The student news site of Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas

WINGSPAN
The student news site of Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas

WINGSPAN
The student news site of Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas

WINGSPAN
Aarya Oswal

Aarya Oswal, Assistant Interactive Media Editor

Aarya Oswal is a senior entering her fourth year at Wingspan. She loves spending her free time watching movies, painting, and sleeping in her free time - among other things. She also enjoys traveling and catching up on a good book. While she's not listening to the latest music, you can find her spending time with her family and friends.

Contact Aarya: aarya.oswal.824@k12.friscoisd.org 

All content by Aarya Oswal
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: SOS

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
December 19, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Me vs. Myself

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
December 12, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: The Family

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
December 2, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: a remastered moMINTs

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
November 28, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
November 14, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Her Loss

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
November 7, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Working on my Karma

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 31, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Midnights

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 24, 2022
HOSA is expanding with two new clubs this year, From The Heart and Doctors Without Borders. The new clubs will expand healthcare related opportunities for students.

Expanding opportunities, HOSA branches out with new clubs

Aarya Oswal, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
October 20, 2022
Sophomore and junior students took the PSAT on Wednesday, but this year the test looked a little different. Rather than the usual pen to paper, this year students took the test via a computer.

Dual credit students define cool in their latest essay

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 19, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: new singles

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 17, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: TikTok’s effect on the charts

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 11, 2022
Seniors are required to fill out FAFSA applications, which give out loans or grants to students to pay for college if they are eligible. FAFSA applications are now open, and will remain open until Jan. 15, 2023.

FAFSA applications now open for seniors

Aarya Oswal, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
October 4, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Entergalactic

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 3, 2022
BeReal, an app that promotes authenticity through prompting users to take a photo at a set time, is rising in popularity. Even though the app's foundation is built on authenticity, staff reporter Aarya Oswal claims that BeReal isn't as real as others make it out to be.

BeReal doesn’t let users “be real”

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
September 27, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: HDTV

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
September 26, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: The Forever Story

Aarya Oswal, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
September 19, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: new singles

Aarya Oswal, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
September 12, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Kid Cudi

Aarya Oswal, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
September 6, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Hummingbird

Aarya Oswal, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
August 29, 2022
Mexican-American studies is an ethnic studies class now available to students on campus. The class provides students with the opportunity to learn more about underrepresented groups in the United States by teaching about Mexican-American culture and history.

Mexican-American Studies arrives on campus

Aarya Oswal, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
August 23, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: Spaceships on the Blade

Aarya Oswal, Assistant Interactive Media Editor
August 22, 2022
In this weekly column, senior Emily Thomas provides her take on a new albums, concerts, and artists.

Acoustic Avenues: new year, new you, new groove

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
August 15, 2022
Scores from the first digital SATs were released by College Board on Friday with many students still unsure if they prefer the paper or digital version of the standardized test.

FISD hits highest amount of National Merit Scholars in Texas

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
August 15, 2022
Recently, the district has opened applications for the district-wide committees.

Applications for district committees open

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
May 11, 2022
Early voting for midterm elections has been open for nearly two weeks. Polling places for early voting will remain open until 7 p.m. on Friday.

Election Day coming up for Board of Trustees

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
May 6, 2022
The House Bill 4545 is seeing its first STAAR season

New changes to EOC policy

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
May 3, 2022
Science teacher, Kenric Davies, was recently named the next President Elect of the Science Teachers of Texas Association after being a member for several years.

Teacher on campus named President Elect of Science Teacher of Texas Association

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
April 29, 2022
Frisco ISD has opened applications for the district committees. The applications consist of roles for the District Advisory Council, Legislative Leadership Council, Library Reconsideration Committee, Safety and Security Committee, School Health Advisory Committee, Special Education Parent Committee, and Student Advisory Committee.

FISD hosting a documentary screening Wednesday night

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
April 20, 2022
Drone delivery company, Wing, has launched delivers in Frisco and Little Elm, allowing products to be directly shipped to your house via drone.

