- 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
![Holding Mr. Ray, Alumna Sara McGinnis poses for a photo inside the Whisker Station Cat Cafe and Lounge. Created in 2020, the cafe serves as a safe space for foster cats, as well as a fun place for people to visit. “A lot of people come here to spend some time [playing] with the cats, especially if they don’t or can’t have them,” McGinnis said.](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot-2026-02-04-1.22.42-PM.png)
![After forming an alliance, West robotics teams Blue Brains and BreakPoint compete alongside each other in the semifinals of a VEX V5 Robotics Competition. On Jan. 11, West High hosted its first robotics tournament. “We have two more competitions until the state competition. These are gonna be very high-level competitions, so I’m hoping we can refine our [robot] and give some more time to our coders so they can perfect our autonomous portion of the match,” junior Adam Thomas said.](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/DSC02146-2-1200x800.jpg)
![Hosting a meeting for Women’s History Month, co-president Bethany Liao converses with club members of Women in Healthcare. The event fostered discussions about women in medicine and included a third year medical student from Bosnia as a guest speaker. “Creating this club has been a net positive experience for everyone. After we present [or a guest speaker], we [also] usually have snacks for everyone and it gives people an opportunity to generally talk or discuss,” Liao said.](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/DSC0032-1-1200x800.jpg)
![During Jazz Poetry Night on April 1, sophomore Yusra Khan performs her Program Oral Interpretation (POI) piece from Speech and Debate. For her POI piece, Khan spliced together different authors, poems and news articles into one cohesive story depicting Islamophobia in America. “This was my first time performing in front of a diverse crowd of Muslims and non-Muslims with my peers [and] teachers watching. I was surprised [with] the positive reaction I got afterwards; so many people [said] it resonated well. My biggest takeaway is to always represent and stand up for what you value and not care about the judgment of other people,” Khan said.](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/yusrapotwedited-1200x800.jpg)
![This is the first year that the Parkway West Science Olympiad team competed at regionals. Team member and junior Anish Jindal competed in several events including Chem Labs, Experimental Design and Geological Mapping, earning top five placements in several events. “Compared with some of the other academic competitions at West [that can be] difficult to figure out how to get better, [Science Olympiad] is a lot more inclusive, having a broad group of people with different specialties,” Jindal said.](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC0391-1200x800.jpg)
![“Winning [the Scholastic Gold Key Regional Award for Writing] feels incredibly rewarding. I dedicated a lot of time to putting my feelings into my work, especially ‘Melanin’, which was about my experience with racism and feeling like an outcast because of my skin color [and] primarily due to living in a white/homogenous area. My memoir reflects upon a time in which I lived in a small town that had close to zero people who looked like me and how that affected my mental health, especially how I felt about how I looked. But then I moved to a larger, more diverse city where there were more people similar to me and I had this moment where I realized that my features are unique and beautiful. I feel like a lot of people of color can relate to the feeling of overcoming internalized racism. It's truly validating to see my efforts recognized by the Scholastic Writing Contest especially because it gives me a platform to share my voice. ” - Farrin Rahman, 10](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/KadamO_RahmanF3-Opal-Kadam-1-1200x800.jpg)