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Chloe Youngkin

Chloe Youngkin, Copy Editor

Sophomore Chloe Youngkin is the Copy Editor with one year of journalism experience. In her free time she enjoys going out with friends and relaxing, and at school she participates in photography. She loves journalism because it lets her improve her social skills and writing.

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The Inspired Minds Art Exhibit on Jan. 10.

Showcasing the Artistic Imagination

Art teachers of Johnson promote their art with Inspired Minds
Chloe Youngkin, Copy Editor
January 17, 2025

Inspired Arts Minds Center is hosting its first faculty show from Jan. 10 to Feb. 1 from six to eight p.m., and the school’s art teachers are displaying their past imaginative nature on the walls...

Screenshot of the Spotfiy navigation page for the Spotify Wrapped feature.

Wrap it Up

Spotify Wrapped Disappoints Listeners
Chloe Youngkin, Staff Writer
December 12, 2024

The 2024 Spotify Wrapped this Dec. 4 was reportedly made with AI and has disappointed students as a result of inaccuracy and laziness.  Due to the rise of AI being used to supplement and completely...

A We Are Blood staff member assisting a donor with blood transfusion.

Saving Lives an Ounce at a Time

We Are Blood organizes blood drive on campus
Chloe Youngkin, Copy Editor
November 21, 2024

Needles are scattered around the room. Shades of crimson bubble in vials, and the thick scent of old pennies mingles in the air. And yet, past these hallways, no screams of terror are heard. Blood donation...

Ava Dornak performing the character Mr. Green in the performance of 'Clue' on Nov. 6.

Case Closed

Theater Performs Their First Play, 'Clue'
Chloe Youngkin, Staff Writer
November 12, 2024

The theater program produced the first play of the year, Clue, a comedy murder mystery, for captivated students and adults alike from Nov.  7 through Nov.  9. Theater’s tech crew and cast members had...

Junior Elizabeth Rhoads coloring a calavera at the club’s monthly meeting on Oct. 23.

Welcoming the Hispanic Community

Spanish National Honor Society promotes heritage, culture, language
Chloe Youngkin, Copy Editor
October 28, 2024

Precious traditions can be lost in time as families migrate from area to area and generations after generations continuously sprout and leave small trickles of culture behind. Spanish National Honor Society...

Sophomore Julianna Benevides posing as a student on their phone while work needs to be done.

Current Attention Span Crisis

Students have lost the means to focus on education
Chloe Youngkin, Copy Editor
October 18, 2024

Unbothered eyes glue themselves to the bright screen of their device, loading their increasingly rotting brain with overwhelming dopamine. Ears are always plugged in with music beats to avoid distractions...

The tenor/bass choir rehearsing before the concert at the Hays Performing Arts Center with pianist Karen Dunn.

Autumn’s Opening Song

Choir's first show of the school year
Chloe Youngkin, Copy Editor
October 7, 2024

The choir had their first performance of the year at their Fall Concert on Oct. 1 at the Hays Performing Arts Center, showing off the skills the students learned throughout the beginning of the school...

Senior Sofia Gonzalez building a door prop for the production of Clue.

Maintaining Theatrical Craft

The preaching of theatre continues
Chloe Youngkin, Copy Editor
September 30, 2024

Lines bounce on walls and echo through halls. Characters gather around a crime scene in the middle of the conservatory, practicing the perfect shocked and horrified expressions. On an elevated stage, underneath...

Running back Kael Hatnot running with the ball.

Football’s First Touchdown

Johnson wins against Cedar Ridge 28-14
Chloe Youngkin, Copy Editor
September 6, 2024

On Aug. 30, the first football game of the season was hosted. Standing on the playing field of the opposing team, with harsh breaths beating against stuffy headgear and eyes focused on the scoreboard...

Tuba players Armani Moreno (left), Madeline Wilson (middle), and Josie Blair (right) practicing for the Cedar Ridge football game in the staff parking lot after school.

