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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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Meet the novices

Meet the novices

Maddie Cooke, STAFF WRITER February 2, 2016
Four new debate members share about their novice experience
Working on a mannequin head of hair, junior Jasmine Black attends cosmetology class.

Juniors kickstart their technical careers

Kathryn Harter, Multimedia Editor February 1, 2016
Imagine going to college while you’re still in high school, ditching electives for lifestyle classes like cooking and computer programming. That’s available to you at South Technical High School.
Marketing students pose by the bull on Wall Street.

Marketing students travel to New York City

Ellie Widowski, Staff Writer February 1, 2016
Taking an elevator to the top floor of the World Trade Center, riding on a ferry to see the Statue of Liberty, taking the subway to catch the Nets vs. Trailblazers game in Brooklyn, watching a live television broadcast of ‘Live with Kelly and Michael’ and making it on national television.
Seniors Grace Goedde and Tommy Stimac help move donated jeans.

Students donate unused jeans to homeless teens

Emily Wind, Staff Writer January 28, 2016
Since early January, Longhorn Council has been collecting old jeans for the Teens for Jeans campaign, headed by Science ASC teacher Susan Anderson. Their jeans will then be rerouted to a local homeless shelter where they will be put to good use by homeless teens.
On Tuesday, Kerpash's English class had a masquerade ball and danced while wearing Shakespearian masks. [Trinity Norris, 9]

Week of Jan. 12-16

Mary Galkowski, Staff Writer, Photographer January 19, 2016
After doing a photoshoot at Shi Studios, the photographer wanted juniors Grace Folkins and Clay Bierk to meet with an agent and do another shoot in NYC on Friday, Jan. 15.
Senior Josh Massara got his half-sleeve tattoo which depicted images that represented his life. "I grew up around hot rod cars and this is the logo of the famous pin stripers named Von Dutch," Massara said of the flying green eyeball on his sleeve.

Students put their hearts on their sleeves

Sydney Kinzy, PHOTO EDITOR January 14, 2016
Tattoos are more than just ink on skin. They hold a strong meaning to those who have them, and these students are no exception.
Students plan to survive second semester

Students plan to survive second semester

Claire Dreller, Staff Writer January 13, 2016
As students get in the groove of second semester, some find that motivation is hard to find. For seniors, this is the last stretch of their high school career; for juniors it is the final days of the “hardest year of high school.” Sophomores and freshmen still have a while to go.
Week of Jan. 5-8

Week of Jan. 5-8

Mary Galkowski, Photographer January 11, 2016
Mali Seagele's air freshener balls inside her basketball bag were mistaken as drugs by the drug dogs.

The future is now

Hannah Hoffmann, TECHNICAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF January 6, 2016

While this generation is one of many stuck before the era of what many would consider to be “the future”—flying cars, chrome-covered everything, even maybe some lightsabers or a Death Star—innovation...

The gingerbread contest was held in the cafeteria on Thursday, Dec. 17 [Gwenn Pietrowski, 12]

Week of Dec. 14 – 18

Mary Galkowski, Staff Writer / Photographer December 23, 2015
Jim Hermann's AP World History class had an ethnic food day where students brought food from their ancestral background heritage lands.