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Senior Survival Guide: Advice from the Class of 2025  

Senior Survival Guide: Advice from the Class of 2025  

Josie Cox, Staff Writer May 22, 2025

Senior year is the last chapter of high school, and it goes by faster than you’d think. For the Mayo High School Class of 2026, this upcoming year will be full of big decisions, exciting memories, and...

Spartans Speak with Strength, Not Swearing

Spartans Speak with Strength, Not Swearing

Nolan Snider, Staff Writer May 6, 2025

As you walk through the halls of Mayo High School, you’re bound to notice several students using curse words. This problem has traveled much further than the borders of Rochester; the issue has reached...

Mayo Hosts Big 9 Music Festival 

Mayo Hosts Big 9 Music Festival 

Brooklyn Pagel, Staff Writer May 6, 2025

The 91st annual Big 9 Music Festival, an event in which schools in southeast Minnesota travel with their top bands, orchestras, and choirs to perform for their peers, was hosted at Mayo on Friday, May...

Science Olympiad Team Dominates at State Competition

Science Olympiad Team Dominates at State Competition

Brooklyn Pagel, Staff Writer May 6, 2025

Mayo’s Science Olympiad team took 2nd place in the Minnesota Science Olympiad State Tournament at Bethel University on March 1st. They beat out 32 other schools, and fell short of 1st place by just 9...

Support your peers: take the Plunge!

Support your peers: take the Plunge!

Brooklyn Pagel, Staff Writer February 27, 2025

The winter season is upon us, which means plunging season is here too; the Polar Plunge returns to Mayo on March 11th, and you can register today! The Polar Plunge raises money to help support the Minnesota...

Teens making eARTh matter

Teens making eARTh matter

Courtney Nguyen, Staff Writer February 27, 2025

The Rochester Art Center’s new art club, WORK OF eARTh, unites teenagers committed to making a difference in the community. Their mission is to provide a welcoming space for teenagers to have fun while...

Mental Health Week returns to Mayo

Mental Health Week returns to Mayo

Andrej Radovanovic, Staff Writer January 31, 2025

From dress up days to therapy dog visits to lunchtime crafts, Mental Health week, organized by Ms. Burget and the TOPS room, is here to break up the winter blues. During 4th and 5th hour lunches, students...

Vocabulary.com Full Access available for free! 

Vocabulary.com Full Access available for free! 

Chanmi Lee, Staff Writer December 20, 2024

Vocabulary.com is a learning website used to teach users words by exposing them to a variety of questions and activities. With a basic account, you can use 10 questions per day for free. If you don’t...

The return of Señora Walters

The return of Señora Walters

Emmalee Bicknese, Staff Writer December 20, 2024

Señora Walters, a Spanish teacher at Mayo High School, was gone all of last year and a bit of the year before that; the reason why? a baby! She had a baby in April of 2023 and left for the rest of that...

Mayo High School’s Chemical Health Counselor

Shannon Graf, Staff Writer December 19, 2024

32% of substance abuse users don’t make it. Addiction is and has been a real issue for some time now, and each year we see it reach younger and younger audiences. Due to this, we must talk about addiction...

Once favorite trainer now athletic director

Once favorite trainer now athletic director

Nyjal Fisher , Staff Writer December 19, 2024

Mr. Daniel Christoffer, also known as Dan, the man who is an amazing person and ex trainer, now is the Mayo High School Athletic Director. What's with the change? Was it because of the people, players,...

Spike for a Cause: PowderBuff Volleyball Tournament 

Spike for a Cause: PowderBuff Volleyball Tournament 

Andrej Radovanovic, Staff Writer December 19, 2024

Grab your friends and sign up for the PowderBuff boys volleyball tournament. It costs $8 per person and is December 14th, at 6pm. Jump for GOFA Spartans and get involved!! Contact Jackson Smith for more...

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