Drone deliveries start in the DFW area

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
April 8, 2022
In this week's edition of Artistic Expressions, Wingspan sits down with junior violinist Saesha Dravekar as she explains experiences thus far as a musician.

Saesha Dravekar

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
April 5, 2022
After weeks of preparation, some Redhawks will be heading to Fort Worth for the FIRST Robotics competition. “I’m very excited to see how our robot that we’ve spent so much time and effort on does against other teams’ robots,” junior Tanmay Gupta said. “I’m also very excited to meet other people who also share my passion for robotics.”

Redhawks compete in FIRST Robotics Competition

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
March 17, 2022
Wingspan's Featured Athlete for 3/17 is track runner, junior Cameron Gibbs.

Featured Athlete: Cameron Gibbs

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
March 17, 2022
Frisco ISD is hosting a Achieve Mentor breakfast appreciation Friday 8-9 a.m.

Board of Trustees hosts first ever Community Input Meeting Monday

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
February 28, 2022
HOSA is expanding with two new clubs this year, From The Heart and Doctors Without Borders. The new clubs will expand healthcare related opportunities for students.

Leaving virtual behind, HOSA back to on-site contests

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
February 22, 2022
In an effort to prevent fentanyl usage in students and in the city, Frisco ISD is hosting an informative town hall about fentanyl and its fatal effects.

Redhawks honored at February Board Meeting

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
February 16, 2022
As the forecast calls for snow and ice, Frisco cancels school for Thursday and Friday. This has given the opportunity to students and teachers to have a short break.

February freeze causes Frisco ISD to close schools

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
February 2, 2022
In CTE Architecture classes, students are working on the Roles of Industry group project, in which they have the opportunity to take on a job in the architecture industry during the designing of one building. Each member of the group takes on a certain role and gives students the opportunity to learn about what each goal does.

Architecture learns about different roles in the industry

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
January 31, 2022
The Ingenuity of Marvel Movies

The Ingenuity of Marvel Movies

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
January 21, 2022
A few quick sketches later and art teacher Jeb Matulich had constructed a design for the school logo. Now his ideas have been embedded into the Liberty legacy.

[Photo] Teacher’s sketch becomes school logo

Chaewon Han, Guest Contributor
January 6, 2022
Middle school #18 and the first intermediate school of FISD have been named, Shana Wortham Intermediate School and Richard Wilkinson Middle School.

Next FISD middle and intermediate school named

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
January 5, 2022
Winter Storm Uri happened almost a year ago causing a lost of power across the state. Recently, ERCOT released a report on the improvements made to the power grid and what would happen if there were another storm this winter.

ERCOT releases projections for winter

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
December 2, 2021
In this week's edition of Artistic Expressions, Wingspan sits down with junior Neha Lakka as she shares about her passion for playing the violin.

Neha Lakka

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
November 16, 2021
Being able to apply what they learned over the last nine weeks, students in Health Science spent Monday and Tuesday going around the school to take vital signs of staff and students alike.

Health science students apply skills on campus

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
November 10, 2021
poinsettia

Flower fundraising finishes Friday for Winter Extravaganza

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 28, 2021
Mexican-American studies is an ethnic studies class now available to students on campus. The class provides students with the opportunity to learn more about underrepresented groups in the United States by teaching about Mexican-American culture and history.

Mexican American studies course approved for next school year

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 14, 2021
With a little over a month away from UIL sectionals, Orchestra students are attending practice before and after school to rehearse for the upcoming music performance. Orchestra Director Madison Waggerman believes the practice time will strengthen her students as musicians.

[Photo] Madison Waggerman

Kiara Hinz, Guest Contributor
October 7, 2021
The FDA has approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children from ages 5-11 leading FISD to email parents that all students under 12 will return to on-campus learning on Jan. 4, 2022.

