![MORE THAN A GAME. With two diving catches in the outfield, the Lions showed up defensively, aiding in their victory over the Pacers. One catch was made by Atwood, and the other by McGraw. Throughout the game, the Lions knew that it wasn’t just about their victory today. “I think [playing for cancer] makes it bigger than just a game,” McGraw said. “Knowing that you have a bigger impact in this world than just who you are as one person.”](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/I70A1454-1-1200x800.jpg)
![Students in the National Art Honor Society work on the Mount Hood mural on the window of SouthLake Church. The students brought a variety of paints and mixed their own custom colors. “Instead of brushstrokes, we’re doing more dabbing, because it gives [a] better impression of tree foliage, rather than looking like actual brush strokes, because if we’re painting trees, we need it to look like trees,” Crawford said.](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_2397-1200x900.jpg)
Under control. Teaching elementary students to drive robots, Sonan Gudina, senior, demonstrates how to use the controls. Hosted every year at the West Linn Public Library, Drive a Robot is an event where kids 14 and under can sign up for a 15-minute slot to drive a robot with a member of the robotics team.
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Robotics Drive a Robot event brings STEM to the younger generation
![Helping hand. Ravenna Talaga, junior and outreach lead for the robotics team, helps replace the robot’s fallen costume. “I think Drive a Robot Day is a really good way to [think about the skill level] and expand that, because we're able to customize every single person's drive to every single kid,” Louis Cekay, junior, said. “We can have [a] kid where all you do is you just go in circles for 15 minutes because we don't want to push [their] boundaries too much.”](https://wlhsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-18-1200x800.jpeg)
Helping hand. Ravenna Talaga, junior and outreach lead for the robotics team, helps replace the robot’s fallen costume. “I think Drive a Robot Day is a really good way to [think about the skill level] and expand that, because we’re able to customize every single person’s drive to every single kid,” Louis Cekay, junior, said. “We can have [a] kid where all you do is you just go in circles for 15 minutes because we don’t want to push [their] boundaries too much.”
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