Lake Zurich High School Student Media

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Lake Zurich High School Student Media

Bear Facts
Lake Zurich High School Student Media

Bear Facts
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Brewing with passion

Chloe Faris, Magazine Editor-in-Chief
June 5, 2019

Leading the way

Chloe Faris, Magazine Editor-in-Chief
January 22, 2019
Nicholas Lemperis, senior, pricks his finger to check his blood sugar levels. Lemperis was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the first couple weeks of entering high school.

Beyond the type

Chloe Faris, Magazine Editor-in-Chief
January 21, 2019

Funding your future

Chloe Faris, Magazine Editor-in-Chief
December 14, 2018

Blending Bears Voices

Parul Pari, Magazine Editor-in-Chief
October 18, 2018
Alyson Wisnionski, senior, and her mother do not always agree on topics. Despite their differences, Alyson still respects her mother and the adults in her life.

Adult vs child

Chloe Faris, Magazine Editor-in-Chief
October 7, 2018
(From left to right) Katherine Czarnik, junior, Jack Lamb, junior, and Neha Praseed, senior, competed at Sectional last year for speech and acting. "We're a highly competitive, national institution and our members find that thrilling and motivating," Praceed said. "At the same time, our biggest objective is to help each other speak and present ourselves proficiently and confidently."

Let’s talk passion

Chloe Faris, Magazine Editor-in-Chief
September 13, 2018
Dean Lambertsen, senior, poses with some boxes from his business. Passport Cusines is an online business where you can purchase cooking kits which include all of the pre-measured dry ingredients and spices needed to create delicious meals from around the world.

Passport Cuisines: student’s idea turns into a business

Chloe Faris, Magazine Editor-In-Chief
September 10, 2018
The Piggott family stands for a picture in front of the view. This summer the family spent their time in Detroit while on a mission trip to volunteer.

Piggotts on a mission… trip

Chloe Faris, Magazine Editor-in-Chief
August 29, 2018
Seniors Bailey Recktenwald, Grace Bejnarowicz, Chloe Fletcher, Shayna Soloway, Gillian Teichman, and Lara Zuk stand with thier awards from the annual senior Art Show. Together, the senior girls were awarded almost one million dollars in scholarship money for different art schools around the nation.

Students receive millions

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight editor
May 29, 2018
Joe Strojny, junior, draws in a story book at his art class. Strojny has been passionate about art since he was little and uses his love for others as inspiration.

Student walks through life fascinated by art

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight editor
May 29, 2018
Steve Shepley, Apple tech specialist, goes through the iPads. Next year, iPads will update to managed IDs for students’ safety.

iPad updates will protect students’ information, says Principal Vossel

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight Editor
May 20, 2018
Jawad Alam, sophomore, stands in front of 3D printers at Ela Library. Alam was one of last summer’s interns that the district made available for students.

Students can gain opportunities through summer internships

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight editor
April 3, 2018
Transition students add water to the soil in the greenhouse. Now that spring is near, activity in the greenhouse will pick up for students.

Greenhouse branches out

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight editor
March 18, 2018
Linnea Petropoulos, junior, attended Regionals at the College of Lake County. Many of the Science Team members qualified for Sectionals which will take place on March 7.

Science Team members advance to Sectionals after placing at Regionals

Chloe Faris, Staff Writer
March 4, 2018
Five of the main characters in the winter play She Kills Monsters, hold up each of the dragon’s head. This is one of the final scenes as Agnes tries to defeat this monster called the Tiamat.

She Kills Monsters

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight Editor
January 29, 2018
The varsity girls basketball team stands in front of the chapel at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The team traveled there for their summer camp this past summer in order to practice and increase their skills together.

Slam dunk of teamwork

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight editor
January 22, 2018
Kyle Grenier (left), Olivia Grenier (middle), and Steven Grenier (right), are senior triplets. While they are siblings, these three students could not be more different.

