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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...

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 ...

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...

Students work on drawing and redesigning monuments during a History Club meeting on April 19.

History Club comes to fruition; seeks to educate

PJ O'Grady April 21, 2024

After years of discussion and abandoned proposals, senior Alexis Gountanis stepped up and took action to create the History Club here at Prospect. Her idea for the club dates back to her sophomore year...

View of the Solar Eclipse. (Photo courtesy of Simone Maione.)

Students travel to Ohio to view the Solar Eclipse

Megan Imherr April 15, 2024

It was a beautiful April day in Ohio, sun shining, birds singing, neighbors spending time outside, when all of a sudden everything went dark. Had someone just stepped outside they might have believed it...

Junior Joanna Klaczak preps for the SAT by studying in Prospect’s library, where she can concentrate on practice problems.

Online SAT changes

Jocelyn Farina, Copy Editor April 11, 2024

It’s that time of year where the flowers start to bloom, animals begin to frolic, spring storms swell and students become engulfed in stressful testing. Upperclassmen often find themselves overtaken...

Only 3 pints to save a life

Only 3 pints to save a life

Kaia Mavradas, Features Reporter March 26, 2024

Sitting in the commons of Prospect High School, Service Club sponsor Erik Hammerstrom set up times for people to donate blood for Prospects blood drive. As he was working, an older man named George Serena,...

AP Biology students finish unit with cat dissection

AP Biology students finish unit with cat dissection

Alex Bonnette, Copy Editor March 12, 2024

The air within the AP Biology classroom filled with a stench so strong it caused headaches. Student groups of four huddled around the lab tables wearing goggles and gloves as they examined their dissection...

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