Brianna Yang, Newspaper Managing Editor and Web Manager
Hello! I’m Brianna, I’m the Managing Editor for the Tom Tom, and I also work to keep the website as up to date as possible (which is a work in progress as the website customization is not so user friendly…). I’m a huge outdoorsy person, and I am always down for a stroll! Feel free to come up to me and start talking about Kung Fu Panda, there is a good chance I will drop everything I’m doing to talk!
![Inspire. The Education Academy students discuss with each other the assignment they were just given. Senior Sage Frazier said they like the collaborative nature of the Education Academy. “[Ms. Armstrong] always tried to give us the opportunity to talk to everyone,” Frazier said. “So, talking with everybody and everything, she [Ms. Armstrong] also opens up a lot of chances for communication like, ‘what did I do for today, and what do I need to improve for tomorrow?’ And she always asks that at the end of every class and she opens up every class with a journal prompt that she replies to everyday. It’s such a cool concept.”](https://beaststudentmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/group-work-shot-web-version-1200x900.png)
![Ensuring safety. If given a reason, the school resource officer reserves the right to search a student’s belongings. As a safety precaution, SROs wear gloves when searching a student’s backpack. “So [for a] backpack search, if we have to do a backpack search, we have to have a few things. We have to have existent circumstances, probable cause, or we have to have reasonable articulable suspicion which we would request from the school administrator or teacher to search a backpack,” School Resource Officer Jonathan Hobbs said.](https://beaststudentmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/hobbs-photo-Medium.jpeg)
![Stay focused. With a concentrated gaze, sophomore Zoey Howard waits to get the ball from her teammate. Howard believes that female athletes can continue to be leaders and great role models for younger girls to look up to. “I am aware [that female athletes are paid less than male athletes] and it makes me mad because women work just as hard as men; we can continue to push for more equality by putting ourselves out there,” Howard said.](https://beaststudentmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/zoey-howard-for-web.jpg)
