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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...

Specialized Schools First Annual Disability Awareness Game

Specialized Schools First Annual Disability Awareness Game

Abby McCue May 6, 2024

On March 21st, 2024, Forest View Academy, District 214,  held their first ever, Disabilities Awareness game.   This was the first time all four schools came together to support a cause. Students...

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...

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