Three students; one similarity and an infinite amount of differences

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight editor
January 22, 2018
Matt Mauleon and Nicole Savage, senior couple, stands under an umbrella. Dating for over three years, the couple has battled the element of time throughout their long relationship.

Lasting love

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight editor
December 18, 2017
The new girls track and field coach, Jeremy Kauffman, meets with some of the girls for an open gym to prep for the season. After 22 years of experience in coaching, Kauffman comes to LZ with the goal of helping students get and do better.

Former Marine is new to LZ and ready to coach the girls track and field team

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight Editor
November 14, 2017

Skydiving, skiing, hiking, and travelling

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight editor
November 1, 2017
Arianna Teichman, freshman, runs in the Chicago Triathlon back in August. Teichman trains to compete in triathlons and works to accomplish her goal of completing a marathon.

Swiming, biking, and running with meaning

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight Editor
October 26, 2017
Kaiden Mortimer, senior and social media user, spends time checking her social media. Students like Mortimer, spend more time focused on their phones than their real-life relationships.

Beyond the screen

Chloe Faris, co-spotlight editor
October 6, 2017
Billy Misik, 2003 graduate, performs in the musical, Chicago. After being diagnosed with brain cancer his senior year, Billy still went on and performed the lead as Billy Flynn.

Seizing the day: keeping Billy Misik’s legacy alive at Lake Zurich

Chloe Faris, co-spotlight editor
October 3, 2017
Kim Ferraro, new social studies teacher, graduated from University of Illinois in 2015. Standing 4 feet and 11 inches tall, Ferraro loves teaching, cooking, and watching Spongebob every Saturday morning.

The sarcastic, silly, klutz

Chloe Faris, co-spotlight editor
September 14, 2017
Tayler Erbach, football coach and PE teacher, performs warm ups at a football practice.

Erbach embraces the day

Chloe Faris, co-spotlight editor
September 2, 2017
Breanna Abboud, senior, shares her emotions through her love of poetry and spoken word.

Creating art through spoken word

Chloe Faris, Co-Spotlight Editor
August 26, 2017
Bittersweet Goodbye

Bittersweet Goodbye

Chloe Faris, staff writer
June 2, 2017
Caitlyn Bertrand, senior, performs a solo part as Chirs Misik, music tutor, and Nick Juknelis, choir teacher, plays piano for the 2014 Kaleidoscope showcase. This year is different than others with the theme, Another Day of Song.

Another Day of Song

Chloe Faris, staff writer
May 24, 2017
Julian Mauleon poses in front Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist from last year's Spanish field trip. The students will be able to see many different forms of art and see the Spanish culture's influence.

Influence of Spanish culture

Chloe Faris, staff writer
May 10, 2017
Lacey Ketcham, junior, stands with her 7th grade brother, Adam who has autism.

Sibs Rock event recognizes siblings of students with special needs

Chloe Faris, staff writer
April 19, 2017
Children participating in the Nauvoo fair weave the rag ties, one of the toys Nathan Holbrook, junior, is making for his Eagle Scout project.

A step back in time

Chloe Faris, staff writer
April 6, 2017
More than Medicine

More than Medicine

Chloe Faris, staff writer
March 17, 2017
Band members perform at their concert on March 9 to show their improvement and hard work.

Music to the ears

Chloe Faris, staff writer
March 10, 2017
Bare Voices and Blue Notes last performed at their annual holiday concert and has been practicing for the On Broadway performance since then.

Blue Notes and Bare Voices take their talent to Broadway

Chloe Faris, staff writer
February 22, 2017
The Orchesis team practices in their dance room to prepare for their annual showcase. Working together is the most important way for them to succeed, Katie Bower, junior, said.

Dancing till the end: Orchesis dance team performs a year’s worth in their annual showcase

Chloe Faris, staff writer
February 8, 2017
The five choir students who qualified for State gather for a picture. After practicing the song for weeks, the students from Lake Zurich along with around 200 students from other schools performed it together on Saturday.

