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The Eagle Eye

The student news site of Santa Margarita Catholic High School in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.

The Eagle Eye

The student news site of Santa Margarita Catholic High School in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.

The Eagle Eye

Librarians Jolene Finn and whatever the other one's name is excitedly advertise the ongoing poetry contest that ends Feb. 27.

Poets never stanza-lone

Maggie Morris, Copy Editor Feb 24, 2015

Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and you. That's right, your name can fall amidst those of the greatest poets of all time. That is…if you submit poetry...

The girls are ecstatic with their fourth place finish.

V-chur takes Florida

Carlie McCabe, Staff Reporter Feb 20, 2015

It's 6 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5. A giant charter bus pulls up to SMCHS ready to make its hour-long trek to the San Diego International Airport. Twenty-four anxious, overly-ecstatic, spray-tanned varsity...

Alpha-counselor Justin Calbreath helps a student through her counseling session.

What’s up with scheduling?

Anna Cannon, Staf Reporter Feb 19, 2015

In past years, scheduling had always been quite the event. There was an entire day planned out for counselors to come to classrooms and hand out important-looking sheets of paper. Students would travel...

Movie marathon - Every night will be movie night if you join the new screenwriting class available next year.

Behind the screens

Alana Mayes, Staff Writer Feb 17, 2015

Lights, camera, paper? Before all the action, comes something that is the foundation of every good movie. The script. The very beginning of every good movie, from the James Bond series, to Harry Potter,...

Eggcitement - Juniors Jennifer Tran, Brandon Kim, Danny Juergens and Nicole Walker, members of group three, are all smiles before testing their egg contraption. Their contraption was not enough to save the egg, however.

Mission egg drop

Avery Lewis, Staff Reporter Feb 4, 2015

Bombs ahoy! All students take cover. Eggs are falling with great velocity from G3. Friday Jan. 30, IB Physics dropped eggs with the mission of creating an apparatus to save the egg yolk from breaking...

Hard earned hardware - After a long day of competition, the team smiles with their well-deserved trophies.

Bop to the top

Carly Desmond, News & Sports Editor Jan 29, 2015

On Saturday, Jan. 10, the SMCHS dance team competed in their first competition of the season, the Aliso Dance Classic at Aliso Niguel High School. The team performed in a total of nine routines, six group...

A very happy Carolyn Bien promoting the new discount cards.

FUNdraisers

Carlie McCabe, Staff Reporter Jan 22, 2015

As the esteemed singer and songwriter Jessie J proudly sings, "It's not about the money, money, money. We don’t need your money money money. We just want to make the world dance, forget about the price...

Blue all over - Senior avatars Kylie Lyall, Mackenna Carney, Kiera Makowecki, Carrie Marquart and Rachel Hoffman came all the way from their planet Pandora to attend the senior cruise.

Seniors take sail

Avery Lewis, Staff Reporter Nov 18, 2014

Senior year: the year to do it all before high school is over forever. There are some must-do traditions at SMCHS that the graduating class always looks forward to: senior prom, Kairos, ditch days, the...

SMCHS students are thinking pink and supporting breast cancer awareness on 'pink day'.

Think pink

Monique Beals, Staff Reporter Oct 27, 2014

October has arrived and it seems like everywhere we look, we catch glimpses of pink. ­From the ribbon wrapped trees on campus to dashes of pink on the football field, everyone at SMCHS seems to be thinking...

"I pledge to be drug free" - Senior Marissa Miraglia takes up the pledge to not do drugs and challenges other students to do the same.

Red ribbons tie the knot

Carly Desmond, News & Sports Editor Oct 23, 2014

Don’t do drugs. Drugs are bad. Drugs will kill you. These messages have been repeated to us over and over again since the day we learned what a cigarette was. But as kids, we most remembered not the...

Greatest Homecoming on Earth

Greatest Homecoming on Earth

Paige Schuck, Staff Reporter Oct 21, 2014

Buses were full, girls made last minute beauty appointments, and boys frantically tied to find a tie that matched their date's dress color. It was Homecoming week, the week of Oct. 6-11. The spirit...

Dean or councilman?

Dean or councilman?

Alex Barber, Print Editor-in-Chief Oct 21, 2014

Picture this: Mr. Holloway sitting behind a large round table at a City Council meeting instead of standing behind the attendance desk at school. Crazy. Holloway overseeing legislation instead of giving...

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