Written by Yuki Klotz-Burwell
While some students spent their summer binge-watching Netflix or laying on the beach, senior Calvin Wang spent seven weeks in Taiwan doing research on antituberculosis drugs. Before coming to Gunn his sophomore year, he lived in Taiwan and got to know a biomedical...
As a person who grew up knowing she wanted to travel, the decision to go to Spain for four weeks wasn’t a difficult one. It was the opportunity of a lifetime. But there was a catch: I had to speak, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, in Spanish.
How did I come by this excellent opportunity? Middlebury...
Freshman. Even hearing the word makes me smile and shake my head. Considering I was a freshman myself up until two months ago, that is kind of funny and a little bit sad. It’s not right that the word “freshman” has such a bad connotation and I think that it’s time we changed that. For all you...
Written by Klaire Tan
Standing in his living room in Okinawa, Japan, U.S. Consul General Alfred Magleby peered into the eyes of 125 American high school students. “This is a place of collaboration and sharing,” he said, gesturing to the room. “I like to bring American and Japanese youth here to...
Written by Elinor Aspegren
Everyone has heard the quote “Be the change you want to see in the world,” but most people don’t know how to complete that challenge in high school. Junior Rachel Gates, however, found a way to improve the world and herself through a seven-week venture in Paraguay.
Gates...
Senior Ahran Cho has come a long way since filming home cooking videos with her sister at the age of nine. She has always been a huge fan of watching cooking shows on TV, but now, millions across America will be watching her.
Cho is a contestant on “Masterchef,” Fox’s televised cooking show...
Palo Alto is a vibrant city full of many volunteering and social opportunities. These opportunities, however, often go unnoticed by teens. That’s why juniors Sharon Chen and Ally Gong, alumna Rubi Alcazar, and Palo Alto High School (Paly) student Gabriel Mechali created clickPA: a website that is “a...
Every day at 6:15 a.m. sharp, data processor Martha Cartwright would arrive at Gunn in her trademark car, a white 1977 Pontiac Trans Am. “It was like clockwork,” Guidance Technician Assistant Robin Francesconi said. “Even the janitors had to make sure they would come before her.” Francesconi...
Wislr, a mobile technology startup based in Palo Alto, has created the first social networking application for use exclusively within high schools. Contrary to Facebook, where anyone can connect to anyone else’s individual profiles, Wislr creates networks that only allows students from the same high...
Earlier this year, around the middle of second quarter, Auto teacher Mike Camicia began a truck build that he will be entering into the 24 Hours of LeMons race the weekend of March 22. “The race is kind of like ‘Halloween meets a race,’” Camicia explained. “Everybody is in costume and every...
Hot Dogs for the Homeless:
Junior Amy Macrae’s passion to help hungry families all started with fifty hot dogs. More specifically, while volunteering at Stanford Concessions and witnessing hundreds of food items being thrown out, Macrae was inspired to package leftover hot dogs and donate them to...
After a trip to Japan during the summer of seventh grade, junior Ally Gong fell head-over-heels for fashion. Gong, whose artistic talents far outdated her fashion pursuits, channeled her creative interests into starting a personal blog called...
