Winter Guard Moves Up to New Competition Class
By James Beers, Marquette High School
• February 13, 2025
Students walk out demanding awareness, advocacy toward immigration policies
By Andre Arcilla, Satenik Ayrapetyan, Linus Bossardt, Tania Lopez, Jenny Marquez, Genesis Cuellar-Figueroa, and Alex Salcedo
• February 12, 2025

GALLERY Boys varsity basketball plays TASIS in season’s final home game
By Sophia Bateman, The American School in London
• February 12, 2025
VIDEO East Asian Culture Club hosts Lunar New Year celebration
By Sophia Bateman, The American School in London
• February 12, 2025
New student teachers
By Rowan Meyer, Hayden Strine, Adelyn Van Essen, and Landen Swift
• February 7, 2025
Audio: Avoiding awkwardness — Phubbing disrupts interactions
By Edward Park, University of Chicago Laboratory High School
• February 7, 2025
Doomscrolling
By Emily Chan and Eddy Miao
• February 7, 2025

GALLERY Swimmers compete in full-day meet
By Sophia Bateman, The American School in London
• February 7, 2025
VIDEO: Black History Month kicks off with student-led assembly
By Joya Nath '28 and Matteo Ventresca '25
• February 7, 2025
Business Beat: Florists make blooming impacts at La Bolsa Rosa
By Sabah Uddin and Rhea Chowdhary
• February 5, 2025
English teacher ‘shows up’ cancer
By Brody Heidemann and Colton Knott
• February 4, 2025
Tosa West Talks: I Made This!
By Evelyn Davis, Devin Long, and Emmersen Weber
• February 4, 2025
Heads up
By Elena Konicki, West Shore Junior/Senior High School
• February 4, 2025
Flavor in Culture: How a Small Mexican Restaurant Captures Authenticity
By Sassy Garcia, Olivia Prentice, Nathan Smith, and Melanie Juarez Olivares
• February 4, 2025
Santana Row rally gathers protestors against Trump’s presidential actions
By Samuel Tong and Charlie Wang
• January 31, 2025
Audio: Dungeons & Dragons fosters creativity, connection
By Light Dohrn, University of Chicago Laboratory High School
• January 31, 2025
Haven students honor MLK with day of service in Chester
By Matteo Ventresca '25, Strath Haven High School
• January 31, 2025
Seniors Direct One Acts
By Stephan Bosnjak, Marquette High School
• January 31, 2025
Winter white choir
By Devin Hoshaw, Millard West High School
• January 24, 2025
Revitalizing West Chicago: Local businesses lead way in changing economy
By Antwan Angeles, Ana Hurtado, and Romina Pietanza
• January 17, 2025
Students share their experiences with the Southern California wildfire evacuations
By Jenny Marquez and Tania Lopez
• January 15, 2025

Photo Gallery: Orono Wrestling at Andover
By Nicolas Pasulka, Orono High School
• January 15, 2025
Rays Rap Clip – Annabelle Frazer
By Noa Batlle, Lauren Riley, and Lola Green
• January 10, 2025
Marieme Toure Celebrates Culture Instead of Conjugation in the Classroom
By Melissa Waas, Rock Ridge High School
• January 9, 2025
LAUSD staff and admin sign final beam for new gym
By Lily Zimmerman and Isabella Adame Cordero
• January 9, 2025
Classroom Conversations: The Struggles of a Teenage Immigrant
By Aline Gonzalez, Rock Ridge High School
• January 9, 2025

Boys & Girls Basketball vs. Bellevue East
By Sam Whittaker, Millard West High School
• December 20, 2024
Eagles Students Build Their Perch
By Braden Altrup, Wentzville Liberty High School
• December 20, 2024
![NEW CHALLENGE, NEW TEAM MEMBERS: Every season, VEX creates a new game that robotics team members are faced with and have to build a robot to compete in. This year’s game forces students to create a robot that is able to stack rings onto mobile goals in order to score points. The change in games each season is something that robotics teacher Audrea Moyers appreciates.
“One of the things that I like about VEX is that they have a new problem to solve every year,” she said. ¨Even though the equipment’s the same, they have to analyze the game, and they have to come up with solutions that are unique that year. They are using their knowledge from prior years, but they have to kind of redesign a problem.”
As returning teams were faced a new game, some new teams and members had to adapt to a uncommon playing field and game.
“Three of our four teams were competing for the first time this year, and they had very different experiences match to match, so I think they learned a lot,¨ she said. ¨It’s hard just watching a video online to know how it’s actually going to be in person, so they all learned a lot about what gameplay is like, how to work with an alliance partner [and] how to adapt during the day to changes.”](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_9283-1-1200x800.jpg)
Robotics hosts VEX tournament
By Lillian Gray and Wren Vanderford
• December 20, 2024
Rock On
By Justin Small and Lydia Lange
• December 20, 2024
Humans of FHN | Kimora Jordan
By Ben Bartels, Francis Howell North High School
• December 20, 2024
Coffee Culture
By Stephan Bosnjak, Morgan Siegel, and Emily Chien
• December 17, 2024
Millard West goes All-State
By Jacob Larson and Aasif Sultani
• December 13, 2024
Gator Tales: What it means to be a well-rounded student
By Vivian Amoia, Xavier College Preparatory
• December 13, 2024
Humans of KPARK: Kiersten St. Julien
By Charlie Crass, Kingwood Park High School
• December 13, 2024
Palo Alto Arts Festival
By Melody Xu, Palo Alto High School
• December 13, 2024
VIDEO Writers Seminar holds first reading of school year
By Jaden Gardiola and Laila Taraporevala
• December 11, 2024
Crave Cookies Opens Location in Ballwin
By Vihaan Madhavan, Marquette High School
• December 11, 2024
VIDEO Late Cafe spotlights student creativity, talent
By Sophia Bateman and Jaden Gardiola
• December 10, 2024
Lessons in Chemistry
By Stephan Bosnjak and Anvi Talyan
• December 10, 2024
Holiday heroes
By Palin Nichols, Texas High School
• December 6, 2024

Um yeah, so like…
By Erin Liu and Elizabeth Yang
• December 6, 2024
Humans of KPARK: Rachel Hamilton
By Marie Wakefield, Kingwood Park High School
• December 6, 2024
The Start of the FHN Pickleball Club
By Laney Quandt, Francis Howell North High School
• December 6, 2024
The key to retaining teachers: a stronger community
By Yara Nimer, Adam Graf, Lark Rippy, and Annette Logan
• December 6, 2024

[PHOTO ESSAY] Bovey announces mayoral run, promising change for West Chicago
By Ruby Guerrero, West Chicago Community High School
• December 3, 2024
Lauren Morris Thorp: A Winding Road to Entrepreneurship
By Adina Whaley and Taryn Cunningham
• November 26, 2024
Students react to the 2024 presidential election outcome
By Jenny Marquez and Aidan Lia
• November 26, 2024
Paws-ing for storytime
By Madeline Petrick, Gretna East High School
• November 25, 2024
‘Antigone’ is a modern, immersive tragedy
By Juliana Jaffe, Matthew Kao, and Mehran Reza
• November 25, 2024
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