The Student News Site of Dr. Michael M. Krop

The Lightning Strike

The Student News Site of Dr. Michael M. Krop

The Lightning Strike

The Student News Site of Dr. Michael M. Krop

The Lightning Strike

HIV-positive speaker Scott Fried talks to students about self worth and confidence. PTSA sponsored Frieds attendance for the Choose Kind campaign.

Fried to students: “you’re enough”

Alan Imar, Online Managing Editor April 11, 2018

As a part of PTSA's Choose Kind week, HIV-positive speaker Scott Fried spoke to students about destructive decisions that lead to his infection and the importance of self worth on April 10, 2018. He gave...

Students Plant Trees in Remembrance of the MSD Tragedy

Kevin Bauernfeind, Online Content Editor April 6, 2018

After the tragedy that took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Krop students met up during lunch on April, 5 2018 to plant 17 trees in memorial of the lives lost.

Angelique Meneses opens the event singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. The event was hosted at Aventura Mall on Mar. 17.

“Branches of Bravery” hosts inaugural event at Aventura Mall

Hilly Yehoshua, Spread Editor March 20, 2018

After the Parkland Shooting that killed 17 individuals on Feb. 14, six students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas created a nonprofit organization called Branches of Bravery. Branches of Bravery was...

Berliavsky, Yehoshua organize Walk For Parkland in Aventura

Berliavsky, Yehoshua organize “Walk For Parkland” in Aventura

Nathaniel Manor, Editor-In-Chief March 20, 2018

After the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, students are answering the call to action nationwide. Krop students Ilana Berliavsky and Hilly Yehoshua took it upon themselves to do so in our...

One hundred students from Stoneman Douglas get on buses to Floridas capitol to speak to legislators about guns control

Parkland students take Tallahassee

Tiffany Schram, Staff Writer March 5, 2018

After a brutal school shooting at Florida high school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas Senior High, the survivors have only one priority: #NeverAgain. Last week on Wednesday, February 14th former student,...

(From left to right) Junior Kevin Ordet, Assistant Principal Pamela Clappier, gifted counselor Elissa Rubinowitz, parent Udi Manor and sophomore Amaya Strange hold candles to honor the lives lost in the Douglas shooting. 17 candles were lit in total.

Krop remembers 17 lost lives, advocates for change at vigil organized by PTSA

February 26, 2018

Students, teachers, parents and administrators joined together in the South Patio on Wednesday  evening to honor the lost lives of the 17 victims of the Douglas High School shooting. The Parent Teacher...

Students walk the track in support of gun control reform as a part of the walk-out movement, which aims to bolster support for gun control. More than two-hundred students circled the track starting at noon on Feb. 21.

Students walk-out, call for gun control

Alan Imar, Online Managing Editor February 23, 2018

Students at nearly 50 schools around South Florida walked out of school midday to protest gun violence and bolster support for gun control. In solidarity with the victims of the shooting at Marjory...

An MDCPS Maintenance and Operations bulldozer clears the student parking lot of the dugouts roof wreckage. The debris had blown away during Hurricane Irma in Sept. 2017.

Debris cleared after months of uncertainty

Alan Imar, Online Managing Editor February 9, 2018

Five months after Hurricane Irma made landfall in Fla., debris from the softball dugouts sat idly blocking parking spots in the student lot. On Thursday Feb. 9, MDCPS Maintenance and Operations employees...

Passengers boarded the Brightline train at a station after its launch last month. After its initial launch, Brightline is seeking to expand into Miami-Dade county.

Brightline: Ft. Lauderdale to West Palm Beach in 40 minutes

Alexis Sanford, Staff Writer February 7, 2018

Brightline is the new, higher-speed express train that runs between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale. A VIP inaugural service was held Friday, January 12th. The first public ride was the following day....

Amid rising concerns about flu season, MDCPS is taking precautions to prevent the spread of the disease. Principal Allison Harley signed and sent home a letter to parents.

Flu season worse than anticipated

Teo Resnik, Staff Writer February 6, 2018

Like every year, the U.S. has seen a wave of Influenza. But for the first time, this year every part of the U.S. has shown widespread flu activity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

Student Government Association (SGA) Vice President Ariel Hartzy greets a bus of eighth graders from Highland Oaks Middle School in the teacher parking lot on December 15, 2017 for Lightning for a Day. Highland Oaks Middle brought the most students to the event.

Third-annual Lightning for a Day attracts over 800

Hilly Yehoshua, Spread Editor December 22, 2017

For the third year, over 800 eighth graders from five local middle schools toured Dr. Michael M. Krop’s hallways. Lightning for a Day is a program created by the administration in which hundreds...

The price of Bitcoin changes continuously, and trades, which are shown on the left, occur every second. The price of Bitcoin rose 700% in 2017.

Cryptocurrencies: fad or future?

Megan Orlanski, News Editor December 15, 2017

Forget about earning  ‘Franklins,’ make way for the age of digital currency with Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ripple and countless other types of electronic money that are taking both the financial market and...

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