Student Voices

The Porter County Career Center would like to thank Maya Villalobos for her heroic deeds on Wednesday, November 4th. One afternoon she was driving and saw an elderly woman, who was walking her dog, stop and collapse on the sidewalk. Maya turned...

This past Saturday, October 10th, the automotive class had their winter car check. The car check was super successful and you could tell each student working on it had a blast by the look on their amazed faces when you walked into the garage! The car...

Cheerleading Team Creates Fundraiser in Honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month The Portage High School Cheerleading team sold breast cancer awareness t-shirts from Oct. 5 to Oct. 9. The proceeds will be going to a breast cancer research foundation....

Late August and September events: The last Friday of August, the 28th, the health classes had their first blood drive which was a success! Even when they went class to class for students to sign up, by the day before all or most of the slots were...

School is back in session! This year we have a fresh new class of juniors and we excitedly welcome them into all of our programs! Now that classes are back in session, the health students are back at work at achieving their CNA licenses! Each class...

Events This Previous School Year That Deserve Recognition: The Porter County Career Center holds a blood drive every few weeks for all students and staff to help support the community. The health occupation and health careers classes help the nurses...

Boy Cross Country With the school year fast approaching, the boys’ cross country team has already begun preparing with off season training. Getting ready to enter his senior year, Michael Kovacs is looking forward to the upcoming cross country...

Class of 2015 Graduation As the 2014-2015 school year came to a close, the senior class wrapped up their time spent at PHS at the commencement ceremony on June 7th. According to Zavier Colon, graduating was very overwhelming. “The feeling of...

From Walls to Art Galleries Senior Abbigail Peters’ creative talent won her the Best in Show award at Portage High School’s annual art show. Peters has been interested in art since she was two years old. “I would draw all over the walls and...

Whoever would've thought that going to Six Flags would be a part of the class curriculum? Well at the Porter County Career and Technical Center, all things are possible. Recently, students from the Career Center performed a market study at the famous...