Stoll explains plans for the future broadcasting class

As 2020 closes in, the Broadcasting class will be getting a completely new look. In the Fall of 2020, classes from grades 7-12 will be merged into one school. This has given Mr. David Stoll,  Journalism and Broadcasting teacher at Worthington Christian High School, the opportunity to expand upon the Broadcasting class after setting the foundation for the past two years. He explains that "it's been a long time coming and I just consider myself to be extremely blessed to have that opportunity to really expand the broadcast program."

With this in mind he has been thinking about how he wants to make the class work. He mentions that in other schools where these classes are a bit older they have "built into the program many different steps." As of right now he only has students in grades 9-12, but when the extra two grades are added, it raises the question of if he should include them or not. He goes on to say "right now the opportunities are great because we don't have that many students." With the class being so small and new, he states "we kinda throw you to the wolves a little bit and say here ya go! You got this, we believe in you!"

The current production is all within a few feet of each other. The new Broadcasting room will be about the same size as the current one. With the new building, there will be multiple spaces dedicated for specific tasks that make the broadcast work.

The WC broadcasting team does a live broadcast every morning to the school making announcements and talking about current and upcoming events. In addition, they have broadcasted over 11 live events ranging from basketball games and concerts, to graduation. At WC there are many gifted students. This is no exception when it comes to the broadcasting team. Stoll often jokes "I have tried to legitimately fail students just to hold onto them longer, but it hasn't worked out so far."

~Garrett Rowda

Katherine Todd finds purpose in the world

''As a Christian, your job is to say, 'Hey! these people are evil, but you have to learn about them','' says Katherine Todd, a junior at Worthington Christian high school, as she discusses a Christian's role in the film industry.

Todd started at WC in preschool. She comes from a Christian family and mom and dad are still married. Her mom's name is Anne, and dad's name is Kevin. She has a 15-year-old sister named, Julia. They have lived life, learning most things together.  Todd feels like her sister is the most popular one at school, but people still know her. When Todd came to WCHS as a freshman, she was interested in joining film club and the president had just graduated, so she automatically became the president of the film club.  When she gets to college she intends to pursue a film degree. Todd knows about the risk she is taking even as a Christian in the film industry. So, she is very hesitant about do certain things in the industry, but Todd feels as a Christian your job is to say these things are evil, but you have to learn about them.

 Todd loves film club and probably wants a major in film or a minor and wants to study in writing and editing. She sees herself in the future following this dream of telling stories, but she needs the education and experience and she wants to get these stories to a group of people. 

Her mom has done experience like this for the military and when the military people don’t know how to talk to the public, she would talk to them as their way of communication. Her dad influenced her early on as a big history buff and she developed a passion for stories and real events, and how that impacts others. Todd feels like there's this need "for good prevailing and she feels like God has set her up with a group of people with these morals and she thinks Christians should set themselves with those morals." 

Ever since she was a child, she enjoyed stories and the journey of the character. The idea of telling how someone grows from one point to another so with AP art and journalism telling their story and sharing with people. Storytelling is a way of communication. The idea of telling through showing not just telling a scene but a visual way too. Writing the story taking the visual and making this tale is amazing to her. When you tell a story, you are relying on someone trusting them to tell your story.

 Todd believes that when non-Christians see a Christian movie, they may tend to think you're pushing this idea about God onto them. Christian movies usually don’t have a big budget and have people that don’t know what they're doing. Anyone who doesn’t want to know God would not typically go to a movie to hear about [God] to say, 'it changed my life.' She feels like a good Christian movie should make you feel hooked on something that matters to you in life. She feels compelled that this is something that she has to do for the film industry, ''The idea [that] there is something more in life." 

-Josiah Gray 

Gray pursues deeper knowledge about God at WC

“So I wanted to know more about God and know what He’s done for me in my life,” Josiah Gray, a freshman, remarks when asked about his spiritual journey. His time at WC has played a big part in his spiritual and mental growth. Josiah has been a WC warrior since first grade; though, he originally planned to go to Tree of Life. He went for half of the first grade before deciding to switch and retake first grade. His home church is Columbus Christian Center. He enjoys spending time with his three brothers: Sharif, a freshman at Wright State, Jordan, a WC 8th grader, and Jevon, a WC 6th grader. When he has free time, he plays soccer and hangs out with his friends. Due to his interest in biology, Josiah plans to study health care.

Faith is very important to Josiah. He admires the amount of effort and attention teachers put into their students, and he cherishes the knowledge about God that he learns in his Bible and science classes. Because of the way our school prioritizes faith, Josiah decided to become a Christian so that he could live out what he was learning. His family deeply values Christianity and pushes Josiah to pursue his faith through his studies.

Through various teams and opportunities, Josiah has been playing soccer for six years. For seventh and eighth grade he played for our middle school team and is proud to now be a part of our high school soccer program. This year he and his fellow freshmen were recognized as one of the best ninth-grade teams. He also likes working at a summer camp for Columbus Academy, as it allows him to mentor other kids and help the community.

Josiah hopes to follow in the footsteps of his mother and brother and work in the medical field. The complexities of the human body fascinate him, and he hopes to understand the inner workings of life. He aspires to help others and save lives. When he isn’t studying or playing soccer, he spends his time watching medical shows on tv. When he walks into biology to see a dissection setup, he knows the class will be great. While he wishes he could be learning more, he values the science classes offered at WC.

