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...

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...

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,...

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...

The Oracle: What is your inspiration when you play trumpet? Ryan Araghi: When I play, my goal is to really just make the best sound I possibly can. I want to make both my listeners and myself happy. My inspiration is to come to a new state of mind—if I’m sad, or if I’m happy—it’s just a kind...

Junior Dylan Huang represented Gunn in the seventh annual Mr. Key Club pageant held at Palo Alto High School on Jan. 25. The pageant was an opportunity for male and female Key Club members alike to come together, meet members from different chapters,  have fun, and fundraise for an important cause. Key...

When my two sisters and I were younger, our rivalry was all about who ran to the car first, who finished her dinner first, who climbed into bed first. But as we grew up, “first” was replaced by “best,” and now, it is the awards for which we compete. Though Ashley at 11 has not yet entered our...

Sophomore Tiffany Yang: divorced parents According to the National Center for Health Statistics, around 40 percent of all marriages end in divorce, affecting roughly every other citizen, including sophomore Tiffany Yang. Yang’s parents officially got divorced in December 2013, but the process took...

Members of the Research Science and Invention Club (RSI)—junior Victoria Wang and sophomores Jocelyn Liu and Audrey Cheng—are constructing a project called “From Food to Fuel” for the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge that will be proposed on March 5. Wang, Liu and Cheng concluded that...

The Oracle: Who or what is your inspiration? Sondrine Bontemps: I mostly do musical theatre, so all the musicals I see inspire me and help make me a better performer. I have some personal favorites, like Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel and Lea Salonga. I won’t say that there’s one particular person...

At 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 14, 15 and 16, theatre students will perform a student-directed version of the Broadway production: “The Vagina Monologues.” “The Vagina Monologues” is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler, made up of a series of monologues inspired by interviews with over 200 women about...

Over the past few months, a white, four-foot tall robot has roamed the Gunn halls, taking in the sights of students, teachers and administrators. Miles away, a special-needs student at Gunn sits at home, controlling the robot from his bedroom. Although this student is not physically able to attend school...