![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)
The third book in the continuation of the original “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series, “The Heroes of Olympus,” has Rick Riordan fans scrambling to pick up “The Mark of Athena”, which was released on October 2, 2012.
In the previous two books of the series, the goddess Hera attempted to create peace between two feuding camps of demigods; the ever famous Greek camp, Camp Half-Blood, which was the main setting of Riordan’s original series, as well as the Roman camp, Camp Jupiter.
In the first two books of the series, we are introduced to new character Jason (son of Jupiter), Piper (daughter of Aphrodite) and Leo (son of Hephaestus) in the first book, “The Lost Hero”, and in the second book, “The Son of Neptune”, we are introduced to new heroes Frank (son of Mars) and Hazel (daughter of Pluto). Readers are also reacquainted with hero Percy Jackson in the second installment of “The Heroes of Olympus”.
We learn in the first book that Hera has taken a demigod from each of the camps, wiped their memories, and sent them to the opposite camp in order to try and unite the Greeks and Romans. So Jason was sent to Camp Half-Blood, and Percy was sent to Camp Jupiter. At the end of the first book, Jason, Piper, Leo, and Percy’s girlfriend Annabeth learn of Hera’s plan and build a ship, the Argo 2, and set sail for camp Jupiter to try and fulfill the Prophecy of the Seven, which was introduced at the end of the last book of the Percy Jackson series. The second book contains what is happening meanwhile at Camp Jupiter, including a quest for Percy, Frank and Hazel to try and free the god of death, Thanatos.
Now, in The Mark of Athena, the Argo 2 reaches Camp Jupiter and Annabeth and Percy are reunited. The rest of the main characters meet each other, and embark on a quest as the demigods in the Prophecy of Seven in order to take down Gaea and the Giants, who are her children.
Also in the beginning of the story, the demigods learn about another prophecy, one that is specifically for Annabeth, telling her to fallow the Mark of Athena.
Annabeth tells her companions that some children of Athena go on a quest to recover the lost statue Athena Parthenos, hidden in Rome, which legend has it will unite the Greeks and the Romans, and that she has been selected by her mother to go on this quest in order to avenge her.
The prophesized seven, Percy, Jason, Annabeth, Leo, Piper, Hazel, and Frank, must travel to Rome to battle the giants Otis and Ephialtes to rescue Hazel’s brother Nico.
This book was action packed, suspenseful, and I think Rick Riordan absolutely outdid himself with everything from the plot to the descriptions. The book was so sweet at the end I almost cried and will be waiting anxiously for the next one, “The House of Hades”, to come out on Oct. 8, 2013.
