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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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Senior Trisha Manna examines a flower while at a fairy-themed tea party that her friends decided to throw. Manna picked out the music they played for their party. “My favorite thing was the feeling of being there,” Manna said. “It kind of felt like it was a world away because we had school the next day [and] we were escaping from that.”

A whimsical affair

Sarah Boland, Staff Writer • November 9, 2021

Fairies, princesses and tea parties: a childhood dream come to life. Seniors Marissa Liu, Trisha Manna, Brinda Ambal, Maura Collins and Tiffany Ung ended their summer with a fairy-themed tea party. The...

Twenty two seniors share advice and tips to help freshmen with their first year of high school.

Advice to my freshman self

Addie Gleason, Managing Editor-in-Chief • October 28, 2021

Throughout the ups and downs of high school, students picked up on a few tips and tricks to becoming their authentic self. Between COVID-19 and switching to virtual learning, students experienced changes...

Senior Trisha Manna

Trisha Manna

Addie Gleason, Managing Editor-in-Chief • October 28, 2021

Senior Trisha Manna worked on time management over the course of high school. By holding herself accountable and setting aside her phone, Manna slowly overcame procrastination and large workloads of homework. “When...

Sitting behind the A-team’s robot, junior and robotics team president Rick Biswas converses about the bot with Donaldson, who is behind the camera. Since joining the robotics team, Biswas decided to pursue a related career such as mechanical engineering or computer science. “. After I joined [the robotics team at West], I knew for sure that this was what I wanted to do,” Biswas said. “In general, everyone’s really supportive, especially Mr. Donaldson and the teams. Before I joined the robotics team, I was new here and I didn’t talk to many people. At robotics, I met new people, made new friends. They supported me to be [who] I am right now. ”

A winning streak: the robotics program’s recent successes and struggles

Tanvi Kulkarni, Features Editor • April 1, 2021

“We had made it our goal to win this award two years ago. I was actually assuming that they were going to say [the name of another] team that had won last year,” senior Ankita Gupta recalled. Gupta...

Politics Club meets over Zoom, Feb. 1. The club met to discuss President Joe Biden’s first week in office and debate the effectiveness of his recent executive orders in order to expand their political awareness. “Of course it's important to avoid being in an echo chamber and to learn from different ideas, but where do you draw the line at what exactly an opinion is, and when do you decide that some opinions simply are not valid?” Liu said.

Politics Club aims to spread political awareness

Sarah Boland, Staff Writer • February 17, 2021

Tensions rose across the country in the wake of another election year as protests erupted calling for change, rioters attacked the Capitol building and then President Donald Trump questioned election results....

Senior Justin Choi works on a project that processes information about vending machines from a file. The unit introduced a new programming language, Python, that is slightly different from JavaScript. “I wouldn’t change anything in the class,” Choi said. “This class reaffirmed my decision to study computer science in college.”

New Advanced Software Development course delves into fresh curriculum

Angie Jia, Staff Writer • March 30, 2020

AP Computer Science (APCS) and AP Calculus BC teacher Jason Townsend recently created a new course called Advanced Software Development (ASD) that explores topics beyond APCS: everything from data structures...