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The Nexus
The official student news site of Westview High School

The Nexus
The official student news site of Westview High School

The Nexus
Lauren Wagenknecht

Lauren Wagenknecht, Staff Writer

Lauren Wagenknecht (10) is in her first year as part of The Nexus. In her free time, she loves to draw, play volleyball, and jam out to epic beats on her big nerdy headphones.

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Jolie Baylon (12), Stella Phelan (12), Danica Reed (11), and Julianne Diaz (11) [left to right] stunt with clinic participants at halftime, Sept. 5. Sixty elementary- and middle-schoolers performed.

Cheer clinic leads young cheerleaders at FNL

Lauren Wagenknecht and Delaney Hennigan • September 19, 2025

The cheerleaders came forward, leading a line of 60 young girls behind them. With everyone in position, the cheerleaders counted off, “Five, six, seven, eight!” The voices of young aspiring cheerleaders...

Voluntourism harms vulnerable orphans

Rosemary Cabanban and Lauren Wagenknecht • August 29, 2025

In recent years, voluntourism, volunteering-tourism, has become increasingly popular among over 10 million tourists from the affluent Global North, generating over 2-3 billion dollars annually, according...

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