- June 5On to the next
- May 22The fun in finance
- May 22Photo of the Week - May 22
- May 22Spring in action: A look into West's 2026 spring sports season
- May 21French en route
- May 19Sarah Johnson
- May 19Crime, class and consequence
- May 18Athletes of West - Alexander Berryhill
- May 15What Happens Next
- May 15An empty table
![Hearing the bridge creak, Latin teacher Tom Herpel winces as he carefully stacks another book on top of a popsicle stick bridge during Latin 3 on Feb. 7. Within groups, students were randomly assigned different hierarchical roles of Ancient Roman construction workers and attempted to build bridges for their Roman Engineering unit. “I created this activity to showcase how certain [Romans] on a construction site would not talk to each other because they were higher or lower in society, and that creates problems when trying to create a final product. So then, after [the students’] bridges were done, we tested how strong they were. We slowly put more and more books onto the bridge to see when the bridge would break. And believe it or not, that bridge got to the point where someone actually sat on it,” Herpel said.](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_5942-2-1200x800.jpg)
![“I’m passionate about school and baseball and have faced many challenges in both. With school last semester, my science class was very difficult, I felt like I had to learn the [lessons] by myself. And with baseball, when I was in seventh grade, I sprained my elbow pitching. I felt sad that I couldn’t play, but I learned how much having an injury can suck. My dad is the most influential person to me, he has taught me to work hard in order to reach my goals in baseball, school, and life. In my freshman year, I only got one B, it felt very good because I worked hard and it paid off. [I’m motivated] to do well in school, so that I can make good money when I come out of college and retire early. Right now, Rose Hulman sounds like a good college to help me reach those goals. The school has a good engineering [program], and I could play baseball there. In the future I want to be able to relax, provide for my kids and play with my dogs," -Colin Hughes, 10](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG-7573-900x694.jpg)
![“The happiest moment of my life was my freshman year when I won state. My older brother dragged me out of the pool, gave me the biggest hug and shook me. Swimming is my source of confidence and where my whole personality stems from. I don’t know what kind of person I would be if I didn't swim. Everything I’ve learned about life comes back to swimming. [A lesson I've learned from swimming] would be to do your best, [because] you’re not going to win every game. You’re not going to do everything well, [and] you’re not going to get the best score on every test, but you got to keep moving and doing it again.” – Campbell Murawski, 11](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kmurawski-1-900x675.jpeg)
![“The happiest moment of my life was my freshman year when I won state. My older brother dragged me out of the pool, gave me the biggest hug and shook me. Swimming is my source of confidence and where my whole personality stems from. I don’t know what kind of person I would be if I didn't swim. Everything I’ve learned about life comes back to swimming. [A lesson I've learned from swimming] would be to do your best, [because] you’re not going to win every game. You’re not going to do everything well, [and] you’re not going to get the best score on every test, but you got to keep moving and doing it again.” - Campbell Murawski, 11](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-8652-900x675.jpg)