About Us

The Dragon is the official newspaper of Design Tech High School. Now in its 7th year, The Dragon aims to be the voice of the d.tech student body, reporting solely at the behest of it. We were founded in 2016 by d.tech English teacher Lessely Anderson, and over the years we were advised by Anderson and underclassmen English teacher Patrick Sullivan. Since 2020, we have been operating with the advisory of Sophomore English teacher Karissa Lecroy. 

In 2017, we released our first print edition newspaper, and since then we have released 14 physical print editions and two digital prints (during the COVID-19 school shutdown), all of which can be accessed through our archive.

In 2018, we branched out into video content with production of The Broadcast Dragon or TBD, later renamed Video Dragon News or VDN. TBD and VDN were well known for their analysis of the school as well as their comedic stylings, which usually included a creative misuse of their titular acronym, such as VDNs Vlad’s Dead Now, a reference to the departure of video director Vlad Morozov.

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a restart of The Dragon, as access to the website, resources, and people were lost. Former writers Isabella Gámez (‘22) and Steven Sutton (‘23) quickly assembled a new team, bringing together new and former staff writers, artists, and web designers. A new website was created, and the release of articles began again in September. Later, in April of the same school year, an organizational mishap occurred within d.tech administration that caused The Dragon to lose our website yet again. Two digital print editions were promptly compiled and released starting in May. Print production, as well as web publishing, began again in 2021.

Now, in 2022-23, The Dragon is still here, documenting the school and its students as it continues to evolve and change.

The Meet the Team page is currently under construction.