring at all.

On August 26, 2017, Friendship Collegiate went up against Wilson, the game that all players knew they would have to prepare for, which is why in practice they went over the three-step drop—a technique in which the quarterback takes three steps back before throwing the ball. They practiced five days a week, 4-5 hours a day until they knew that the quarterback could perfect this skill.

Video by FNN Collegiate Bureau. 

On July 7, 2017, Tech Prep summer scholars had our incentive for the week. Each student had to make sure they had a complete uniform on, and no detentions for the week.