April 2024

TABLE OF CONTENTS

monthly overview

April’s issue centers around renewal. Throughout the issue we will discuss the recent Academic Letter awards and celebrate the recipients, review the Willy Wonka production, go over upcoming events at Atascadero High School, and conduct an interview with Atascadero High School’s Earth Club.

Willy Wonka

Kayleigh Luna

Note from the Illustrators:

The mission of AHS Media is to entertain, inform, inspire, and support our community through telling our many stories. We value the stories others want to share. As illustrators for the magazine, we take pride in illustrating work representing the community and its issues.

Top row left to right: Kayleigh Luna, Anise Ralston, and Trisanee Siharath

Bottom row left to right: Jessica Nonato and Hadara Vaughn

Note from the Editors and Designers:

The Greyscale Report aims to inform our community through thoughtful, truthful, and extensive interviews of the student body and staff. We endeavor to report both tough, necessary topics as well as lighthearted school news. As a reliable and relatable source of information, we strive to be accountable, honorable, and safe. We hope you enjoy reading the new issue as much as we enjoyed designing, editing, and researching it for you!

Left to right: Kai Grist and Alana Risbrudt

EARTH CLUB

All About the Club

Earth Club is a small student-led club that focuses on cleaning our campus and enjoying nature through hikes and other activities. The club meets weekly during lunch in Mrs. Mcquitty’s classroom on Tuesdays. Members can choose to meet each Friday in the morning and spend an hour cleaning our campus for service hours and donuts! The club offers other volunteer opportunities and is a unique chance for students to choose the level of their involvement within the community. Through Earth Club students can earn easy volunteer hours and form connections with local nonprofits such as Tree-Penish, the Beaver Brigade, and EarthShine.

Recently, the club participated in the second annual Beaver Festival in San Luis Obispo. This Festival was hosted by the Beaver Brigade in an effort to raise awareness for the importance of beavers in our rivers and streams. Through a collection of interactive activities, booths, and presentations the Beaver Brigade aimed to inform attendees of the many environmental benefits that stem from protecting beavers as well as their habitats. Earth Club volunteered for the entirety of the festival, overseeing a crafting booth where children could make their own cardboard beaver tails and beaver puppets.

President Tilly Ralston

Tilly Ralston, Earth Club President, has always loved nature. She initially joined the club in her freshman year to help clean our campus and volunteer her time to make our community a cleaner, greener place. This year she was elected as president. Tilly says that this role is so important to her because it’s an easy way for her to have a direct impact on our school and be a part of important decisions around campus. As president, Tilly is able to act as an ambassador to local non-profits and volunteer the club for large community events.

Through Earth Club Tilly has opened the school to a new non-profit partnership with Tree-Plenish and hopes to connect with other local organizations, such as EarthShine.

Cycle

Use, Tree

Tree-Plenish

Tree-Plenish is a non-profit organization founded with the goal of empowering students to create a more sustainable and equitable future through community tree-planting. In partnership with Tree-Plenish, students host community tree planting events with the goal of offsetting the amount of energy their school uses. Students calculate a number that comes directly from a Tree-Plenish Carbon Calculator that combines the square footage of the school and the community’s CO2 emission rate to find the school’s sales goal.

For the first time, Atascadero HIgh School’s Earth Club has partnered with Tree-Plenish to sell saplings throughout the Atascadero community. The club offers a choice of three saplings: a Picual Olive, Royal Blenheim Apricot, and Santina Cherry. Members of the community can also volunteer money or help plant the saplings themselves. The saplings are all chosen to survive well in a California climate and will be distributed for planting on the 20th of April.

SPRING ACADEMIC LETTER 2024

Class of 2024 Senior Recipients: Andrew Anderson, Kaily Ardouin, Katelyn Becerra, Jordyn Bianco, Tyler Bukamier, Chance Burck, Andrea Casey, Marlie Cazier, Kane Cooks, Nathan Cooks, Jordan Cooper, Carly Dabbs, Jarom Damery, Ainslea Decoster, Francesca Faria, Christian Gonzalez-Rios, Brian Gray, Mya Hannum, Clara Haungs, Holly Heckman, Jacklyn HernandezRylee Herndon, Paige Jones, Anna Lilly, David Lines, Matthew Luna, Sebastian Dominic Marano, Stephanie Marroquin, George Martin, Skylar Martin, Jaslynn Martinez, Mia Mckrell, Landom McLain, Isabella Moen, Priscilla Muneton, Anthony Na politano, Mya Nielson, Jessica Nonato, Isabella Pecharich, Aurora Perry, Jaiden Perry, Tate Pflum, Kendal Power, Anise Ralston, Kelsie Rigby, Luke Rodgers, Trisanee Siharath, Trinity Silva, Riley Smith, Alyssa Sutherland, Delaney Tanner, Jaden Taylor, Mackenzy Tucker, Mar garet Uceda, Kate Van Cleef, Chase Viale, Kensington Witt, Miara Wooten, Nathaniel Zavala

