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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

Pathfinder
The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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With his baseball season canceled, freshman Cooper Walkoff keeps up with his workouts virtually. Walkoff has trained with a personal trainer at D1, a gym, for a year now, but due to quarantine, the gym has gone virtual. “Every morning my family and I log-in virtually to D1 training classes. They start at 9:30 a.m. and it gets me out of bed,” Walkoff said. “These workouts have been good for me to stay in shape for baseball. I am looking forward to playing baseball and seeing all of my friends and teammates when this whole thing is over.”

Photo of the week – April 13

Zoe DeYoung, Staff Writer
April 16, 2020
Drilling into a wooden post, junior Sara Albarcha builds a hutch for her bunnies. From cutting the wood for the project to painting the hutch, Albarcha and her dad worked on the project together. “I really enjoy getting to create things from my own vision, and most of all, I get to spend more time bonding with my dad, which wouldn’t usually happen due to school and work,” Albarcha said.

Photo of the week- April 6

Leah Schroeder, Managing Editor-in-Chief
April 9, 2020
Sewing two layers of a mask together, freshman Hannah Choi creates masks to donate to BJC hospital, the police department and nursing homes. Choi’s neighbor gave her the idea to donate masks to first responders. “This is the first time I’ve ever sewn, so it’s new to me, but sewing is helping me pass time. Once you start, it’s kind of addicting, and it takes away my boredom,” Choi said.

Photo of the Week – March. 30

Tre Bell, Staff Writer
April 3, 2020
Experimenting with prototypes to create different types of motion, freshman Joseph Britt works on his automaton for engineering teacher Chris Donaldson's Intro to Engineering class. In the week leading up to spring break, Britt, along with junior Levi Ladd and sophomores Rick Biswas and David Meisinger, worked on their robotics project during class in anticipation of competing at the 2020 Vex Robotics World Championships, under the agreement that they would finish the class project over spring break. "I offered to build [the automaton] because I had the parts to build it, and it's important to keep busy. It can be fun to challenge yourself and do new things," Britt said. "I am planning on learning some new skills, like text coding, that I might use next year in robotics. If you don't always have something interesting to do, the time can just kind of blend together and you can get bored."

Photo of the week – March 23

Brinda Ambal, Conceptual Editor-in-Chief
March 27, 2020
Volunteering at the United Hebrew Congregation Challah Club, seniors Jonah Yates, Anjali Shah and Emma Caplinger dispense flour to participants. Due to coronavirus fears, there was an equal amount of participants as there were volunteers. "The most rewarding aspect of the volunteer opp was that I was able to connect not only with West volunteers but the Jewish community and do an activity that I'd never done before," Shah said. "I enjoy baking, but I've never made challah bread before, so it was really fun to learn a new skill while also helping other people do the same. Afterwards, I got to bake it at home, and it turned out really well. My family really enjoyed it, and at school some of the volunteers brought their challah in to compare the taste and texture and share it with people who weren't there."

Photo of the Week – March 9

Charlotte Zera, Staff Writer
March 13, 2020
Picking up trash along a stream, sophomores Daniellie McLaurin and Natalie Huff participate in the annual Day of Service by supporting The Stream Cleaning Organization of St. Louis March 5. Students had the opportunity to go out in their communities and volunteer with their common ground classes. “It was such a great opportunity to go out and be able to serve the community. The best part was when we were all picking up trash; it was kind of like a competition,” Huff said. “It was a lot of fun, and I liked that we were able to do a lot of walking and [were able] to enjoy the outdoors.”

Photo of the week – March 2

Jacob Stanton, Staff Writer
March 6, 2020
Focusing on the burettes, seniors Jon Ma and Jason Yang titrate in hopes of victory. The annual Battle of the Burettes, consisting of over 20 teams from schools around St. Louis, was held at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Feb. 24. “I hope to continue my studies in chemistry in college because I love how the subject combines academic knowledge with practical, in-lab experience,” Ma said. “Things like Battle of the Burettes offer an ideal context in which I can apply what I’ve learned in the classroom.”

Photo of the Week – Feb. 24

Nayeon Ryu, Video Editor
February 28, 2020
Cutting out strips of fabric for a Day of Service freshmen project, junior and club-founder Fatima Shahab and junior Brooke Gangel construct dog toys to be donated to the Humane Society. Crafting for a Cause meets once a month to focus on a new project and create hand-made items to donate to different organizations. “The goal is to make something or have some sort of project to donate or help someone in some way,” Shahab said. “I decided to start Crafting for a Cause because I really like crafting and sewing. I wanted to combine my hobby with helping others and I thought this was a good way to do that.”

Photo of the week – Feb. 17

Carly Anderson, Conceptual Editor-in-Chief
February 21, 2020
Posing at the end of a Poms routine, sophomore Emma Roth dances with girls the Poms team worked with during the annual Little Girls Clinic. Each year, the Poms team teaches younger girls a dance, and they get to perform it at a high school basketball game. “I really loved teaching them because they were having a lot of fun, and they wanted to be there to learn what we were doing. When they complete the routine, they get really excited; you can see it in their faces,” Roth said. “One of the parts the girls got to do was learn a trick for the routine. Each girl picked a trick, and every time they did it in the dance, they got super excited because it was their part that they made up.”

Photo of the week – Feb. 10

Sabrina Bohn, Managing Editor-in-Chief
February 13, 2020
As the Seniors versus Faculty game breaks for halftime, English teachers Diana Lurkins and Taylor Rose, Principal Jeremy Mitchell, counselor Chris Lorenz and social studies teacher Nancy Sachtleben perform a kick line for the halftime show. The faculty came out ahead with a victory of 31-20. “My favorite part was performing next to Dr. Mitchell,” Rose said. "That was an amazing time because I think he had so much fun with it. Because he was having so much fun, the rest of us just went off of his good energy. It’s so cool that the Head Principal is so involved in Senior versus Faculty and he’s playing and dancing as well.”

Photo of the Week – Feb. 7

Ridwan Oyebamiji, Features Section Editor
February 7, 2020
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