Alexis Dorsett is a North Polk junior Newspaper Editor. She enjoys writing stories about current events and focusing on distributing quality and accurate facts to The Orbit.  “I like writing articles about w...

Sophomore Olivia Moody is a Newspaper Editor for The Orbit. Currently, she is mainly working on writing important stories about her school, “Writing is my favorite part… I really like writing, writing is my strong suit for...

Sophie Hoffmeier of Polk City is a senior at North Polk and has been in Journalism since January 2020, alongside Aden Burdine and Maggie Baumgardner. She initially joined the program just for fun, but became very involved wi...

Junior Isabelle Friedman is a Journalism Production student for her first year. Her favorite part of Journalism is writing news articles and interviewing people. She is taking Journalism Productions in order to be able to take New...

Ben Perschall is a senior at North Polk, and took Journalism Productions during the 2020-2021 school year. Perschall is heavily involved in the Fine Arts, participating in marching band, jazz band, and symphonic band, as well as ...

Olivia Cooper is a JP student writer for The Orbit. She is also on the student council, runs for cross country, plays soccer, and is on the yearbook staff. She is a senior like her triplet brother and sister.  Cooper ma...

Jillian Downs of Slater, Iowa, is a junior at North Polk in the Broadcast branch of the Journalism Department. She loves collaborating and writing, as well as being a part of a team effort to create a finished product. She joined...

Junior, Matt May, just wanted to get some journalism experience this year by taking journalism production class, “I needed a third hour class, and it seemed pretty interesting”. His favorite part of the class this year has...