Josiah is a hard-working student with great aspirations. It will be interesting to watch his growth through the years, as he pursues faith and knowledge in order to further the kingdom of God. Whether it is a soccer game or science lab, Josiah works hard to do his best.

~Katherine Todd

Lykens Travels the World with Curiosity

“I like going on vacation to meet foreign people” revealed Mackay Lykens during the
interview. Most people know of Mackay as a lovable 15 year old sophomore at
Worthington Christian High School. One who is quite odd, but in a way that can make an
entire room explode with laughter. Mackay lives in downtown Columbus in the booming
area of the Short North. He is a big fan of the class we share together
(9th period I Journalism) and especially loves Mr. Stoll’s signature dance move the
“Double Dab”. One of the most interesting things I learned about Mackay is that he
often vacations to various countries during breaks in the school year. He has been to
multiple places in South and Central America! When asked what was so amazing
about these vacations, Mackay expressed his interest in seeing the different cultures
and meeting people of different ethnicities. Overall Mackay Lykens is more than one
of the funniest and coolest kid you will meet, he has a very interesting life and has
experienced many crazy travels and life experiences.

~ Brien Wall

Pitzer emerges from unknown to known

 “My sisters always remind me that they’re older than me as a way to boss me around, even though they are only older by only a couple of minutes,” explains Pitzer when describing the sometimes delicate relationship with his triplet siblings, Elizabeth and Joy. Noah Pitzer and his two other sisters are the only children in their family. They are a set of triplets with a great upbringing by his father and mother David and Mary Lynn. All three attended Worthington Christian from their first eligible year of school and still attend to this day. Noah is involved in many extra-curricular activities such as soccer, boy scouts, and drone aerial photography. Those being Boy Scouts where he has earned the title as an Eagle Scout. “It’s quite the rank but also very humbling.” At boy scout Gatherings Noah and fellow Eagle Scouts set tents and activities up and then will start running around/wrestling during down time.  

Noah and his sisters plan on graduating from Worthington Christian in spring 2020. Noah takes many advanced classes and has been excused from English 11 because he is taking College Writing out of school(and is even taking College Writing through Mount Vernon Nazarene University in place of junior English). “He enjoys taking this English because it develops is writing drastically and overall helps him become better.” In school he is a very smart/accomplished student, but he does have a life to live outside of school. 

Besides Boy Scouts Noah is very interactive in the digital and technological world. Noah is an aspiring professional drone user. He often rises before the sun comes up to capture beautiful sunrises or stays up late editing and uploading his breathtaking sunset videos.  "everyone has their own little ways they express themselves and I can proudly say aerial photography is my way of expressing and sharing how beautiful the world is.” He has many montages of the sunrises and sundown's, he takes drone shots of events per request of people such as soccer tournaments and church events and even makes montages of lake activities when he and all his cousins go. He believes that his 1st Period Broadcasting class and 9th Period iJournalism class go hand in hand with his out of school drone filming. He believes that with the knowledge of his teacher Mr. Stoll, he can pick out things here and there and just get a whole new perspective on things. 

It was a great time hearing and learning more about Noah in his life at school and out of school and really getting to know different things about what his life branches into out of school and individual aspects of class, family, and hobbies. “Everybody has a different life and stories to tell, and I am glad I had the opportunity to share mine with you.” 

~Lucas Hartings

A glimpse at Brien's sucess

“My life is crazy”, Brien expressed when telling about his amazing story.  Brien Wall the 16 year old junior goes to school at Worthington Christian and participates in after school sports.  Brien plays soccer in the fall, basketball in the winter, and more soccer in the spring.  Brien has been doing very well in school this year and says that his soccer season went great.  Basketball has started and just like always he is doing phenomenal.  As you can tell he is a very athletic kid.  He is a kind, funny, and all-around cool guy and you would be happy to meet him. We talk about his pet lizards that are truly amazing.  I learned about how his sports he does after school his hobbies that he is interested in, and more interesting information about the craziness that is his life. 

-Mackay Lykens 

 

The Spotlight Falls on Logan Once Again

“One big mess of egotism and immaturity”, vented Logan when describing his past years in choir.  Logan Keevins, a 17 years old senior at Worthington Christian High School (WCHS), is a kind, fun-loving, opportunity seeking gentleman who really loves being social.  While Logan certainly loves acting and singing, there are some downsides.  Choir, a class that he enjoyed previously, unfortunately became “less enjoyable during his Junior year.”  According to Logan, this large letdown mostly came from other students (not to be named), who corrected small details just to serve their ego and put others below them.   

With his immense passion for singing and acting, Logan loves WCHS plays and musicals.  Attending 9 plays and 3 musicals, Logan’s experience on stage only improves.  Of all the plays he has been in, he loved Peter the Starcatcher the most, but his favorite role was actually Robertson in Mary Poppins.  He works at Pacsun, participates in plays and musicals, hangs out with friends… can anyone think of a more fun student in WCHS?  In addition to his participation in many fun activities, he also loves to talk to people and get to know them one to one.  He plans to pursue broadcasting and journalism with perhaps a dash of acting and singing on the side.  With all these amazing attributes and facts about Logan, his drive to be a positive leader tops them all.  In noticing other ‘wounds’ in the WCHS student body, Logan wishes for justice and to “bring WC together the best I” (Logan) “can.”   
~Jake Flanigan