Tag: HIGH SCHOOL

Police in Nevada have arrested a 19-year-old college student, accusing him of hacking into his high school's computer system and inflating students' grades in exchange for money. The suspect, Tyler Coyner, allegedly obtained the password to Pahrump Valley High School's network, giving him the ability to change students' grades. Coyner, who is currently enrolled as a student at the University of ...

Lyndon Baty's weakened immune system won't allow him to attend classes at his local high school in Knox City, Texas. Fortunately, though, there's a robot capable of doing that for him. Baty, who suffers from Polycystic Kidney Disease, is now remotely attending his freshman classes via a VGO robot, which allows him to interact with his teachers and fellow students from the comfort of his own ...

Pine for your glory days but hate pulling those dusty old yearbooks from the attic? Well, Classmates.com hopes to provide a solution with some new changes to its site. According to Tech Flash, the social networking site that just won't die plans on digitizing yearbooks over the next couple years, and charging users to view and customize full-size images from their high school or college days. ...

digg_url =' http://www.switched.com/2009/08/30/high-school-and-porn-site-have-similar-web-addresses/'; A Florida high school is having serious problems with its Web presence, and it has nothing to do with viruses, spam, or hackers. Both PaceHighSchool.net and PaceHighSchool.com are working perfectly fine; unfortunately, one address is for a public Florida high school and the other is for a ...

Oreo, a two-year-old tuxedo cat from Macon, Georgia, may be the very first one in her family to receive a high-school diploma. She can't verify that, though, because she doesn't have extensive knowledge of her family history. As she wrote in the 'Life Experience Essay' portion of her accreditation, she was adopted by Kelvin Collins, the president of the Better Business Bureau of Central ...

Rachel Harris, a 17-year-old high school student, has placed her educational future in the hands of strangers. The Muskegon, Michigan senior hopes to attend the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, next year, but the daunting $46,000 annual price tag creates a significant dilemma. Ms. Harris sports a 3.97 grade point average and ranks 10th in her class, but even after submitting at ...

Kids! Teens! Whomever! Don't send nude pictures of yourself to anyone on Facebook or any other site (or via your cell phone, for that matter). It will come back to haunt you. We guarantee it. Anthony Stancl, an 18-year-old Wisconsin boy, is accused of posing as a girl on facebook and convinced 31 classmates to send him nude pictures of themselves. Don't worry, it gets worse. After ...

What is it about the combination of high school cheerleaders and digital cameras that always leads to something stupid? Despite several high profile cases of girls getting booted from cheerleading squads and expelled from school over revealing photos, teenagers keep snapping pics with their cell phones and digi-cams and landing themselves in hot water. A pair of teens at Bothell High School ...

Blog posts and social networking sites have cost people jobs, relationships, and freedom. But it's rare that high school students get blatantly censored and reprimanded for using for using foul language on said online outlets outside of school. Avery Doninger was the class secretary at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington, Connecticut, but was barred for running for re-election her senior ...

Calling all technologically inclined high school seniors! Memory maker PNY launched its Seniors Helping Seniors college scholarship contest in which high school seniors (either individually or in teams of up to five) are invited to put together projects to help teach senior citizens about technology. Submissions are being accepted until December 31, and a $2,500 scholarship will be handed over to ...