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
Amy Laumeyer, language arts teacher at North Junior High School, always knew she would be a teacher. “I don’t know the why,” says Laumeyer. “I just remember whenever anyone would ask me in high school what I wanted to be I would always say, ‘A teacher.’” She went to college and entered the education program … Read more
Madeleine Prescott may be a quiet sophomore at Tech High School, but give her pen and paper and she finds her voice! Prescott is the winner of the 2019 Anthem Essay Contest. Prescott began writing stories in first grade. Her first story was about flowers flying away. Upon reflection, she realizes she wrote the story … Read more
BRING ME TO THE SKY By Willow Ramsey Bring me to the sky and show me what you mean. Bring me where water runs, undisturbed, clean. Bring me a blanket to lay in the sun, Bring me to places where battles were won. I want to go there and see what you see, I want … Read more