CHS Globe

05/14/2024

Senior Aanya Singh types hurriedly on her computer, organizing data collection for a real estate agent managing eight properties. Senior Addy Whitesell curates social media posts and runs the outreach efforts of a small local St. Louis business. While these tasks may seem like full-time jobs, they are actually internships sanctioned through Clayton High School within a program called Catalyst.

Catalyst is a smaller network of the larger Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS). The program circuit includes students from Brentwood, University City, Ladue and Clayton high schools.

Students learn the soft skills needed to be successful in the program being taught how to make an elevator pitch, respond to questions in a mock interview, compose professional thank-you notes, create a LinkedIn account and write questions for panelists.

“Entrepreneurship is so much harder than you would think,” junior Shiv Patel said. “But, being in Catalyst and figuring out what you want to do now is going to be really helpful to getting to the point that you want to be at, in the future.”

Read more about this incredible program at the link in our bio, go to chsglobe.com, or pick up a hard copy here at the high school!

Story by Charlie Meyers
Post by Charlie Meyers

05/12/2024

Be sure to vote for the Middle School Writing Contest by tomorrow! After scrolling through the gallery of stories, please write down the name of your favorite article in the comments section for a chance to be featured in the Globe.

Stories collected by Norah Gross
Website post by Bethany Lai
Post by Charlie Meyers

05/04/2024

While many students may know Dr. Compton as the fun, free-spirited FACS teacher with great fashion taste, her biggest supporters know her as: Mom.

Compton garnered inspiration from her twin children born premature, for her small business now known as, Two Little Bees STL.

Despite Compton’s busy work and family life, she makes her custom gifts by hand. These products include clothing articles, keychains and peg doll sets. One of these dolls can take her over an hour to paint. However, Compton believes this effort is worth it because the business provides her with “fun money.”

Read more about Comptons incredible journey and small business at the link in our bio, or go directly to chsglobe.com!!

Story by Sritha Rathikindi
Post and caption by Charlie Meyers
All photos by Sara Matthews

02/07/2023

To read more about Dance Marathon’s mission here at CHS, click the link in our bio!

02/07/2023

To read more about Dance Marathon and their mission here at CHS, click the link in our bio!

02/07/2023

In 1939, the Manhattan Project was in full swing. Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, was a uranium processing plant for the project, located just north of St. Louis city. But when the project winded down, Mallinckrodt began shipping out the radioactive waste to two sites in North County. In the decades following, the government stored the waste haphazardly, where it seeped into the ground and into the water, including nearby Coldwater Creek which backs up to Jana Elementary. On October 24th, the school closed after dangerous amounts of radioactive materials were found on school grounds. For years, citizens have been suffering from the effects of this radioactive material. Some are now suffering with severe auto-immune disorders, others have died from rare forms of cancer. To read more about this story, click the link in our bio!

12/16/2022

globe editor’s pancake breakfast 🥞🫶👩‍🍳

12/12/2022

Come support the Globe’s Holiday bake sale tomorrow at lunch! Hope to see you there! 🫶

11/29/2022

Our Podcast Editor Sofia Mutis and our Editor-in-Chief Alex Slen sit down to discuss the Globe’s latest cover story, A School Upon A Hill. To listen to it, click the link in our bio!

11/17/2022

For our latest cover, “A School upon a hill?,” the Globe examined PTTE pay for teachers within the district. For the past ten years, The School District of Clayton has neglected this key component of staff pay to the detriment of students, teachers and parents.

Written by Alex Slen with contributing reporting from Ivy Reed, JiaLi Deck, and Ivy Slen.

To read more, click the link in our bio!

11/14/2022

Bussing Shortages have been an continuous issue at Clayton High School for years. Most days after school, student athletes scramble to find rides to and from their sporting events. “I think it’s stressful because our coach gives us really strict times to be there,” said CHS Senior Aitana Rosas-Linhard.

Usually older members of the team who can drive are left to drive younger members of the team without their license. This can not only be dangerous but also illegal in some cases.

To read more, go to chsglobe.com

11/09/2022

Yesterday November 8th, Missourians across the state headed to the polls to cast their ballots in the midterm election.

Eric Schmitt (R) won Missouri’s senate seat, replacing Roy Blunt who is retiring. He won over 55% of the vote compared to his opponent Trudy Busch Valentine (D) who only received 42% of the votes.

Missourians also voted in favor of legalizing recreational ma*****na for people 21 years or older.

Also, Missourians voted for a bill to help increase police funding within the state.

10/24/2022

BREAKING NEWS: This morning October 24th, 2022, 3 were shot and killed at Central Visual and Performing Arts School, according to the STL Post Dispatch. The school is located in South St.Louis and is less than 9 miles away from Clayton. This story is on-going and developing.

10/04/2022

To learn more about our new mascot click the link in our bio!

10/01/2022

Our Editor, JiaLi Deck looks into the sensational game of Wordle. She looks into it’s origins, why it is such a fun game and gets perspective from CHS students about why they love it so much. To learn more about Wordle, click the link in our bio!

09/30/2022

09/29/2022

Our reporters, Tessa Palermo and Analee Miller look into the increasing dangers around lacing drugs like ma*****na with much stronger and lethal drugs like fentanyl.

“In a friend’s basement, a group of teenagers have just bought two illegal ma*****na cartridges from a local drug dealer. All but one proceed to smoke the cartridges.
“It was terrifying, we were just sitting in my basement, and all of a sudden she [Jackie*] just started saying that the energy was wrong, and then she looked at me and said ‘It’s Emily, it’s the thing that replaced Emily’,” CHS student Emily* said. Jackie had smoked a cartridge laced with ecstasy. This unexpected drug induced hallucination that caused Jackie to think her friend sitting in front of her was not her actual friend but something else.”

To read more, click the link in our bio!

09/28/2022

“the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is shrinking. The collection of trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is now 100,000 kg smaller”, to learn more good news click the link in our bio!

09/27/2022

Our reporters, Madeline Jeans and Kennedy Anderson reflect on the Pandemic’s effect on the use of Paper vs. Digital resources at Clayton High School. Since the pandemic, students and teachers have become more comfortable using online activities and Google Classroom rather than paper handouts. However, some still prefer paper and pen over electronics. To read more, click the link in our bio!

09/24/2022

The CHS Varsity football team took home their first win of the season against Normandy High School! 🐾

09/23/2022

This month’s PRO/CON is about President Biden’s Student Debt Relief! To read more about our writer’s opinions, click the link in our bio

09/22/2022

To read our fall sports preview, click the link in our bio!

09/21/2022

Our reporter, Ana McAndrew talked to athletes to create a preview of CHS sports this fall. Click the link in our bio to read more!

09/20/2022

Our reporter, Aidan Haupt reviewed the new Lord of The Rings Show, “The Rings of Power” which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. To read his review click the link in our bio!

09/19/2022

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09/18/2022

Albert Pujols is about to hit a historic career mark, 700 home runs. Our reporter, Charlie Balestra talks to teachers about what Pujols’ career meant to them and how Pujols began his career with the Cardinals in 2001. To read more about Pujols and his achievements, click the link in our bio!

09/17/2022

Our new Back-To-School issue is out! Pick up a copy at the front entrance or in front of the Globe room in the CTE hallway!