Some students unsure about getting COVID-19 booster shot

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 5, 2021
Friday after school, orchestra students will be gathering for its monthly social. This week's social includes a series of board games as well as video games for students to play with.

PALs hosting board game drive

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
September 27, 2021
Choi is hosting a winter concert Thursday at 7 p.m. in the auditorium. The choir will be singing classic winter songs such as Carol of the Bells” and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”

Choir All-State auditions begin Tuesday

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
September 23, 2021
Jostens paid a visit to seniors on Wednesday to give information class rings.

Josten gives annual class ring presentation

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
September 8, 2021
The first quarter of the year just ended with many teachers and students getting used to the different learning environment compared to last year.

Dress code looks a little different this year

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
September 2, 2021
The Taliban’s swift coup of the Afghan government was imminent. A conflict that had been brewing for decades finally resulted in the fall of the Afghan government resulting in many families effected including ones on campus.

Taliban conflict in Afghanistan impacts Redhawk’s families

Ana Toro, Aarya Oswal, and Athena Tseng
August 30, 2021
The second of three pep rallies scheduled for this year is Thursday's Homecoming pep rally. The Homecoming football game is against Melissa at Toyota Stadium Thursday at 7 p.m. with the dance scheduled for Saturday from 7-10 p.m.

First pep rally looked a little different for underclassmen

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
August 27, 2021
Recently, Frisco company, InspectIR, made first FDA approved COVID-19 breath test, making testing for COVID-19 even easier.

12-15 year olds now allowed to get COVID vaccine

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
May 20, 2021
Despite understanding its importance, climate change wasn't something Managing Editor Rin Ryu put much thought into. However, seeing its daily impact sparked a new found interest.

We must help our home

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
April 22, 2021
all students are given the opportunity to register to attend summer school with Monday being the first day the registration window opened. While registration ends on May 25 for credit recovery, students have until May 31 at 4 p.m. to drop the class with a full refund. After 4:01 p.m. on May 31 through June 10, students may still drop the class with no penalty, but they will not get a refund.

Summer school offers recovery, acceleration, and enrichment

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
April 20, 2021
Students in Medical Terminology explore their individual preferred styles of learning about the urinary system.

Medical Terminology students explore learning styles on their own

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
April 9, 2021
The FISD+ program launched this year, and allows students to continue with fully online or hybrid learning. While the program has its benefits and drawbacks, it provides students with flexibility to accommodate the way they learn best.

Online School of Choice Interest Survey due Friday

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
April 1, 2021
As a result of the snowstorm and freezing temperatures that hit North Texas Feb. 14-18, and two weeks off campus, students will have fewer required grades in all classed for the 3rd quarter which ends Friday.

Grading period ends with fewer required grades

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
March 19, 2021
Frisco ISD is hosting Find Your Future Night Monday at Centennial and Wakeland. Students have the opportunity to hear from representatives at private and selective schools, as well as at Big Ten schools.

Juniors get more study time for SAT

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
March 3, 2021
Local services are available to those affected by the recent Texas winter storms. Some organizations to reach out to include Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Health and Human Services Commission, North Texas Food Bank, Frisco Family Services, The Shepherd’s Hand, and Minnie’s Food Pantry.

Ways to receive help for those affected by winter storm

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
February 25, 2021
Not one to normally listen to a self-help type podcast, staff reporter Aarya Oswal changed her mind after coming across the "Happier with Gretchen Ruben" podcast.

Learning that the little things matter

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
February 24, 2021
With the start of the last nine weeks, summer and the end of the school year is quickly approaching. In this week's Viral Thoughts, Haille Hughes stress the importance of keeping up social distancing to achieve a COVID free summer.

Students might receive COVID-19 vaccine starting summer

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
February 11, 2021
AP World History students are tasked with creating a Star Wars™️ themed movie to further learn about European imperialism.

