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This year’s location for junior prom, the Fourth Street Summit Center in downtown San Jose, has received much enthusiasm; however, the price of $80 per person has solicited more conflicted opinions.

The San Jose Convention Center was packed to the brim with colorful tri-fold posters and students displaying homemade robots on March 18 as over 800 students from schools from the Bay Area competed in the Synopsis Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship. Five teams from Saratoga competed in the prestigious competition.

“The Synopsis Science fair is a great opportunity for people who are really interested in science and actually want to do scientific work instead of just reading about it in school,” said junior Dhruv Seshadri. “There are college professors and scientists who talk to you about your project and sometimes even offer you a summer job if they really like what you did. ”

Critics of the United States’ education have long cited American students’ failure to compete in mathematics on the international level. Saratoga High’s math club, however, seems to have no problem in this arena.

Since the beginning of February, the math club has been busy with several math contests and competitions. The most recent competition was on Feb. 28 when the club sent two teams of eight people to participate in the Stanford Math Tournament held at Stanford.

Imagine coming home from school, going online and being able to view all the morning announcements that you might have missed as well as pictures of the recent basketball game all in one streaming video. The next day, you could come home to watch the lecture from your biology class that same day to review the material you had been expected to understand in that short class period.

The new multimedia journalism class starting next fall, headed by video production and media arts teacher Tony Palma, has plans to host a Saratoga High website “channel” that will constantly stream videos. Although this idea is not new, the recent demand from teachers and students for a higher technological level of interaction has made it more necessary.

The Falcon has finally brought home a Gold Crown – one of the top awards in scholastic journalism.