More than just a song

Chloe Faris, staff writer
February 1, 2017
Showcased at the centre of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an emission-line star known as IRAS 12196-6300. Located just under 2300 light-years from Earth, this star displays prominent emission lines, meaning that the star’s light, dispersed into a spectrum, shows up as a rainbow of colours marked with a characteristic pattern of dark and bright lines. The characteristics of these lines, when compared to the “fingerprints” left by particular atoms and molecules, can be used to reveal IRAS 12196-6300’s chemical composition. Under 10 million years old and not yet burning hydrogen at its core, unlike the Sun, this star is still in its infancy. Further evidence of IRAS 12196-6300’s youth is provided by the presence of reflection nebulae. These hazy clouds, pictured floating above and below IRAS 12196-6300, are created when light from a star reflects off a high concentration of nearby dust, such as the dusty material still remaining from IRAS 12196-6300’s formation.

Following the signs of the zodiac

Chloe Faris, staff writer
December 16, 2016
Last year, the boys bowling team made it to State. The team is hoping to strike another win against Grant High School tonight.

[Photo] Boys bowling tournament against Grant high school

Audrey Tomovick and Gabie Gerstein
December 15, 2016
Em Davison, sophomore and her siblings spend their time on the weekends skiing.

Skiing down the slopes into ski club

Chloe Faris, staff writer
December 15, 2016
Students practice for the upcoming choir concert, rehearsing songs like "Someday at Christmas" as Mr. Juknelis, choir teacher, instructs them on how to improve. Although the purpose of the choir is spreading the holiday spirit, for senior choir members it will be their last holiday concert, making the event bittersweet.

Sounds of the holiday

Chloe Faris, staff writer
December 12, 2016
The Speech and Acting Team pose for a group photo after a competition. The team has been doing the best they've ever done this year, with multiple people placing at every competition the team have participated in.

Speech and Acting team dominating the season; piece by piece

Chloe Faris, staff writer
November 18, 2016

Say NO to drugs

Chloe Faris, staff writer
November 7, 2016
Apollonia Jacobs, preschooler in the child development program, sits and reads with Sydney Shadrick, senior. Jacobs will be aired on TV in a Hillary Clinton commercial.

Little girl, big star

Chloe Faris, staff writer
October 19, 2016

Boys Poms 2016: “The Best Dance Team in the World”

Madi Klein and Chloe Faris
October 15, 2016
What it takes to be.... Masterminds of Homecoming

What it takes to be…. Masterminds of Homecoming

Chloe Faris, staff writer
October 7, 2016
Michelle Cevaal (far left) and Rachael Fischer (far right) are the two new Family and Consumer Science teachers (FACS). Along with the teaching, Cevaal and Fischer also coach cheer leading.

Cheering on the new FACS teachers

Chloe Faris, staff writer
September 16, 2016
Band members practice their songs and marching on the field in order to prepare for Northwestern Band Day. Students are given the same three songs so they can perform it on Saturday with the other schools.

Highlight of the school year

Chloe Faris, staff writer
September 1, 2016

The feeling of flying

Chloe Faris, staff writer
August 26, 2016
Sydney Mathis, senior, stands in the cool waters while travelling the world. Throughout her life, Mathis has discovered her calling through the many places she has been.

Around the world in 18 years

Chloe Faris, staff writer
May 27, 2016
Amanda Sarsha, senior, recites the morning announcements for the school during first period. Sarsha and two other NHS students have three week rotations of the job.

The voices behind the intercom

Chloe Faris, staff writer
May 25, 2016
Orchestra members from first period rehearse in the PAC. Students will take a break from practice, but still gain a lesson by watching the Chicago symphony rehearse on May 18

Learning from the professionals

Chloe Faris, staff writer
May 17, 2016
The cafeteria distributes food for students to eat during all lunch periods. Sodexo, the food service company for the high school, requires any leftover food that has been put out on the slides to be thrown away.

