Bolstering program ideals through service, International Baccalaureate (IB) juniors and seniors gathered around the Austin area on Saturday, Jan. 20, to take part in the IB Day of Service — a requirement...
On Friday, Jan. 26, Anatomy & Dissection Club held a turtle dissection in Mr. Scheiber’s room before school. As the club’s first reptilian study of the year, the meeting allowed members to...
On Thursday, Jan. 25, National Honors Society (NHS) members gathered after school in Mr. Shaw’s classroom to decorate Valentine’s Day cards for kids at Cheyanna’s Champions 4 Children, a Texas-based...
For the first time this year, Mu Alpha Theta hosted a math circle, a short club-wide discussion about a math-adjacent topic, on Friday, Jan. 26 during flex. This week’s math circle, which examined probability...
On Tuesday, Jan. 9, Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) began their season with the Districts competition at Kalahari Resort. DECA members gathered to compete in written and roleplay events...
Chloe Oakley, Campus News Editor
• January 13, 2024
From Thursday, Jan. 4 to Friday, Jan. 5, alumni who took AP and IB Spanish were welcomed back to speak at a panel for current Spanish students. Graduates discussed their experiences in college and how...
Following rainy weather, the school experienced power outages on Jan. 8, 2024. What started as a one short outage eventually spiraled into a series of outages and finally concluded with one final outage...
LaunchPad is a student-founded organization that provides menstrual products to students on campus who don’t have access to these products. The organization is run by Rifah Mirza ‘25 and Samhita Guntakala...
With snacks galore and a vast selection of holiday cartoons, on Friday, Dec. 8, members of French Club gathered in Mme Harwick's classroom after school to relax before midterms.
The officer team worked...
On Friday, Dec. 8, students gathered in the cafeteria during flex to watch K-pop Club perform their winter showcase. K-pop Club members learned dances, originally choreographed and performed by their respective...
Dominating in their third meet of the year, six For Robotics Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology (FIRST) Tech Challenge (FTC) teams competed on Sunday, Dec. 2. Prior to this competition,...
![Helping out two club members, Anatomy & Dissection Club Vice President Nicole Wang 24 points out parts of the turtles digestive system. Some of the club members were confused about the digestive systems location due to differences between mammalian and reptilian anatomy. At this time in high school, the most experience you get is probably organs or smaller specimens such as mice [and] frogs, Wang said. The turtle is a fascinating, almost difficult dissection due to the sheer size and more complex structure overall. You have all the organs and it is a big specimen.](https://westwoodhorizon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-26_TurtleDissection_ChangwatchaiP_11-1200x800.jpg)
![On Thursday, Jan. 25, NHS members gathered in Mr. Shaws room after school to make Valentines Day cards for children with rare or undiagnosed illnesses. After reading short profiles on each child, NHS members created cards tailored to the interests and hobbies of each child. The front of the cards [said] Happy Valentines Day,” Rai Makaraju ‘24 said. “One of [the kids] really likes sheep, so I got to draw baby sheep for them and [write] a little message.”](https://westwoodhorizon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/nhscards-e1706643953688-600x596-1.jpg)
![Puzzling his audience, Nathan Won ‘24 presents the “final conundrum” of his math circle, asking members to recall the amount of slides he has added a photo of a character to. Won’s math circle, about probability in games, intended to teach his audience new ways to learn about probability. “[Math circles allow] people [to] get to learn about the wonders of math and probability,” Won said.](https://westwoodhorizon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/mathcircle-1200x887.png)
![Settling in with their snacks, French Club members watch Pink Panther: A Pink Christmas. Officers planned this event for a month, and were dedicated to execute it before midterms week. “[The cartoons were] really comedic,” French Club Member Bella Yi 26 said. “I like the sort of ‘cartoony’ videos with jokes in [them], and I think its entertaining because you dont really typically watch that at this age.”](https://westwoodhorizon.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_2408-1200x814.jpg)
