![Minutes before the Activities Fair in the gym, president Abhi Gowda ‘26 prepares the stall for his club Helping Hands, Sept. 4. A relatively new club, Helping Hands was co-started by Gowda and focuses on assisting the homeless, and just last year they succeeded in raising a couple hundred donations to send to shelters. This year, they have goals to expand, with hopes to increase volunteer opportunities and take in-person trips to shelters, as well as extend their help beyond just homeless people. “The Activities Fair gives a lot of underclassmen the opportunity to really get to know the Canyon culture, and it gives them many opportunities for service and volunteering,” Gowda said. “[Through the Activities Fair,] I hope to find a bunch of new and passionate members about our club and just get our name out there and spread awareness to the cause that we’re fighting for.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/1-2-1200x885.jpg)
![The winter guard team makes fifth place at the state championship finals in the Denver Coliseum, March 30. The team performed to Barnes Country's “Glitter and Gold,” lead by coaches Margo Sanford, Blair Bickerton and Anna Orgren. In their class there were a total of nine groups participating, and the top five who made it to finals received a plaque. “[Walking onto the stage] is very nerve-wracking, but also very exciting as well. When you first start color guard there's a lot of anxiety and uncertainty when you first perform in front of an audience, but once you've done it for a while, it starts to become the best part of the season,” Ella West ‘25 said. “It's very fulfilling to see an audience react to something you've put your heart and soul into.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Both-socal-media-nd-website-main-1-1200x846.jpg)
![April marks the 25th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, created by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). This month is to spread awareness of the harassment, assault and abuse that happens around the world. The symbol that represented the month was a teal ribbon; however, some survivors of assault create different symbols and movements like the TikTok trend in 2022, where survivors would tattoo Medusa on their body, in honor of her backstory in Greek Mythology. “I don't think [this month is known] at all. I rarely see anybody talk about it. I rarely see much of an emphasis on posting it online, or much discussion about it, and I feel like there needs to be way more discussion,” an anonymous source said. “I think just validating every experience that a person has gone through, regardless of the degree of it, the severity, is an essential step into making sure that people are aware that this is a very real problem in a society and that we need to do better in addressing it.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_0011-1200x900.jpg)
Class of 2021: Information About Senior Photos
Information about RockMedia’s senior photos policy and plan, from an email distributed to parents Aug. 19.
media by Black and Gold Yearbook
Senior photo day announcement.
August 19, 2020
To view the PDF version of this letter, click here.
To view a presentation about our senior photo policy, click here.
Parents of the Class of 2021: Congratulations! It’s time to start marking the milestones of your student’s senior year, which means it is time to start thinking about their senior yearbook photo in the 2021 Black & Gold yearbook.
If you’ve had a senior student before, you know that many families take senior photos the
summer before their senior year of high school. Unfortunately, spring and summer plans have been drastically affected by COVID-19 – for students, families and businesses. However, the editorial board of the Black & Gold yearbook is still committed to ensuring every student has the opportunity for a free, professional photo in the yearbook.
The Black & Gold yearbook editorial board will continue to work with our two photography
studios to manage the nearly 600 senior portraits for the panel pages in the 2021 volume of the yearbook — Keepsake Photography and Vision Photography. You must have your photo taken by one of these photographers for your portrait to be in the book. (See free day options for these photos below.) This exclusive photographer process is for senior yearbook photos only. You are still able to use personal photos of your choice for all other purposes – senior tribute ads, graduation announcements, etc.
All senior photos will be taken by one of the two photography studios selected through the
editorial board’s RFP process -Vision Photography or Keepsake Photography. Each studio provides excellent photography for your senior and has created specific opportunities for Rock Canyon seniors.
Seniors who decide to have their senior session taken by a different photographer
will need to attend one of the FREE yearbook days at the school — Sept. 11 or 18 from 9 a.m.
to noon — in order to ensure they will be included in the 2021 yearbook. Students will need to
sign up using one of the links below so we can manage numbers and maintain proper physical distancing during free portrait days. Sign-ups are on a first-come-first-served basis.
Sept. 11 sign up click here.
Sept. 18 sign up click here.
In the meantime, both studios have created opportunities for families to begin getting senior
portraits taken for the 2021 Black & Gold yearbook.
Keepsake Photography has scheduled a limited number of mini sessions at their studio as
well. The sign up for mini-studio sessions is at this link.
Vision Photography has also scheduled a limited number of mini sessions at the Vision
Photography studios. Please contact Vision Photography at this link.
We look forward to seeing your senior in the 2021 Black & Gold yearbook!
The Black & Gold editors and staff
You can contact the Black and Gold Staff by emailing [email protected]