![Posing with their UIL State Trophy, the Robolobos Van Halen Team beams with excitement after their win. “It was a team effort,” junior Noah Vo said. “I was happy because something happened in the first match and the match was also really close. So [when] they finally revealed it, I was pretty happy.” Photo courtesy of Amy Lovelace](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IMG_0910-EDIT-1200x723.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)
![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)
Sweat dripping off their forehead down to the controller, weaving in and out of obstacles and stacking cones onto one another, the timer ends, and the FTC Robotics team erupts in joy. On May 11 the Robolobos Van Halen team went down to Corpus Christi, winning the state championship against all other 5A Schools, for the third time in a row. This win wasn’t by single effort and required everyone to pull their weight as much as possible.
One of the many who helped lead the charge in winning state was the Head of Hardware junior Michael Moracchi, who oversaw the production and planning of the bot and helped make its conception into a reality.
“I was a big part of the build process,” Moracchi said. “We have our master design source that evolves over the year to maximize point scoring and [I try to] just improve our bot.”
Besides the initial build of the robot, the competition mainly relies on the Drive Team. The Drive team operates the bot with a controller, one managing it and moving it around, while the other coaches and keeps it on course. The Robolobos Van Halen drove the bot to success, bringing home another win.
“It was a team effort,” junior Noah Vo said. “I was happy because something happened in the first match and the match was also really close. So [when] they finally revealed it, I was pretty happy.”
The competition features a lot of team building exercises, as you must form alliances with the best bots to maximize points, creating your own super team.
“A big part of that is talking to other teams, socializing, understanding what they’re good at and trying to forge alliances,” Moracchi said. “I’m like our team’s diplomat when we’re on site.”
The bot also won the Innovate Award for a highly ergonomic and modular design. The competition wasn’t all business for the Robolobos, however, as they got to spend a lot of time together over the weekend throughout travelling.
“We had some people from [Team] 61, who are our premier senior team, come over,” Morrachi said. “They got wiped out earlier in the season, but a lot of them came along to support and provide advice, which was really valuable, and [they were] just being able to hang. We already spent a lot of time together for after school meetings and collaborating on stuff, but the travel and staying in the hotel together and the shared experience, that closeness is something you can’t get anywhere else easily.”
