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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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Meet the animals

Sydney Kinzy, PHOTO EDITOR • October 19, 2016

When walking into the zoology classroom, the first thing you may spot might be Louie the hamster scampering across the black lab tables to grab his owner Duncan McBride’s neon pink highlighter between...

At 6:45 a.m., freshman Natalie Butler prepares for her Honors Geometry final.

Mohammad Hadij offers an alternative to traditional tutoring

Claire Dreller, Staff Writer • May 9, 2016
Hadji, Nayak, and Zhao created the tutoring program at the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year, and Hadji noticed attendance has increased as finals draw nearer.
Week of April 18-22

Week of April 18-22

Mary Galkowski, Staff Writer • April 22, 2016
On Thursday, acclaimed 80's singer and songwriter Prince passed away at age fifty-seven.
Kumar presents his research to the board during the judging panel. The young computer programmer had to face two rounds of rigorous judging before being awarded second place. "I was surprised that I won. First they announced all of the finalists and when they skipped my name my mom started crying and somebody next to her said not to worry because I probably won something higher, but she was crying because she was happy," Kumar said.

Dinky data tables

Emily Dickson, CONCEPTUAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF • March 28, 2016
Evidently, Parkway doesn’t see its students like scientists in their science fair. The narrow judging rubric treats science like a one-size-fits-all equation, when in reality, the most successful and ground breaking projects often develop not as rigid experiments, but as ideas, inventions and cumulative research.
Brown lectures astronomy students on helioseismology.

Guest speaker Timothy Brown visits astronomy classes

Nell Jaskowiak, OPINIONS AND ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR • March 20, 2016

On Friday, Mar. 11, a pioneer in the field of helioseismology, the study of the movements of the Sun, Timothy Brown, spoke to Colleen O’Toole’s Astronomy classes. Brown has made numerous contributions...

The science hallway floor, redone in 2012, has updated electron configurations.

IUPAC recognizes four new elements, completing Periodic Table’s seventh row

Alex Rossi, STAFF WRITER • January 10, 2016
On Dec. 30, Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 were officially recognized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the US-based world authority on chemistry. This recognition completes the seventh row of the Periodic Table, but at the same time also makes tens of thousands of textbooks obsolete.
The gingerbread contest was held in the cafeteria on Thursday, Dec. 17 [Gwenn Pietrowski, 12]

Week of Dec. 14 – 18

Mary Galkowski, Staff Writer / Photographer • December 23, 2015
Jim Hermann's AP World History class had an ethnic food day where students brought food from their ancestral background heritage lands.

High Five Friday raises student morale

Sarah Booth, Convergent Media Writer • November 19, 2015
Every Friday students’ energy, along with their hands, are raised for High Five Friday.
Providing the life form blood, Honors Chemistry teacher Joel Anderson pretends to cut his wrist. "I gave so much sweat and tears, but forgot the blood," Anderson said.

Anderson celebrates his 17th annual Halloween Spooktacular

Justin Cupps, CONCEPTUAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF • October 30, 2015
Around Halloween time each year, you might hear small explosions or see smoke and lights from the edges of the door of room 1212. You might wonder what goes on inside. This is the product of Chemistry Teacher Joel Anderson’s Halloween Show.
Throwback Thursday: Lauren Perez, science ASC

Throwback Thursday: Lauren Perez, science ASC

Kjell Hagen, Staff Writer • October 29, 2015

Where did you go to high school? Nerinx Hall High School in Webster Groves. How was high school similar/different to high school now? There were only girls there and technology was different. We had...

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