Student Voice

This is Michelle from Chesapeake High School with Service Learning at AACPS. You can check out her intern insight with the link below!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2gNtZFR6-/

about 9 hours ago, AACPS Student Voice

Michelle Intern Insights Chesapeake High School

It's Family Academy Friday! Check out the Family Academy Newsletter at https://aacps.edurooms.com/engage/family-academy/newsletters/family-academy-fridays-1-16-26. Visit the Family Academy anytime at www.aacps.org/familyacademy or in Spanish at www.aacps.org/academiafamiliar! #AACPSFamily #BelongGrowSucceed

3 days ago, AACPS

Family Academy Fridays! Service Learning

Jacob from Old Mill High School with Design & Print wrap up his month 3. Check it out in the link here!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSux03tFRoS/

3 days ago, AACPS Student Voice

Jacob Intern Insight Old Mill Highschool

Zoe took a few minutes to check in with students as we go into the holidays. They talk about the traditions they celebrate and what makes this time of year meaningful to them.
Different traditions, shared moments, and plenty of student voice as we wrap up the season together. You can check it out in the link below!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSc4wTujVia/

5 days ago, AACPS Student Voice

Gloria with Apex Arts / Annapolis Highschool from the Communications Office gives her month 3 end contribution. You can check it out in the link below!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqKkH-jId3/

5 days ago, AACPS Student Voice

Gloria Intern Insight Annapolis Highschool.

Zoe with the Communications Office and Annapolis Highschool / Apex Arts adds her voice to wrap up month 3. You can check it out here.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSpoSXmjD3h/

6 days ago, AACPS Student Voice

Hello 2026! This new School Sounds ep is with @Official _Perfunctory from Severna Park High School. check it out on AACPS TV YouTube today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c2edpGMWic

7 days ago, AACPS Student Voice

This is Will from Severna Park Highschool with the aacps foundation. You can check it out in the link below.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSnl1E-DRqz/

7 days ago, AACPS Student Voice

Next up for month 3 is Celia from Severna Park High School with the Legal Office. You can check out what she has to say about her month in the link below!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSnDcyQjyF1/

12 days ago, AACPS Student Voice

This is from Clare from Severna Park High School with Arlington Echo. You can check it out here https://www.instagram.com/p/DSliuVJjwCh/

14 days ago, AACPS Student Voice

As December picks up and final college application deadlines draw near AACPS Student Voice: On the Page sits down with AACPS seniors as they reflect on their last year of high school so far and how college apps have affected them.

#AACPSInterns #BelongGrowSucceed #collegeapplications #studentvoice #senioryear

about 1 month ago, Demi Bello

AACPS Student Voice: On the Page. The Home Stretch: College Apps and the Race to Graduation. Student Voices on College App Season. Written By: Gloria Owolabi

Seniors! We wanna hear about your wins this month: Feel free to share some of your college acceptances in the comments below!

In the July before my 12th grade year, my apprenticeship mentor told me that junior year would probably be the best year of high school I’d ever have…and that senior year might be the worst. It was on a trip back to the office from a video shoot, and from the backseat I insisted he was wrong and that nothing he said could convince me. My junior year ended only a month ago at that point. Between the stress of AP Classes (note to everyone: NEVER take AP Physics), feeling the true weight of leadership in my extracurriculars, and running myself ragged throughout my internship search, I could never imagine that being the peak of my high school experience. Then I became a senior. And as stubborn as I am, I can’t exactly shake the feeling that maybe my mentor was on to something.

AACPS Senior Connor Schwab puts it like this, “Junior year might be the worst academically, but it doesn’t have college apps, Capstone projects, and graduation requirements…Senior year is as hard as junior year with more stacked on top.” “I feel like a lot of stuff has happened this year,” Bo Pokorski comments. “There’s an expectation to take a lot of APs, and then there’s college stuff, and extracurriculars. Like sports, 3 APs, and college applications were hell at the beginning of the year.” Agreeing with Bo, Delilah Witkowski adds, “I’m taking 4 APs and it’s a lot.” I stepped in the classroom for my final year and suddenly, I was President of one club and in the executive board of several others, I had a novella to write in 3 months for a Capstone project, and wedged into the mix were tasks from the internship I worked so hard to find, and ever-looming threat of life after graduation.

Enter: College Applications. Amidst the tangled web of 12th grade responsibilities, getting out of college application season in one piece is arguably the most daunting. There’s already unshakeable pressure from having to essentially decide the course of your future at 17-18 years old, but with the deadlines, the requirements, the hundreds of forms and essays and talks of finances, it almost seems like the process was never meant to be easy. “There aren't a lot of people actually telling you what to do,” Bo explains. “They tell you what’s supposed to happen and then nobody gives you a timeline so you’re kind of rushing by the end…You’re just walking blind, in the dark, trying to figure things out.”

Common App, FAFSA, CSS Profiles, STARS Records, scholarships. Believe it or not, this is only a few of the college application tools and tasks seniors are responsible for. Each has their own websites, deadlines, and needs that swarm your inbox in droves of requirements. “I hate getting college apps stuff through my email because it’s like a giant swamp of everything.” Connor again. “Not just robotic emails but really important things that you actually need to read so you just get walloped with information overload.”

With December picking up, though, to many it feels like we're reaching the home stretch. Early Action/Decision applicants are starting to receive decisions, and several students have already committed to universities. For others, the final deadlines are drawing near, and whether they're scrambling or simply putting on the final touches, everyone is coming to the same conclusion: soon it'll all be over. And in a way, despite the stress, the thought is rewarding. Connor, who's already received a few decisions, says, “It’s so relieving when you get into one college. Like, you’re really stressed and then you get one good acceptance letter back.” He imitates the sigh of relief that comes afterwards, one that hopefully every senior can breathe once the final submission is in, and when their last class is done, and as they walk the stage at graduation when it's all over.

Read full articles like this on our website: www.aacps.org/o/studentvoice/

Writer: Gloria Owolabi Communications Office Apprentice (Writing & Video) Annapolis High School - Apex Arts

Zoe caught up with some of the Apex Arts seniors to talk about their capstone projects and why they chose them. You can feel the energy now that we’re almost halfway through the year. These seniors are locked in. More student voices coming soon.