Nicole Konopelko is a junior at Pittsburg High School and the managing editor of The Booster Redux.he encourages anyone to contact her at [email protected] to pitch any story ideas. This is her third year on staff. She loves telling other people’s stories, especially through multimedia and has found a passion for journalism.
![Sophomore Raign Estes exhibits her self imposed tattoos. She gave herself her first tattoo the summer before sophomore year at age 15 in her own home. "I love [my tattoos], but every time I tattoo myself, I kind of get in front of the mirror and check it out and say I need more," Estes said. "I learned to appreciate that those tattoos are more than just an image and they're an experience for me. I'll always remember the feeling of tattooing them on myself, the process of tattooing them and the time that I did it. I could probably look at each of these tattoos and go back to a day that I did them."](https://www.boosterredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ReignTats-1-900x600.jpg)
![Head coach John Seal conferences with junior Sophia Shope after a match. Seal has coached Shope for her sophomore and junior years and also earned over 700 wins in his coaching career. "He's made me more confident in my ability to play and really encourages me to try my hardest ," Shope said. "[He] reminds me not to be hard on myself when I mess up."](https://www.boosterredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/JVTennis_9.26.18_Konopelko464-1-900x600.jpg)
![Freshman Emily Wachter teaches a word from American Sign Language (ASL) to the ASL Club during heir meeting last Wednesday after school. "I want to show other people how amazing sign language is," Wachter said. "I think that it’s so important that we learn ASL because [the deaf] don’t have anywhere to go. This is their place and we’re treating them like it isn’t."](https://www.boosterredux.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Em-Wachter-900x600.png)
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