For decades, Silicon Valley has been universally recognized as the heart of technology and innovation. The establishment of a booming tech industry has cultivated a culture that has distinguished the South Bay from its surrounding counties and drawn the attention of those around the world. Media coverage...
On Feb. 23, Gunn hosted its fifth annual hackathon, GunnHacks, organized by the United Computations club. Over 160 students from Gunn and surrounding schools got together in the N-building from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., to work on programming projects and attend various workshops and trainings.
Attendees...
On Dec. 19, 2018, computer science (CS) teachers at Gunn and Palo Alto High School (Paly) sent a letter to the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) Office stressing the need for both a CS graduation requirement and a CS department in PAUSD. This letter was written in response to a plan...
On Tuesday, May 22, the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) board met to discuss the addition of computer science (CS) education into schools as proposed by the Computer Science Pk-12 Curriculum Design Advisory Committee (CS CDAC). Specifically, the group’s recommendation to make CS a graduation...
Written by Joy Huang
Sixteen new courses were approved by the Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday, Jan. 24 for the upcoming school year. Eight of the courses will be offered at Gunn, including The Art of Visual Storytelling, Chinese Civilization and Culture, AP Computer Science...
Written by Akansha Gupta
Computers today play a much larger role in careers than they did five or ten years ago. As computers become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, so does the demand for coding literacy. The new push to make computer science a graduation requirement...
Written by Jenna Marvet
Making computer science a graduation requirement would be detrimental to the already undervalued, humanities-focused students and limit the flexibility high school students have to explore career options before college.
According to Forbes, the Bay Area is the number...
By Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
Due to the increase of lines of work involving computer science, there has been a recent movement to make computer science a graduation requirement at Gunn. Last year, eight administrators and teachers met regularly and had a meeting with the district office about the...
Written by Elizabeth Chung
The annual Gunn Hackathon, or Gunn Hacks, will be held 7 p.m. on March 25 and 26 by the Gunn’s United Computations Club. Gunn Hacks is a programming event where high school students from the Bay Area come together to create an application, a program or anything that...
