Yearbook Captures the Space Between Us
The 2020-2021 yearbook showcasing Pioneer through this pandemic is complete and for sale now.
By Patricia Carmona
The 2020-2021 yearbook showcasing Pioneer through this pandemic is complete and for sale now.
By Patricia Carmona
The 2020-2021 yearbook has officially been sent to the printers and is available to purchase for students who want to remember this school year with the theme, “The Space Between Us,” created by the yearbook staff. This idea behind the theme is that the book will help showcase the space between everyone and bring the Mustang family closer together despite the distance created by the pandemic.
Due to COVID-19, the yearbook staff had to adapt to new guidelines and search for new resources since they were not able to see each other through their entire book making process and they weren’t able to go out and photograph the usual sports, clubs and classes on campus. However, they were able to find ways around these issues in order to showcase Pioneer’s community.
To get the pictures needed, they had to rely on students to send them photos which was very difficult at first, but eventually worked out in the end. Heidi Spence, 12, Editor-in-Chief of the yearbook, explained how this year’s process differed from previous years and the adaptations they made to make a book with online school and no sports at the time.
“As Editor-in-Chief, the editorial board and I had to be very creative at the beginning of the year when planning the book and deciding what we were going to cover during the virtual school year. As the year progressed, we all had to find innovative ways to cover things,” Spence said. “We had to be creative and come up with new things to cover, to find what was happening and either go out and safely photograph it or ask for submitted photos.”
Josh Williams, 11, Assistant Photo Editor, also felt that making the yearbook virtually faced a lot of challenges since it seemed to revolve around the pandemic, but they still were able to cover a lot of interesting topics and activities going around Pioneer.
“The content in this year's yearbook has a large focus on COVID-19 because it determined so much of what we did or didn’t do this year,” Williams said. “Even though a lot of things were canceled this year we were still able to cover a great deal. We were able to cover clubs, politics and political events, academics and the athletics people were doing outside of school.”
Lucas Guazelli, 12, Photo Editor, has also faced difficulty during this year's process with waiting on photos to be sent in from students and editing them to fit the yearbook layouts and pages.
“Although the photos that were sent in brought the creation of the book directly into the hands of each Mustang, it became a bit of a nightmare on our end. The job of editing all the photos fell into my hands, with the help of our Assistant Photo Editor Josh Williams. Trying to match the color and brightness of so many different cameras of different qualities was insanely challenging,” Guazelli said.
Ensuring safety while creating the yearbook was also very important to the team and editorial board this year with Guazelli implementing guidelines and restrictions for the staff to follow to safely take photos. The rules were that they must have a mask at all times while taking photos, must social distance themselves from other people and any photos taken indoor must receive specific permission from him and the editor-in-chief.
“Safety was our biggest priority from the beginning so the first thing I did was develop guidelines to make sure our photographers would be safe when covering the year,” Guazelli said.
Sophia Aranda, 9, yearbook staff member, felt a wave of relief when the yearbook finally came together knowing that stress from deadlines and the hard work the whole team put together on completing the yearbook has paid off and also helped bring the class together.
“Even though the yearbook is different this year due to the COVID-19, the book still shows everything from clubs to student life. Despite the circumstances, this book demonstrates how each student overcame every obstacle and continued learning safely at home,” Aranda said. “Despite all of us being in separate places, we still felt like a family.”
Yearbook adviser Jason Goldman-Hall, thinks that this year's production was easily the most difficult throughout his 11 years overseeing the class, but due to the work put in by the editors and students he has, they were able to accomplish many things throughout the year. With a limited amount of copies left, yearbook is trying to get the word out through multiple platforms from signs around campus to teasing pictures online of the design.
“We have done a lot of blast emails out through the school. We also are using our Instagram page (@yearbook.pioneer) and I also have a ‘Buy your yearbook!’ a sign taped on my door. On days people are driving through to pick up some materials my daughter sometimes goes out and holds [that] sign,” Goldman-Hall said.
A limited amount of copies of the 2020-2021 yearbook are still available for purchase at Jostensyearbooks.com.
Due to COVID-19, the yearbook staff had to adapt to new guidelines and search for new resources since they were not able to see each other through their entire book making process and they weren’t able to go out and photograph the usual sports, clubs and classes on campus. However, they were able to find ways around these issues in order to showcase Pioneer’s community.
To get the pictures needed, they had to rely on students to send them photos which was very difficult at first, but eventually worked out in the end. Heidi Spence, 12, Editor-in-Chief of the yearbook, explained how this year’s process differed from previous years and the adaptations they made to make a book with online school and no sports at the time.
“As Editor-in-Chief, the editorial board and I had to be very creative at the beginning of the year when planning the book and deciding what we were going to cover during the virtual school year. As the year progressed, we all had to find innovative ways to cover things,” Spence said. “We had to be creative and come up with new things to cover, to find what was happening and either go out and safely photograph it or ask for submitted photos.”
Josh Williams, 11, Assistant Photo Editor, also felt that making the yearbook virtually faced a lot of challenges since it seemed to revolve around the pandemic, but they still were able to cover a lot of interesting topics and activities going around Pioneer.
“The content in this year's yearbook has a large focus on COVID-19 because it determined so much of what we did or didn’t do this year,” Williams said. “Even though a lot of things were canceled this year we were still able to cover a great deal. We were able to cover clubs, politics and political events, academics and the athletics people were doing outside of school.”
Lucas Guazelli, 12, Photo Editor, has also faced difficulty during this year's process with waiting on photos to be sent in from students and editing them to fit the yearbook layouts and pages.
“Although the photos that were sent in brought the creation of the book directly into the hands of each Mustang, it became a bit of a nightmare on our end. The job of editing all the photos fell into my hands, with the help of our Assistant Photo Editor Josh Williams. Trying to match the color and brightness of so many different cameras of different qualities was insanely challenging,” Guazelli said.
Ensuring safety while creating the yearbook was also very important to the team and editorial board this year with Guazelli implementing guidelines and restrictions for the staff to follow to safely take photos. The rules were that they must have a mask at all times while taking photos, must social distance themselves from other people and any photos taken indoor must receive specific permission from him and the editor-in-chief.
“Safety was our biggest priority from the beginning so the first thing I did was develop guidelines to make sure our photographers would be safe when covering the year,” Guazelli said.
Sophia Aranda, 9, yearbook staff member, felt a wave of relief when the yearbook finally came together knowing that stress from deadlines and the hard work the whole team put together on completing the yearbook has paid off and also helped bring the class together.
“Even though the yearbook is different this year due to the COVID-19, the book still shows everything from clubs to student life. Despite the circumstances, this book demonstrates how each student overcame every obstacle and continued learning safely at home,” Aranda said. “Despite all of us being in separate places, we still felt like a family.”
Yearbook adviser Jason Goldman-Hall, thinks that this year's production was easily the most difficult throughout his 11 years overseeing the class, but due to the work put in by the editors and students he has, they were able to accomplish many things throughout the year. With a limited amount of copies left, yearbook is trying to get the word out through multiple platforms from signs around campus to teasing pictures online of the design.
“We have done a lot of blast emails out through the school. We also are using our Instagram page (@yearbook.pioneer) and I also have a ‘Buy your yearbook!’ a sign taped on my door. On days people are driving through to pick up some materials my daughter sometimes goes out and holds [that] sign,” Goldman-Hall said.
A limited amount of copies of the 2020-2021 yearbook are still available for purchase at Jostensyearbooks.com.