The student news site of Hollis Brookline High School

The CavChron

The student news site of Hollis Brookline High School

The CavChron

The student news site of Hollis Brookline High School

The CavChron

Max Porter, Staff Writer

Max Porter is a senior at Hollis Brookline High School, and this is his first year writing for the school newspaper. Outside of school hours, Max is a VP on the HBHS Robotics team and a defensemen HBDS Varsity Hockey team. After doing an independent project over the summer at Stony Brook University, he plans to cover other seniors’ independent projects throughout the year. After high school, Max hopes to attend college, pursuing a career in engineering, somewhere in the New England area.

All content by Max Porter
This fish is a possible candidate for residents inside Aldana-Proulx’s aquaponics garden. Fish are necessary for aquaponics to work because they provide fertilizer for the plants and keep the water free of plant detritus. “I’ll most likely use Tilapia,” Aldana-Proulx said, “and maybe we’ll get to eat it.”

Aquaponics? I hardly know her.

Max Porter, Staff Writer
April 19, 2018
The SAT is run by The College Board, and is the most widely used standardized test for students to take when preparing for college. One alternative for the SAT is the ACT (or American College Testing). The ACT differs from the SAT by scoring people out of a possible 36 points, and includes a science section. “I took the SAT because it was free to take at the high school,” said Nick Franzini ‘18, SAT veteran.“Once I took one, I felt like I had to take it again so I can superscore it. It didn’t make sense to take a whole different test.”

The quest for 1600

Max Porter, Staff Writer
April 10, 2018
Load More Stories