FlexiSched: Flexible or not?
Thomas Yates, Reporter
March 19, 2019
It’s Monday afternoon, the bell just rang to dismiss you from your third block class, and you’re on your way to advisory. This is your time to schedule yourself for the week: surely you could have done it any time from Friday after school to now, but you always wait until advisory on Monday to cho...
Signs of love through the vines of valentines
Joseph Potts, Reporter
February 16, 2019
On Feb.14, Valentine’s Day, a group of students covered the hallways with sticky note hearts filled with uplifting messages like “Be the Change” and “Embrace the Journey.” The event was a service project done by Youth Mental Ambassadors as way to celebrate the holiday and make fellow Falcons...
Clean water courtesy of West
Tori Dierikx, Reporter
November 5, 2018
8,133 miles away, there is a village in Kenya that lacks what many of us take for granted ‒ clean water. This daunting and very real issue was brought to the Davenport West Invent team by Joshua Ngao, a resident of Muamba who believed the seemingly impossible task could be tackled by Davenport West st...
Pushing boundaries and making a change
Zak Keel, Reporter
October 26, 2018
Alexa Christiansen is a student that may just break the record for most hours existing within the walls of West. An average week for Christiansen consists of walking to school at 6:35 a.m. for early-bird some days and staying after school until 8:30 p.m. for Robotics on others. Even when not on a sche...
Not without us if it’s about us
Zak Keel, Reporter
October 23, 2018
Students and teachers from West trained in unison as they received their youth mental health first aid certifications on Thursday, Oct. 18 at the Davenport Community School’s Achievement Service Center. The participants attended an eight-hour training session led by Project Aware Mental Health Gran...
Fifty-eight students inducted into National Honors Society
Naomi Walker, Co-Media Editor and Business Manager
September 21, 2018
On Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m., 58 new juniors and seniors were inducted into National Honors Society (NHS) for the 2018-19 school year. These students were joined with the 63 NHS inductees from the 2017-2018 school year. “The initial criteria is that students have to have a 3.5 or higher GPA at the en...
2018 homecoming court Q&A
Naomi Walker, Co-Media Editor and Buisiness Manager
September 3, 2018
Naomi Walker Jenna Dougherty How do you feel about making homecoming court? ¨It is really exciting because I’ve wanted to be on homecoming court ever since I was a freshman.¨ What first went through your head when you found out you made court? ¨I was like ‘I have to tell my mom!’ because my mom really wanted me to be...
Managing Editor
My name is Sarah Bernick and I’m a sophomore here at Davenport West. I love being in newspaper because I get to engage with students and teachers all around school. I also participate in volleyball and...