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Juniors like Alexander Kuhn and Mikayla Gdanov are choosing to graduate early to pursue their academic careers. Kuhn and Gdanov both have a desire to help others and plan on doing so after graduating from high school. “I chose to graduate early because I wanted to get a jump start on college and my career pathway,” Gdanov said. “I also knew I could with my AP and honors classes that I have taken.”

[Photo] Jump starting service

Kaden Roth, Catalyst Online Editor-in-Chief
May 17, 2022
Students participate in Mock Job Interviews in the library to complete their oral communications class. The interviews are led by volunteers from the community who shape the interview to mimic that of a real interview.“Speech interviews are a remarkable tool for students to get experience in interviewing for employment, scholarships, internships, etc,” volunteer Susan Hancock said. “It also helps students to complete applications and resumes, another life skill.”

[Photo] A taste of the real world

Kaden Roth, Catalyst Online Editor-in-Chief
April 29, 2022
Education academy students work in class to prepare for the end of the semester. First and second-year students in the academy work in the ACP classroom to develop their lesson plan design and execution. “Both the first and second years do this internship but it looks different for each. Every week on Tuesday for nine weeks, you visit the ACP classroom during the academy. When you’re a first-year, you get paired with one buddy. You eventually write and perform a lesson plan working on something they may need help in. As a second-year, you alternate between the three ACP classes. You work with all the students instead of just one.”

[Photo] Learning through experience

Kaden Roth, Online Editor-in-Chief
March 15, 2022
The library put up their blind date with a book display for the month of February. The table presented a creative opportunity to get more of the Millard West community engaged with reading.“It was very interesting that the first few days of the display being up, we had groups of students gather at the table all together,” teacher librarian Mindy Jorgensen said. “It was really nice to see numerous students interested at the same time, all talking about the books and giving each other advice on which one to pick. It also cleared out our table on the first afternoon. I think we had 14 books go out after school the first day we put out the display. All the students who stopped at the table seemed interested and very willing to give one of the books a try, even though it was sight unseen, with only a few details to go by to make their choice.”

[Photo] Blind date with a book

Kaden Roth, Catalyst Online Editor-in-Chief
March 8, 2022
Starting her internship during the pandemic hasn’t been without challenges that she has had to overcome. The work she does has been adapted from previous years to help keep her and the environmental team safe. “I’m currently working on putting together a training presentation to be presented to the environmental department in January over the past five years of environmental policy change and any misdemeanors from the last five years that our vendors had.”

[Photo] Interning into the real world

Kaden Roth, Staff Reporter
November 5, 2020
While students take required classes to fulfill graduation requirements they miss out on the opportunity to discover and explore subjects they have interest in. By not being able to take classes that pertain more to a student's interests, their futures are being negatively affected.

[Photo] Class requirements are restricting

Kaden Roth, Staff Reporter
October 7, 2020
AP Exam fees have changed over the course of the academic year. Millard West is now having students pay for part of the test compared to previous years. “The updated fee is a bit unfortunate,” junior Brenna Batchelder said. ”I can see why the school decided to make the change.”

[Photo] Advanced fees for Advanced Placement

Kaden Roth, Staff Reporter
September 21, 2020
Following Trump’s executive order to ban TikTok, the app responds by suing the administration. The company was given 90 days before the ban will be implemented.

[Photo] TikTok takes Trump to court

Kaden Roth, Staff Reporter
September 3, 2020
Due to covid-19 movie theaters are facing unprecedented amounts of change. Streaming services continue to grow and disrupt the traditional film industry.

[Photo] Entertainment industry catches COVID

Kaden Roth, Staff Reporter
August 27, 2020
Juniors Cloey Gray and Jack Defreece can be seen passionately talking in Hunter Amos’s play Martha!. The Advanced Theatre class spent time creating student written plays and performed them in front of an audience.

[Photo] The future of playwriting

Kaden Roth, Staff Reporter
December 13, 2019
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