![Lining the center of the room, several printing presses make copies of Community Impact’s latest newspaper. Junior Skyler King shadowed at Community Impact for her Career Investigation Day where she got a tour of the printing press and spoke with several employees including one of the head editors and a designer. “I really think [my favorite part] was talking to the designer,” King said. “Before I thought I really wanted to focus on just pure writing with journalism, but I thought what she did was maybe even cooler and it really made me rethink what I want to do, like if I want to do social media design, or graphic design or something like that.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CI-edit.jpg)
![Lining in front of the Cedar Lake Courthouse where people of all ages enter to receive the final decisions of the crime they committed enters teenagers meant to be the last voice heard before their peers are convicted. Teen Court has meetings on Mondays, twice a month. “I originally did [Teen Court] for the service hours that it offered but stayed because of the connections,” Edwards said. ”The skills I’ve learned in public speaking and argumentation have helped me so much.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Teen-Court-1200x900.jpg)
![Holding up their ribbons, the Principles of Dance team poses for a picture. On March 12, the team participated in the Dance Educators Assessment of Learning (DEAL), where they earned a Division One rating. “For me, [a division one rating] shows the teamwork of our class and how we work together to dance,” freshman Sierra Thurber said. “[Participating in DEAL] benefits me because it teaches me a lot of skills and gives me a sense of determination in any type of category that I would go for in life.” Photo courtesy of Nikki Evans](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Dancers.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 the support team sits and poses for a photo in the cafeteria with the counseling team they eagerly wait to start their day. "We [all] seem to be a team, I get up every day and there's days where I don't want to go to work today, but I'm thankful that I have a job and I'm blessed to have what I have," Christopherson said. Photo Courtesy of Julie Weltens.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AF9E8470-10D7-4C91-BF28-EC8F86BAB66C-1200x852.jpeg)
![Officer Stephanie Cash is in her second year as an SRO at CPHS. “Seeing [students] grow over the years has been kind of cool,” Officer Cash said. “Freshmen that [are] all over the place and then in the next couple of years get a little more squared away and go to class and do work and start thinking about the future. Being a part of a student's growth is the best way to measure my success as an SRO.” Photo Courtesy of Cedar Park Police Department's PIO, Alicia Gallagher.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CPHS-SRO-900x1200.jpg)
![Taking a breath as he raises his arm up and out of the water, sophomore Kaden Padilla swims the 500 freestyle at the UIL state meet on Feb. 21-22. Padilla placed 10th overall and second in the consolation final in the event, dropping two seconds. “My family was there, so being able to drop time for them was really special,” Padilla said. “It was awesome [finding out I advanced to the consolation finals]. I wasn’t expecting it, and I was very surprised. My parents being there definitely made me a lot happier knowing they got to see me swim in finals.” Photo by Skyler King.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/kaden-padilla.jpg)
![Three defenders try to stop senior point guard Hope Edwards before the ball leaves her hands. The girls basketball team faced Liberty Hill on Feb 21, losing 58-40. “[My season was] definitely bittersweet,” Edwards said. It's definitely sad [because] I'm gonna miss all my teammates, my coaches and just the whole CP environment.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/julia-128-1200x800.jpg)
![Finishing her night out after attending a local concert, senior Grace Sauers smiles at the camera. She recently started a business, PrettySick, that takes photos as well as sells merch at local concert venues. Next year, she will attend Columbia Chicago College majoring in Graphic Design. “There's such a good communal scene because there [are] great venues in Austin,” Sauers said. “I'm gonna miss it in Austin, but I do know Chicago is good, it's not like I'm going to the middle of nowhere. I just have to find my footing again.” Photo Courtesy of Grace Sauers.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Grace.png)
Lights flash, the ground shakes and everyone shouts in unison. Hands are thrown in the air as the sound of drums, guitars, singers and all other forms of instruments echo throughout the venue. A photographer scurries her way through the crowd, capturing every perfect moment and bringing them to life.
Senior Grace Sauers has been growing her business, PrettySick, since Dec. 2024. She began taking photos at headliner concerts in Austin, as well as tunnel shows that other high schoolers put on. In addition to photography, she also makes patches and shirts.
“I got to meet a lot of cool bands and talk to them [because of my photography],” Sauers said. “People are kind of scared to talk to bands because they think they’re so famous, so I started taking photos to get my foot in the door. I started practicing [making patches and screen printing] for fun, my own purposes, but I never knew it was a big thing.”
Though Sauers doesn’t have her own camera, she is able to borrow one from Mrs. Davidson, and edits her photos on an app, PixArt. Sauers took a photography class last year and uses those skills she learned to develop her own style.
“I’m very much a person [who doesn’t] need any huge resources,” Sauers said. “If I have a pencil, then I’m good. [When editing my photos], I try not to make it look kidcore, but I like to use the grittiness because I feel like it matches with the grunge vibe.”
In order to make her products, Sauers uses Mrs. Jennings’ dark room to spread emulsion and to process the stencils/make the stencils and prints at home.
“The first time I used emulsion, I was in the dark room [where] I spent a full school day and even stayed after school,” Sauers said. “That was the first time I ever made anything and it showed me that something being hard is a perspective, it’s really not that hard. Nothing’s impossible. Impossible is a mindset.”
After graduating, Sauers will attend Columbia College Chicago majoring in Graphic Design. Before going in, she will have earned her associate’s degree from dual credit and online ACC courses.
“People think [doing ACC is] scarier because it’s all online and self-paced, but it’s not,” Sauers said. “I think my whole motive about life is that people [say that you need to] follow rules [about being a ‘normal’ high schooler] because like they’ve been put in our whole lives. Live your own life and remember, you’re the business owner of your own life.”
The bands Sauers attend are mainly tunnel shows by Austin High, under a bridge in Georgetown, and Come and Take It Live. She has been attending these shows since her sophomore year and hopes to find a community like Austin in Chicago.
“There’s such a good communal scene because there [are] great venues in Austin,” Sauers said. “I’m gonna miss it in Austin, but I do know Chicago is good, it’s not like I’m going to the middle of nowhere. I just have to find my footing again.”
Sauers personal artwork is to spread the message, ‘it’s not that deep.’
“I feel a lot of people follow what other people think,” Sauers said. “People have their opinions for sure, but it’s not about the opinion, it’s about that people are causing big riots without even knowing why. There’s only one you in life, so live for yourself and don’t live for someone else. That’s what my artwork tries to show.”
After promoting her brand on Instagram, an Austin magazine, Pozeurz, reached out asking her to make patches for them. Since then, her Instagram, @_.graxe_.__, has been growing and she’s been making more for local bands all around the Austin area. Once her patches started gaining attention, she began making shirts, mostly for women.
“A big reason why I wanted to do T-shirts is because I feel that whenever I go to shows, they always have the worst T-shirts for women,” Sauers said. “I had some stuff for the guys, but I wanted to make stuff that was more for the girls and fit them well.”
Her father has continuously helped her with her business as he is also a business owner. Sauers said he helps her utilize business strategies and gives her advice. Not only has her father been an influence for Sauers, but art and music have as well.
“Art and music [are] like a language to me,” Sauers said, “I feel it and I express it that way. When [Nirvana and AliceInChains] were in their prime, they had a lot of good messages, so music definitely inspires me a lot to be smart and confident.”
