Ella Jiang (12) is in her fourth year as a part of The Nexus. If she’s not busy drawing, you might catch her reading, playing Tetris, or trying to befriend small animals. She enjoys loud talkers, loud music and dislikes slow walkers.
The Real Property Advisory Committee (RPAC) presented their final report to the PUSD Board of Education, Jan. 23. The Committee decided in a 6-4 vote that the three vacant PUSD sites were not needed for...
With just one glance at me, some words may come to mind. Weak? Maybe. Frail? Sure. Pitiful? Perhaps. But unmotivated? Absolutely not. I came to LA Fitness with one mission: I was finally going to start...
Snow sparkled under Anchorage, Alaskan skies, sunlight refracting, but Grayson Skarsvaag (11) outshone at the Egan Convention Center, Nov. 2, as he weaved through the blue-lit stage, his body expanding...
I’m standing in your corridor, I wonder what I’m waiting for, the leaves are drifting out to sea…
Every road trip started just like this: “I Want Everything” by Cracker thrumming through...
If you happen to catch a glimpse of herds of more than 300 goats roaming the fields on Black Mountain Ranch, please do not be alarmed. Though they are not a wild herd, these hungry helpers were recruited...
If you ask social studies teacher Keith Jain what he did over the weekend, there’s a good chance he’ll say he played in a pickleball tournament. You might even catch him during prep periods going down...
As a result of $12.5 million in cuts for the 2024-25 school year and a bus driver shortage, Poway Unified School District (PUSD) has reduced non-mandated bus transportation services for students.
In...
Warm lights softly illuminated the outdoor stage and music thrummed through the floor as Kalea Minabe (12) neared the end of her group performance. Summer nights in Tahiti were incomparable during the...
As the credits rolled to Jane Schoenbrun’s sophomore horror-drama film I Saw the TV Glow, I was reminded why I still go to movie theaters. For an hour and 40 minutes, I was trapped in a liminal space...
Entering the gym, May 25, the rattle of shuffling Rubik’s cubes reached every corner of the room. People of all ages, chaperoned and adult, waited for their turn to be called to the row of desks...
All around her, Eliana Liff (12) looks for colorful materials to fuel her creations. From a discarded bottle tumbled into colorful shards or empty conches buried in sandy shores, whatever she finds has...
Girls from all different PUSD high schools scribbled notes into their packets as one of the Elect Her workshop’s panelists, PUSD Board Trustee Dr. Darshana Patel, spoke of the importance of women in...
When it comes down to the last 100 meters in the 4x400m relay race, muscle cramping and blurring vision have to be shoved away as an afterthought.
“If you’re hurting you have to push through,”...
Whether it's cruising down the coast in Del Mar or deep in the Peñasquitos Canyons, on soaring jumps or roadside wheelies — Jake Scarbel (11) rides his Surron bike everywhere. His dad finds it cool,...
The theater was warm as a night of laughter and cheers neared an end, Feb. 2. Spotlights illuminated 10 boys lined up on stage as they awaited the grand reveal of the show in silent anticipation. Before...
I promised myself that I was only here to pick up one thing: a graphic novel that was going to be a birthday gift for my friend. It was a simple task really — I had the title, it was easily recognizable,...
Students pocket their phones in English teacher Jeffrey Wenger’s class, Feb. 13. Many teachers have been implementing this system to get students off their phones during class.
For all 30 days of November, Westview Game Design club focused its efforts on one task — designing, programming, and scoring music for a game. Among the other 631 participants in the 2023 Github Game...
I have a recurring nightmare and it goes like this: I am in a foreign country with my family — we are lost, we are tired, and we are not agreeing on anything. The taxi we called for is 20-something minutes...
Since 1999, Lisa and Dave Melahn have had a train-chugging wonderland laid out in their front yard—a beloved gem of Christmas Card Lane. Every night of December, the Ellingham home attracts a crowd,...
Arborist Kurt Peacock of Tree San Diego points out the different areas that trees could be planted around Westview, Dec. 5. Tree San Diego plans on bringing 10-12 new trees to the school's quad.
Before stepping onto the court for the first feed-in match of CIFs, Nov. 1-2, Noelle Dang (11) made sure her ponytail was secure with each hair tie—three to be exact. Her racket fashioned a brand new...
Touring classroom to classroom, 20 Korean educators from Korean National University of Education visited Westview, Nov. 7, as a part of professional development at the Korean National University of Education...
At the Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC) starting line, Oct. 21, Kaitlyn Arciaga (11) felt the nerves hit her all at once. Ahead of her was a known course, famous not for its length of 2.95 miles, but...
