Patiently waiting for his turn to arrive, junior Kolby Tran stacks his dice and makes sure he has everything he needs to play Dungeons and Dragons. The club was a way for Tran to make new friends and learn more about the game. “This club has been a great way to hang out with my friends after school since most of us are busy throughout the week,” Tran said.
![Spinning her cup with the string length longer than before, senior CJ Estrellas laughs while trying to keep a hold of the cups rotation. By increasing the string length, the tension is increased as well as the risk of the cup’s water falling out. “We have all these components and it’s really important [to get them right] because it can risk people lives,” Estrellas said. “They can risk your own life. Its like preventing risk factors, and that’s why applying it [physics] to real life is a real eye opener because I really saw what was going to happen if I make a mistake or don’t understand principles and calculations behind it [our project].”](https://southwestshadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_9805-1200x800.jpg)
![At the first senior event of the school year, seniors Philipos Alebachew and Rediate Hunde show off their childhood backpacks for a photo to commemorate the moment. One of the final senior events, field day, will take place Thursday.. “Our main theme of StuCo for the year is nostalgia, and we wanted to bring back that and just have a fun thing for our whole class,” Event Planner Amani Rahman said. "[The Senior Field Day] theme is bubble guppies because we also wanted to bring back your childhood like what we did for the senior sunrise.”](https://southwestshadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_9533-1200x800.jpg)
