Enloe Junior's Tech Company Takes

May 2015 VOLUME XXXIII ISSUE VI WILLIAM G. ENLOE HIGH SCHOOL http://enloenews.kinja.com Enloe IN NEWS Enloe junior’s tech Google Fiber hits embraces the Triangle The brand new internet ser- company takes off Day of vice from Google has made a home in Raleigh. Silence By Caroline Rexrode IN OPINION On Friday, April 17th, hun- The Good Friday dreds of Enloe students par- ticipated in the Day of Silence, controversy successfully showing solidar- Wake County Schools fl ip- ity with LGBTQ students and fl ops on Good Friday can- spreading awareness for a cellation. global cause. According to the Enloe GSA co-presidents Brennan Lewis and Sophie Crouse, the ultimate goal of the Day of Silence is to make LGBT stu- IN FEATURES dents feel safe, supported and represented, as well as pro- Foodie Flavors in voke people to consider the silencing of LGBTQ students East Raleigh in schools due to bullying, ha- Explore new and exciting op- rassment and lack of support Courtesy of Neil Peterson tions for off-campus eats, right from teachers. in Enloe’s backyard. Entrepreneur and founder of Linker Logic Ritwick Pavan will soon start development of Enloe’s GSA encourages its WRAL’s new Apple Watch application. members and all willing students to participate in the Day By Jacob Sichel of Silence to raise awareness of At fi rst glance, eleventh junior-year schedule. He takes “everyone at Enloe is always the censoring of identity that grader Ritwik Pavan seems like six AP classes without lunch, doing something diff erent. I LGBTQ students are forced to a regular student. He plays bas- along with the many projects don’t want to be like everyone endure. The Gay, Lesbian and IN CENTERFOLD ketball, socializes with friends he has to fi nish by deadline for else. The type of people at En- Straight Education Network’s and is involved in HOSA, TSA, Linker Logic. loe motivate me.” annual Day of Silence is a Congrats Seniors! MBSA, Key Club and NHS. To help him bear the load, It can be said that Ritwik is growing protest that has been The Class of 2015 is mov- However, unlike most nor- he has hired a team of young succeeding because of his grit a tradition of GSAs, LGBTQ ing on to bigger and better mal high schoolers, Ritwik has professionals, also known as and determination, even when students and allies since 1996. things! Find out who’s head- founded his own technology his classmates, to assist him. the going gets tough - the ‘En- It is now the largest protest for ed where. company and it is taking off . Junior Aidan Curtis knows loe way.’ LGBTQ rights and awareness Linker Logic got its start last Ritwik says that his father, in schools. year during spring break, after “Everyone at a restauranteur, has been a Addressing the issue of IN A&E the success of his fi rst iPhone huge help with all of the legal LGBTQ discrimination in app, Flappy Yeet. Enloe is always framework and tax forms that schools is not new to Enloe’s Enloe’s Visual The game was a nation- doing something come with owning a business. GSA. Despite Enloe’s relative- Virtuosos wide hit, reaching the top ten His experience and back- ly accepting climate, prejudice and hardship does not always The Eagle’s Eye interviews a in the Apple App Store and diff erent. I don’t ground in computer science few senior artists about their accumulating over 350,000 have come in handy when Rit- evade LGBTQ students, mak- work and their futures. downloads. want to be like wik has needed help with the ing the Day of Silence a critical Ritwik gained some of his company. protest. experience at local non-profi t everyone else Linker Logic was recently Education about LGBTQ organizations Gokul Bhajan featured in The News and Ob- issues is a top priority. This and Vedic Studies teaching and I don’t have server. year, proactive measures to people in his Hindu commu- to. The type of The att ention he’s rev- spread tolerance in the Enloe nity how to code. ceived has been good publicity community have been taken However, and somewhat people at Enloe for the company, with four job by a team of GSA members surprisingly, most of his skill inquiries within the fi rst two who set up a day of silence came from watching tutorials motivate me.” days of the article being pub- booth during lunch, handed IN SPORTS on YouTube. His dream since lished. out 550 rainbow pins and the seventh grade has been a twelve languages of code and Ritwik won’t disclose how produced a video for the ‘Loe Enloe Tennis career in neurosurgery, but he is the lead developer. much he or Linker Logic make Down. has put that on hold to become Recently, Linker Logic per