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KP TIMES

The student news site of Kingwood Park High School

KP TIMES

The student news site of Kingwood Park High School

KP TIMES

The Silver Stars celebrate at the end of the awards ceremony in Arlington on March 25.

Silver Stars bring home big awards at nationals

Kaitlyn Sitton, Design Editor April 4, 2023

The Silver Stars spent a long weekend competing and bonding with each other at the MA national competition in Arlington on March 23-26. Through this competition, the team won first in lyrical and jazz...

While school has not had COVID restrictions for quite awhile, the impact of it remains on staff and students.

Three years after the shutdown, COVID’s impact lingers

Fallon Head, Web editor March 31, 2023

Three years after COVID, the threat of the pandemic has gone down, but fear, stress and anxiety remain. While the lockdown caused stress for most people, teens were not immune even as the country has returned...

Victoria Ramos and Josh Chavez play their drums as Ean Osbourn, the bunny, dances.

KPIPE finds success in first season back

Bailey Hall, Staff Writer March 29, 2023

The Kingwood Park Indoor Percussion Ensemble, also known as KPIPE, is back after three years. Head band director Bre Osbourn brought it back, wanting the band to do more than just marching season. They’ve...

While waiting for their next computer science event, juniors Vuong Nguyen and Max Leal talk with junior David Geslison, They took second place as a team.

UIL academic team advances 18 to Regionals

Shelby Townsend, Staff Writer March 28, 2023

The UIL academic team found success at the district meet at Porter High School on March 25. The group took home four team titles – journalism, social studies, calculator applications and science. In...

Senior Cameron Williams helps move set pieces for their UIL show “The Diviners.” The cast placed third in the district competition and advanced for bi-districts on March 23.

UIL cast, crew tackle one-act play ‘Diviners’

Exa Nix, Staff Writer March 22, 2023

For weeks, the cast of Diviners has been preparing for their UIL one-act play competition. Plays are required to be under 40 minutes and judges watch, with only the top performances advancing to the next...

Orchestra offers music lessons at lunch

Cara Helton and Exa Nix March 15, 2023

Orchestra students spent a week filling the commons with music. Their goal was to teach as many students as they could how to play an orchestra instrument. In the end, they hoped they inspired some new...

Books are  already being cleared off the library bookshelves and boxed up as the library prepares to shut down for the final nine weeks because of construction.

Major changes ahead as construction expands to front entrance

Fallon Head, Web Editor March 2, 2023

The library is being packed up in preparation for construction on the front entrance. The library will be shut down, as well as the front entrance of the school, by spring break as the school receives...

Campus offers new school-wide ACT option.

Changes allow juniors easy testing opportunities

Luke Cavallo, Special Contributor March 2, 2023

This March, students will have the opportunity to test both the SAT and the ACT suite of assessments on campus. In a departure from recent tradition, the school district has opted to automatically provide...

Big day for band as 36 advance to State competition

Edgar Meirhofer, Special Contributor March 1, 2023

Despite the nerve-wracking experience of stepping up and performing for a judge, 36 band members advanced to the state UIL competition.  This year there were some major changes to the band UIL competition....

Senior Adam Wolf is the school's lone National Merit finalist.

Adam Wolf becomes National Merit finalist

Shelby Townsend, Staff Writer February 23, 2023

Senior Adam Wolf wasn’t shocked when he received the news that he was a National Merit finalist this week. He had known his PSAT/NMSQT score was likely high enough and that his hard work had paid off. The...

Cheerleaders participate in the outdoor homecoming pep rally. They had a strong finish at the state competition this year.

Cheerleaders cap off season with success at State

Kaitlyn Sitton, Design Editor February 18, 2023

Anxiously awaiting the results of prelims, the cheerleaders sat together in the hotel room talking about their performance at the state competition that day. A call finally arrived and the room erupted...

AP Human Geography students work on a project in teacher HazelAnne Prescott's class. AP Human is the first AP class for many high schoolers.

Upper-level options give kids choice

Fallon Head, Website editor February 9, 2023

During Course Selection Day, students chose from among dozens of classes for the 2023-24 school year. For students choosing upper level classes to earn college credits, their options ranged from Advanced...

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