Students active in Collinsville High School’s Future Business Leaders (FBLA) and Kahok Cafe attended TrepStart Day sponsored by Independent Youth, a non-profit in St. Louis encouraging teen entrepreneurship. A “Trep” refers to an entrepreneur. TrepStart Day is a “one-day, Independent Youth event where teens learn, lunch and launch into entrepreneurial thinking by interacting with successful […]
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Book Tasting in CHS Library Encourages Students to Sample Books
The Collinsville High School library featured checkered table cloths, violin music and soft lighting as students from Mrs. Westphal’s English classes arrived for the first-ever “book tasting” at the school. The menu featured a selection of books for the teens to sample. The students had five minutes to try a book chosen from a stack […]
CHS Annual Poetry Slam Spotlights Student Creativity
Collinsville High School held its 7th Annual Poetry Slam on November 2, 2017. The event is sponsored by the CHS Library and Writing Center. Seven Collinsville High School student-poets competed for the opportunity to participate in Slam Lab — a 20+ hour experience where youth poets from throughout the region gather monthly through February 2018 […]