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  • October 15Golf state sendoff Oct. 17
  • October 15Girls tennis sectionals @ LT Oct. 15 & 16
  • October 15DGS vs. Lockport girls volleyball Oct. 19
  • October 15DGS @ NNHS boys soccer Oct. 17
  • October 15DGS vs. Proviso East football Oct. 18
  • October 15Fall Play Oct. 24, 25 and 26
  • October 15D58 & DGS Orchestra Concert Oct. 17
  • October 7DGS v.s. East Leyden boys football Oct. 11
  • October 7Girls golf IHSA State Finals Oct. 11
  • October 7DGS v.s. Naperville Central girls tennis Oct. 9
The student news site of Downers Grove South High School

Blueprint

The student news site of Downers Grove South High School

Blueprint

Sadie Rhoads and her brother Jameson in 2013.

Rhoads paves future in physical therapy field

Grace Lube, Sports editor October 10, 2024

Junior and aspiring physical therapist Sadie Rhoads sets herself apart from her peers by beginning her path for a successful career during her teenage years. Rhoads has known from a young age that she...

Senior Mikella Majchrzak ponders where in the world she will end up after graduation.

Majchrzak longs to escape from the restrictions of Downers Grove

Brooke Spindler, Freelance Writer October 7, 2024

Senior Mikella Majchrzak has a date marked on her calendar, counting down to the day she can move away and never look back. For Majchrzak, the end of the school year represents her freedom from the barriers...

Senior Kevin Hernandez finds harmony in every note as he plays his cello.

Hernandez ‘tunes’ from high school to the main stage

Austin Williams, Freelance Writer September 30, 2024

Senior Kevin Hernandez finds his sanctuary not in the classroom or sports field, but instead inside the midst of the orchestra room. Music is a way for Hernandez to express his feelings and become a storyteller...

DGS 2010 homecoming court

Homecoming at DGS: the good, the bad and the repeats

Sophia Lodhi, Photo Editor September 27, 2024

It’s 1995, the trees along Dunham are covered in toilet paper; the students filed into their homerooms as they write names on paper for their class's representatives. It's homecoming week at DGS. Former...

Senior Grant Major is pursuing his dream of working in the aerospace industry as a welding engineer.

Senior Grant Major adventures into welding profession

Evan Kuntz, Freelance Writer September 27, 2024

Most boys dream of becoming astronauts when they are older, and senior Grant Major can relate as he found a new interest in working in the aerospace field as a welding engineer. Major’s decision to...

Senior Jordan Miller works on one of his 3D design projects.

Miller takes interest in 3D design career, looks to creative future

Joy Haddleton, Freelance Writer September 20, 2024

From movies to video games, graphic novels to comic strips, senior Jordan Miller has always loved art and has known it was something he wanted to pursue. However, once Miller reached high school, that...

From first period to the very end of the academic day, the DGS commons is teeming with student life.

Commons chronicles: A sneak peek into student life at DGS

Sophia Lodhi, Photo Editor September 18, 2024

On all 180 school days throughout the year the DGS commons is filled to the brim with student life. Each one of those days students interact with each other in a variety of different ways. From last minute...

Senior Alex Moore poses next to his 1994 Ford Bronco.

Senior Alex Moore welds together a career in construction

Liam Wells, Managing Editor September 13, 2024

SLAM- A light blue door is closed with haste. A nearby air compressor roars in the background. Bright white and blue sparks spread throughout the room and disappear on impact with the gray floor. Skillfully,...

Downers Grove Resident  Mike Dunn was in the South Tower on 9/11, and he recounts his experience.

Downers Grove father recalls harrowing experience in South Tower on Sept. 11, 2001

Grace Lube, Sports editor September 11, 2024

“I am just going to go down, see what is happening, and come back up," is what then 29 year old Mike Dunn told his coworkers just moments before the South Tower was struck by United Airlines flight 175...

Student activities encourages club participation to create a strong community. Many of DGS activities surface out of student interest.

Clubs attempt to emerge from student interest

Yoldi Villa and Abby Heavrin September 6, 2024

As DGS students walk the commons during Mustang Fury on Friday, Aug. 30th, students are bombarded with information about all the clubs and activities DGS has to offer. Whether running the booth or signing...

Hewawissa is a part of the Delta Gamma sorority at Michigan State University and went through the rushing process at the start of her freshman year.

Senior girls ‘rush’ into sorority life

Juliana Conyer, Editor-in-Chief September 5, 2024

A wide, grassy quad with plenty of space to lay out some books, a lecture hall with the booming voices of professors filling the air, and sub-par food that shouldn't taste as good as it does. This is the...

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