![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)
Taking a picture of Photography club
The photo club compares different photos that each of the members took. The assignment was given the meeting before and members had the chance to take them last time the club met. “Looking at different photos helps give me specific ideas,” Bosse said. “It also gives me inspiration and a deadline I can reach.”
October 22, 2014
This year at CPHS, Photography Club’s already started. The arrival of the club’s sponsor Tiffany Asha sparked the beginning of the club along with the president senior Lexi Rima.
Sophomore Madison Jaster feels that photo club is a better choice for her interest wise.
“I joined because of Mrs. Asha,” Jaster said. “We worked together this summer and told me about the photo club. And since art club wasn’t for me, I decided to join photo club instead. It’s been great being here and learning about photography.”
Photography Club usually starts with a quick lesson on DSLR cameras on shutter speeds, ISO and other settings on the cameras. After the lesson, the members bring up some of their favorite pictures from the assignment taken from the last meeting or outside of the club. Then they show the class, who critique or comment on the pictures. Sophomore Amanda Bosse likes about the club meetings.
“I think it will help a lot of photographers that don’t really know what they’re doing and help them grow,” Bosse said. “ It also gives the people who know what they’re doing on the cameras and like taking pictures, more opportunities to take photos. This is a great way to fit into my schedule since I really like taking pictures, but can’t always fit it into my classes or outside of school. So this way I get to take more photos.”
Photography Club meets on Wednesdays after school in B102 at 4:05 pm. After a quick lesson on cameras, the members get to go off campus to take pictures of different subjects.
![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)
