April 23 Wrestling with weight

BY RACHEL MOWAT, Hillsborough High

If you heard of someone losing 10 pounds in a week, would you be jealous, wanting to know the secret? Would you be shocked? Concerned ...

Filed in life, sports

April 23 All the answers

Original reporting by SNN staff writer Marilyn Parker, who is an intern for tb-two* and the Tampa Bay Times.

Ask anyone at any school and chances are great you’ll ...

Filed in life

April 23 Emerging from a sneak attack

BY SARAH ROONEY, St. Petersburg High

You’re in school, walking down the hall, everything seems normal: students crawling sluggishly to class, backpacks hanging haphazardly off shoulders, the sound of ...

Filed in life

April 23 Help and hope always at hand

BY LILLIAN SKYE NOBLE, St. Petersburg Collegiate High

Sydney Lanman, huge history buff and fan of the Transformers trilogy, has a tattoo on her wrist that reminds her she is ...

Filed in life

April 23 From Jason to Violeta

BY AMELIA GOLDSTEIN, Palm Harbor University High

Escape the life you have, just every once in a while. That’s what Jason Cruz likes to do.

All it takes for ...

Filed in life

April 23 From 'gray' into the light

BY ANGELINA DEVINCENZO, East Lake High

Melissa Larsen, strong and capable athlete, all-around involved and engaging teenager, had an eating disorder.

She went to treatment. She went to therapy. She ...

Filed in life

April 16 Cheat sheet: texting, cats and our mom

Diploma options

A bill that would give you more pathways toward a high school diploma, including more credit for career and technical course work, won unanimous approval from the Florida ...

Filed in life

April 16 For Specials, a big date in New York

BY GABRIELLE CASLISE, Palm Harbor University High

While their classmates dance the night away at prom this weekend, the 24 members of Palm Harbor University High’s After School Specials ...

Filed in music, entertainment, life

April 16 Smarts + resilience = success

Compiled by LIZ TSOURAKIS, Hillsborough High
GABRIELLE CALISE, Palm Harbor University High
AND RACHEL MOWAT, Hillsborough High

What’s the formula for a successful life?

If you had the magic ...

Filed in college, life

April 16 A flight of faith

BY ANGELINA DEVINCENZO, East Lake High

As the clock struck midnight signaling the beginning of the New Year, a resounding voice of celebration rang throughout the world, including Egypt.

Just ...

Filed in life

April 16 Time for a pop quiz

Are you a journalism junkie who knows your world and ours would be better if you were on next year’s tb-two* staff?

We’re looking for people who like ...

Filed in life

April 9 Cheat sheet: Drake Bell, Quidditch and art

Student art auction for a cause

The advanced art students of Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg are auctioning their acrylic impressionist animal paintings on Earth Day (April 22) from ...

Filed in life, entertainment

April 9 For many, a future may be less Bright

BY STEPHANIE HAYES, Tampa Bay Times

Bright Futures was always a program designed to reward high-achieving high school students by helping shoulder the cost of college.

But now, you’ll ...

Filed in college, life

April 9 It's the little things

BY RACHEL MOWAT, Hillsborough High

Think you’re not a money waster? That you only occasionally put something in your cart you hadn’t planned to spend money on? Impulse ...

Filed in life

April 9 Workout warriors

BY CHLOE BEAVER, St. Petersburg High

High school students eat, sleep, do homework (some of us!) and go to school. Time to do other things comes very rarely, and when ...

Filed in life, sports