![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
Senior Spotlight: Will Ingarfield
June 5, 2018
As the project manager of Robotics Club, a science fair judge and a UIL computer science captain, senior Will Ingarfield worked hard to create an impact in high school. In middle school, Ingarfield delved into lego robotics and during his freshman year of high school he continued to pursue his passion for robotics. He helped the high school team place fourteenth at the regional competition in San Antonio, Texas, and assisted the UIL computer science team in achieving first in the district competition and second place overall at their regional competition.
“The amount of growth that we have had in the robotics team as well as the UIL team has influenced how I have become a better leader,” Ingarfield said. “We have gone to more regionals this year than we have ever gone to before and we went the furthest we ever have in UIL. The tangible output is really cool and rewarding to see.”
In addition to seeing these organizations improve, Ingarfield said that he has also seen himself grow as a person. Robotics helped me branch out in my interests, — Will Ingarfield
“I’m much more social than I was when I went into freshman year,” Ingarfield said. “I think that robotics helped me improve my public speaking skills because I have to talk to every single person all of the time.”
Ingarfield said that he enjoyed his experience with FIRST Robotics (an international youth organization that operates various robotics competitions) so much that he decided to mentor high schools next year.
“I think that FIRST does a great job of getting you into STEM, even if you’re not interested in it,” Ingarfield said. “I’m excited to do it from the mentoring side.”
Ingarfield will attend the University of Texas at Dallas and major in computer science in the fall. He said that robotics helped him gain a better understanding of what he enjoyed.
“Robotics helped me branch out in my interests,” Ingarfield said. “I had no clue that I would become the head of business, let alone the project manager when I joined robotics.”
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901-600x400.jpg)
