Ashlyn Gillespie, Deputy Managing Editor-in-Chief
• April 28, 2020
According to John Hopkins University, more than 2 million people have tested positive for COVID-19. About 600,000 of those people have recovered, while about 160,000 have died globally. While COVID-19...
At the beginning of the school year, Blue Brains, one of the schools four robotics teams, set various goals, including making it to state. After not only qualifying for state but winning the competition,...
Lydia Roseman, News and Sports Editor
• April 23, 2020
Due to COVID-19, all Missouri public and charter schools will be closed for the rest of the school year, and eLearning is to continue until the original end-of-semester date. Before this announcement was...
Fatema Rehmani, Conceptual Editor-in-Chief
• April 15, 2020
Though the world is at a standstill, the long-awaited Advanced Placement (AP) exams are still on schedule for May 11-22. The tests will now be administered online so that they can be taken from home.
Each...
Leah Schroeder, Managing Editor-in-Chief
• April 13, 2020
Making connections between the past and modern times, English teacher Erin Fluchel’s students compare Edgar Allen Poe’s, “The Masque of the Red Death,” to the current Coronavirus pandemic. Offered...
Ashlyn Gillespie, Deputy Managing Editor-in-Chief
• March 26, 2020
The National Public Radio reported earlier this month that the Australian bushfires were fully extinguished. Fueled by prolonged drought and enduring for over 240 days, the bushfires burned through more...
Tyler Kinzy, Managing Editor-in-Chief
• March 23, 2020
The Parkway School District’s lockdown is just beginning.
With ‘stay-at-home’ mandates due to the COVID-19 pandemic now in effect throughout St. Louis City and St. Louis County, public school...
Elle Rotter, Deputy Conceptual Editor-in-Chief
• March 10, 2020
A crowd of Health students gathered in the library to listen to counselors Chris Lorenz and Carly Roach speak about mental illness. Students took action and made websites to spread awareness about these...
The varsity Longhorn Line Dance team (Poms) traveled to Kansas City for the Missouri Dance Team Association’s state competition Feb. 29. The team arrived the day before and stayed overnight at a hotel...
Imagine going to a place where there are active volcanoes, colorful birds called blue-footed boobies, iguanas, sea turtles, 400 different species of fish and hundred-year-old tortoises. This is a dream...
![During Robotics Club, sophomores David Meisinger and Rick Biswas build a robot that they competed with in local competitions. Freshman Joseph Britt notes that cooperation was an important factor in the team qualifying for worlds. “Our team is mostly new people, so it is pretty exciting that we were able to work together,” Britt said. “I really like the environment there, and we have been spending a lot of our weekends working on the bot. We aren’t fighting over jobs or fighting over who gets to do what or [over] what the bot should do. We are all able to work together and execute it as a team.”](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/image-4-900x600.png)
![On her desk at home, junior Emma Bateman completes her math homework. This is also how and where Bateman plans to take exams for AP Physics I and AP Government. “Honestly, I’m not happy about the testing [being] online because I focus better in a classroom or testing environment than my room,” Bateman said. “Also, I don’t like that it's going to be all FRQ based this year.”](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/60791457614__59A7BBD1-A014-4108-9D65-CBB887EDD5DB-e1586549310224-900x675.jpeg)
![Annotating her copy of the short story, sophomore Zeina Daboul works on her assignment. Daboul found the parallels between the story and modern times interesting. “When you look deeper [into the story], you can see that it reflects our society, in ways that you wouldn't think a story written in 1842 would,” Daboul said.](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/20200406_2316051-900x709.jpg)
