Since RISD implemented AVID in its schools in 2005, the AVID team at RHS has aspired to earn the highest title AVID bestows on schools. The RHS AVID team was met with success this year as it joined the...
For the second year in a row – and only the second time in Richardson High School's history – The Talon was awarded a Silver Star Award at the Interscholastic League Press Conference (ILPC) in...
Junior Thabit Pulak was sitting in Jeff Bivin’s AP Biology class when a yellow slip of paper was delivered to him. Inside was the news that, after two failed attempts, Thabit had been finally elected...
With tears in his eyes, head principal Charles Pickitt announced his retirement plans at a staff meeting on March 8.
“When you reach my age, you should become wiser in how you spend each day and each...
As ex-NBA player Avery Johnson spoke to student athletes in the auditorium, theater students met with actor Glenn Morshower – best known for his roles in “X-Men: First Class” and the Transformers...
For the second year in a row, the RHS Culinary Magnet students were given the challenge: create a snack that a fourth-grader can make. The rules included: you can’t use a sharp knife, oven,...
For many years, Regionals meant the last competition the RHS Academic Decathlon Team participated in for that year. This year, however, was not like any other.
Nine students suited up and began to leave...
Students slowly trailed into the Eagle's Nest, hauling their standardized cardboard display boards. They set them on the tables and sat down, admiring each others' experiments. The sixth period bell rang...
Various middle school buses lined the loading parking lot outside the gymnasium on Friday, January 18. Hoards of eighth grade students poured out and entered the gym to fill the stands for the annual...
Waiting for his iPhone internet browser to load Rportal's mobile interface, senior Ahnaf Arefin grew frustrated.
"We are at the end of the semester; we should be able to see our grades," Arefin said....
The roller coaster had loop-de-loops, a funnel, and a hill that looked like a camel's hump and curve. But unlike the giant metal thrill rides that students visit at Six Flags, this roller coaster was...
Without thinking twice, several senior guys jumped into the ice-cold waters of senior Luke Adamson's pool. They surfaced and laughed as people gathered around the edge to take pictures of them.
"I had...
