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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

Pathfinder

The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

Pathfinder

Senioritis can be conquered!

Catharine Conway, Arts and Entertainment Editor February 5, 2013

It is that time of year again. A truly beautiful time of year. The time of the Glow Dance, Spring Break, the senior Cardinals game and Prom! Each month goes by, leading students closer and closer to that...

Senior Jasmine Krueger makes and designs most of her clothes. This is a skirt she made out of ties. "I love this skirt because no one else has it," Krueger said.

Jasmine Krueger: Project Runway Potential

Lily Briscoe, Staff Writer February 4, 2013

In middle school, senior Jasmine Krueger began designing and creating her own clothes. Krueger's passion for fashion ties back to her diaper days. "I have always been really interested in fashion, basically...

A Family Affair

John Watson, Staff Writer January 31, 2013

As the days dwindle down to the start of Super Bowl XLVII, the Harbaugh family has found themselves in a unique situation. The family will be watching their own two sons coaching against each other with...

During Biotechnology Engineering, junior Grayson Koenemann and senior Sam Leuthy perform a DNA fingerprinting lab.  The lab involved the restriction enzyme digestion of the DNA followed by agarose gel electrophoresis of the digested DNA samples.

Building for Biology

Rowan Hamilton, Reporter January 29, 2013

For the first time in the district this year, West is offering a Biotechnical Engineering class. “The Engineering and Biotechnology classes are part of Parkway's Project Lead the Way, a program started...

Lights, camera, scholarship!

Lights, camera, scholarship!

Kathryn Harter, Multimedia Editor January 28, 2013

Scholarships aren't just given to anybody these days. What is even more rare is getting $1,000 to any school you want to go to and to study whatever you want. Senior Seth Betzler won a $1,000 scholarship...

Shhh…it’s a secret!

Alex Ripper, Features writer January 22, 2013

Go into Subway and order a pizza sub, or McDonald’s and get a Neapolitan milkshake. These items are not found on the regularly displayed menu, but can still be ordered. Tons of restaurants offer sandwiches...

Freshman Sarah Booth sells cookies door-to-door on Wednesday, Jan. 16.

Girl Scouts defer prizes to help the community

Kathryn Harter, Multimedia Editor January 17, 2013

Don’t have a Girl Scout in your neighborhood to buy cookies from? Don’t worry; we have troop 2534 walking the halls. Twelve freshman girls formed the troop in 2003 and have been doing charity work...

Instead of texting, senior Alexa Emerson and sophomore Kaitlyn Lawler Snapchat  their friends during study hall. "I like that I can show my friends what I am thinking through facial expression," Lawler said.

Snapchat taking over texting

Lily Briscoe, Staff Writer January 14, 2013

Texting has a new competitor, Snapchat. Over 50 million snaps are sent out a day. Snapchat is an app used to share pictures and videos with captions for up to ten seconds. After those ten seconds are up,...

Welcome to the "Digital Age"

Welcome to the “Digital Age”

Alex Ripper, Features writer January 11, 2013

Your English teacher just assigned you a research paper over the American Revolution. Where do you start? To most students, they open Safari on their iPhones or Google on their laptops and research through...

Experience with experiments

Debra Klevens, Reporter January 9, 2013

In a sterile biology lab senior Rowan Hamilton wore purple gloves while pipetting cheek cells into test tubes.  Hamilton spent the summer shadowing a graduate student.    Hamilton wanted to attend...