Students visited Topeka on Nov. 18-19 for the Youth in Government conference. Participants proposed original bills in the hopes of pushing them through a mock House of Representatives and the Senate. Bills that passed were sent on to the mock governor, who signed all nine bills into law. Those bills will be passed on to Gov. Sam Brownback to be proposed to the real House of Representatives and Senate.
photos by Mikala Compton
![Senior Tanner Pruter plays the tenor drum Aug. 31 in Main Gym. The Marching Cougar Pride performed their “Chaos Order” show during the Bonfire Assembly. [During the performance] the band is split between chaos and order,” Pruter said. “The beginning of the show starts out with chaos and throughout the show, you get little glimpses of order.”](https://smnw.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ejohnson_bonfire_8.31_32-1-900x600.jpg)
![Junior Venti Neaderhiser and senior Dylan Paflas work on their robot March 21 in Room C. The robotics team worked on their robot, Fred, to prepare for the FRC Worlds competition. “I was working with the bumpers on our robot that protect [the] frame [for] when we hit or bump into something,” Neaderhiseri said. “We have put a lot of work into building and coding the robot and have run into many difficulties but we have overcome every issue.” photo by Jack Pischke](https://smnw.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/JPischkeRoboticsteam-7-1-1200x795.jpg)
