![Senior Jett Mckinney stores all the clothes in his own room, with half of it stored in his closet along with his personal clothes, and the rest taking up space in his room.
“There’s been times [when] there’s so much clothing stored here and it gets overwhelming, so I end up having to sleep somewhere else in the house,” Mckinney said.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DSC_0951-1200x800.jpg)
![Broadcast, yearbook and newspaper combined for 66 Interscholastic League Press Conference awards this year. Yearbook won 43, newspaper won 14 and broadcast took home nine. “I think [the ILPC awards] are a great way to give the kids some acknowledgement for all of their hard work,” newspaper and yearbook adviser Paige Hert said. “They typically spend the year covering everyone else’s big moments, so it’s really cool for them to be celebrated so many times and in so many different ways.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/edited-ILPC.jpg)
![Looking down at his racket, junior Hasun Nguyen hits the green tennis ball. Hasun has played tennis since he was 9 years old, and he is on the varsity team. "I feel like it’s not really appreciated in America as much, but [tennis] is a really competitive and mentally challenging sport,” Nguyen said. “I’m really level-headed and can keep my cool during a match, and that helps me play a bit better under pressure.” Photo by Kyra Cox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hasun.jpg)
![Bringing her arm over her head and taking a quick breath, junior Lauren Lucas swims the final laps of the 500 freestyle at the regionals swimming competition on date. Lucas broke the school’s 18-year-old record for the 500 freestyle at regionals and again at state with a time of 4:58.63. “I’d had my eye on that 500 record since my freshman year, so I was really excited to see if I could get it at regionals or districts,” Lucas said. “ State is always a really fun experience and medaling for the first time was really great. It was a very very tight race, [so] I was a bit surprised [that I medaled]. [There were] a lot of fast girls at the meet in general, [and] it was like a dogfight back and forth, back and forth.” Photo by Kaydence Wilkinson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Kaydence-2.7-23-edit-2.jpg)
![As her hair blows in the wind, senior Brianna Grandow runs the varsity girls 5K at the cross country district meet last Thursday. Grandow finished fourth in the event and led the varsity girls to regionals with a third place placement as a team. “I’m very excited [to go to regionals],” Grandow said. “I’m excited to race in Corpus Christi, and we get to go to the beach, so that’s really awesome.” Photo by Addison Bruce](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/brianna.jpg)
Back to the Lab
WISE Club Starts In-Person Activities
![Posing together in the UT parking lot, WISE members smile at the camera together on one of the club's 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."](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/wise-uplowd.jpg)
Posing together in the UT parking lot, WISE members smile at the camera together on one of the club’s 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.”
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 adapting science to an online environment, WISE, or Women in Science and Engineering members are ready to participate in hands-on activities back in the classroom.
“Last year we were very limited since we only talked about science articles and did Kahoots, but this year it’s a lot more fun since we are actually going to do a lot of hands-on experiments,” senior Vice President Harshini Addepalle said. “We plan on doing all kinds of scientific experiments, some biology experiments and some engineering experiments.”
With the introduction of these new chances to learn, members wish to emphasize what the club is all about.
“WISE promotes and celebrates women who have made contributions in the STEM field,” Addepelle said. “It aims to create a space where people who are passionate about STEM can find other people with the same interests as them and teach them about different jobs available in the field.”
According to Physics teacher and WISE sponsor, Allison Trueblood, WISE has been life-changing since the first day eight years ago. She said her own experience in STEM is motivation for the club.
“Being a young woman majoring in a scientific career, I didn’t feel like there were a lot of people like me, and I thought that it would be good to help grow the number of women who major in a STEM field,” Trueblood said.
Since 2012, WISE has a strong tradition of giving out the maximum amount of opportunities to students, including field trips.
“We have a couple of speakers coming this year,” Trueblood said. “We traditionally go to the UT campus and look at the telescopes and tour the campus at night, as well as go on other field trips to different science museums around.”
In addition to these, spontaneous experiments during meetings are not unusual either. The club also takes field trips to explore different aspects of the STEM programs
“Next meeting we are going to be making bath bombs,” senior President Hemani Goje said. “Field trips are also coming up very soon”WISE, although traditionally catered to women, is now a club open to any student looking to pursue a career in the STEM field. Meeting are every other Tuesday during DEN in Ms. Trueblood’s room.
![Holding a microphone, baseball booster club president Chris Cuevas announces the beginning of the annual cornhole tournament. The event has been held for the past two years and is designed to raise money for the baseball program in a fun way. “We’re a baseball team, so people love to compete,” Cuevas said. “So we figured we better do something that gets [their] attention. They want to compete. It’s not a hard sport to do, and we have all different [skill] levels [of participants].” Photo by Henry Mueller](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Henry-715-1200x900.jpg)
