Facing hundreds of empty seats, she stands under the bright lights beaming in her face, she stands in shock as her heart beats rapidly. During her final performance Zoey Kriech and her dance group performed the perfect number for their upcoming concert all the way through with no mistakes. 

Kriech has been involved in choir since her middle school years and through time has developed unconditional love for choir. 

With the help of motivation from her dad she realized she enjoyed show choir as well.

“Being in choir in middle school has really taught me my love for show choir,” Kriech said.

Being a part of a show choir has given Kriech good habits that have helped her grow as a person and a performer.

“Choir has taught me a lot like time management and being responsible for the stuff I’m accounted for,” Kriech said. …
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High School is an important part of everyone’s lives. You get to dive deep into your passions, meet new people, and learn many skills like time management. Greenwood High School senior, Eleanor Guipe, was able to take advantage of these opportunities.

Guipe was very busy the past three years at Greenwood High. Between being a member of the swim team, managing social media for both her publication team and school organization “Bring Change to Mind”, and working as a lifeguard at a local pool, she had to fight the feeling of burnout.

Despite the many hours spent at swim practices and in the publications room, she never let these activities triumph her love for true crime.

Being strongly family-oriented, Guipe learned of her passion for crime because of her mom when they began watching crime shows together, she couldn’t …
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Sparkling diamonds, pink swirls, a Hello Kitty charm sitting on the ring fingernail bed and finished with a glassy top. Dimeyah Herndon, a high school senior in Indianapolis, does nail sets for many. Her love for nails started with her love for design.  

“I really love colors and I love patterns. I love everything and so seeing it on nails, it makes me feel content so seeing all my work come together keeps me inspired and motivated,” Herndon said.  

Since starting her craft at the end of her sophomore year, a lot had changed.  

“I’ve been recently trying to concentrate on stuff that I can see my mistakes because I know my own mistakes and what to fix. So, I’ve been like really working on perfecting my craft and making sure everything is perfect,” she said.  

With starting her business, Herndon works out …
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Packing up her life in boxes, sophomore Jordyn Vaughn prepared to move for the fourteenth time before starting high school.

Living in Colorado most of her life Vaughn got used to moving to different places.

“My family and I moved eleven times before I was three. My parents grew up moving all over the place so when I was born they thought it was normal. We sometimes just moved into a different house or apartment close by, but we usually moved to different cities in Colorado,” Vaughn said. 

As Vaughn was nearing the middle of fourth grade her parents decided they wanted to try a new state. 

“My parents decided that Colorado was not the best place for us. The city we lived in was not a great area and I was not receiving the level of education I needed. My mom decided the …
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Throughout her first year in her publication, Kenlee began to find her love for photography. Within that year she had found interest in sports photography and began learning about the experience’s triumphs and challenges.

Kenlee first started in her publication in her freshman year unsure of where it would lead. “It’s very scary coming into a new school as a freshman because you feel like a stranger, however, once I walked into my yearbook class I felt like I had always been there,” Kenlee said.

Within her first year, she began to find a love for photography, more specifically sports photography. “I fell in love with sports photography the second I stepped onto the football field to take pictures. “When I’m out there, I’m in control.”

Kenlee will continue her passion in her sophomore year and hopes to go on to take more …
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As the bus rumbled towards Carmel High School, senior Lina Liu prayed that she would not look like a clown as she shakily practiced doing her eyeliner before school.

Liu felt that she was very easily influenced by the media, which led her to discovering a newfound interest in makeup.

“I was really into TikTok at this time, this was about a couple of years ago when I was a sophomore. I was obsessed with it and would spend a long time scrolling through my for you page. I would come across ‘get ready with me’s’ and see them do their makeup. I don’t know what it was about them but they were just really cool whenever they would do their makeup,” Liu said.

Makeup became a hobby for Liu.

“I didn’t really see it as something I would do in the future, like …
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RAINY DAYS Reminiscing about her dance days, sophomore Maryn Zabrowsky picks flowers in the rain outside Franklin Hall. Zabrowsky had a passion for dance since she was a little girl, and she still had that passion, but the dance environment was not right.

Wearing a glimmering silver dress, sophomore Maryn Zabrowsky knew this would be her last dance despite her passion still burning bright. Zabrowsky knew she could no longer handle her dance studio toxicity, so she participated in one last dance on June 8, 2024, at Stage One Dance Academy. 

Zabrowsky started to dance around the age of two, and her sister led her to begin competitive dance. 

“I was obviously very young when I first started dance, but when I first started doing competitive dance, I was excited, happy, enthusiastic, positive, and I loved it,” Zabrowsky said. 

Zabrowsky’s dance studio …
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As the thunderous shouting in the background of the house intensified, Naomi Robinson ran into the woods to escape the noise and her mind.

Growing up Robinson had experiences within her childhood that many of  her peers will never have to face.

“When I lived with my mom in Lafayette, her boyfriend at the time was abusive which caused a lot of hard times for me with school and my emotions,” Robinson said.

Once Robinson realized that she could use different ways to cope, she began to see a new light within nature as a way to hide away from the hard things in life.

“Whenever it would get to be too much for me I would run outside into the woods and hide away from it all. This was the only way I could escape it sometimes,” Robinson said.

As Robinson grew older she …
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Through maintaining an image from a young age to developing her own personal style, Ava Rotman has become the best version of herself, thanks to self-expression.

by Lilian Wible, Avon High School

Style has always been a prominent thing. It’s something you can always count on changing. People change and so will their look. Upcoming senior, Ava Rotman, sees personal style as the most important form of self-expression.

In elementary school, Rotman began to felt the pressure because her mother taught at her school. They felt like everything they did could either affect her mom negatively or positively, which could make or break her mom’s or the school’s reputation. This led her to not express herself with her hair or clothes as much as she wanted to.

“I had to keep an image for her image.”

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Lilian Wible dives into her past and future for her passions regarding her grunge music interests

By: Ava Rotman, Legacy High School

Music is a universal language that has connected people from very different paths althroughout time. For rising junior, Lilian Wible growing up her father and grandfather influenced her music taste and her passions for it. From a very young age she’d listen to bands such as the Beatles with her grandfather, and she remembers always making fun of her father’s music taste while secretly loving it. 

“I remember getting in my dad’s car and the Grateful Dead or Pearl Jam station would always be on, that would always be playing. And my dads the one that got me into having physical copies like Vinyl and CDs, which we both really got into during COVID because, when it first hit he saw …
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