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The student newspaper and broadcast of Cedar Park High School

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Showing off his gold medal, senior Riley Pritzlaff poses for a picture alongside fellow UIL competitors and seniors Vyacheslav Adrianov and Aiden Seibel. Pritzlaff placed second in the UIL Congress Meet and will be advancing to the next round at the Texas State Capitol in January. “The first kind of debate that I got into when I first joined the Speech and Debate team was Congress,” Pritzlaff said. “So, making it to state my senior year is kind of a full circle for me, and owning my speech skills, learning this kind of thing, and having the opportunity and experience to debate all of these different ideas [with] these different people has been really cool.”

The ‘States’ Are High

Ruchi Sankolli, Assistant Editor December 9, 2021

After competing in the UIL Regional Congress Meet, senior Riley Pritzlaff, who won second place at the meet, will be advancing to the State tournament at the Texas State Capitol in January. Seniors Aiden...

Poetry club members sit down, and write words to plan a poem to write. During meetings, members have time to work on their work and share it with other members, in order to improve their work.“I believe many students write poetry, as I did as a young person, and they have no one to share it with,” club sponsor and English teacher Ms. Iskra said. “Poetry Club is an opportunity for students to meet other people who write poetry and share their own work in a supportive setting. [The club] is an opportunity for students who love and perhaps write poetry to share it with other interested students. We also seek to improve and promote the craft of poetry composition through practice and performance.”

To Write or Not to Write

Sofya Bashirova, Reporter December 9, 2021

With pages turning and pencils writing, the English classroom is vividly working even during DEN, with Poetry Club students being back on campus and ready to read and write some poetry. With activities...

Holding up their T-Wolf signs, volleyball girls and Wolves for Wishes ambassador, senior Ana-Kate Partridge, pose for a picture at the volleyball bake sale on Oct. 19. This was the clubs first fundraiser, and they raised a total of $1,750 for the Make A Wish Foundation. I was shocked at how much money [we] raised from the bake sale, Partridge said. Just knowing that we raised that much money and that [the team] was willing to do this made me really excited, and I was so grateful that all these people [donated].

Wolves For Wishes

Ally JohnPress, Editor-in-Chief December 1, 2021

Wearing Timberwolf green shirts with a dazzling “Wolves for Wishes” script and globe depicted across the chest, volleyball girls and supporters of the Make A Wish Foundation sit together at the volleyball...

Each week, PALS go to the local elementary and middle schools and spend time with the kids. “We get to see our kids every week and hang out with them,” junior Abigail Martinez said. “We play games, do crafts, or just talk with them and build relationships.”

Back To The Schools

Sofya Bashirova, Reporter December 1, 2021

The hallways and classrooms of the elementary and middle schools seem to fill up with joy and laughter as the PALS make their way back. After a year of not being able to go to the schools to mentor kids,...

Filled with enthusiasm, secretary, social media manager and senior Arina Gart paints a skeleton on a girl’s face. Trunk or Treat is an annual school-sponsered community event where kids wear their Halloween costumes and interact with various clubs and organizations to receive candy. “A lot of people came to our booth at Trunk or Treat, and a lot of [our members] were volunteering too,” Gart said. “We got to do a bunch of different paintings, and since everyone is so talented in Art Club it turned out really good.”

Painted Lions, Tigers, and Bears, Oh My!

Anthony Whiting, Reporter November 22, 2021

At the start of this school year there was only $26 in the National Art Honor Society bank account. Being virtual last year diminished extracurricular participation, and with only one lone returning member,...

Beaming with delight, members of YoungLife flaunt their color-stained faces after participating in the Color War, held on Aug. 30. This color war is one of the many events that YoungLife holds in order to encourage everyone to come to their gatherings. “They want to gather high schoolers from Vista Ridge and Cedar Park, no matter what they believe in, to come together as a community,” freshman Emery Taylor said. “[They want us to] have just like an hour or two to hang out and just talk about what matters to them.”

Mondays Are For YoungLife

Isa Morgan, Reporter October 27, 2021

Originally created as a way to get teenagers engaged in traditional church programs in the late 1930s, according to the website, YoungLife has evolved over the years to a club to help teenagers feel like...

Seniors Piper Vu, Sydney Fuller, and Hemani Goje give a presentation in the first meeting of the Mental Health Club on Oct. 13. The three Mental Health Club officers explained what the clubs goals and activities were before letting the clubs members speak to each other in a fulfillment of their key promise to let students talk and vent  about their lives. We want to spread the word that you are allowed to vent your frustrations, have good days, bad days, and most importantly know how to deal with your psychological distress, Goje said. We all come from different struggles and have different perspectives. So, we wanted to respect the different perspectives and create ways to cope.

Taking Care of Ourselves

Jaden Kolenbrander, Reporter October 14, 2021

Mental health is becoming an increasingly important topic for teenagers to confront: depression rates rose 63 percent among adolescents between 2013 and 2018, and the COVID-19 pandemic only worsened the...

Depicted above is the current mural outside of the Mexic-Arte Museum entitled Somos Historia. The artist, Luis Abreux earned his Master’s degree in Fine Art, specializing in Painting, from the San Alejandro Art Academy in Havana, Cuba and has lived in Austin since 2005. “My mural is a historical portrait,” Abreux said. “The satirical style in my work reinforces the theatrics of life and how the most valuable things are relative-like the lives exchanged for gold 500 years ago.”

30 Days, Countless Ways to Celebrate

Anthony Whiting, Reporter October 7, 2021

The halls are filled with the sounds of Spanish music and students are decorating sugar skulls. Along with the start of fall and football season, Hispanic Heritage Month has also begun, bringing something...

Posing together in the UT parking lot, WISE members smile at the camera together on one of the clubs fieldtrips to the UT campus to look throw telescopes. Fieldtrips are a big part of WISE, bringing science outside of the classroom. We traditionally go to the UT campus and look at the telescopes and tour the campus at night, club sponsor and Physics teacher Allison Trueblood said. [We also] go on other field trips to different science museums around.

Back to the Lab

Sofya Bashirova, Reporter October 1, 2021

Goggles, gloves and test tubes fill the science room as WISE members prepare for new activities, such as experiments, talks with well-known scientists and even field trips to the Science Museum.  After...

Demonstrating how to make plarn, junior Erin Nam provides club members with help and supplies. Timberwolves for the Environment have been making plarn since their first meeting, they also plan to make wreaths out of unused plastic in the future. Its definitely fun [making plarn], but right now basically all of the members know what theyre doing, said Nam. We do it every club meeting.

A Step Back Into the Soil

Madison Shields, Reporter September 30, 2021

Timberwolves for the Environment is taking a new turn this school year. Students who are interested in changing the world with their own hands should turn to the Environmental club. Activities like making...

Illustrated above is a painting depicting a howling T-Wolf in the library. The yearly artwork created by students is displayed in the library. Art is something that moves me, Deruiter said. During the club meetings my favorite art activities are acrylic pours, tiny paintings and free drawing.

Get With the Pack

Isaiah Prophet, Reporter August 31, 2021

Finding a community to call one's own can be challenging no matter what grade. Students have always had the opportunity to explore their interests and discover new hobbies by joining numerous clubs available...

Eight T-Wolves Represent at UIL Academic State Meet on April 30, May 1

Eight T-Wolves Represent at UIL Academic State Meet on April 30, May 1

May 6, 2021

CPHS took eight students to the State UIL Academic meet on April 30 and May 1 and brought home three top six medals. State UIL Academic results: Computer Science Team- 3rd Place Team Members:...

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