Dos Pueblos High School’s first ever magazine-style print edition of “The Blueprint” will be released this Friday. Students can pick up free copies in the media lot where there will also be a coffee truck to buy beverages.

“The Blueprint” features writing directly from The Charger Account.

“We have taken some excerpts from actual articles on our website,” Sienna Valentine (12) said. “We have photo galleries from CIF sports that were making their CIF runs in the past couple months … We also have a memorial for Miss Thomann and a crossword on the back.”

The majority of the design was done by Valentine with support from Aspen Newhouse (12), Ava Canfield (12), Kris Lazcano (11), and others.

“I just hope people have fun with it,” Valentine said. “I know that we want to make the print edition to be a quarterly thing or happen multiple times throughout the year.”

For this initial edition, the design process took over six months.

“[‘The Blueprint’] has been in the works since about November … it’s great that now, at the end of the year, it’s finally coming to be,” Valentine said.

There have been newspapers in the past at DPHS, but nothing quite like “The Blueprint.” Due to it being the first of its kind in DPHS history, the creators had to outsource their inspiration.

“I definitely took inspiration from other schools,” Valentine said. “I also took some inspiration from Yearbook, too, and just using the skills and design that I’ve learned through that program and bringing it and applying it to The Charger Account.”

Valentine, being part of “a lot of different programs” and midway through her senior year, still chose to take the lead.

“Taking the lead on it … it was so amazing to see the collaboration that came with putting this all together and just getting to try and kick start what we want the future of the Journalism program at DP to look like,” Valentine said.