Isabelle Tseng

This summer, junior Ingrid Pan will be exploring Yale through a program called Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS) in its Politics, Law and Economics (PLE) division.  

Rants about school starting earlier each year, the smarter balanced tests, fanfictions, and badminton.

Harper Lee, author of the famous and beloved novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” recently revealed a sequel: “Go Set a Watchman.” 

The boys’ volleyball team is making a strong push for a CCS bid, standing 9-0 in the El Camino League as of April 24 and having lost only set all season (that one to Los Altos). In order to make CCS, the Falcons must win league, which is a goal well within their reach.

Junior Nihar Agrawal smiles at the 7-year-old boy taping furry pom-poms together to make a caterpillar at Lowell Elementary School while participating in the volunteering program Sunday Friends. The boy giggles as one of the pom-poms falls off, and Agrawal picks it up. “Try some more glue,” he says, laughing. It is Agrawal’s third hour that day at Sunday Friends, a volunteer organization that helps children from low-income families learn skills such as cooking and crafts.

The boys’ volleyball team has started the season off strong, winning several preseason games against higher-league teams, with an overall record of 11-7 as of March 27. To make CCS, the team will need to win its league since they are in the lower division.

One of the school’s strengths is the vast variety of extracurricular activities offered to students. Unfortunately, not all of these activities are recognized equally: sports such as football and basketball are higher profile regardless of how well or poorly the team is actually doing, while others remain under the radar. One such group is winter guard. 

The boys' volleyball team prepares for the new season.

The mock trial competed in the Santa Clara County Invitational on Jan. 17, during which they won their first round and lost their second. This was quite an educational experience for the team.

English 11 Honors students are actually receiving an equal opportunity to take advanced courses in the subject.    

With the increased popularity of social media, authors today have become much more prominent and publicly connected figures — and this is a positive change.

In October, the Color Guard members rehearsed their field show “Sacred Geometry” with the marching band. 

It is a truth universally acknowledged that between siblings there must be competition. There is fondness and support, love and communication, yes, but always competition.  

When Club Day took place in late September, students attended for two primary reasons: first, the free food; second, the unending search for application-boosting extracurricular activities. For their first meeting, many clubs — such as speech and debate, science club and math club — were flooded with new members hoping for something to strengthen their resume.

Junior Matt Victoria has a passion for the sport of airsoft.

Late on the night of Oct. 11, mock trial members logged onto Facebook to see the results of the auditions held earlier that week.

As Homecoming unfolded this week, it became clear that this year would see miscommunications, mishaps and accidents, and classes had to find ways to overcome them.  

After weeks of uncertainty the mock trial team has found a teacher and a coach, and now they can begin preparing even more seriously for the year.  

In order to improve problems with the Benny Pierce Football Field, the school launched the “Red Pride” campaign that involved the construction of the new Sports Plaza, which includes new restrooms, a more glamorous entrance to the field and other additions.  

Teachers Kristofer Orre and Brian Elliott are one of several teacher pairs working with a new collaborative teaching model this year. 

Reporter discusses her reaction to a movie trilogy based on the Harry Potter series, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” the first installment of which is to be released in 2016.