Sports at Potomac are back, with our first session of games lined up today! The players and coaches cannot wait to get back out on the field, courts, and courses, and are hoping to bring home a dub this weekend. While the games today and next weekend are going to be the only games of the fall season, students and families were recently notified that … Continue reading 3/13 Sports Livestreams
Fall sports are BACK! The announcement of interscholastic competition for Potomac is an extremely exciting opportunity, and one that our athletes have been craving, especially because our athletes have not competed against other schools in almost a full year. The entirety of the freshmen class have not yet played a high school sport against other schools yet, so the opportunity of interscholastic sports has excited … Continue reading The Fall Sports Preview
With gains greater than 700%, 300%, and 200%, respectively, in a matter of days you could consider that the GameStop, AMC, and Blackberry stocks truly have “gone to the moon.” But why? How could a video game retail company, a movie theatre, and former mobile cell phone giant stock explode when many consider these companies to be becoming obsolete? The answers lay in various new, … Continue reading GameStop, AMC, and Blackberry: To the MOON!
The Potomac School held the first ever Winter Sports Media Day on Saturday, January 30, 2021. After admiring and eventually getting past The Pulse editing staff’s show-stealing attire, Potomac’s passionate athletes had a plethora of thoughts to share after experiencing a season unlike any other. In an attempt to make the most out of a truly unfortunate situation, Potomac’s Athletic Director, Erica Woda, was committed … Continue reading Winter Media Day Recap
Youth For Yemen is an organization started by Potomac senior Mina Kassim (’21) at the onset of the pandemic. Instead of sleeping in or binging the newest season of the Bachelor, Mina took it upon herself to create a student-run organization that works to advocate for and provide aid to Yemen. According to Mina, her inspiration for starting Youth For Yemen (YFY) was her research … Continue reading Mina Kassim (’21) Launches “Youth For Yemen” Organization
Over the past four years, U.S.-Israeli relations have flourished, thanks to former president Donald Trump’s track record of blindly endorsing Israel at the expense of the Palestinian people. In a radical departure from the United States’ traditional position as a bipartisan mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Trump pursued a corrupt alliance with Israeli Prime Minister and hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu. In accordance with Netanyahu’s dogmatic anti-Palestinian … Continue reading Distancing from Netanyahu Isn’t Visionary—it’s Regressive Myopia
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