Anne Mengue is a new-to-country Apollo High School freshman who has impressed her EL (English Language) teacher and administration with her poetry skills. She’s one of the recent winners of Apollo’s Black History Month Writing Competition. Mengue moved to St. Cloud from Cameroon, Africa in August. She was very excited to start school. In Cameroon, … Read more
This Tech High School senior, Fiona Lee, is ready to go anywhere after graduation. “Anywhere in Africa, Asia or South America– places where people would be too scared to go. That’s where I want to go.” Lee grew up in Brainerd, Minnesota. She describes her childhood as being “not very diverse.” When she moved to the … Read more
Graham Litterst, English language teacher at South Junior High School, wanted to stay as far away from teaching as he could. Both his parents were professors. His mother taught at St. Cloud State University and his father at the College of St. Benedict. Growing up, he saw first hand how they dedicated themselves to their students, … Read more