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  • April 9Four members of the debate team qualified for States at their Super Regional tournament on April 6. States will occur April 26 and 27 at JMU.
  • April 9Prom guest forms are available in the front office. Guests who do not attend FCHS must be approved by Mrs. Bruce. Forms are due by April 19. Tickets are $20 and are on sale before school and during lunches.
  • April 8Culinary will be selling Cake in a Cup, sweet tea, and lemonade during April. Cakes are $3 while sweet tea and lemonade are $1 each.
  • April 8SOL retests will take place April 24 at 8:40 am in room 3110. Contact Ms. Blevins ([email protected]) to sign up.
  • March 26The FCHS Speech team won the State Championship on March 23 at Dominion High School. Five students placed first, two placed second, and one placed third.
The Student News Site of Fluvanna County High School

The Fluco Beat

The Student News Site of Fluvanna County High School

The Fluco Beat

Members of the Fishing Club getting ready to compete.

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Matthew Gresham, Journalist April 5, 2023

When you’re by a river casting your line into the water, you may not think of yourself as participating in a sport. Yet fishing is a growing high school and college sport here in Virginia, so much so...

Person studying for exams.

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It’s almost AP exam season, so in less than two months students all over the United States and Canada will be taking their Advanced Placement tests. What are AP exams? AP, or Advanced Placement, courses...

	
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FCHS Welcomes Type 1 Diabetes Club

Molly Pace, Senior Editor March 27, 2023

With as many as one in five teens suffering from prediabetes in the United States, it was timely for FCHS to welcome a Type 1 Diabetes Club in the 2023 school year. According to the Centers for Disease...

FCHS Drama puts on Peter and the Starcatcher

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Molly Pace, Senior Editor March 17, 2023

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FCHSs Lisa Searcys daughter, Cara Leigh Searcy, who passed away at four years old.

Counseling Helps Students Handle Mental Health Challenges

Molly Pace, Senior Editor March 10, 2023

With all the tragedies that have taken place this school year, whether it be the on-campus drug overdoses, the increasing number of fights, national incidents and wars, soaring rates of anxiety and depression,...

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Should the Voting Age Be Lowered?

Gabi Etchison, Editor February 24, 2023

In high school, students are often told to engage with their political environment. So why is the legal voting age 18 instead of 16? In 1971, the 26th Amendment was passed, lowering the voting age from...

Choose Sociology to Relax Your Brain

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Mia Turley, Journalist February 16, 2023

We all know how big of a pain picking classes can be. You want to pick the best classes, but you also want a class that will give you a bit of a hiatus from difficult coursework. If you’re looking for...

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To Chat or Not to Chat?

Isabella Higginbotham, Journalist February 13, 2023

If you haven’t already heard of (or used) ChatGPT, it’s probably just a matter of time. ChatGPT is an AI or artificial intelligence created by OpenAI in late 2022 which many feel may revolutionize...

A Troop of Eagles

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Matthew Gresham, Journalist February 8, 2023

In 2022, five members of Fluvanna’s Scouting Troop 154 achieved their goals of becoming Eagle Scouts, the highest rank in scouting. This is no easy task, as of all the scouts that go through scouting,...

Damar Hamilin Buffalo Bills player, went into Cardiac Arrest on the field.

Hamlin Injury Shocks the World

Savannah Morris, Journalist February 1, 2023

When Bills and Bengals fans sat down to watch the football game on Jan. 2, what they did not expect to see was an injury that would shock the world. The Bills were playing the Bengals in Cincinnati...

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