Students to work with REM5, local soda company
January 8, 2020
According to Art Tech head Trevor Paulson, students are working with the virtual reality company REM5 to design soda cans for a local company. “The students are going to work on designing the cans for the soda company, and the artwork going on the can, with the local company using only virtual r...
Impeachment reverberates locally
Noah Orloff, Mushtaq Barqab
December 25, 2019
After the full House voted to officially impeach President Donald Trump, the recent political discourse has called into question the effect of national politics on Park. According to social studies teacher Jill Merkle, impeachment has generated varying degrees of interest among students. “In gen...
Sophomore creates nonprofit organization
December 18, 2019
What inspired you to create the Pocket Change Foundation? I hated seeing homeless people in the streets and people suffering because they messed up in life or (experienced) a family crisis that put them on the streets. Having to go through that without having hope made me feel sad for them. Wha...
Students prevented from printing at school
December 17, 2019
In high school, it is required for many classes that students print assignments. In some cases, it’s required that students print during their class period. When students aren’t able to perform this integral job, it slows down classes and other school functions. Many students utilize the printers in the Li...
Students combat controversial flag photo
December 9, 2019
According to English teacher Callie Hefstad, students came up with the idea to take pictures of themselves with a flag of their choice to make people realize how powerful symbols can be. “When the picture blew up on social media my class spent the entire class period talking about it and having a d...
Racist incidents ignored in Chaska schools
September 21, 2019
Six Chaska students and their families are suing the school district after the school officials ignored blatantly racist actions against their students. This is a scary reality for many students and I think the lawsuit is a necessity. According to Star Tribune the nearly 50-page lawsuit “asks for a j...
Quiz Bowl practices for Nationals
Carly Joseph, Izzy Kanne, and Samantha Klepfer
May 23, 2019
Senior Cailey Hansen-Mahoney said she and her teammates get ready to face the buzzer by doing more than just studying facts. “We’re continuing with our daily practices and then individual people are studying a lot more especially as a team. We have been doing a little fundraising as well,” Hansen-...
Different healthy food options in St. Louis Park
May 9, 2019
Check out healthy places to shop and eat in St. Louis Park. All these places offer different health food alternatives. ...
Festival celebrates Latino culture
May 8, 2019
As junior Victoria Caraballo smashed the piñata open, leading to cheers, candy and chaos, she said she felt validated by Latino Association Day May 2. “It was so fun. Everyone was telling me that I couldn’t do it because they thought I was weak but I proved them wrong,” Caraballo sa...
Staff Editorial: Game of Assassins should consider expense in the future
April 28, 2019
The 2019 Park Assassins game commenced April 21 with leaders anguishing over the details of the game, yet failing to account for the game’s inclusivity as cost could be keeping people from participating. The objective of Assassins is to kill everyone on the six-person hit list the leaders of the game...
Multicultural show energizes audience
Dani Orloff, Noah Orloff, and Abby Intveld
April 15, 2019
As junior Zahra Mohamud reflects on this year's multicultural show's performance, she said she was proud of the initiative students took to create the performance this year. “I was a part of the show freshman year but the thing was it was never student-led. It was always a teacher who took the resp...
36 Arts basics quiz
February 21, 2019
With the school year over halfway done, work on learning about some of the foundational knowledge about 36 Arts, Park’s student artwork magazine. Loading 36 Arts var QuizWorks = window.QuizWorks || []; QuizWorks.push( [document.getElementById("embed-quiz-409982"), "quiz", "4099...
What is your role in the city of St. Louis Park? My current role is Human Rights (Commission chairperson) for the city. I was appointed about two years ago and I was reappointed a couple months ago....
Maria Perez Barriga and Jayde Claussen
Junior Hattie Hyland said she appreciated spending time with her peers at the latest German club meeting in which students learned how to make traditional German apple pancakes “I enjoyed hanging...
Reflecting on their meet against Breck, junior captain Maddie Olson said the team was strongest on beam, but will continue to work on the execution of the routines. “Our varsity beam went really well....
After speaking to families at a Jewish commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, chairman of the Human Rights Commission and senior Amaya Fokuo said she was invited to speak to share her views on youth...
