“You step into the dark. Your torch barely illuminates the space around you, your vision is very limited, and suddenly! Flying from the darkness, you are surrounded by a horde of flapping wings and snarling...
Sophomore Addie Gleason quickly turned her camera off of the FaceTime screen and pulled up her messages. She had been showing her friends the new necklace she made, a fossil intertwined in a design of...
Combining graphic design with his hobby of playing Rocket League, sophomore Devin Tyler has made video game graphic designing into a job. Tyler can make multiple styles of graphic design, including logos,...
Addie Gleason, Managing Editor-in-Chief
• March 16, 2021
Walking into a store, bright, colorful posters attract your attention, advertising the latest trendy style. Big numbers and percentages line the aisles as you walk by, trying to pull you in with deals...
Thomas Bruns, Opinions/A&E editor
• March 14, 2021
After spending hours on a plane to visit his grandparents in rural China, senior Justin Xu noticed a disparity between rural English speakers and urban English speakers. He was invited to a local middle...
Ask any dancer and they will agree that injuries are a part of life. In this technical and strenuous art form, routine exercises often pose risks if executed incorrectly. For sophomore Olivia Davis, what...
Mesmerized by the woodwinds, freshman Alexandra Deluca dreamed of playing the piccolo when she was 10. However, her elementary school music teacher steered her to the flute. One Christmas present later,...
Speeding down a hill and with her friend behind the wheel of their golf cart, sophomore Maddie Humme knew she was in for a bumpy ride. The cart flipped and Humme slid 20 feet stopping on hot, hard asphalt....
COVID-19 guidelines released by the Saint Louis County’s Department of Public Health relieve those who are hard-of-hearing and deaf from the requirement of wearing masks in public spaces. However, this...
Cramped at the Cairo outlet mall, almost unable to breathe in the stuffy air and trying to find her friends over the crowd of people, freshman Alia Hammad recalls life as she knew it before coming to America....
![Club members and juniors Cooper Carl, Hector Wilkenwork and freshman Max Werner work to defeat a shield guardian in the “Curse of Strahd” campaign. Taken right before school went online in 2020, this was the second-to-last time the D&D club was able to play in-person. “It's a very tight-knit group,” Wilken said. “We know each other, we're friends [and] we're close.”](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/File_000-30-e1617033543319-900x675.jpeg)
![Senior Skyler Ji converses with students on a video call. Ji, who has been speaking Chinese since birth, treasured the opportunity to talk with native Chinese speakers. “I wanted to join because of the opportunity to talk to and interact with people in China. I used to go to town a lot, but, recently, I haven’t been,” Ji said. “I also wanted to join because of the opportunity to talk to Chinese people and see how COVID[-19] has been impacting them.”](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Mark-student-video-call.png)
![On a trip to Hurghada, Egypt, freshman Alia Hammad and her cousin Omar parachute over the Red Sea. This adventure took place in July 2019, about four months before her big move. "I loved it. I saw the purple jellyfish and coral [because] the water was so clear.” Hammad said.](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/0d50a0dd-8e38-4519-9487-177a89958a4e-900x601.jpeg)