In addition to on-campus activities, the staff attends annual high school journalism conferences, field trips, and hosts the Quill and Scroll reception, to honor its outstanding contributors. The Affirmative No is a member of the Ohio Student Journalism Association and Quill and Scroll, the international honor society for student journalists. The Onyx The Onyx, the school's yearbook, is an award-winning publication which chronicles the life and history of both campuses of the school in a given academic year. All work for the book including layout design, photography, story writing, and fundraising is student driven. The production of the book requires hundreds of man hours.
Students can participate at all levels of production and to the degree to which they are able.
Some students may wish to only take photographs, some simply write for the book while others make a greater commitment and become part of the production staff. Some production meetings occur during the school day but most work is done on the weekends in the Onyx office in the Technology Center. The most intense months for production are from November through February. The staff attends yearbook workshops during the school year and during the summer. It honors its most distinguished members with induction into the journalism honorary Quill and Scroll.