Dorrie Tang

Club Rush, a closed-campus event designed to help groups on campus to fundraise and gain new members, is scheduled to take place today at lunch in the Quad. The event is the second one of its type; it debuted in spring 2013.

Because of the difficulty and rigor of the school’s current science and mathematics courses, the school has been working on developing its three-year-old engineering program and making other STEM classes more accessible to students.

Since early January, the school’s Investment Club has been participating in a prestigious high school investment competition hosted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

A key member of the team for four years and now a star varsity sprinter, senior Laura Cummins first became involved in the sport during the summer after eighth grade.

Students struggled to keep their eyes open during fourth period on March 4 without the extra hour of sleep that they usually get before school on Wednesdays.

If you read the Falcon regularly, you know it has a lot of opinions from students and not many from teachers. In an effort to correct this imbalance, Falcon staffers decided to host a 'fishbowl' discussion with three teachers. 

The school’s biennial Career Day event will be held on March 23, providing students with a chance to learn about more than 70 different careers. The event is mandatory for students of all grade levels.

For members of the math club, the past months have been quite relaxed, scattered with minor contests. 

Among the daily changing trends on Twitter, the following hashtags were among the ones that were recently popular. 

After four months of designing, planning, preparing and painting, a Math Quad mural designed by freshman Lillian Zeng was completed on Jan. 5.

Last Saturday, the boys’ cross country team placed second in the Division 3 CCS meet and qualified for states.  

As more on-campus attacks have occurred in high schools across the nation, Code Red drills like this have become an integral part in the school’s emergency procedures. 

Teachers in different departments rarely coordinate their exams, and students are suffer from it.

The school is hosting TEDxSaratogaHighSchool in the Thermond Drama Center on Dec. 7 from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. 

The cross country team began the season with consistent improvements during its first three meets.

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For the first time in the history of the course, AP Computer Science (APCS) teacher Debra Troxell is trying out a blended version of the class for the 2014-15 school year. The course now only requires students to attend class on Mondays and exam dates, with the rest of the lectures available online.

New history teacher Faith Stackhouse Daly is a key addition to the school’s faculty for the 2014-15 school year and comes with a wealth of experience.

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the Bay Area at around 3 a.m. on Aug. 24. 

The school's cross country teams are gearing up for a season of hard runs in an effort to qualify for the state meet.

With the hype for Tpumps just about over, dozens of teenagers are now heading to the new shop Icebox in the same Cupertino plaza for some Instagram-worthy dessert.

Some are well-known classics; others are little-known gems.

The track team concluded a successful season with a fifth-place finish by the boys and a 10th-place finish by the girls at the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League (SCVAL) meet hosted at Wilcox High School on May 16.  

Two sophomores recently proved themselves to be among the nation’s top students in math and physics.

As seniors celebrate graduation, juniors frantically stress over the dreaded college applications that lurk just around the corner.

America’s present economy, capital punishment and genetically modified organisms — we’ve all talked about these and other various contemporary and controversial issues in our classes.  While some of these topics are quite interesting and thought-provoking, others are harder for us to relate to and what some teens consider a waste of time. Nevertheless, these debates are important to students’ learning.

After months of preparation, four students took the last tests of the AMC contest series — the USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) and the USA Junior Mathematical Olympiad (USAJMO) — on April 29 and 30.

The school is offering a blended version of the current AP Computer Science (APCS) class for next year.

After months of hard preparation, members of the math club participated in their most important series of math competitions of the year: the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) 10 and 12 held on Feb. 4 and 19, and the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) held on March 13 and 26. 

The boys’ varsity track team has experienced a wealth of success, starting the season undefeated with wins in all three of their past dual meets against Homestead on March 14, Santa Clara on March 20 and Fremont on March 25. All of these victories have come in the lower El Camino League after the team struggled in the upper De Anza League last year.

The girls’ track team began the season with two consecutive losses in dual meets against Homestead and Santa Clara on March 13 and March 20.

It’s 9 a.m. on a typical Saturday morning when senior Henry Ling wakes up, sometimes wishing he could stay in bed longer. But he can’t — he has to drive himself and his 5-year old little brother to Kumon, a learning center located near the entrance to downtown Saratoga, where he has a part-time job. 

Walk into Kirk Davis’s first-period AP Physics class, and at first glance it seems to be a class like any other. Look more carefully, though, and realize something strange: Only seven of the students are girls. 

At this time of year, many stores across the nation suddenly transform into venues filled with pink and red roses, heart-shaped chocolates, greeting cards and decorations for the upcoming Valentine’s Day. According to the National Retail Foundation, the average American spent nearly $130 last year celebrating Valentine’s Day, making it almost a $16 billion industry. On top of this, approximately 142 million Valentine’s Day cards were exchanged, making Valentine’s Day the holiday that gives the second largest number of greeting cards, after Christmas.

Imagine a student who has just finished writing a huge report for one of his classes. He has spent hours upon hours on it for several days, often dreary-eyed and anxious as he works late into the night so that he can finish it by the deadline. 

It’s a common scenario: After enrolling in multiple AP classes and thinking that he’ll “find a way,” an ambitious junior realizes that the workload is just too much. His eyes bear the battle scars that many other student veterans possess: the dark circles from fighting back sleep, the fear of losing the GPA war, the disheartenment from bombing tests. After a whole semester of frazzled nerves and sleepless nights, he only has a transcript chock full of D’s to show for it.

After an unfortunate season last year with a losing streak of 0-6, the track team has been bumped down from the De Anza League to the El Camino League.

The team begins practice in early February under the direction of head coach Archie Ljepava, and will have its first meet at home against Homestead on March 13.

Last year, the school district proposed BP 6146.1, a new policy that required all Saratoga High freshmen to take P.E. But it caused much controversy among many students, parents, coaches, and others, mainly from athletics and band, that it was not successfully passed.  

The season of winter brings many holidays and festivities; families enjoy delicious Christmas meals together, and everyone anticipates opening presents. With this holiday cheer, many Saratoga students find fun ways to spend the glorious two weeks of winter break, whether by themselves or with families and friends.

With the holiday season coming up, the ASB is planning additional drives this year to spread the holiday cheer to the less fortunate. On Nov. 5, the ASB started a new drive for Operation Gratitude, which donates leftover Halloween candy to deployed troops overseas. 

“What’s in a name?” asks fair Juliet of Romeo’s curséd last name. “That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.” Ask the same question to a student about a college, and, apparently, a name means much more. In fact, students may be focusing too much on going to a college that is prestigious instead of trying to find a school that is best for them.

Though the school allows advanced students to skip math levels, such acceleration is not available for science classes.

It’s a typical Tuesday, and ASB Clubs Commissioner senior Grace Ma enters the office during the break before second period. She picks up a sheet of paper that lists the day’s announcements from principal’s secretary Susan Dini and immediately scans through it.

Although band members undisputably make up a large group on campus, many students have no idea what Marching Band P.E., a sixth-period course designated and required for only band freshmen, involves. 

As soon as the bell rings at 9:25 a.m. for an average Friday tutorial, dozens of students rush out of their classrooms, meeting their friends to do homework together or just to hang out. Sophomore Nicole Chiou is not among them. Instead, Chiou goes directly to the music building to practice piano for her after school class.