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STRIKING A POSE: Ally Bartek performs for the new dance company BHumn Arts Ensemble after weeks of practice. Bartek feels being a part of the new company helped her improve multiple styles of dance and improved her communication techniques.

Dancer turns towards a bright future

Sophia Sanchez, Feature Editor March 24, 2023

Pointing her toes, feeling the stretch throughout her muscles, senior Ally Bartek warms up for her Advanced Dance 4 class. Dance has been a part of Bartek’s life before she could walk, her older sister...

PERFECTING HIS NOTES: Junior Finnegan Alexander reads over a song during a Bowie choir rehearsal. This is Alexander’s second year as a member of the Bowie Ensemble and he recently became a member of the All-State Choir for the second year.

Junior returns to All-State Ensemble

Kate Davis, Managing Editor March 17, 2023

Standing in front of the audience, spotlight beaming down, junior Finnegan Alexander prepares to perform with the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) All-State Choir. The process of becoming a member...

JAMMING OUT: Seniors Caiden Kinsey (far left), Mac Allen (left), Ace Brown (right), and John Michael Rocha (far right)practice one of their original songs in their garage. You can stream Track Five’s songs on Spotify.

Track Five band reaches 1.6k monthly Spotify listeners

Donna Kim, Dispatch Reporter March 2, 2023

For childhood friends Caiden Kinsey and John Michael Rocha, forming a band and producing music seemed like a distant reality. Now as high school seniors, their band’s debut single has reached over 25K...

EXPLORING THE OCEAN: Senior Dante Campero-Campion scuba dives in Honduras. Campion has been on 32 dives  total.

Senior scuba diver swims toward success

Zachary Scariano, Staff Writer February 28, 2023

Breathing is shallow and light levels are low, 100 feet of water pressure transforms senior Dante Campero-Campion’s perception of the aquatic world. Entering the sunken hull of the USS Spiegel Grove...

DURING CHESS CLUB: Senior Ashley Fuselier (left) junior Jody Louro (center) and junior Joaquin Welch (right) participate in games of chess.

Chess club creates community

Emerson Traugott, Photo Essay Editor February 27, 2023

A single glide against the montage of neatly organized black and white squares, the base of a world of logic and strategy, can eliminate an opponent, granting a tactful adversary for them to claim victory....

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT: Sophomore Mercer Chandler rests his vocal chords while senior Cosmo Norman, junior Ethan Vail, and senior Eyan McCullars rehearse the set list.

Student-run heavy metal punk band breaks into music scene

Nathan Palsey, Digital Staff February 21, 2023

“Violent intentions” is a student-run heavy metal punk band breaking into the underground music scene in Austin these past months. They express themselves through the music they create and play live...

FOCUSED ON HIS SKETCH:  Senior Holden Griffith works in a sketchbook during one of his art classes at Bowie. Griffith has been expanding his techniques in art from a young age, and recently has been doing commissions. He regularly posts his artwork on his Instagram @leoisaki.

Senior shows off art via social media

Sophia Sanchez, Feature Editor January 23, 2023

Paint brush in hand senior Holden Griffith puts the finishing touches on his new piece of art. From a young age, Griffith has had an eye for the arts and discovered his favorite techniques through years...

TRIMMING THE BOWL: Junior Mia Schwartz trims down and perfects the ceramic bowl they made in sculpture class. Schwartz has been interested in art since they were a child, but began to truly develop their skills in their middle school art classes, and is now hoping to make art a career.

Schwartz sculpts a future career in art

Kate Davis, Managing Editor January 17, 2023
Junior experiments with multiple forms of art such as sculpting, painting, and sketching
ASSISTING A STUDENT: Social studies teacher Charles Stampley enlisted himself into the U.S. Navy at the young age of 18 and retired as a major. The years spent in the military have given Stampley an awareness of other cultures, and he incorporates this knowledge into his everyday teaching.

Social studies teacher recalls years of service in U.S. Navy

Madeleine Travis, Print Staff January 10, 2023

Examining the battlefield, Social Studies teacher Charles Stampley wonders what this conflict has in store for the near future, with the violence surrounding him on the daily any moment could be his last.  Stampley...

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