These were previously published in our October 2025 issue.
Fashion Club embodies creativity of EHS students
Interested in the expansive realm of fashion with the endless possibilities of color, design, and styles, Fashion Club is a way to express yourself and feel confident through clothing, senior at Emmaus High School, Social Media Manager of The Stinger, and founder of Fashion Club, Paige Shickel has recognized the importance of a good outfit.
“I made the club because I wanted people to be able to express their identity and be creative, and to use fashion as their creative outlet,” Shickel said. “I know that a lot of people are really set on following trends, which isn’t a bad thing. I do that too sometimes, but I think having your own style is really important in helping your confidence.”
An outfit that allows students to feel comfortable and confident contributes to how they feel throughout the day, so wearing something that represents them, embodies who they are. One of Shickel’s favorite things the club does is Favorite Outfit Friday where they post on their Instagram, @emmaushsfashionclub, the “best outfits” of the day.
Senior, Quinn Ashbrook, is the secretary of the club.
“We get pictures of people’s outfits if they’re cute, and they consent to having their pictures taken, and then we post them on Instagram and tag them,” Ashbrook said. “Just to show everybody different kinds of people’s styles and what’s around the school.”
The club plans on hosting a clothing drive in the winter where they collect winter coats and other warmer clothing items. They’re going to do a thrift store for the school and host it sometime after school, where everyone can go and pick out the different items they want.
“We will do a day of up-cycling clothing, people buying old clothing, and a style swap day where we have people kind of dress each other up. So small things like that are going to be a lot of fun,” Ashbrook said.
Fashion Club has taken inspiration from Southern Lehigh High School, where they did Best Dressed for Homecoming, prom, and Spirit Week. Shickel hopes the Fashion Club can help students find their style and utilize their creative medium. They have many hopes and wishes for future events, and have a goal of spreading fashion throughout EHS.
“Fashion means having confidence in what you wear, and not being ashamed of wearing anything that can be different. I feel like the purpose of the club is learning about it [fashion], so that you feel confident enough to have your own sense of style,” Shickel said. “Just be confident in what you wear. Be authentic to yourself; it’s okay to be original.”
The next meeting will be Nov. 14 after school in Room 227.
Gold Award leads to mental health awareness
From letters to notebooks creativity has taken form in the community through mental health journals and is benefiting foster teenagers, creating a resource for mental health awareness. Senior at Emmaus High School, Culture Editor of The Stinger, and founder of the Letters from Juliette Club, Thiffany Ceolin-Reimao has created a journal full of creativity to support children in foster care, specifically hoping to support the teenagers who are overlooked.
“It is for my Girl Scout Gold Award, and there were two levels of inspiration to it,” Ceolin-Reimao said. “The first one being the movie Letters to Juliet, which was about this Council of Women in Italy who would write back to people who wrote letters about their love story to a statue of Juliette. The second being the Girl Scout promise of helping others and Juliette Gordon Low being the founder.”
The Kindness Project is a non-profit organization that provides free resources and support for foster families around Eastern Pennsylvania, and Ceolin-Reimao plans to donate these journals for the teenagers.
“When I visited the Kindness Project, I saw that they had a lot of resources for toddlers, especially babies, and not a lot for teenagers, especially teenage girls,” Ceolin-Reimao said. “So I decided to create these journals for them.”
Through this club, Ceolin-Reimao hopes to create enough of these journals to provide to the families who want them and help teenagers feel less alone in this hard stage of life.
“[The project is] creating diaries for foster children with prompts and decorated covers,” Ceolin-Reimao said. “It’s a kit for them to have, and a mental health exercise for them [the teenagers] to do.”
The mental health prompts including 10 goals for the week and a worry tree that allows teens to explore the cause of their worries. The Letters from Juliette Club’s mission is to involve the community in helping to create an outlet that helps bring imagination and happiness to someone else’s day. The goal is for students at EHS to create journals and use them as a pick-me-up when their feeling down, hopefully brightening the day.
Senior and the Social Media Manager Ali Kuebler has found she made new friends and connected with more people from school during club meetings, she finds it to be a positive space for originality.
“We have a meeting, usually every other Wednesday, and it’s pretty laid back. I made a lot of friends in this club, and it’s just really awesome to have a community of people who are all out looking to help another community of people,” Kuebler said. “And you know, you could have friends that are part of that, and you don’t even really know it yet.”
The next meeting will be Nov. 5 afterschool in Room 219.
