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Prepare for graduation speech auditions

Prepare for graduation speech auditions

Leanna Kewarkis, Executive Features Editor April 26, 2024

Butterflies in your stomach. Your hands might be shaking as you walk up to the front of the classroom. Then you struggle to airplay your IPad on the screen, which seems to take hours, as the projector...

Law teacher Jay Heilman coaches student through the mock trials. He does this to help students have more confident and are successful in both the mock trials and in anything they do beyond Prospect law classes.

High School Law Students Develop Legal Skills Through Mock Trials

Jane Nash, News Reporter April 25, 2024

In a unique educational opportunity, students at Prospect High School dove into the complexities of the legal system through mock trials organized by the school's law class. Under the guidance of the law...

Senior Recital Preview

Senior Recital Preview

Olivia Lis April 25, 2024

Every group at Prospect deserves some recognition. Whether it’s a sports group or a Fine Arts group. The seniors in each group deserve a little more recognition for all of the hard work they’ve done...

New cadet program shapes the future

New cadet program shapes the future

Molly Mundt, Features Reporter April 25, 2024

Officer Robert Nava and Officer Mark Bechtold were in the commons on Wednesday, April 24th, recruiting for their new cadet program for ages 14-21 starting the first Tuesday of June. With them was a thermal...

Senior Assassin Season

Senior Assassin Season

Mary Robinson, Features Reporter April 24, 2024

A group of teenagers entered a Gurnee brunch restaurant wearing ski masks and carrying “guns”. A person who was eating in the restaurant proceeded to pull out his own concealed-carry weapon in order...

Junior Oliver Witek warms up for his match against Maine South.

Boys’ Tennis Learns Lessons

Dylan Maye, Arts & Entertainment Reporter April 24, 2024

The boys’ tennis team won 4-3 against Maine South on Friday, April 19. After several previous matches got rained out, the victory against Maine South assured head coach Patrick Weber of the team’s...

Student teacher Kacper Zyra helping out a student with math.

The process of student teaching

Alyssa Kowols, Associate Editor-in-Chief of ProspectorNow April 22, 2024

“What is the tallest type of grass?”  That’s just one type of trivia question that math student teacher Kacper Zyra asks his class. Other than trivia, he plays games with the class like Wordle...

Knight’s dad’s native plant pond

A new beginning for the environmental club

Molly Mundt, Features Reporter April 22, 2024

Juniors Aspen Dittmer and Norah Knight were shocked when they came to school in September of 2023 to find out that the environmental club had disbanded. They found out after asking the previous sponsor ...

Focusing on the ball coming towards him, junior Kenny Munao gets ready to hit during the JV baseball game against Glenbrook South.

A Saturday morning in Prospect sports

Mollie Kearns, Editor-in-Chief April 21, 2024

Driver Alex Knipple and human player Ryan McCluskey fist bump following a match at the Midwest Regionals. WildStang’s alliance took second in the regional, earning them a trip to the World Championships (photo courtesy of Alex Knipple).

WildStang advances to World Championships for fifth straight year

Danny Martinez, Executive News Editor April 21, 2024

According to the statistics, they should have lost. They played four elimination matches at the Midwest Regionals to reach the finals, and they were projected to lose every single one. Yet according to...

Perception, by Gracie Schiltz

Arts Unlimited celebrates student creativity, prints artwork in anthology

Alex Bonnette, Copy Editor April 21, 2024

For multiple decades, the Arts Unlimited program has promoted District 214 students to continue engaging in art. Visual art, photography, and written pieces are sent as submissions, which are then selected...

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