This past Saturday marked 20 years since our country experienced the deaths of 2,996 individuals. Students and staff took the weekend to reflect on the momentous events of Sept. 11, 2001. While each Academic...
Robotics Teams Blue Brains and Memory Leak advanced to the 2021 VEX Robotics Competition at the end of this May.
In a successful four days team Blue Brains, led by senior Levi Ladd, reached the World...
At 12:50 p.m. room 2302 changes from a classroom to a full-fledged business operation for students in Jessica Bowman’s Job Experience class.
Bowman found an innovative way to teach life skills,...
Fatema Rehmani, Conceptual Editor-in-Chief
• May 12, 2021
Four teammates work together diligently. Hands ready on their buzzers. Eyes concentrated on their moderator. This is the scene of a Scholar Bowl tournament where students delve into the world of academic...
As summer school forms roll out, the choice for each individual to go virtual or in-person is no longer the case. Instead, depending on if the course is for credit advancement or recovery, the student's...
“I can’t hear you.”
“Please turn on your screen.”
“My screen can’t be on while you are presenting or my computer knocks me out of Zoom.”
“There is such a lag with what...
“We had made it our goal to win this award two years ago. I was actually assuming that they were going to say [the name of another] team that had won last year,” senior Ankita Gupta recalled.
Gupta...
Ulaa Kuziez, News and Sports Editor
• March 2, 2021
Four school systems. Thousands of students. Dozens of classes. This year’s Virtual Campus High (VCH) was created to accommodate students who wanted to continue their education in a virtual format.
Across...
Assistant Principal Kate Piffel sits at her desk, a phone balanced next to her ear. An overstuffed black binder lays open on her desk and she reads something from it, listening thoughtfully to the response...
For the past couple of months, students and teachers alike have been on Zoom calls for most of their days. Sitting in front of a computer all day can be taxing on mental health. On the other hand, the...
![Sitting behind the A-team’s robot, junior and robotics team president Rick Biswas converses about the bot with Donaldson, who is behind the camera. Since joining the robotics team, Biswas decided to pursue a related career such as mechanical engineering or computer science. “. After I joined [the robotics team at West], I knew for sure that this was what I wanted to do,” Biswas said. “In general, everyone’s really supportive, especially Mr. Donaldson and the teams. Before I joined the robotics team, I was new here and I didn’t talk to many people. At robotics, I met new people, made new friends. They supported me to be [who] I am right now. ”](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/5430A_Closeup-4-900x675.jpg)
![Principal Jeremy Mitchell measures the distance between desks to aid in contact tracing. After measuring the desks, Mitchell gave the information to Assistant Principal Kate Piffel, who used seating charts to determine close contacts. “Dr. Mitchell measures the desks to see how far apart they are because if they are within six feet [there is a] 98% chance that those students are going to have to quarantine if they're that close to another student,” Piffel said.](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DSC_0011-900x600.jpg)
