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The Summit Pinnacle

Bend-La Pine Schools' new grading system involves locked grades and a collaboration between Canvas and Synergy. / Credit: Halle Dao

What’s My Grade?

Eva Dicharry and Halle Dao October 27, 2025

This year, Summit students were horrified to discover that their grade percentages will be “locked” in Canvas for the foreseeable future, leaving students frustrated and confused. Why This is Happening Poor...

Access time options, shown in StudentVue. / Credit: Nash Orton

Is Advisory A Waste of Our Time?

Nash Orton, Staff Writer October 17, 2025

Students at Summit High School are now required to take an advisory class each day between second and third period, intended to spread information to students as well as support their futures. On paper...

As sophomores enter their second year at Summit, juniors offer tips and tricks for this next stage of life. / Credit: Blake Arnold

Dear Sophomores

Blake Arnold, Opinions Editor October 17, 2025

Ah, sophomore year. Not yet an upperclassmen, not still a freshman. A year of almost, but not quite. As sophomores, you are torn between the far-away threat of junior year and the stress that accompanies...

Finger pointing will only divide us further. / Credits: Zoe Tade

What Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Reveals About Humanity — or Lack Thereof

Zoe Tade, Staff Writer October 16, 2025

When the news of Charlie Kirk’s assassination broke, the media went on a frenzy of who to blame. Kirk received a fatal shot while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University and immediately after,...

Now that freshmen are entering their first year of high school, sophomores offer tips and tricks for this next stage of life. / Credit: Blake Arnold

Dear Freshmen

Blake Arnold, Opinions Editor October 10, 2025

Welcome, freshies! It’s your first year of high school, and the world is your oyster. That is, if you can get over those nerves. You have every opportunity laid out before you and this wealth of options...

In Summit's hallways, AirPods are commonplace and a barrier to communication.

Are You Listening?

Hailey Pease, Senior Writer September 27, 2025

One unusually good Thursday morning, I approached a student I thought was a former coworker. Tapping on his shoulder, I asked his name. However, met with the harsh response of him scoffing that he has...

“Serenity Now!”: Bring Back Our Sitcoms

“Serenity Now!”: Bring Back Our Sitcoms

Eva Dicharry and Kaia Vrbata September 18, 2025

What ever happened to shows about nothing? Somewhere between a “yada yada yada” and “We were on a break!” sitcoms became more than just TV shows — they became part of the way we see the world....

Canvas doesn’t believe in closure, only chaos. Here, our overlord is imagined as a villain looming over Summit students, declaring that nothing will ever be complete, no matter how many times you click ‘submit’. / Credit: Laney McDonald

Canvas is Killing Us

Laney McDonald, Editor-in-Chief September 12, 2025

The world may not have ended in 2020, but for students here at Summit, the apocalypse has finally arrived — and it’s in the form of Canvas’s to-do list. When students stepped back into Summit’s...

Just because we can’t vote doesn’t mean we can’t take a stand. / Credit: Blake Arnold

Trump Will Sabotage Your Future

The Pinnacle Editorial Board June 3, 2025

When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in November, we knew the world would change. However, as teenagers, we did not predict the degree to which his policies would shape our futures....

I’ll be T9-ing Till I Die

I’ll be T9-ing Till I Die

Kaia Vrbata, Staff Writer May 30, 2025

I got the inspiration the way most teenagers do—while mindlessly scrolling on Instagram. A college aged girl was on my screen holding up a boxy black CAT Diesel flip phone made for contractors. She held...

Speaking My Mind On the Speak Your Mind Challenge

Speaking My Mind On the Speak Your Mind Challenge

Hailey Pease May 14, 2025

You’re sitting in class, and a torn notebook page with a little note inside is passed along through your hands to the next. However, you don’t even take the time to look and have no idea what message...

With a recent executive order taking aim at the Smithsonian, the study of American history is at risk.

The Smithsonian Institute Is Not the One Rewriting History

Lauren Shein, Features Editor April 30, 2025

At the museums of the Smithsonian Institute, the past becomes present. Skeletons of long-extinct creatures tower over visitors and historical artifacts combine to tell one collective story: the proud and...

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