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Why did you decide to go to the senior sunrise?
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Some of the most exciting few weeks of the year
Fall
September
29-October 19
page by e. ford, r. metcalf, k. fuller
BANDS ON BANDS
In the middle of the Barbie drop experiment in statistics class, senior Aidan DeMarrais gets caught up in his rubber bands as his partner senior Brooklyn Wolanske watches him struggle from behind. The statistics class had been looking forward to doing this experiment all year since it’s a yearly tradition. “We did pretty average compared to everyone else, but we did solid work,” said DeMarrais photo by s. liffengren
DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT Senior John Dalton and junior Cassidy Martin prepare to drop their invention off the third story of the school. They had been preparing a fan in entrepreneurship and were doing a drop test to see if it would float down safely. “It was just fun to think like an entrepreneur. It was the goal of the business plan to figure out a product and how people would use it,” Dalton said. photo courtesy of Leslie Thompson
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Back to school night gets heated
In hopes of getting to know her teachers better, freshman Milania Espinoza meets with Mrs. Hall on back-to-school night to play an intense game of Headbands. As a newbie to Conifer, Espinoza had no idea who most of her teachers were, much less what they were like as people. “I got closer with my teachers and so when they grade my work, they’ll be like ‘she is a cool kid so I’ll be lenient,” Espinoza said. photo courtesy of l. thompson
5:30am alarms rang and senior students began the dark climb to the top of the Red Rocks Amphitheater. The traditional ‘Senior Sunrise’ brought students together at the crack of dawn to enjoy the sunrise of Red Rocks Amphitheater and eat breakfast afterward.
“When we were making plans for senior sunrise everyone wanted to go out to breakfast which was going to be expensive, soI made a joke that we could just make our own breakfast,” senior Noah Hartmann said.
This resulted in seniors Wyatt Canaday, Nicolas Hudson, Maddox Rife, and others planning out an elaborate breakfast. They scavenged food from their homes and bought $90 worth of miscellaneous items from the store.
“I bought a pancake mix. Senior Wyatt Nordwald bought hash browns and the meats and
Wyatt Canaday brought eggs and cooking items,” Hartmann said.
Hartmann and friends then broadcast to the senior class that they would be providing breakfast for only $5, which was significantly cheaper than the cost of going out.
“Eating Breakfast at Red Rocks is better anyways. The bacon was crunchy and the eggs were warm,” senior Liam PfrommerPease said.
Once breakfast was finished and their classmates filed out, the boys counted their money. They realized they made a profit of $45, enough to pay for breakfast at IHOP afterwards.
“All of our hard work paid off. We had fun cooking together and even got a free breakfast out of it. Overall I’d say it was a successful morning,” Hartmann said.
let’s get cooking
MOVE IT MOVE IT Junior Keira LaBarge and sophomore Sofia Marina have an intense discussion during the daily “Bouge Bouge” activity in Madame Ahnert’s French III honors class. Bouge Bouge translates to “move move,” and that’s exactly what they did: move around while music played and then stopped and talked to a partner in French. “I love this part of class, because I get to get up and talk to Sofia,” LaBarge said. photo by r. metcalf
CHEF TIME As seniors begin to file out of Red Rocks Amphitheater, seniors Noah Hartmann and Wyatt Canaday offer them homemade breakfast. Hartmann and Canaday had begun to make breakfast long before the sun came up in the amphitheater parking lot. “Wyatt brought two burners. And it made it easy to have one with eggs. The other one had sausage and bacon. After we were done cooking we put some pancakes in the same pan,” Hartmann said. photo by k. fuller
“It was a great bonding experience for the senior class, with nearly freephoto by c. neumeier
“It was a really unique have any gripes on it other than it just being
“All my friends were going to it and I felt it would be a chance for aphoto by c. neumeier
“I found out about it the day before, and I knew it would be fun because of the people I went with.”photo by c. neumeier
backPUT IN THE WORK After a long hard season, the Lady Lobos softball team plays on the Colorado School of Mines field for the League Championship. The game against Golden was postponed in the 5th inning. “The field was really nice and it was really cool getting to play on that field for our league championship game,” junior Kellyn Dougherty said. photo courtesy of l.
thompson SNUGGLE UP At 6 in the morning, seniors Cole Gropp and Ella Seevers use blankets and many layers to stay warm. Senior students hiked 192 steps to await sunrise. “It was exciting to be out so early in the morning,” Seevers said.photo by p. doty
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