![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
RoboLobos raise money at chili cookoff
The RoboLobo’s revealed their robot made to lift and stack boxes at the Chili Cook-Off on Feb. 15 in the cafeteria. The robot was created to compete in “Recycle Rush” at the Alamo Regional Competition on Mar. 11-15. “[At the cook-off] we got to show it in action. It wasn’t staged,” said team member Connor Nesbitt. “We were testing. We showed them how it works instead of just giving a presentation.”
March 12, 2015
The RoboLobos hosted a chili cook-off on Feb. 15 to raise funds and reveal their latest creation. It was held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the cafeteria, where they raised $600 in entry fees and donations, as well as $350 in t-shirt sales.
“The chili cook-off was a huge success,” junior Head of Mechanics Kristen Grimm said. “We had a lot of people come out to see the robot and eat chili.”
The winner of the cook-off was junior robotics team member Connor Nesbitt, who made a gluten free chili. The winning chili was determined by how many donations it received and his chili raised $30.
“I entered because I enjoy making food for others,” Nesbitt said. “I was super excited, I couldn’t believe I won.”
At the cook off, the RoboLobos introduced their latest creation, a robot made to pick up and stack boxes. This robot will be used to compete in a game called “Recycle Rush” at the Alamo Regional Competition on Mar. 11-15.
“The reveal went well,” senior President David Bonsall said. “We were in the process of fine tuning things, so there was a lot of tweaking as we went on, but overall it went pretty smoothly.”
The robot revel helped drivers junior Brendan Bosse and junior Head of Electronics David Rocha to practice controlling their robot before they went to competition.
“The cook-off allowed us to get some driving practice and figure out if we needed to tweak anything on the robot,” Grimm said. “We had a few issues with the lifting mechanism but we have it fixed now.”
Last year they made it all the way to the FRC World Championship and won Rookie All Star and Rookie High Seed. This year they hope to continue that legacy and make it to worlds again.
“Our robot is fantastic, we’re definitely going to make it to worlds,” Nesbitt said. “We went to worlds as rookies last year and we hope to continue that.”
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901-600x400.jpg)
