Journalism students traveled to Chicago, Illinois for the JEA/NSPA Fall convention. They were able to attend workshops, meet other student journalists from different states and explore the city. Students also participated in write-offs and won awards for their work.
![Holding up the neck of the bottle, junior Monica Sarkisian watches as her partner cuts the base of their project. Students cut two liter bottles with scissors, learning about planting as well as reusable sustainability. “[Mrs. Horner] drew it on the board and then we just cut it and kind of replicated it and everyone did their own thing at the end, which I thought was kind of interesting to see,” Sarkisian said. “I feel like cutting the bottle was kind of hard because it was really sturdy.](https://southwestshadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_9893-1200x800.jpg)
![Increasing issues with carbon emissions have students worried about the future of the Earth. An article written by the NCEI predicts that there’s a 22 percent chance that 2024 will be the hottest year, and there is a 99 percent chance that it will rank in the top five of the hottest years. “Where I live there’s a whole area where people just dump their trash, and who knows, in 10 to 30 years it might get so bad that we’ll just see trash everywhere,” sophomore Eliza Pangilinan said. “Even that small piece of trash went through a factory, and those factories produce a lot of gas [emissions].”](https://southwestshadow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/carbon_footprint-1-1200x900.jpeg)
