The CHIEF September 2024

Homecoming 2024: Starry Night By Taylor Henson

This year at Pontiac Township High School, Homecoming was held October 5th between the nightly hours of 8:00 to 10:00pm. The theme, decided on by the students, was Starry Night inspired by Van Gough’s famous painting. While the Homecoming dance is a very fun and amazing dance to attend, it’s not the only event to look forward to. Homecoming week is held between September 30th to October 5th and I would say is one of the best weeks of the entire school year! Some Homecoming activities include spirit days, hallway decorating the Friday before Homecoming week starts, Buff Puff, which includes girls’ flag-football and boys’ volleyball games September 30th, home football and volleyball games, the pep-rally and parade, and float building taking place October 2nd! In general, I personally love this week of school because of the many activities, school spirit, and the exuberant energy that this week has to offer! We’ll have more information on this year’s Homecoming events in next month’s issue of The CHIEF !

Fun Fact of the Month By Alexis Legner

The planet we live on is forever rotating around the sun in a place called outer space. Space is an expansive place that exists just outside our very own atmosphere. Every day, scientists are exploring more and more into the regions beyond Earth. They have learned numerous new concepts about the different ways our solar system, and the places around it, work. Let’s talk about some of the fun facts researchers have discovered.

If we filled the Sun with marbles the size of Earth, we would have to put ONE MILLION of them in there to fill it up. The Sun is the biggest object in our solar system, and takes up most of the area around it.

If you and your friend went into outer space together, you couldn’t even hear each other talk! No air is in space, which means no sound waves either. Astronauts have to communicate with each other using radio waves.

Flying on a plane to Pluto would take 800 years! Though Pluto is not technically a planet, it is still part of our solar system. At the farthest, Pluto is 4.67 billion miles away, and at its closest, 2.66 billion miles away.

The largest mountain known to mankind exists on an asteroid named Vesta. The mountain is 79,178.5 feet tall, making it more than 3 times the height of Mount Everest, the highest peak on Earth.