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Brainstorming fun ideas for the club. Sophomore, Jordan Jackson is taking notes as to what the members of the club what to do this year. The Minority Awareness Movement club was in the process of wanting to go to a museum in Seattle that glorifies the strong independent and inspirational people of color. “Learning about other people in history who are doing what we are trying to do now, makes this so much more worth it,” senior Ana Newman said.

Oh M.A.M, What a great club

Kani White, Photographer October 24, 2017

Diversity, a word that we tend to ignore here at the high school. With the size of  our school is, the amount of diversity we possess is outstanding. A great way to recognize diversity is a new club here,...

Rise and no shine: Around the time of the first bell going off, kids get 
off the bus and head into the school. Students had to get up early to 
get to school in time to make the first bell, at 7:30. “It’s too early 
definitely and seems unfair other schools start later,” Plank said.

The highly debated subject of school hours and vacation schedules

Sadie Malmevik, Photographer and staff reporter October 23, 2017

School times are a much debated topic among high school students; some students enjoy waking up early and getting work done sooner and others prefer having extra time in the morning. Another debated topic...

Favorick moments: Campbell’s favorite thing about the show is Rick’s relationship with Morty. “You can tell that he cares for him in the smallest, subtle moments,” Campbell said. “But the rest of the time he treats him like he’s living poop.”

Viking custom, culture and convention

Lorin Wells, Opinion editor October 20, 2017

The “ABC’s of Beth”. “A Rickle in Time”. “The Rickshank Rickdemption”. Other than a potential copyright issue, what do these episode titles sound like? If you said the popular television...

Serving Food with a Smile: Aaron Moors awaits customers at the Lake Stevens Dairy 
Queen. Moors worked at the front counter happily serving others. “At my job  I clean 
machines and grills, prepare food and drinks, clean floors and do dishes at the end of the night,” Moors said.

Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Sadie Malmevik, Photographer and staff reporter October 18, 2017

Teens are very busy. Beyond school work, social lives and many students have jobs and many are currently looking for jobs. Teens in the workforce often have a difficult time managing school and work at...

Left to right: Sophomores  Vuthi Vong, Gyshie Pinkihan, and Mariama Konteh are working on reading and analysing English language in Mrs. Van der Put’s ELL class.

ELL Program Divides and Conquers the Ins and Outs of English

Sylvia Cohen, Staff reporter October 16, 2017

Imagine not being able to express all the wonderful ideas running around your head. That brilliant pun would go unspoken, that clever literary insight would fade into the ether. This is a challenge faced...


Bam! Student knowledge! Students chill in the Learning Commons during lunches, hanging out or doing work. This year the Learning Commons extended their hours and is open before school, during lunches and after school for students to socialize and get help from staff and tutors. “It feels more collegiate, like how a college would feel,” Kit Shanholtzer states.

The Learning Commons :What the Name Change Means for Students

Kassie Gruel, Photographer and staff reporter October 13, 2017

Newcomers to Lake Stevens High School don’t have much of an opinion to the name change of the Library, but for the Juniors and Seniors there is some resistance to calling the once known library the Learning...

The HI-Q team at the state competition was constantly in the lead and at the end they made a huge lead taking home a second place title.

Successful finish for LSHS Hi-Q

Makenzie, Heggie April 13, 2017

We are very proud to announce that the Lake Stevens Hi-Q team consisting of senior Elizabeth Stanton,  senior Hayden Davis, senior Derek Magruder, and Zoey Gonzalez have taken another second place title...

Juniors Meraiah Medellin, Savannah Pratt, and senior Destiny Otusanya are joining in the FCCLA meeting festivities by showing off their best dance movies. “My state experience was really great! I really liked the dance,” junior Savannah Pratt said. Credit to: Hahn’s photos

Students compete at FCCLA state

Destiny Otusanya, Staff Reporter April 13, 2017

This year Lake Stevens High School sent off 12 students to attend the Family Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) state conference to compete in star events and act as evaluators. Star events...

Gay-Straight Alliance Club

Destiny Otusanya, Staff Reporter April 12, 2017

Lake Stevens High School has a lot of amazing clubs, but today we decided to recognize one club that doesn’t get nearly as much recognition as they deserve: GSA club! GSA stands for Gay-Straight Alliance...

Mr.Newtons first period AP Language and Composition class writing practice essays for the upcoming exam. The AP Language and Composition exam takes place on May 10th.

The AP exams are coming up fast

Peyton Moenoa, Sports Editor April 12, 2017

With AP Exams week just around the corner, teachers and students are trying their best to cram in last-minute information. Instead of procrastinating till the last minute to study two semesters’ worth...

The Five Guys Robotics Team, winning the website award last year in 2016. Winning the same award this year has brought to 2 the number of times this team has won the award and 3 the number of times they've traveled to the Worlds Competition. "The objective of the website challenge is to develop a website that promotes your entire robotics program and any other robotics programs you participate in, your outreach activities, how to join, what you have done, who you are, where you are, and what you plan to do in the future," said senior Aiden Pyle. The boys worked hard on the site to earn the award and are looking forward to traveling back to Worlds.

Web design leads Robotics to Worlds

Sophie Grieser, News Editor & Editor-in-Chief April 12, 2017

The Lake Stevens Robotics Team is something that every student has heard about at school - their competitions have been broadcasted on the cafeteria TVs, so their successes have been no strangers to the...

Juniors Camryn DuBois, Ainsley Mattingly, Nicholas Peña and Gaby Delgado stand after their elections as Vice President, Public Relations, President and Secretary/Treasurer, respectively. “I’m so excited for next year. I can’t be more blessed than this right now,” 2017-2018 ASB President Nicholas Peña said.
(Photo courtesy of Samir Nasr)

New ASB officers welcomed with open arms

Sophie Grieser, News Editor & Editor-in-Chief March 31, 2017

As it does every year, the student body has spoken and named who they want to represent them for the 2017-2018 school year. The new ASB officers are junior Nicholas “Nick” Peña for ASB President,...