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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...

Winner of 2017 Talent Show Madi Gillbert with her original song called “Phoenix”. As well as singing an original, she played the guitar too.

LSHS student show off their talents for the student body

Haylee Felker, Photographer April 17, 2017

At Lake Stevens High School, we have a talent show to showcase the talent we have within our student body. There is so much talent at our school and some don't even know it. Some of the talents that were...

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...

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...

Changes in office trump citizens

Changes in office trump citizens

Maggie Bakken, Opinion Editor March 3, 2017

In the past year, our country has gone through a number of changes. Although 2016 is the year many want to forget, the biggest event we all will remember is the change of president. When Mr. Trump was...

Junior Jake Burleigh is doing his homework in the Student Center during his fourth period. Burleigh does not agree with the changes of teachers with the start of the new semester, he considers it hurtful. “Changing teachers is very stressful, and it is not a good way to learn and improve new knowledge,” Burleigh said.

Semesters change and so do teachers

Audrey Kristofferson, Online editor March 1, 2017

Every semester, students dread the inevitable: when our teachers change and our entire schedule gets switched around. If you are anything like me, it is incredibly irritating and I try to switch back my...

Set crew brings Yonkers to Washington

Set crew brings Yonkers to Washington

Sophie Grieser, News Editor & Editor-in-Chief February 28, 2017

Seeing a show put on by LSHS Drama is always a great time. Most of the time, the actors get the most credit and praise for the show, and rightly so. But there are more people working to make the show wonderful...

Prom for Life Skills classes

Prom for Life Skills classes

Destiny Otusanya, Staff Reporter February 23, 2017

Life Skills Prom just happened last week! What is Life Skills Prom you ask? It’s a party full of a bunch of fun activities that Leadership puts together for all the Life Skills classes. This year’s...

90’s kids transport back into 80’s world 
The combined choir kids get together for one last picture before the final performance 
Choir kids get into character to get the audience into the last song “Neutron Dance”  by The Pointer Sisters.

Choir Cabaret: What’s happening and how to plan for next year

Samantha Jones, Features Editor & Staff Reporter February 23, 2017

Every year, the combined LSHS Jazz, Concert, and Treble Choirs have gotten together to perform for one night to raise money for either field trips to attend, competitions out of state and new performance...

New school nurse joins Viking staff

Destiny Otusanya, Staff Reporter January 25, 2017

Lake Stevens High School welcomes many new staff members throughout the school year. As of late,our school has just welcomed another member to the staff and the new member is Heather Smith, who will be...

Here the group stands in front of the Capitol Building (From left to right - Top row: UW student Nick Peda, Mrs. Tilley, Mrs. Wagner, Drew Pearson, Elizabeth Stanton. Middle row: Elise Gooding, Mrs. Kinnard, Paige Wagner. Bottom row: Mrs. Riebli, Mrs. Fry, Jeyda Thomson, Anna Lundquist, Sophie Grieser). The seniors spent five days in Washington, D.C. touring and attending the inauguraton. Even though they grew up with Obama as president, and many of them don’t support Trump, they are keeping an open mind about his administration. “I hope the next four years will look a lot like last Saturday [the Women’s March] did, with lots of people coming together to support each other,” said senior Elizabeth Stanton. (Photo courtesy Darrick Hayman)

Lake Stevens students travel to see history happen

Sophie Grieser, News Editor & Editor-in-Chief January 25, 2017

The 2016 election was one which history will not soon forget. The race brought up many questions about who was best fit to run our country and divided Americans; this was only furthered by the spreading...