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The Student News Source Of Kennedy High School

Kennedy Torch

The Student News Source Of Kennedy High School

Kennedy Torch

Roberta Prats and Rotary friends at Marshalltown for  the day.

How Rotary and Kennedy High School Changed My Experience in America

Roberta Prats, Writer February 27, 2018

Rotary's goal is to help students learn new languages, discover other cultures, and truly become global citizens. They have achieved their goal with me. Rotary is the organization that helped make everything...

Roberta Prats posing in downtown CR.

An Exchange Student’s View

Roberta Prats, Writer December 20, 2017

To begin, this is a personal story for me. I wanted people to see how this exchange experience is for me in America and Kennedy High School. I’m an exchange student from Spain and I like know what people...

Roberta Prats and Kendal Runels before the homecoming dance.

A Long way from home

Mary Shaine Devaras and Olivia Haefner October 10, 2017

Roberta Prats, a foreign exchange student from Valencia, Spain wanted to live in America to meet new people, learn more about the culture, and have an experience of what America is like. Cedar Rapids,...

Becoming a member of the Kennedy Drama Department's Technical Crew is one of several awesome experiences for a foreign exchange student.

Being an Exchange Student at Kennedy High School

Joyline Goeb, Writer June 1, 2017

Being an exchange student is so much fun, especially being one at Kennedy High School. It’s my first year at a high school -- where I come from, we don’t have high schools (there's a different...

Joyline Goeb is a junior student visiting from Germany.

From Germany to Cedar Rapids

Tasha Gilkison, Writer December 4, 2016

Students at Kennedy may know Joyline Goeb as a student who has an obsession with peanut butter M & M’s or that how involved she is in Kennedy theatre technical crew -- but not many may know what...

Photo provided by Ana Vilanova

Meet exchange student Ana Vilanova

Kylee McGovern, Writer November 27, 2016

Ana Vilanova, 15, noticed Iowa was different than Spain as soon as she stepped off the plane. “You [Iowans] live out in the country. We live in the cities in Spain,” Vilanova, so., said. In Iowa,...

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