WAHS Robotics Team Wins State Championship
Robotics Team 9623Z takes top spot at VRC High School State Championships from Staff Reports West Ashley High School’s robotics team, 9623Z - Zulu, competed at the VEX Robotics Competition (VRC) High School State Championship this past weekend in Greenville, SC, and...
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We Are The Wildcats
What is “Leadership?” According to various sources, it’s defined as the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. Throughout history, this term has determined the rise and fall of nations, the success or...
What's In A Name?
There’s something vaguely familiar about West Ashley High School’s new principal, William Runyon; something that hearkens back to his predecessor, Mary Runyon. It’s not the hair: his is shaved black stubble, hers a shock of white. She’s married to local attorney Bill...
Return To Lunch Lady Land
People always seem to complain about school lunches. But, truthfully, I have mostly fond memories of my grade school cafeteria. OK, so it wasn’t haute cuisine, but it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve eaten in my life either. Or maybe those memories of grade school lunches...
Building For The Future
There may be no parent who keeps a better eye on West Ashley’s middle schools than Tamara Avery. Avery, a mother of three, has already moved her family once to make sure her then-kindergarten-aged son could get into Drayton Hall like all the kids he grew up with in...
School Shopping Through The Ages
Properly outfitting the modern kid to attend high school these days is a different experience than it was 30 years ago when it was their parents’ turn to go. And a vastly different experience than it was in Maw-maw and Paw-paw’s day, 30 years before that. In 2014, a...
Four WAHS Students Selected in Apprentice Program
Eleven juniors and seniors from six Lowcountry high schools officially became apprentices June 25 during a signing ceremony for the inaugural class of the Youth Apprenticeship Program in Manufacturing. Four of those students attend West Ashley High School (WAHS)....
Shrek Comes To West Ashley
West Ashley High School’s The Drama Studio will present Shrek — The Musical on May 21, 22, 23, at 7 p.m. in the school’s auditorium. Based on the 2001 animated film that grossed more than any other of its kind, in the capable hands of veteran directors Ellyn Winkles...
They’re Poets and They Know It
In honor of National Poetry Month, Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School held it’s 11th annual Poetry Slam on April 23 and 24. More than 60 students submitted original poems, memorized them, and performed them before a panel of judges. Students were judged on...
Movin’ On Up
Mary Runyon is not the retiring type. Far from it. So when she told her staff at West Ashley High School recently that she was stepping down, many expected the tiny dynamo with a shock of white hair was leaving for good. She is. Leaving. For good. The greater good....
Innovation in Motion
The Charleston County School District’s Department of Educational Technology has created a new initiative to recognize teachers who implement innovative technology to promote 21st century skills in the classroom and engage their students. Teachers will be nominated...
