Posts in 🗞️Staff Stories
My Voyage on the NSS Navigator
My Voyage on the NSS Navigator

My journey, or might I say, voyage, has been a highlight of my time at NSA. The NSS Navigator has been a good ship, seaworthy, and hasn’t let me down. It can support its weight, it leaks at times, cracks form, but if you keep a cool head, it's nothing you can’t overcome. Thankfully, my fellow crewmates are the best in the business. We set out from Port North with a goal, to deliver news to the four corners of NorthStar, and I think we’ve done that. However, the voyage is nearly at its end.

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🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSA2021-2022, May 2022 Publication
A Community of Christ - My NSA Story
A Community of Christ - My NSA Story

All year long, students get to read the fabulous articles that the Navigator Staff writes every publication. However, rarely do you get to see the real people behind the black-colored pixel letters on your screen. This has been especially true for me. As the Editor-in-Chief for the Navigator, my main job is to publish the articles and update the website. As a result, you don’t get to see me pop up here very often. However, for this article, I want to explain how much NorthStar means to me.

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🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSA2021-2022, May 2022 Publication
Sincerely, A Thankful Senior
Sincerely, A Thankful Senior

High school has been the best years of my life. Don’t get me wrong, it’s also been the most stressful years of my life, but the best years, nonetheless. As my high school journey comes to a close and I get ready to finish the last chapter of my NSA story, which I’ve creatively titled Senior Year, I’ve felt so thankful. Has NSA made me want to scream and cry and rip my hair out from time to time? Yes. Have I cried consistently during every math class I’ve taken here? Also, yes. But I wouldn’t be who I am today if it had not been for NSA.

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🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSA2021-2022, May 2022 Publication
Keenan W. - My NSA Story
Keenan W. - My NSA Story

Born and raised in South Africa and homeschooling since the age of five, I’ve had an interesting journey to arriving at the virtual school gates of NorthStar Academy. As mentioned, I’ve been homeschooled since the age of five, which means that my mother has not only taught me how to write and read, but to really fall in love with learning and escape to the magical world of books.

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🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSA2021-2022, May 2022 Publication
My NSA Story: A Climb Up the Mountain
My NSA Story: A Climb Up the Mountain

My name is Ian King, and I am one of the writers behind many of the articles that you have seen on the Navigator website. I am a graduating senior and will be leaving NorthStar Academy for Liberty University. My experience with NSA has been one that is all too common among high school students: a busy yet productive life perpetuated with academic responsibilities and the strenuous adjustment to each year’s new needs. However, I don’t want to lament the demanding years that defined my high school experience; rather, I want to be thankful for the challenges that necessitated the person I became through it.

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🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSA2021-2022, May 2022 Publication
A Walk To Remember… : Brooke’s NSA Story
A Walk To Remember… : Brooke’s NSA Story

If I were to summarize my NSA story in a single word, I’d like to consider my experience as extraordinary. Homeschooling, or what I would later come to recognize as virtual learning, was something my family had become familiar with years before enrolling at NorthStar. When I was approaching my first day of second grade, our local public schools had given my parents no other option but to consider online schooling due to medical reasons. This led to me being enrolled in another online school for many years. Similarly to NSA, their teachers and students were based around the globe. Looking back, these teachers would serve as my early mentors, which I feel strongly contributed to my interest in writing.

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🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSAMay 2021 Issue, 2020-2021
Tirzah’s NSA Story - Finding That Niche
Tirzah’s NSA Story - Finding That Niche

This article is not going to be strictly about how I came to NorthStar Academy, mainly because the reason I’m here doesn’t make for a very exciting article. So let us put it briefly:

My dad was looking for an accredited way to homeschool so that my sister could go to the Naval Academy. While searching for schools, he saw that a NorthStar graduate had gone on to the Naval Academy. He looked into NSA, liked it, and signed my sister up. Pretty soon I followed with a couple of courses and then my younger sister got some courses, and soon we were near full-time students.

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🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSAMay 2021 Issue, 2020-2021
Why I Joined the Navigator
Why I Joined the Navigator

I’ve written for the Navigator for three years. I started during my sophomore year, in 2018. Back then, it was all done on First Class. I submitted my articles and pictures to the editors each month. Every writer was able to choose their own topic, and then write articles on it. The newspaper was completely student-run. However, that began to change in 2019. By the start of my junior year, the Navigator had become an NSA class with a teacher advisor.

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🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSAMay 2021 Issue, 2020-2021
My Story
My Story

I wanted to share myself with NSA. My real self. Not the “ahhhhh xd xd bahahhah” texting Izzy. I wanted to share the actual face behind those quirky, cute messages. The broken, sometimes sad, thoughtful Izzy that loves her dog like crazy and is really passionate about life. I loved writing. I love making blogs. Everything seemed simple. I started a Blogspot blog and began writing. I made an introduction and shared that introduction with the Student Body.

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🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSAMay 2021 Issue, 2020-2021
A Special Thank You For A Special Teacher
A Special Thank You For A Special Teacher

The 2020-21 school year was full of uncertainty and adventure for many brick-and-mortar students around the globe. With so much still going on in the world, teachers, students, and staff alike found themselves still learning how to adjust to an online learning environment. Here at NorthStar Academy, students continued to relish in their own personal academic successes. This success is largely due to the teachers -- whose patience and dedication inspires their students, no matter the situation. One of these teachers is the Navigator’s own faculty advisor: Mrs. April Meyer.

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👤NSA People, 🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSAMay 2021 Issue, 2020-2021
A Sporadic NSA Story, but a Story Nonetheless
A Sporadic NSA Story, but a Story Nonetheless

I’ve always been one of those weird kids who loved school and (almost) everything about it. I love learning, asking questions, writing essays, completing assignments, and having the general productivity of working. I have never been more aware of that fact than I have been since starting NSA. As a big extrovert, I greatly miss the social aspects of a brick and mortar school, but my competitive nature is satisfied by still having classmates, my desire to go at my own pace has been fulfilled, and the flexible schedule that NorthStar provides is the best option I could have ever found for the number of dance classes and rehearsals that I have to work around during the day.

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🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSAMay 2021 Issue, 2020-2021
Ten Kids at Home, Seven Grades to Teach
Ten Kids at Home, Seven Grades to Teach

When talking about big families who are homeschooled, a lot of people ask how my mom manages to teach all the kids the different grades. Well, she’s not the only one who teaches the kids - my dad is actually the one who’s in charge of our older kid’s schooling. But it is interesting to have seven kids who are currently of “schooling age” in the same house, not to mention the younger ones who have to be taken care of. Even though the oldest three are moved out, there are still ten kids left to raise - the job’s nowhere near done.

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🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSAApril 2021 Issue, 2020-2021
One Last Lesson
One Last Lesson

Your senior year of high school is always a very distinctive experience. Finishing up your last few classes, working on college applications, and making major decisions is a lot for anyone (and that’s not even considering the uncertainty of a world-wide pandemic). At times, it can be overwhelming and stressful. Seniors are only months away from heading off to college and living by themselves, but first, they must complete one last year as a high schooler.

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🗞️Staff StoriesEIC NSAFebruary 2021 Issue, 2020-2021