Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

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Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

The Oracle

Official Student Newspaper of Henry M. Gunn High School

The Oracle

Gunn’s Green Team spreads environmental awareness one act at a time

Gunn’s Green Team spreads environmental awareness one act at a time

Angela Wong, News Editor May 28, 2019

Founded in 2006 by former science teacher and Student Activities coordinator Nik Kaestner, Gunn’s Green Team has attracted students, teachers, staff and community members alike to make Palo Alto a cleaner, more eco-friendly place. Today, about 13 years later, the team is a much smaller group solely...

Graphic by Shannon Lin

Vaccines generate discussion among students, staff

Josh Mei and Joshua Yang May 17, 2019

A rapid rise in the number of measles cases occurring throughout the Bay Area has prompted discussion within the community surrounding the increase of anti-vaccine opinions. While the medical consensus is that vaccines are essential to prevent the spread of harmful diseases such as measles, anti-vaxxers—individuals...

Graphic by Jackie Lou

Seniors opt out of required California science test, while teachers urge participation

The Oracle March 25, 2017

Written by Joy Huang Gunn seniors will take The California Science Test (CAST) Pilot Test on Thursday, March 30, and Friday, March 31. According to Superintendent Max McGee’s email to the seniors’ parents, the CAST pilot test will help the assessment to accurately measure students’ performance...

Science classes participate in plastics project

Science classes participate in plastics project

timsun2 March 3, 2017

Written by Tim Sun Science teachers Navneet Schworetzky and Eric Ledgerwood are partnering with the Monterey Bay Aquarium to give students the opportunity to fight plastic pollution on campus in the aquarium’s Ocean Plastics Pollution Summit. Students will design projects to combat the use of plastics...

Computer science requested as graduation requirement

clarakieschnickllamas September 9, 2016

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...

Graphic by Elizabeth Zu

More advanced non-STEM classes can benefit all

chenganyi December 4, 2015

Written by Anyi Cheng There is just something that screams “science” about living in a place called Silicon Valley. Stationed in a city only a few miles away from big-brand tech companies like Oracle, Tesla and Apple, it comes as no surprise that Gunn is inordinately science, technology,...

A group of Gunn girls attended the Math Prize for Girls competition this year. Courtesy of Jane Ahn

Gunn girls compete in the Math Prize for Girls at MIT

The Oracle September 27, 2015

Written by Evalyn Li A group of Gunn girls attended the Math Prize for Girls competition at MIT from Sept.19 to Sept. 21. This year, senior Patricia Tang, juniors Shannon Yang, Maya Sankar and Jane Ahn and sophomore Sherry Chen attended the competition. To qualify, attendees must have taken either...

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