AP World History students take on filmmaking to learn about European imperialism

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
February 5, 2021
CollegeBoard has launched BigFutureDays, a regional series of virtual college fairs with registration now open for Texas and its regional event on March 30. “Student Search Service is a free voluntary program connecting students with information about educational and financial aid opportunities from eligible colleges, universities, scholarships, and other educational programs,” College and Career Facilitator Leslie Thompson said.

College Board cancels SAT essay section and subject tests permanently

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
January 25, 2021
Virtual students hit the target in archery

Virtual students hit the target in archery

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
January 20, 2021
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball (MLB) breaking the league’s color barrier. For seniors, applications for scholarships have either already passed or or are quickly approaching, one of them being the Jackie Robinson Foundation (Feb. 1 deadline), which seeks out minority students in need of financial aid and guidance through the process of higher education. 

Jackie Robinson Foundation scholarship now available for seniors

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
January 13, 2021
For the last week before winter break, Student Council is hoping to get students in the holiday spirit by hosting a Dress Up week from Monday to Friday.

Students use week before Winter Break to catch up in classes

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
December 18, 2020
With the winter break ending and the second semester starting, some students on campus have received new schedules due to single semester courses, dropping classes, and other changes.

2021-22 Course requests due soon

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
December 14, 2020
PAP French 3 students practice their career life by going through a simulated job experience.

PAP French 3 classes use simulations to master job interviews

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
December 4, 2020
Students learned about the effects of colonialism during the early modern era through the creative freedom of either a podcast or infographic.

AP World History students explore the past of slavery

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
November 13, 2020
Some school activities have been either postponed or cancelled this year, but for students in choir, that is not the case as a select few choir students advanced to all-state in the Texas Music Educators Association. The second round began Oct. 28, giving the finalists time to prepare and learn the songs. They then receive the cuts at a later date that have been undisclosed as of right now.

Choir announces its new all-region finalists

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
November 4, 2020
Students in medical terminology used their pencils and some tape as part of a unit that involved forensics. “In this lab, we found our own fingerprint patterns by rubbing graphite on our fingers, lifting the imprint with tape, and putting it down on paper,” Heritage High School sophomore, Allison Chau said. “Then we had to identify the types of fingerprints we had and research just how common that type was. It was easy and fun to find out what percent my fingers fit in.”

Forensics classes get a hold on fingerprints

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 30, 2020
Liberty High School was one of 9 FISD schools awarded recognition on College Board's AP Honor Roll.

Early AP test prep for AP World History

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 22, 2020
Dedicated to inspiring young women and fighting gender disparities, Sisters of STEM is a locally founded, global organization founded and led by junior Olivia Zhen.

Experts in muscular system, med term records presentations

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 15, 2020
Putting their GPS knowledge to the test, students in outdoor education are hiding geocaches around the community as they learn about GPS usage. Similar to treasure hunting, geocaching is an outdoor activity where participants use a GPS to to find hidden objects.

Hiding treasures, outdoor ed learns how to use GPS coordinates

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
October 8, 2020
With summer coming up, FISD is hosting an informational webinar for students interested in summer school.

FISD launches Alumni Network

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
September 29, 2020
Among the places offering a space for virtual students to do their school work are Kidzania USA at Stonebriar Centre, and RockStar Martial Arts with three locations in Frisco. Students can go to the facilities from three to five days a week, with less than 20 people on site which are cleaned on a daily basis, as well as checkups and masks enforced.

Frisco businesses offer spaces for students to do school work

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
September 21, 2020
As the first 6 weeks come to an end, students will have the opportunity to drop PAP and AP classes beginning Friday. The drop window closes Sept. 24, and students will follow their new schedule starting Sept. 28.

PAP and AP drop window opens

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
September 17, 2020
Student council applications are now open for future upperclassmen. Student council is looking for leaders of the school and people who want to make an impact on their community.

