Waking up at 6 a.m., math teacher Daniel Hahn typically has a busy schedule in the morning. Specifically, he attends a Pilates class before school to prepare himself physically and mentally for the day ahead and to build the energy needed to teach advanced math to multiple classes every day.
Pilates,...
The wind brushes past their faces as they glide swiftly through the park, the wheels of their skateboards rattling on the pavement beneath them. With their hearts racing and minds focused, they pop the tip of the board and soar into the air. They fly with their skateboards until they miss their landing...
Senior Rhianna Middleton stared at her phone, torn. The screen read 7:30 p.m., the time her shift at Läderach should end. However, the sales goal her manager had set for the day was far from met. Middleton felt obligated to stay later to make more sales, despite having a load of unfinished schoolwork...
With an explosion of color, the piñata breaks and the festivities begin. Sophomore Santiago Rosales enjoys connecting with his culture through such celebrations, especially since he moved from Mexico to the United States when he was six. Later, he moved to Palo Alto and noticed many cultural differences,...
Sophomore Rayla Chen opens her mail box to discover letters instead of report cards, advertisements and other packages. Inside the letters, she finds herself teleported to France through the writing of her international pen pals.
In an era where technology often mediates our interactions with others,...
Junior Samhita Krishnan had discovered one issue that many people hadn’t — the gap between the elderly and the youth. To build a better community Krishnan decided to take action and create a pen-pal project called BuddyBonds. In Gunn’s Advanced Authentic Research class, each student has the opportunity...
Ya-An Xue, Features & Online Editor
• May 19, 2024
How many ways can you divide a field filled with cows into two groups by moving a horizontal or vertical line? This is an example of the many problems junior Samuel Ren spends his weekends solving to practice for the United States of America Computing Olympiad.
Ren has been involved in coding for...