It’s arrived: the season of pumpkins, of sweater weather (even in this 80-degree San Diegan heat), of pumpkin chais off the Starbucks seasonal fall menu, and possibly most excitably, of a perfectly spooky...
Statewide, math educators of all different levels, from elementary to collegiate, have spent the last four years developing and debating the revisions that should be done to the math framework for K-12...
Indefinite periods of little-to-no pay, risking permanent job loss, undergoing socio-economic stress, losing profit, disrupting the economy—as President Biden said in a statement on Sept. 16 supporting...
Often proclaimed as one of the best cartoon series of all time, Adventure Time is the timeless kind of kid’s show that embodies the epitome of child-like wonder, leaving its spin-off, Fionna and Cake,...
Wrapped into eight steadily-paced episodes, Heartstopper season two is a four-and-a-half hour long rollercoaster of laughs and tears, accompanied by a beautifully-curated soundtrack and, best of all, a...
While the earliest days of last summer transitioned many busy school lives to a period of rest and relaxation, Allan Fang (11) and Trevor Chen (11) were restless. Project Binary Coding, the non-profit...
As one of the 28 students accepted into the Student Reporting Labs (SRL) Academy nationwide, June 21-29, Sarah Youssef (11) hadn’t expected the story she worked on at the program to end up on national...
Since the return of in-person schooling in a post-COVID era, chronic absences have risen dramatically in Poway Unified School District (PUSD), more than doubling to a rate 15.69% for the student body in...
Winter Guard took to the floor unshaken. Despite the unfamiliar setting, every step-turn and flag toss of their “Beginner’s Guide to Time Travel” show were locked in by muscle memory. Hours upon...
The bright beam of the spotlights was unforgiving in the arena of the Anaheim Convention Center, marking the dancers’ shadows into the slick wood of the stage—a stage bigger than any they’d ever...
When I find myself deep into a Netflix doom-scroll after finishing a show (which I watched for hours without interruption), I am struck with lament; I am just as bored as I was before.
Entertainment,...
The bright beam of the spotlights was unforgiving in the arena of the Anaheim Convention Center, marking the dancers’ shadows into the slick wood of the stage—a stage bigger than any they’d ever...
Heavy rain and canceling guests would have sullied anyone’s birthday — but Maile Everly (12) was anything but sad. As she sat in a stable, surrounded by the ponies her parents had rented, she found,...
After Sean Boerhout (12) dropped a piece of Alka Seltzer into the mixture, Deer Canyon Elementary School’s fourth-grade students watched in awe as a make-shift lava lamp made of water dyed red and vegetable...
As lunch came to an end and 20 minutes of SSH began, Aadya Nayak (12), Marissa Kanoya (11), and the rest of their project group went around campus amassing an abundance of plastic trash, discarded...
While the audience only saw the program’s performance onstage, what kept it running was the show backstage. Band Director Mitchell Way and Associate Band Director Martin Fierro said the success of...
On April 26, 2022, I was sure of one thing and one thing only; I was going to have the time of my life that night and nothing was going to get in my way. It was my first ever concert and...
Of California’s District Four Court of Appeals Justices, almost a fourth of judges across all three divisions have expiring terms and are up for retention. However, once it’s time for voters to check...
Bella Santos (12) and Grace Mordhorst (12), presidents of Advocates for a Better Environment (ABE) club, called out to the students around them with posters in hand to promote petitions that aimed...
After many key players in the boys beach volleyball program graduated last year, returning players Xavier O’Boyle (11) and Donovan Weber (11) said they are excited to see how the new team performs this...
Zoey Lestyk (10) slowed to catch her breath in the pitch darkness. Determined and on the search for sea turtle nests, she quickened her pace to return to the rest of the patrol, as they combed through...
We live in a time where the digital reality can feel more comfortable than our real one. Every day, I am overwhelmed with a conveyor belt of posts and videos on my Instagram feed or my TikTok for-you page,...
As an enjoyer of TV shows, I spend more time searching than watching. Often, during my fruitless, hour-long expeditions on Netflix, I find myself seeing a trend within the dialogue of shows categorized...
Nearly two years after the pandemic sent PUSD students home, the mask mandate was lifted in California, March 12. According to a Coronavirus map and case count graph from The New York Times, California...
There’s nothing more relaxing than taking a hot bath and doing some much needed skincare after a stressful day. Scents of lavender, the fizzing of a bath bomb, skin-burning mud masks—it truly...
