“I started playing [tennis] when I was around seven,” said senior Erin O’Neal. “I played with my dad because he played in high school, and he's also a coach. He cares about it a lot. It's probably...

The field is silent. The 300 track athletes, coaches and parents notice the boy on the ground. His eyes are rolling into the back of his head, his body is convulsing. None of it seems right. Minutes...

By the time junior Gina Duarte walked through the doors of Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, she knew she was lost. Students moved confidently through crowded hallways while she stared at room...

Every odd block day, senior Mallory O’Neal is greeted by a chorus of excited voices the moment she walks into Ms. Zimmerman's classroom at Benninghoven Elementary. “Mallorys here!” they shout. Not...

Anyone who knows senior Sang Son — Homecoming King, co-founder of Asian Student Union, major contributor in robotics club, NHS and Math NHS member, cross country runner and tennis player — would never...

In third or fourth grade, Sara Tewelde, seven years old, comes home from school to tons of people crammed into her tiny home in Ethiopia, partying and celebrating. They’d finally gotten their papers,...

Senior Jacob Stirling lies on a bed in room 11 of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of Children’s Mercy, blankly. Machines lay all around, continuously beeping, keeping his vitals on their screens. ...

On a long walk, then 13 year old, senior Gabriel Larkin, grabs his mom’s Canon T13 out. He takes pictures of the flowers. The trees. The bugs crawling on the pavement beneath him. This nature walk was...

Seniors Rey Rubin and Alan Guzman have been dating since 8th grade.  They met in foods class.  Guzman enjoyed rearranging and moving all of the ingredients and pans that she had displayed so neatly....

Junior Husna Asalati’s feet pound the cracked pavement. Hard. The almost-90 degree heat is stifling. Thick droplets of sweat swim down Asalati’s neck. A stream of cars whoosh by on 67th street as she...