Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

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Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

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Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

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Gates poses with her Paraguay chapter before they begin on their 7-week service trip.

Student embarks on 7-week service trip in Paraguay

The Oracle September 4, 2014

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...

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Senior Ahran Cho Competes on Master Chef

The Oracle August 22, 2014

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 students create new city guide service for teens

Palo Alto students create new city guide service for teens

The Oracle May 19, 2014

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...

Longest-serving PAUSD employee passes away

Longest-serving PAUSD employee passes away

The Oracle May 19, 2014

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...

Local startup develops high school-centric social networking apps

The Oracle May 19, 2014

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...

Gunn Auto recreates ‘Toy Story’ Pizza Planet delivery truck

The Oracle March 21, 2014

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...

Student volunteers serve local, foreign communities

The Oracle March 21, 2014

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...

Junior fashion guru, blogger ventures into modeling

The Oracle March 21, 2014

              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...

Behind the Scenes

The Oracle March 10, 2014

Construction The construction crew builds the sets using power tools, lumber and a whole lot of screws. As construction is so popular, it is usually one of the largest crews. Despite the jokes that go around about the actors, construction head junior Jay Goldman says that the actors have a great relationship...

Emmy winner creates Palo Alto Chamber documentary

The Oracle March 10, 2014

Last summer, six-time Emmy Award-winning director Ty Kim accompanied the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra (PACO) on its two-week concert tour across Italy to film his documentary, “Playing Well With Others.” The documentary follows 35 PACO students, three of whom currently attend Gunn, and professional...

Compute to CompetE

The Oracle March 10, 2014

Senior utilizes programming skills to win Intel competition   Five years ago, if you asked senior Charles Liu what he wanted to be, “mathematician” would have been the answer, and to no surprise. An avid member of the Math Counts club, Liu was participating in all the major middle school competitions,...

Happily Ever After Staff share their marriage proposal stories

The Oracle March 10, 2014

Terence Kitada  The Oracle: How did you propose to your fiancée? Terence Kitada: I was working in Japan from 2008 to 2011 and that’s where I met my fiancée but then I moved back to California. And so we’d been kind of doing long distance and we’d always see each other twice a year. So on our...

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