StuCo’s “Behind the Mask” highlights teachers on campus

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
September 9, 2020
Occuring on the first Monday in September to recognize the economic and social achievements of workers in America, Labor Day began as a labor movement in the late 19th century, but it got nationally recognized which led it to become a federal holiday in 1894.

Students get ready for Labor Day weekend

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
September 3, 2020
In years past, freshmen on campus have filled the hallways for one night exclusively, Rising Freshman Night. Now, this year's participants will be taking a virtual approach, as the night will be composed into a webinar.

Zoomed out

Aarya Oswal, Staff Reporter
August 25, 2020
With all Frisco ISD high school students returning back to school in-person, staff and students on campus are attempting to return to a state of normalcy. Ultimately, the goal is to transition to the usual routine that staff and students on campus exercised before the pandemic.

Algebra 1 students shape their knowledge on Geometry

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributor
May 27, 2020
Chemistry students had the chance to improve their grade with an optional project where they had to record themselves talking about gas laws.

Gas talk fuels final chemistry project

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributor
May 21, 2020
Tile painting has been an annual project for precalculus students, but painting ceiling tiles is a part of this year's Algebra 1 end-of-the-year project. Other options for the project include creating an Algebra 1 glossary, making a music video, or taking a quiz on every module covered throughout the year.

Algebra 1 students show their mastery in end-of-the-year project

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributor
May 14, 2020
Theater 1 students continue to explore the art of theater through storytelling and scriptwriting with a project that began by having  students write a fairy tale they remembered from there past and create two scenes based off of it, and now, students are required to make an adaptation of those two scripts.

Theater 1 students craft their own script

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributor
May 4, 2020
Cast and crew lists for theater's upcoming fall production, The Laramie Project, were released Sunday, after students auditioned last week.

Theater students push the limits of their imaginations

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributor
April 30, 2020
After learning about the history of film, Theater 1 students are starting a new project. They now have the opportunity to act out a scene based off of their own creativity.

Setting the scene, Theater 1 starts new project

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributor
April 20, 2020
Campus hallways and classrooms are empty as students and teachers take part in eLearning amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. In order to maintain a classroom environment, a common way teachers connect with students is through a video communication application called Zoom.

Zoom becomes a new form of the classroom

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributor
April 2, 2020
With extended social distancing instated all across the country, parents and students have found ways to continue their day to day routines at home. While many jobs are able to be done online, parents like Smeetha Lodha have daily fears of catching COVID-19 in their place of work.

FISD parents face changes in the workplace

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributer
April 1, 2020
The window for students to make any changes in their course requests for next year opens this Friday. The deadline for students to request a change in courses for 2021-2022 is Friday April 15 at 4:30 p.m.

Diving deeper into the culture of French-speaking countries

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributor
February 28, 2020
Current 8th graders that will be attending Liberty next year will be coming to campus to get a sneak peak of high school life. The Rising Freshman Night is taking place from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday.

8th grade students get preview of high school at Wednesday’s Redhawk Rally

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributor
January 29, 2020
Theatre has announced its spring play as they look to evoke laughter from the audience. Auditions for The Clumsy Custard Horror Show will be on Feb. 3, 2020 and the cast will be made mostly of underclassmen.

Clumsy underclassmen look to evoke laughter

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributor
January 27, 2020
In Pre-AP Biology, students learned how to read blood types and match them to given samples. Given activities such as figuring out who the parent is and choosing the criminal, this helped students connect the classwork to the real world.

Blood typing in Pre-AP Biology

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributor
January 27, 2020
The deadline to submit service hours for the 2023 Service Award is Saturday. The award will be given to students who have shown evidence of completing over 100 service hours throughout their four years of high school.

Underclassmen revise four-year plans

Athena Tseng and Aarya Oswal
January 14, 2020
Pre-AP French 2 students stepped out of their comfort zone and learned about holidays from all over the world. As the project was individual, students had the chance to get creative on their own.

French students get cultural

Aarya Oswal, Guest Contributor
December 20, 2019
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