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The Student News Site Of Central Kitsap High School

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JJ Jenkins

JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor

JJ is a Senior at Central Kitsap High School. JJ enjoys gaming with his friends until the sun comes up, MMA, and Drawing. He is a copy editor, and the graphic designer for the Cougar Chronicle. JJ joined journalism because he aspired to be a medical journalist.

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Opinion: Why People Should Start Playing Chess

Opinion: Why People Should Start Playing Chess

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
June 5, 2023

Chess is the most recent entertainment phenomena, and for good reason: chess is simply fun to play, and it's very easy to learn. Anybody anywhere can play chess, either physically over the board or online...

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A physical chess game in progress on a wooden board.

Why Central Kitsap High School Students are Playing Chess

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
June 2, 2023

Chess is a strategic board game that was created all the way back in the sixth century and to this day, 1500 years later, it is still massively popular. Chess can be played either physically or digitally...

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Preview of the contents within the "Dreams & Nightmares" case from "CS:GO" ranging from the most common to the rarest of cosmetics, increasing in value with rarity.

Here’s What Young Adults Have to Say on Microtransactions in Gaming

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
May 9, 2023

The first purchasable microtransaction from a AAA publisher was in the 2006 game "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" by Bethesda. This microtransaction offered virtual armor for the user's horse at the cost...

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Kitsap Ski students sitting on a slope, enjoying a snow-soda (snowda) concoction

Kitsap Ski School Students Caught Off Guard by Decrease in Attendance

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
April 24, 2023

Kitsap Ski School is a program run through the Central Kitsap School District that allows students to take a bus ride up every Saturday in January through February to Stevens Pass Ski Resort to learn to...

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Student looing at the camera while skiing

Student looing at the camera while skiing

Frontside view of students skiing

Frontside view of students skiing

Student taping athlete at sporting event

“Every Student Should Take My Class,” says Ken Ahlstrom

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
February 13, 2023

In the sports medicine class students are taught by Mr. Ahlstrom how to identify and treat sports related injuries. Students who take his class can volunteer to attend school sporting events for the high...

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AI robot painting with a human hand

CKHS Students’ Thoughts and Opinions on AI Art

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
February 7, 2023

AI art softwares such as MidJourney AI and Dall-E 2 allow users to type a series of text that the AI will turn into an art piece by pulling images from their dataset (collection of digitally stored images...

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AI art generation created with the prompt "the crime of AI art

Opinion: The Crime of AI Art

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
January 31, 2023

AI art first started growing a cult following in mid 2022 with software such as MidJourney that ran through the media app Discord. However, it has become a recent phenomenon over TikTok and controversially...

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Animation student working hard on his animation

3D Animation students are pushing their May animations to the last minute

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
June 9, 2022

The May animation is the biggest piece students make during the class, for the animation students all have to work independently and are given a whole month to animate compared to the usual time of 1 week. The...

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Eugene Chung playing the drums during their Summer tour

“April Baby” will make you feel that it really is springtime in Washington

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
May 18, 2022

"April Baby" starts with a very different style than how Summer Salt usually starts. It is more upbeat and full of energy, the song is a love song about an unspecified girl however the lead singer (Matthew...

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Calvin playing the Guitar

Get to know who is performing at The Battle of the Bands on April 16th

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
April 1, 2022

Don Fox, Michael Brenner, and David Tracewell are doing the planning for this event, holding after school meetings with some of the performers to play music and practice with the other musicians who are...

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Jasmine San Juan at the winter toast off

Senior Student Jasmine San Juan says: “My Power as a Student is Extremely Limited”

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
February 6, 2022

Jasmine San Juan stated that her senior year has been the hardest year for her so far due to school shutting down her sophomore year up until the end her Junior year, causing her difficulty in finding...

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Will small businesses in the United States ever recover from COVID-19?

Will small businesses in the United States ever recover from COVID-19?

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
January 20, 2022

COVID-19 caused a huge decline in the United States economy due to employment rates falling to an all time low, in 2020, 9.9 out of 100 individuals were unemployed. The unemployment rate in the US was...

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Students in line picking up food

[Photo] School Lunch Quality Isn’t the Cooks Fault

by John Jenkins, Journalist
December 15, 2021

Students exiting the lunch line with their food

Students can’t stop Devious Licking Central Kitsap Highschool!

by JJ Jenkins, Reporter, Copy Editor
November 23, 2021

Devious licks is a trend that originated on Tiktok started by a user under the name: Jugg4elias on Sept 1, 2021, which involved acts of vandalism and thievery ranging from harmless pranks to actual destruction...

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