Rubik’s Cube Mosaics
Kaya Young, Staff Writer
March 6, 2020
Austin Ledesma 20’ creates expansive Rubik’s cube mosaics and displays his works in the library. “A Rubik’s cube mosaic is essentially a big picture made out of smaller images, pictures, or things,” Ledesma said. In every spare moment, Ledesma labors for hours on his mosaic projects. Ever si...
Glassy Skies
Kaya Young, Staff Writer
February 19, 2020
The courtyards are meant to be a place where students can enjoy nature. Their large windows let light into the building and allow students to see the outside world, but also result in the deaths of unsuspecting birds. The expansive, reflective surface of the glass tricks birds into thinking that the wi...
Teacher’s Pets
Kaya Young, Staff Writer
December 3, 2019
At the front of room 221, Mango the hedgehog sleeps beneath a tiny tie blanket. At 7:20 a.m. on a Monday morning Mango was not eager to wake up. He remained curled up in a ball barely visible through the folds of his blanket. Eventually, he poked his nose out of the blanket and squinted at the st...
Prairie in Progress
Kaya Young, Staff Writer
September 17, 2019
The new high school is not entirely surrounded by endless fields of corn; a secluded plot of land surrounds the southwest and northwest corners. Two years before the high school was built, the science department discovered the undeveloped land included in the school property. Science teachers Sarah Howe, Li...