client, but he did say that In addition to these stu- makes a racket an entrepreneur and CEO. has developed a website and the average cost for a website dent-focused approaches, the The future looks bright for After the sudden success iPhone app that connects ranges from $2500 to $23000. GSA co-presidents held an young tennis stars of Flappy Yeet, he saw the po- high school athletes to college Due to Ritwik’s hard work, optional faculty seminar the tential business opportunity coaches, and they’ve already Linker Logic is certainly set up afternoon before the protest. that his hobby could provide. signed a contract with local to have a long and successful The goal of this student-led So early last year, he founded CBS affi liate WRAL to begin future. discussion was to increase Linker Logic. developing their Apple Watch If you are interested in be- acceptance and most impor- Ritwik barely fi nds the application. ing a part of the Linker Logic tantly, understanding of LG- time to manage his business Ritwik att ributes his time team, they are currently hiring BTQ issues among Enloe staff while dealing with his busy at Enloe to his success, saying, interns for the summer. members. 2 News May 2015 CURRENT EVENTS CALENDAR April 2 - e US and Iran come to an agreement on a Fiber comes to the Triangle nuclear arms treaty in Tehran By John T. Lalevee wncn.com On Tuesday, January 27th, April 6/7 - Duke takes the NCAA Men’s Basketball Google announced it would Championship and UCONN wins the Women’s title be bringing its fi ber optic internet service, Google Fiber, April 8 - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the perpetrator of the to the Triangle. Only seven Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 is found guilty on all 30 other metropolitan areas in charges the country currently have the service or will receive it in the April 9 - President Obama and Raul Castro, president of future. Cuba, meet in Washington, D.C. for the rst time Google Fiber is an internet service provider, like Time April 11 - Barack Obama and Raul Castro met at the Warner or Centurylink, that Summit of America in Panama to negotiate opening of em- uses fi ber optic cables to de- Google Fiber will o er increased internet capabilities for bassies liver service. The use of fi ber optic cables allows download users living in the Triangle April 12 - Freddie Gray dies in custody following his speeds up to one hundred arrest by Baltimore police o cers times faster than regular tele- more aff ordable. cable loom. phone or cable internet. A one time fee of $300 is The scale of this project is This high speed connection April 25 – A major earthquake in Nepal, measuring charged for the cost of instal- quite large and is the reason can reach upload and down- 7.8 on the Richter scale, results in more than 7,000 deaths in lation. The next package is $70 Google is rolling the service load speeds of one gigabit per Nepal, India, China and Bangladesh a month and provides giga- out one city at a time. Even second. With internet that fast, bit speeds. For $130 a month when the Raleigh-Durham you can download a movie Google will also sell you a live Fiber network is done, areas April 28 - e US Supreme court begins hearing argu- in under two minutes. This Internet TV streaming service. like Wake Forest and most of ments in the historic same-sex marriage case means seamless multimedia With these paid plans, Google North Raleigh won’t be get- streaming, quick downloads will waive the $300 installation ting the service. - Six police o cers are charged with the murder May 1 and browsing the web without fee. Google has not publicly of Freddie Gray in Baltimore a hiccup. Currently no commer- announced when it will start Google will be off ering its cial fi ber optic network ex- construction, but based on May 2 - Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Windsor service in three confi gurations. ists in Raleigh, at least not on timelines from other cities, was born to Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge The lowest tier is a basic inter- the scale Google intends it to expect Fiber service in your in London net service provided without be. Bringing Fiber to Raleigh home within the next two to a monthly bill. This isn’t fast means adding a new fi ber op- three years. It’ll be worth the May 12 - Amtrak train derails in Philadelphia, killing service, but rather a bare bones tic wire to every existing tele- wait for a seamless and im- seven and injuring nine package to make the Internet phone pole and underground mersive internet experience.

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