GBHS Student Life – The Burrow

High School Students: Get Good Grades To Achieve Scholarships

November 29, 2016

Scholarships are grants or payments made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other achievement. They can either be one time sums of money or renewable scholarships which are used each semester or each year. You can apply for as many scholarships as you want, as long as they ar...

GBHS Craft Fair

Raquel Hamner, Staff Writer

April 7, 2016

Filed under Arts & Entertainment, GBHS Student Life, Showcase

March 12, 2016 The craft fair has been hosted and staffed by Glen Burnie students and members of the Band Parents Association for many years now, and families and friends have shared the experience of watching artists and crafters create and express the love for their art for just as long. The...

Important Senior Class Information

Jordan Fannin, Staff Writer

April 1, 2016

Filed under GBHS Student Life, News, Showcase

Senior Class of 2016 SO, the end is near. (For those of us in the class of 2016 that is) First things first: PROM!  Date: May 6, 2016  Location: BWI Hilton Time: 7pm-11pm.  Tickets: $90 (Sales begin April 4th during lunches)  Students are allowed to bring underclassmen however,...

Teens: Under Pressure

Cheyenne Grieves

January 5, 2016

Filed under GBHS Student Life, Showcase

Too many responsibilities forced onto teenagers at school, home, and work can cause teens to feel under pressure. “Many parents worry that if they don’t enroll their kids in a lot of extracurricular activities, their children will be missing out or be left behind.” But by doing that, the adults...

Rainbow Ribbons Show Support for GSA

Meagan Scholossenberg, Co-Editor

September 15, 2015

Filed under GBHS Student Life, Uncategorized

As a new school year starts as do the clubs it holds. One specific club that plans to take off with flying colors, rainbow colors to be exact, is the GBHS Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), which meets in M239, every Tuesday from 2:15 to 3:00. This club holds high hope to kick start the year with all sorts...

Steps For Hope 2015

Angelina Pruto, Editor

April 16, 2015

Filed under GBHS Student Life

The Steps for Hope Walk originated in 2012 as a way to promote suicide prevention awareness at Glen Burnie High Schools and in its community. Each year, this walk is coordinated by Ms. Deborah Peterson, Glen Burnie High School's psychologist. In a letter to local businesses, Peterson addresses the issues...

A Second Chance for Hungry Students

Meagan Schlossenberg, Staff Writer

March 27, 2015

Filed under GBHS Student Life

Second Chance Breakfast (2CB) is an opportunity to go get breakfast before second period, just in case you didn’t have time to eat breakfast the first time around. It came to GBHS at the beginning of the 14-‘15 school year as a test to see if the school could benefit from it. Since the first day...

Tags: Breakfast, Second chance, Second chance breakfast

GBHS College & Career Expo On the Way

Angelina Pruto, Editor in Chief

March 17, 2015

Filed under GBHS Student Life

Glen Burnie High School is proud to announce the 4th Annual College & Career Expo that will be held on April 22, 2015 from 10:30am-12:30pm in the Main Gym. The College & Career Expo gives regional businesses, community organizations, and secondary education institutions an opportunity to share...

Snow & Ice Capades

Samantha Lien, Staff Writer

March 17, 2015

Filed under GBHS Student Life

All Glen Burnie students are aware of the weather at most points in the day. How is this possible? Because we are out in the elements every day in between classes in our unique six-building campus. Especially this year, many parents have complained about students being exposed to bad weather. One...

Tags: AACPS, GBHS, snow, snow day

‘Teens for Jeans’ Makes a Difference

Anna Santos, Staff Writer

March 3, 2015

Filed under GBHS Student Life

Glen Burnie High's “Teens for Jeans” campaign collected over 600 pairs of jeans this month, culminating in a benefit concert at Marley Station Mall on February 7th. Teens for Jeans is a campaign by DoSomething.org. Millions of young people experience homelessness every year and one of the most ofte...

Glen Burnie High School Takes the Plunge

Sarah Rifield, assistant editor

March 3, 2015

Filed under GBHS Student Life

Not many people would plan on taking a dip in the Chesapeake this time of year. But on January 30th,over 2,000 Anne Arundel County middle and high school students participated in the Polar Bear Plunge’s Cool Schools Challenge; a fundraiser for the Special Olympics that raised over $230,000. Glen Burnie’s...

America, Glen Burnie Step Forward in the LGBT Community

Meagan Schlossenberg, Staff Writer

December 19, 2014

Filed under GBHS Student Life

Have you heard about the executive order banning workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees? Whether you have or have not, it’s a big step for the United States as a whole. In a speech from July released by the White House, President Obama stated that...