Category: Student Profile

September 23, 2015

Salaam Gonzales: Competitive Boxer

What were you doing at 5 am this morning…Happen to run a 10k? How about at 5 pm today…Plan on doing over 600 push-ups in an hour? (That’s one push-up every six seconds for sixty minutes for anyone honestly considering it.) And how is that six-pack coming along…Think you’ll make time for a thousand crunches?... Continue Reading

September 1, 2015

Sophia Crawford: Model in Singapore

Runways. They’re for walking on, flying from, and advocating upon. Denver Online High School junior Sophia Crawford exploits runways in all its forms. The seventeen-year-old recently started a fast-and-furious modeling career. The teen went on a local modeling website in February 2015 where she submitted some of her Facebook photos.... Continue Reading

August 1, 2015

Student Profile: Ryan Cole

Each cat that comes into Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue has a story. If cats have nine lives, some are likely somewhere past their seventh or eighth. Several are dropped off with FIV, similar to AIDS but for cats, while others are struggling with ear infections,... Continue Reading

June 1, 2015

Garrett Williams: Entrepreneur

While most kids were playing tag in the summer sunshine, few were trying to turn a profit on fifty cent lemonade cups sold to their neighbors. But as the ice cream truck sung by, all kids wanted the few extra bucks for that red,... Continue Reading

May 29, 2015

Keisha Reim: Aspiring Trauma Nurse and Paramedic

Famous baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan once said, “One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.” For Denver Online High School senior Keisha Reim,... Continue Reading

May 22, 2015

Destinee Shabansky: Reading Partners Volunteer

It takes one person to make a difference. But the difference made can be one of two things: positively powerful or overwhelmingly detrimental. For Denver Online High School senior, Destinee Shabansky, she’s seen first-hand the influence of both. Shabansky was attending a public brick-and-mortar high school in Vegas when she decided to drop out.... Continue Reading

May 2, 2015

Student Profile: Kaitlin Hooks

“My mom and I have a joke about the rulebook with me: you pick it up and throw it out the window,” Denver Online High School Senior, Kaitlin Hooks, said. “I’m a lawbreaker,” she laughed. And lawbreaker she is, her life packed full of experiences in defeating countless health odds.... Continue Reading

March 26, 2015

Dalayah Johnson and Mikayla Garth: Jehovah’s Witness Volunteers

Dying hair, painting nails, and brushing on makeup. While many partake in these cosmetic modifications, these beauty-enhancing measures are oftentimes associated with vanity, tied to an industry that thrives on surface-deep material: clothing, makeup, hair-extensions, fake lashes, and the like.... Continue Reading

March 13, 2015

Amy LeClaire: Barrel Racer

“I’ve grown up going to the National Western Stockshow and stuff and I kind of just wanted to be a barrel racer forever,” Denver Online High School senior Amy LeClaire said. After seven years of riding, she finally got her own horse.... Continue Reading

March 4, 2015

Kyle McKoin: Russian Ballet Academy Student

When most of us think of dancing, we think of that head-banging solo drum piece we did in the car on the way to work, that fist pump or hip-shake we volunteered to the audience while forced into karaoking with our friends,... Continue Reading