Hickman seniors Alec Hume and Brady Lunceford, along with Battle junior Jonas Ferguson, have spent the school year in their CASA class building a zero-gravity grow lab for the competition as part of the Design & Prototyping program of NASA HUNCH. Now, they are national finalists, ranking high among the 277 participating schools in the nation. The grow lab is intended to support a plant for the first 30 days after seed through a hydroponic system. Elements of their project have the opportunity to make their way onto the International Space Station (ISS) and would likely be used in a modular design to sustain multiple plants individually yet simultaneously. According to the NASA HUNCH website, 824 items have been flown to the ISS as a result of this project.
The home game scheduled for tomorrow, Friday, September 18th against Battle High School has been canceled due to a positive COVID-19 test and possible exposure in the Battle Football program according...
Hey, Kewpies, welcome back to school! My name is Celena Schmolzi (she/her) and I am the Editor in Chief of Online News and Social Media of Purple and Gold News this year! I’ll be working with my...
Two boys stand at the front of Hickman auditorium, engrossed in an intense conversation while hundreds of Kewpies shuffle in to fill the seats. While most of these students are happy to be out of class...
The silence in the room is deafening. Faces are plugged in focus with mines turning like mine never could. I sit in the center of Ms. Gerling’s classroom, amongst some of the best debaters in Missouri....
By Celena Schmolzi
The hashtag #prayforamazonia amassed 265.6k posts on Instagram in three weeks, not to mention the related Instagram stories many people, including Hickman students, shared. Even President...
Two inactive students take Hickman football by storm.
Celena Schmolzi / Reporter
At Hickman, football often goes unappreciated. It’s easy to look at a team’s record and surmise that they don’t...
You stand on the steps of the North Entrance, waiting to be buzzed in. You hear the door click and pull it open, making sure not to let anyone in behind you. You walk through North Office and into the...
On Tuesday, August 27th, U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs of the Western District of Missouri blocked the Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act. The law in question would ban abortion after 8 weeks and was...
On Saturday, August 31st, a gunman opened fire at a traffic stop in Odessa, Texas, killing seven and injuring 25 others. The perpetrator, Seth Ator, began shooting after being pulled over for failing to...
Mid-MO PrideFest celebrated its 15th year Saturday, 50 years after the Stonewall Inn riots which initiated the Pride movement and fight for LGBTQ+ rights in 1969. Pride Day is June 28th, the day of the...
Buster Barnhouse sits in his hutch, his small black and white body crouched down in his loft as he cleans himself. His tiny paw reaches up to pull a slender black ear down to his mouth where a bright pink...
