![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)
TED talks makes its way to Westlake
December 17, 2014
TEDxYouth@Austin is an independent organization that works toward inspiring the youth, according to the TEDxYouth@Austin website. This upcoming year, 2015, TEDxYouth@Austin is bringing TED talks to Westlake High School and everyone is invited.
“I am so excited for the event this year,” team member/ambassador sophomore Nika Torabi said. “I went to the event last year and realized that it’s different from normal TED talks in that the presentations are geared toward people from our generation so they tend to be more fun and exciting to listen to, and it’s something that we (teens) can relate to. This year going to be amazing year and I love the theme that we have to go along with the event, and I am so lucky to be a part of that.”
Each year TEDxYouth@Austin have different ideas and concepts that incorporate into the theme. Last year the theme for the event was Re:Solve, which talked about different ways people could resolve certain concepts that are in our world today. This year the theme is (in)visible.
“The theme (in)visible is based on the concept of leaders being either in the background of upfront,” Torabi said. “When you actually think about it, it’s such an unusual concept because you really look at it from a bigger picture. Should leaders be invisible/in the background, or should they be upfront and taking control with the world watching them.”
Along with Torabi’s perception of the theme, the website says the theme of (in)visible also adjoins to idea of delving into ideas that are unknown to people and philosophies that have not yet been thought up.
“I think TEDxYouth is an amazing organization that anyone should attend if they have the ability to do so,” Torabi said. “It’s something that can change your life or your outlook and perception in life can change.”
The event will take place at Westlake high school on Feb. 14, however the deadline to register is Dec. 31. According to Torabi, the way to sign up for the event is simple. You go to the website: http://tedxyouthaustin.com/ and click register and you simply fill out a form. While the speakers are not allowed to be revealed, according to the Torabi the talks are undoubtedly going to surprise. Plus registration is free and is open to anyone in any of the high schools around Austin.
