About Us

The Dragon is the official newspaper of Design Tech High School. Now in its 9th 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. From 2020 to 2024, we operated with the advisory of English 2 teacher Karissa Lecroy. In the 24-25 school year, advisership was jointly assumed by Spanish teacher Joe Schneider and English 4 teacher Nathan Pierce.

In 2017, we released our first print edition newspaper, and since then we have released 17 physical print editions and two digital prints (during the COVID-19 school shutdown), the earliest of which can be accessed through our archive.

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a restart of The Dragon, as access to the website, resources, and people were lost. Dragon News staff 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 the 2024-25 school year, 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.