Lauren Ng, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Lauren Ng is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of West Signals and a senior at West High. This is her third year on staff. Passionate about the power of storytelling, Lauren is looking forward to collaborating with the Signals staff and sharing diverse stories with a growing audience. Aside from Signals, she is the President of CSF and Co-President of Choreo Club. Lauren also enjoys eating, cooking, reading, writing, and dreaming about food.
![Excited and humbled by the title of Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Hettinger strives to “[create] a place that is both friendly and kind, but also safe.”](https://whssignals.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/unnamed-3.jpg)
![Skye Zeledon (12) demonstrates the plank position for the WHS Dance Department’s annual plank challenge. Zeledon and fellow Advanced Dance member Stephanie Bernal (12) planked for an astounding 42 minutes. Zeledon shared,“Knowing that Steph and I worked hard to create a record that is going to be in [the Dance Department] for a while makes me really happy.” Photo courtesy of Skye Zeledon (12).](https://whssignals.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Plank-1-511x900.jpg)
![Kayla Luis (12), West High Varsity Football’s backup kicker, sports her jersey as she poses in front of West High’s Fred Petersen Football Stadium. She voiced one of the inspiring lessons playing football has taught her: “I believe there will be challenges in anything you do, but if you aren't willing to overcome them it will stop you from achieving what you really want. Being the only girl on the team, I struggle to keep up with the guys, but it allows [me] to push beyond my limits and get better.”](https://whssignals.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-4918-675x900.jpg)
![As the days of online learning play on repeat, students such as Eva Reyes (10) wonder when in-person school will return. She expressed, “online [school] is getting tiring as it’s hard to sit and look at a computer for a long time and learning feels the same for every class.”](https://whssignals.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Returning-to-School-675x900.jpg)
