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  • April 24There will be a marching band interest meeting on April 25 at 7:00 pm in the FCHS auditorium.
  • April 23700 students showed up to the Suicide Prevention Walk on April 19. All profits benefited the ConnerStrong Foundation.
  • 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 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.
The Student News Site of Fluvanna County High School

The Fluco Beat

The Student News Site of Fluvanna County High School

The Fluco Beat

2020 Undefined Literary Magazine

Lit Mag Goes Digital

FCHS Journalism May 19, 2020

Continuing the seemingly endless push toward the publishing of content online, the 2020 FCHS Literary Magazine is being published exclusively online for the first time. After 16 years of being published...

How Modders Affect the Lifespan of Video Games

Josh Akers, Contributor April 14, 2020

Many legendary video game titles over the years have remained continuously popular over the years in spite of their game engines and gameplay being incredibly outdated or fossil-like. That Bethesda Softworks’...

Life in the Age of Coronavirus

MacKenzie Tillman, FCHS Journalist March 17, 2020

In the late 1340’s, beginning in China, a widespread disease known as the Bubonic Plague swept the nation and spread to Europe. Also known as the Black Death, it reduced the population significantly,...

Flucos Wear Jeans for a Cause

Aiden Matula, FCHS Journalist March 5, 2020

Cancer is a terrible disease that not only affects patients, but their families as well.  When one of your own is going through cancer, the challenges become real. That is when the support of friends...

Top 5 Sites & Apps for the Beginning Writer

Joshua Akers, FCHS Journalist February 27, 2020

A lot of the time, struggling writers will sit with their eyes glaring over the bright screen of their computers while being unable to put their thoughts or ideas into words. Even if that’s not the case,...

Sweet, Sweet Tea

Sweet, Sweet Tea

Aiden Matula, FCHS Journalist February 21, 2020

Sweet tea has become a kind of sensation at FCHS since the Culinary students have begun to prepare and sell it to students.  The tea has students flocking to the carts by the elevators where it is sold...

And the Crown Goes to…

Maddy Eubank, Fluco Beat Editor February 19, 2020

While you may be familiar with the Miss Fluvanna pageant, the annual beauty pageant open to all the teenage girls in Fluvanna County, this year, the students of Fluvanna County High School are being introduced...

The End Of Arrow, Part 2

John Bernat, Fluco Beat Editor February 12, 2020

Well, it finally happened. After eight seasons, Arrow has finally come to an end in one of its best seasons yet. While the show’s themes have changed multiple times throughout its run, season eight of...

A graduation scene from 2018 at FCHS, in non-Covid-19 times.

Graduation Consternation

Evynne Stafford, FCHS Journalist February 6, 2020

Some things in life seem fixed, like Tax Day, Christmas, and Halloween. FCHS Graduation Day seemed one of those standard dates as well, always falling on the Saturday before Memorial Day. Until now. For...

Sophomore Alexa Divers at lunch

Out to Lunch

Mia Martinez, FCHS Journalist January 31, 2020

Students began the 2020 school year with welcome news--namely, that students would now have 30 minutes to eat lunch, broken up into three longer lunch periods, compared to four shorter lunches. Yet while...

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