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The Echo

Junior Abe Percansky-Segal grabs a slice of pizza as JSU celebrates Sukkot Oct. 24. JSU meets every other Thursday.

Celebrating traditions while building new community

Arjuna Murugesan October 29, 2024

This week, the Jewish Student Union celebrated Sukkot with food and activities after school. The JSU club meetings are a way for students to connect with their Jewish peers and develop a stronger sense...

Junior Grant Haggerty works on his essay about Racial injustice in Colonial America in Ms. Merkele's IB America's class Oct. 22. Students in her class started writing after talking about Indigenous People's day on the holiday.

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Ryan Moran October 26, 2024

Every year, the second Monday of Oct. is dedicated to the indigenous people of America. It celebrates the people who lived in present-day American land before European colonizers conquered it. The day...

Senior Sylvia Tolzin works on an assignment in the newly remodeled A3 hallway Oct. 7. She utilizes the newly installed whiteboards to calculate and coordinate with her team.

Education in a new space

Jaiden Leary October 20, 2024

Through referendums and legislation, Park has undergone a district-wide physical change. These physical improvements to the schools will significantly change the educational experience for students. Sophomore...

Drawings of students interpretations of different omens found in a story displayed in Hanna Anderson's AP Spanish Literature and Culture class on Sept. 17. Anderson's room was one of the many classrooms revamped over the summer with a switch from individual desks to many small tables and a digital whiteboard.

New year, new classrooms

Amisha Persaud October 11, 2024

While students were home for the summer, the school was undergoing construction. Most classrooms were outfitted with new furniture, more technology and a different color scheme. Many classrooms look a...

Park students sang at the yearly tenor-bass choir festival on Sept. 30. Along with them were other Minnesota high school students.

All about that tenor and that bass

Madi Abelson October 4, 2024

Every year, Park hosts a tenor-bass choir festival with other schools. While the guest conductor of the festival changes, this year's guest conductor was G. Phillip Shoultz III, who conducted this festival...

Declan Gaines presents a slideshow during an ACT meeting to promote breast cancer awareness Sept. 26. ACT works its hardest to bring change to Park and holds meetings most Thursdays in room C377.

ACT’s aspiration to change the world

Mohamed Ahmed October 4, 2024

The ACT club, primarily students, is trying to change the world by taking small steps. In one of their meetings on Sept. 26, they discussed their goals, typically addressing social issues through student...

Senior Brennan Hogan sets his fantasy football lineup during class time. Fantasy football is a platform that allows participants to coach a digital football team.

Park’s guilty pleasure

Ryan Steinberg September 26, 2024

In 1962, when fantasy football is considered to have begun, people started to spend their Sundays glued to their devices watching their team play out. Park has seen a rise in fantasy football participation...

Junior Eleanor Cruz registers for Youth in Government Sept. 18. Youth In Government holds meetings every Wednesday in room C361.

YIG begins again

Alyssa Johannes September 25, 2024

Youth in Government (YIG) had their second meeting of the year Sept. 18, to register and kick off the new school year. YIG is dedicated to letting students learn more about the government, specifically...

Senior Sam Tolzin and Sophomore Finn Shepard compete in a game of tug of war during the pep fest Sep.18. The pep fest is held yearly to show school spirit during homecoming week.

Student council solidifies spirit week

Ryan Steinberg September 25, 2024

Each year at Park wouldn’t be truly underway without homecoming week or as the students call it ‘Spirit week’. Spirit week is the week leading up to the homecoming football game on that Friday and...

Juniors Destiny Bogza and Maggie Tight get the energy up at Park’s homecoming pepfest on Sept. 18. The pepfest activities included tug of war and a staff vs. students volleyball game.

Park’s 2024 homecoming pepfest

Emma Egan September 25, 2024

Every school year Park has its first pepfest of the year during the week leading up to the school's homecoming game and dance. The pepfest gets the student body excited for the game and lets students show...

Coach Jessica Gust assists sophomore Lila Frank on the bench press May 27. Summer strength and conditioning has recently added a new girls-only season.

Trust in Gust

Kalsang Wangmo, Staffer June 6, 2024

This summer Park’s strength and conditioning program is adding a new girls-only session reintroducing itself at Park. Strength and conditioning is a program designed to support Park athletes year-round....

Seniors gather in parking lot May 31. The seniors pranked younger students by vandalizing their cars.

Senior signing off

Matthew Plant, Staffer June 6, 2024

Senior year of high school is the last year before students go their separate ways. The memories made during that last year can last a lifetime. A big part in forming these bonds are the senior traditions...

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