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The survey that collected information to help SM East win the School of Excellence distinction was due on Nov. 14th.The ...
11/21/2025

The survey that collected information to help SM East win the School of Excellence distinction was due on Nov. 14th.

The School of Excellence distinction is an award given out by the National Parent Teacher Association.

The award is given to schools and their PTSAs that work together to create a school improvement goal for the year.

Principal Jason Peres sent out the survey on Oct. 27 and again on Nov. 12. Its purpose was to help the PTSA gain information to create the school improvement goal, a plan for SM East to better the school.

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The SME Lancer Dancers and Cheer team will be performing at KSHAA state on November 21st and 22nd. The Lancer Dancers wi...
11/20/2025

The SME Lancer Dancers and Cheer team will be performing at KSHAA state on November 21st and 22nd. The Lancer Dancers will perform their prelims routine at 4:56 P.M. Friday, and cheer will be performing at 6:37 P.M. on Saturday at the Stormont Vail Center in Topeka, KS.

Tonight the teams will showcase their routines in the main gym at 8:15 P.M. for a state send off.





A look into what film club entails, including their activities, what they do, and meeting information.To read more, clic...
11/19/2025

A look into what film club entails, including their activities, what they do, and meeting information.

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Freshman and avid skater, Jay Lisson, pursues his passions of biking and skating through his brand, Blank Moto.To read m...
11/18/2025

Freshman and avid skater, Jay Lisson, pursues his passions of biking and skating through his brand, Blank Moto.

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The Junior Class StuCo held a Halloween movie night in the commons to raise canned donations for the Johnson Country Chr...
11/17/2025

The Junior Class StuCo held a Halloween movie night in the commons to raise canned donations for the Johnson Country Christmas Bureau.

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The blue phone caddy with yellow numbers is part of sophomore Marissa Miller’s daily routine. Miller walks into English ...
11/17/2025

The blue phone caddy with yellow numbers is part of sophomore Marissa Miller’s daily routine. 

Miller walks into English class, puts her phone in slot eight, sits down and then watches as almost every one of her peers pulls out their computer to play racing games during her teacher’s daily announcements. 

“I think it is because [students are] trying to do everything other than listen, because they’re trying to fight this phone ban,” Miller said.

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When a mother and her daughter went to Summersalt to get a pup cup for their fluffy, white dog, then-employee junior Mar...
11/17/2025

When a mother and her daughter went to Summersalt to get a pup cup for their fluffy, white dog, then-employee junior Marni Thurston remembers they were putting their dog down that same day. 

Now, the family has a new dog they bring to Summersalt two times a week — and they also buy pup cups for it.

“[Working there,] it’s kind of like watching people grow, and [you’re] just being a base for them,” Marni said. “I enjoy it a lot.”

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SHARE held its annual dodgeball tournament this year to raise cereal boxes for the Johnson County Christmas Bureau. This...
11/15/2025

SHARE held its annual dodgeball tournament this year to raise cereal boxes for the Johnson County Christmas Bureau. This year, 14 teams participated in the tournament, each with a name and theme to identify them by. Teams participating needed to bring two boxes per person to be entered into the tournament, but three if they wanted an extra life when struck out of a match. The teams were organized into a bracket, and the winning team was given $10 Chick Fil A gift cards for every player. The team that had the best costume was given a free box of Crumbl Cookies. At the end of the tournament, SHARE collected over 300 boxes of cereal. 

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Senior Sage Scott puts on her white lab coat, ready to spend hours hunched over a microscope in a dark room, illuminated...
11/14/2025

Senior Sage Scott puts on her white lab coat, ready to spend hours hunched over a microscope in a dark room, illuminated by the fluorescent slides containing rat brains.

Scott is the youngest researcher in her lab, at 17 years old, the second youngest being 25. She works in the neurology lab at the University of Kansas Medical Center, researching cortical plasticity — the brain’s ability to form new connections between neurons after an injury or a lifestyle change.

“What I’m doing is I look at the slides of the rat brains in the computer, and I look for where the injuries are, and then I calculate the volume of the injury to see how severe it is and how the different treatments that we’ve tried have been effective,” Scott said.

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Then 7-year-old Davis Eakes spent his mornings, afternoons and weekends pretending to make game-winning NFL catches and ...
11/14/2025

Then 7-year-old Davis Eakes spent his mornings, afternoons and weekends pretending to make game-winning NFL catches and tackles in his front yard. 

Now-senior Eakes just finished his last playoff game, and is figuring out ways to keep football in his life. 

For some football players, this was their first season on the team. But for others, it was their last time on the field. On Nov. 1 the playoff game took place at SM South against Blue Valley West.

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The boys varsity soccer team competed in the 6A state championship on Saturday, Nov. 8 against Washburn Rural for the se...
11/13/2025

The boys varsity soccer team competed in the 6A state championship on Saturday, Nov. 8 against Washburn Rural for the second year in a row, and in East history. The score was tied 2-2 at the end of regulation and neither team scored a goal in the two 10-minute sudden death overtime halves. After the two overtime halves the game came down to penalty kicks. Seniors Stephen Hlobik, Parker Mahurin, Hudson Bennish and Owen Andrews all lined up to shoot. Washburn Rural defeated SM East 4-2 in penalty kicks. 

The Lancers finished their season as regional champions and state runner-ups. 

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“Yahtzee!” Then-freshman Tristen Ogun shouts and turns to give then-junior Andrew Rhodes a double high five. This is the...
11/13/2025

“Yahtzee!” Then-freshman Tristen Ogun shouts and turns to give then-junior Andrew Rhodes a double high five. This is their celebration after getting a Yahtzee during personalized physical education.

And this celebration has carried over into Unified Bowling one year later. Now, every time sophomore Ogun gets a strike, he turns to Rhodes or teammate and senior Jake Smith for a double high five and shouts, “Yahtzee!”

Just as Ogun did at the meet on Oct. 29, after he bowled the third strike in a row for his team — a Turkey. Ogun’s team, with Smith and junior Jacob Stiles, placed first at the meet and has placed in all other meets this season, including their most recent on Nov. 5.

“The meets are just so fun,” Rhodes said. “When someone hits a strike or spare the energy is so there and there’s excitement.”

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