Class of 2025 Junior Recipients: Ella Archer, Peyton Aronsen, Olivia Baker-Bal lantyne, KiannaHh Barbosa, Charli Beck, Samantha Bedell, Veronica Bermingham, Au brey Black, Lillie Brander, Skye Brinkley, Lillie Brown, Clyde Cano, Molly Cheatum, Boaz Cherbinsky, Alice Chubb, Lacy Conlan, Alexander Cosme Schindler, Rory Culp, Corrine Davis, Karson Deveraux, Kieran Dolan, Devyn Dutra, Aiden Echard, paige Ell liott, Nathan French, Sarah Garcia, Jackson Goible, Rylee Halsey, Jett Hardy, Hannah Hiatt, Payton Horton, Aveana Hoxie, Anina jenkins, Erin Johnson, Charlotte Jones, Em ily Kane, Ulysses Kaul, Ian Kinnear, Juliana Lepore, Haley Lloyd, Cole Loney, Nathan Long, Joshua Lopez, Francesca Luis, Rylan Miller, Jocelyn Muneton, Jedidiah Munoz, Mathew Nucci, Olivia Otter, Cameron Pickard, Hosea Price, Lucas Pulse, Nathan Robasciotti, Zachary Savino, Ethan Shope, Audrey Stokes, Hailey Terrell, Amanda Torres, Athena Van Beurden, Elizabeth Wagster, Aly Watty, Hezekiah Wilson, Gabriel Worley

The Spring Academic juniors and seniors who 3.75+ for spring and dent can receive up to ters throughout their Students can receive their ter during the spring semester year. They will be rewarded ter based on their fall semester ior year. Seniors will be Fall Academic Letter sometime ber based on their spring of their junior year. The a senior can get is the ter which will be based grades of senior year. Along of achievement, students three different rewards academic letters they time recipient will receive ter or a Lamp of Learning time recipients will receive and a pin. Students who third academic letter will

Letter welcomes both who possess a GPA of fall semesters. A stu to three academic let high school career. their first academic let semester of their junior rewarded an academic let semester grades of jun be eligible to attend the sometime in Septem spring semester grades

The final academic letter

Spring Academic Let based on their fall semester

Along with a certificate students will also receive rewards based on how many have received. A first receive an academic letLearning Emblem. Second receive an academic letter who are receiving their will receive a chevron.

Jessica Nonato, Trisanee Siharath, and Anna Lilly.

Margaret Uceda and Jett Hardy.

Rori Perry, Trisanee Siharath, Izzy Nunes, and Samantha Bedell.

Liam Mclain

Liam Mclain is a senior who had the opportunity to potray the character of Willy Wonka in this year's spring musical.

"From the moment I first heard we were putting on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I made it my mission to sevure the role." Liam is extremely gladhe did because getting to play Willy Wonka was a blast for him.

Jonah Sullivan

"Getting to play a psychotic choclatier with subtle truama around all of my friends was a dream come true."

He told us that working with Volpa is always a treat for him because she has so much trust in the cast she works with. She even let Liam block one of his songs choreography.

Liam is glad he got to have this

Jonah Sullivan played as Charlie Bucket in the Willy Wonka production. When he heard about the show he had no idea who he wanted to play. "I was still so happy about the amazing run of Cowboy Noir and his Gang of Misfits, I just knew I wanted to be in another production with all of the amazing people I got to know."

He had a great experience trying to get into the character. There were some lows since it was his first time playing a part this big.

"When we got into the final stratch of rehearsals, I got reminded of why I joined theater. That feeling of all of your work coming together, as a tech or as an actor. When people are all complementing one another."

Sure there were a lot of ups and downs, but that's just life, and in the end he is really proud that I can say He was part of all of this!

Upcoming Events in April

Keep up with the current events at Atascadero High School! There are lots of fun events happening in April so be sure to mark these dates on your calendar!

Prom 4/13

This years theme for prom is “Once Upon a Dream”! The dance will be held on Saturday, April 13th at Rava Winery. Tickets will be on sale for $40 Monday through Thursday (April 8th-11th), there will be no ticket sales on Friday, April 12th.

Cuesta Choir Festival 4/16

Throughout the school year the AHS choir attend festivals that are either at Cal Poly or Cuesta. At these festivals, members will sing songs on stage for other school choirs in attendance and also get critiqued by professionals. This event allows members in choir to improve their skills and also watch other choirs perform.

Mock Rock 4/20

Mock Rock is an event that showcases the various talents of students at Atascadero High School. It will be held at the Atascdero Middle School gym at 7pm on Saturday, April 20th.

Disney Performing Arts Trip 4/26

The Disney Performing Arts trip allows for the AHS choir to sing on a stage at Disneyland. This year, they will be participating in a broadway session where they learn a song and sing it in a choir workshop.

Senior Spirit Week 4/20-5/3

Senior spirit week will start on April 20th and go all the way until May 3rd. These events and activities are brought to us by ASB who work hard to plan these fun spirit weeks.