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D214 Ennis Award Winner: Science teacher Shelby Rosin

D214 Ennis Award Winner: Science teacher Shelby Rosin

Alice Kelsey, Executive News Editor June 3, 2024

Surprised, confused, and excited. All three were emotions that science teacher Shelby Rosin felt as a band of administrators scurried into her classroom, cameras in hand, to congratulate her on her nomination...

4 by 800 relay with their medals from left to right Owen Smith, John Peterson, Boris Dimitrov, and Michael Piagari.

Boys track and field 4 by 400 and 4 by 800 medal at state

Luke Robinson, Sports Reporter June 3, 2024

The boys’ track and field team made it in  five different events for the state meet. In two of the events, the 4 by 800 meter relay and the 4 by 400 meter relay, they came out of the state meet both...

Creating the party at Gastby’s

Creating the party at Gastby’s

Kaia Mavradas, Features Reporter June 3, 2024

When walking to the Cotillion Banquet Hall, junior Frank Deblasio, looked around to see everyone dressed in their finest suits and prettiest dresses. At that moment he realized that all of the prom committees,...

Cicadas getting out of hand

Cicadas getting out of hand

Jane Nash, News Reporter June 3, 2024

The 13- and 17-year periodical cicadas are emerging simultaneously this spring in Illinois, making for an uncommon natural display. The state is being overtaken by billions of cicadas from Broods XIX and...

Q&A with Retirees: Lisa Cottrell

Q&A with Retirees: Lisa Cottrell

Stella Palm, Managing Editor May 20, 2024

Why did you come to Prospect? “So I started coaching cross country in 2007 and I knew nothing about it. I started at Rolling Meadows and, over the season, everyone I talked to said ‘if you really...

Prospect’s front lawn becomes flooded with eager students, ready to experience Prospect’s first Spring Fling Carnival on Friday, May 17th..

Riding into the end of the year

Jocelyn Farina, Copy Editor May 20, 2024

The afternoon sun was coming down upon Juniors Bianca Walker and Colleen Shute as they lined up to race across the inflatable course positioned in front of them. As the two raced through the course, Shute...

Junior Paige Hall and a friend are having fun volunteering at Camp Anokijig in Plymouth, Wisconsin. Hall attended the camp for eight years as a camper and this upcoming summer will be her third year volunteering at the camp.

Working at summer camp poses difficulties and benefits

Leanna Kewarkis, Executive Features Editor May 20, 2024

On July 3, while volunteering at Camp Anokijig (Anne-oh-key-g), in Plymouth, Wisconsin, Junior Paige Hall saw one of her campers crying.  Alarmed, Hall and the other leaders tried to calm the 11 year...

Photo Courtesy of Grace Asper

Prom season is coming up

Alice Kelsey, Executive News Editor May 16, 2024

With all of the different types of emotions that people can feel, prom has the potential to evoke every single one of them: the excitement of dress shopping, the stress of planning an event for 900 people...

Q&A with Retirees: Santos Soto

Q&A with Retirees: Santos Soto

Peter Radosh, Associate Editor-in-Chief May 15, 2024

Q: How long have you worked for Prospect? A: “I started in 2000. That’s 24 years.”   Q: What do you like most about working at Prospect? A: “What I like the most is that everyone...

The last scene in the hit musical movie Grease. Students of Rydell High School are at a carnival, the inpristation for ASB’s carnival happening after school on May 17.

Welcoming summer with ASB carnival

Leanna Kewarkis, Executive Features Editor May 13, 2024

Most people in the Arlington Heights and Mount Prospect areas need to wait for the Fourth of July in order to attend the famous carnivals like Frontier Days and the Fourth of July event Melas Park hosts.  However...

Scholarship Awards

Scholarship Awards

Mary Robinson, Features Reporter May 6, 2024

Associate Principal Joyce Kim helped hand out awards and scholarships to Prospect seniors last Tuesday April 30. Seniors who applied for these scholarships came to the Jean Walker field house with their...

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