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The student news site of Oakton High School

Oakton Outlook

The student news site of Oakton High School

Oakton Outlook

Seniors

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An Exciting School Calendar

omiisha cheella, staff writer | June 7, 2023

       The last week of school is the most boring. Usually, you finish any classwork the week before, but some teachers make sure to plan a graded assignment the final week. At Oakton, the last week of school is a three hour early release. Except...

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A Winning Season

Omiisha Cheella, Staff Writer | October 26, 2022

       A new season for field hockey has come up quickly. The girls varsity Field Hockey team has so far made a positive impression, winning four out five games in the past month. A few changes in practices and teamwork have helped make this become...

Cross Country Sports Spotlight

Cross Country Sports Spotlight

Marianna McDevitt, Lifestyle Editor | September 16, 2022

Cross Country Sports Spotlight Cross country is an intense sport in which runners race in varieties of different terrains. In past seasons here at Oakton, the cross country team has seen much success. This year, with many new athletes on the team,...

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How to pick the right college for you

Lucy Holt, Editorial Board | April 14, 2021

Graduation caps flung into the air- symbolic of the culmination of years of schooling- marking the end of an influential year for high school seniors. It’s nearly that time of the year. But before teenagers can move on from high school, their primary...

Letter from the Editors

June 8, 2020

Dear Oakton, To put the world in perspective seems almost impossible. We are spiraling in an era of chaos: the force of a pandemic grinding all to a halt, our jobless rates dropping and leaving our economy battered beyond repair, the COVID-19 death...

Class of 2020 Virtual Senior Map

Class of 2020 Virtual Senior Map

Ashleigh Tain, Editor-in-Chief | June 3, 2020

Withstanding our favorite tradition of providing a senior map with the colleges and destinations of the Class of 2020, here is our digital version. Seniors featured are derived from our social media forms, thank you to all who filled them out. Congratulations...

Letters to the Class of 2020

Letters to the Class of 2020

Wendy Gao, Editorial Board | May 31, 2020

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Oakton Administration Celebrates Class of 2020

Sahithi Jammulamadaka and Payton Wozny | May 30, 2020

Unfortunately, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many important milestones for the Class of 2020 have been canceled and their final days of high school were suddenly ripped out from under their feet. While senior prom may have been canceled and sports...

Seniors on spring sport seasons

Isabel Knipping | May 30, 2020

Much of the student body at Oakton are athletes.  Everybody who played a spring sport had only a few weeks in the season before school was closed. Seniors’ last year of high school was cut short, and that means they will be missing events and milestones...

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Senior advice to underclassmen

Portia Dai, Editorial Board | May 30, 2020

Seniors have worked hard to get to where they are today and even if they won’t get the graduation they imagined, they will still get greeted by a college, or maybe a gap year in the coming school year. Coming from those who have finished four years...

How Seniors Are Making Up For Lost Events

Eileen Lincoln, Editor in Chief | May 25, 2020

A little over a month ago, Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia ordered that K-12 schools be shut down for the duration of the year, as a necessary step in improvement towards the coronavirus pandemic. Students all around the state were upset by this...

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