Leftovers are garbage

Chloe Faris, staff writer
May 5, 2016
Band members in the Wind Ensemble practice their songs during sixth period. To prepare for the district band festival, students rehearse the songs they have been learning all year, along with extra songs that all district band members will perform together.

The sound of magnitude and greatness

Chloe Faris, staff writer
April 12, 2016

Which hand is the ‘right’ hand?

Chloe Faris, staff writer
March 21, 2016
By 2050 half of the population is expected to wear glasses. Dut to staring at things, like phones or iPads up-close, people's vision is worsening.

Half of the population will need glasses by 2050

Chloe Faris, staff writer
March 11, 2016
Race, an inspiring story that makes it an overall win for viewers to see

Race, an inspiring story that makes it an overall win for viewers to see

Chloe Faris, staff writer
February 24, 2016
Twitter has always had a 140 character limit to make users write short thoughts. The new proposal that Twitter recently announced may change tweets to be more long formed if the plan is carried out.

Twitter’s new proposal is nothing to tweet about

Chloe Faris, staff writer
February 10, 2016

From the hallways to the ice, freshman leaves school early to figure skate

Chloe Faris, staff writer
February 1, 2016
Coaches, Mike Sutton, Kirk Reusch, and Steve Schmitz gather with the boys bowling team as they pose with their first place plaque at regionals. This is the team's first time winning the IHSA regional championship.

Boys bowling team ready to strike at State

Chloe Faris, staff writer
January 26, 2016

Studying for school or skiing the slopes?

Chloe Faris, staff writer
December 15, 2015
Having a pass is in the past, problems with no-pass policy

Having a pass is in the past, problems with no-pass policy

Chloe Faris, staff writer
December 14, 2015
Mike Young, senior, works on his car to practice his skills as a car mechanic. Young is one of many who have decided to graduate early, and is planning to use this time to work.

Senior year or senior semester?

Chloe Faris, staff writer
December 11, 2015

In-school field trip for out of the world lessons

Chloe Faris, staff writer
December 9, 2015
Kendal Charnota poses with her baby, Eleanor. As a student in the Adult Living class, Charnota is issued an electronic baby that she has to care for over the weekend.

Adult Living classes give birth to electronic babies

Chloe Faris, staff writer
November 17, 2015
Freshmen taking their Homecoming pictures (left) and seniors' taking theirs (right). Seniors who have gone to Homecoming before know the ritual of taking group pictures whereas freshmen are experiencing it for the first time.

Last Dance

Chloe Faris, staff writer
October 21, 2015
Val Redmond interacts with a student after school at bus duty. (goes to picture with Val and student by bus)

The Women in Blue

Chloe Faris, staff writer
October 9, 2015
Two different languages, one pastor's daughter

Two different languages, one pastor’s daughter

Chloe Faris, saff writer
October 7, 2015
Gallagher poses on the piano [center] with Dever [right] and other friends at prom.

Three students, one winning band

Chloe Faris, staff writer
September 23, 2015
Therese Madison and her family gather for one of their parties. The first picture shows her whole family including the nieces and nephews.(Photo permission by Therese Madison)

Therese Madison, life with 11 siblings

Chloe Faris, staff writer
September 15, 2015

Adjusting to Canvas

Chloe Faris, staff writer
September 9, 2015
Alyson Wisnionski, freshman, and Jessica Mueller, freshman, hand write their notes rather than using their iPads. Studies show taking longhand notes help students remember the content more than if they use their laptops.

Growth versus fixed mindset

Chloe Faris, staff writer
September 9, 2015

Construction continues on new bleachers

sonya pisarevskaya, summer school writer
June 30, 2015
Students in the journalism summer school classes went to Delicious Redd's today to practice restaurant review writing. Two Bear Facts editors joined them to talk about their writing experiences.

Summer school classes ditch school, learn by eating

chloe faris and melissa weiner
June 23, 2015
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