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Cashier Michael Raby rings students up at the register so they can enjoy their lunch.

Snacks and Life Lessons

By Max Cook, Reporter
April 4, 2025
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Junior Gavin Angeloff’s Tesla is etched with the word “Nazi” on the drivers’ side door. “It’s a little bit surreal,” Angeloff said.

Driven to Division

By Manola Rubiralta, Reporter
April 4, 2025
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Students began filling out their course request forms in early March and submitted them by March 26. To compose initial schedules UPrep uses a software program named Scheduler, which is a product of Veracross and gathers course registration information from students.

Navigating Course Registration

By Avi Patel, Web Editor-In-Chief
April 4, 2025
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Students from Kobe, Japan, visited from March 20 to March 29 as part of Global Link. “[UPrep] has a clean new building, the teachers are kind and students are kind,” Hiroto Kuma, a Japanese exchange student, said.

The Experience of a Lifetime

By Tommy Chang, Reporter
April 4, 2025
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A debilitating effect burnout can have on a teacher’s life at school.

Teachers Speak About Burnout

By Lucas Keppler, Reporter
April 4, 2025
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Robotics team members Ben Frischer, Mohamed Farah and Niam Patel stand with their robot alongside family and faculty members.

Robotics Team Members Make State

By Carter Headstrom, Editor-in-Chief
March 22, 2025
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This image depicts the difference between school life during COVID and now. A brief return to online school reminded librarian Anne Bingham of what it was like during the pandemic. “The snow day makes you realize you hope we don’t ever go through that again,” Bingham said. Photo: Sol Starin, Grady Stone

Five Years Later

By Sol Starin, Copy Editor
March 6, 2025
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Co-founders Terry Nelson Froggatt is pictured to the left and Pat Landy to the right. Froggatt cherishes the small class sizes, as the original intent was no more than 16 students per class. “I don't want them to balloon up,” Froggatt said. “Individual attention and diversity—I want to see all of those things remain.”

Featuring Our Founders

By Neva-Nataia Lowery, Reporter
March 6, 2025
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UPrep on the morning of Feb. 5, 2025, the first snow day of the school year.

Navigating Snow Days

By Avi Patel, Web Editor-In-Chief
March 6, 2025
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Members of Latine Student Union (LSU) prepare for their Dancing with the Stars performance. However, the topic of the meetings has generally shifted to conversations about immigration according to LSU member Mica Wolf. “It didn’t feel like a pressing issue, even though it has always been something that affects people,” Wolf said.

Close to Home

By Tommy Chang and Carter Headstrom
March 6, 2025
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A car lies damaged on the road after a tree fell on it. While driving to book club, Britten Nelson, associate director of college counseling, witnessed the event at the intersection of 35th Ave NE and NE 100th St. “I was just worried it was someone I knew,” Nelson said.

Bomb Cyclone Slams Seattle

By Sophia Spagnola, Reporter
December 16, 2024
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Security camera footage from the landing at UPrep.

Vandalism Forces Tightening of Security at UPrep

By Grant Davis, Reporter
November 1, 2024
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