Marching Band’s Sound of Music

The marching band pledges their allegiance to the new school year
Chloe Youngkin, Copy Editor
September 4, 2024

Hot rays of blistering sun beat down on the brass of trumpets, frenchhorns and tubas on a summer evening. Sweat on skin glistens, warm instruments become slippery in otherwise tight grasps. Music fills...

The Beginning of the Competition: Freshman Alexis Martinez (bottom) and sophomore Makaela Goss (top) during cheer in the prelims performance. The school’s cheer team performed in prelims that morning by starting with their band chant and making it all the way to their fight song successfully, regardless of what the team was feeling individually. “I remember being extremely nervous nervous when I first walked onto the mat because I knew how important our prelims performance was,” Alexis said. “But the second the band chant music started playing, I knew I was just doing what I have been doing since August and my nerves decreased.”

Photo Credit: Avery Humphries

The Beginning of the Competition: Freshman Alexis Martinez (bottom) and sophomore Makaela Goss (top) during cheer in the prelims performance. The school’s cheer team performed in prelims that morning...

Collaborator Work: Sophomore Kensie McCracken spiniting before routine to get ready for the competition. Before performing, the team practiced their three elemental factors that made up the majority of the competition: their band chant, cheer, and fight song. They all huddled into one big group and discussed what they were about to face, and assuring they were going to take it on no matter what. “Every team has great days and hard days, and that’s part of being on a team,” Coach Stratton said. “I think this team is really resilient and has done a great job at no matter what’s been thrown at them or changes they had to make. Injuries, sickness, anything like that. They adjusted and changed and I think that’s why our program is so strong and going the right direction because they don’t give up no matter what.”

Photo Credit: Avery Humphries

Collaborator Work: Sophomore Kensie McCracken spiniting before routine to get ready for the competition. Before performing, the team practiced their three elemental factors that made up the majority of...

The First Hope: Sophomore Makaela Goss during band chant in the prelims tournament. Once the team had finished their prelims performance, they waited for the results to be called out for finals until 4 p.m., and that’s when they heard their name called up for one of the top 20 teams in the state to perform at finals out of 70 teams who competed. “It was such blessing to hear our name be called; our team started to jump up and down cheering and screaming in joy,” freshman Julianna Benavides said.

Photo Credit: Avery Humphries

The First Hope: Sophomore Makaela Goss during band chant in the prelims tournament. Once the team had finished their prelims performance, they waited for the results to be called out for finals until 4...

A New winning Streak: Junior Reagan May (bottom) and freshman Olivia Lawrence (top) during cheer at finals. Once knowing they were moving on to finals, the cheer team practiced well and hard for the final bits of the competition and ended up performing last doing every element of their routine including their “situational cheer”, and in the end became the ninth team to win in the top ten winners for finals. “The competition was really just the icing on the cake to all the hard work we’ve been pouring into the program,” Coach Stratton said. “Not just this year but the previous years of building the program have finally started to pay off.”

Photo Credit: Avery Humphries

A New winning Streak: Junior Reagan May (bottom) and freshman Olivia Lawrence (top) during cheer at finals. Once knowing they were moving on to finals, the cheer team practiced well and hard for the final...

Illustration by Chloe Youngkin

Exhausting Hours at School

Long School Days do More Harm Than Good for Students
Chloe Youngkin, Staff Writer
December 15, 2023

School hours run from 8:55 a.m. to 4:25 p.m., fashioning long days for ninth graders to twelfth graders alike, rendering an essential eight hours of their day circling school and only a few hours to spend...

Salon Nights occur every so often to support the funding of cosmetology program.

Understanding Cosmetology and Its Advantages

Benefits of Learning the Beautification of Hair, Skin, and Nails
Chloe Youngkin, Staff Writer
November 14, 2023

Steam prowlers over straightened hair strands menacingly in a hot flurry. The chemical scent of hairspray is potent in the room and tangy. The first dip of fresh nail polish is nothing but a shine of black...

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