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General Psychology teacher Hana Chen.

General Psychology class explores the field through projects

Kara Nikfar June 15, 2025

Every Blue Day morning, juniors and seniors in General Psychology students stream into Hana Chen’s room 702 eager to engage in a new fun project and learn about topics ranging from mental health to the...

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The view from the dinner cruise on the Vltava.

The last class to remember being stranded in Prague, 2022

Angela Tan June 4, 2025

For many seniors in the music program, going on the summer of 2022 Europe tour as a freshman was a defining experience in their high school career. They share memories like performing the Musikverein in...

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Rani and Krishen in their childhood.

The Khanna twins: more like regular siblings than twins

Angela Tan June 4, 2025

In the movies, twins are typically depicted as inseparable. They may be identical in physical appearance, temperament and even supernatural intuition, called twin telepathy.  Unfortunately, Rani Khanna...

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Grace Liu and Luke Zhang are the valedictorian and salutatorian of the senior class respectively.

Class of 2025 valedictorian and salutatorian announced

Tanvee Tirthapura June 3, 2025

Some of the top students in the Class of 2025 are being recognized at Senior Awards Night on June 3. Heading that list are Grace Liu as class valedictorian and Luke Zhang as salutatorian.  Liu holds...

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Saratoga High’s field shot from above.

Senior Mag: How anti-turf advocacy became my turf

Nicole Lee June 3, 2025

In the first installment of NBC Bay Area’s investigative series on artificial turf fields, Saratoga High’s field was featured in a December 2024 broadcast.  The issue began when the school’s...

Five houses apart, four years together on after-school walks

Five houses apart, four years together on after-school walks

Saachi Jain and Kathy Wang June 2, 2025

From freshman year until the end of high school, walking home together has been a daily ritual for us, turning into something we look forward to after an exhausting day of school. Now, you may wonder why...

Mini me and the things I enjoyed before coming to high school.

Life before high school: growing up one trend at a time

Emma Fung June 2, 2025

As my high school journey comes to an end, I’ve been experiencing intense waves of nostalgia nearly every day. From old pop music to trendy gadgets and toys, there are some of the many elementary and...


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Before leaving Senior Sunrise to play Grounders on the Foothill playground, we took a group photo to mark the start of our last semester together.

Senior Mag: The seven dwarves write our own high school fairytale

Beverly Xu June 2, 2025

Emma Fung, Vera Fung, Amy Pan, Amy Luo, Claire Zheng, Ivy Tian and me. Sometimes, even our parents can’t tell us apart.  Sure, we all share Chinese heritage; we all stand between 5’2’’ and...

Niki Bashyam, Saatvik Kommareddi, Amy Pan, Artemis Pan and Anika Ramakrishnan showcase some of their favorite outfits.

Senior Mag 2025: How does a Falcon fashion icon manage?

Beverly Xu June 2, 2025

Inundated by Shakespeare reenactments and distillation labs, our tenure at Saratoga High has taught much of the Class of ‘25 that hoodies, Crocs and sweatpants may as well be our official school uniform....

I might have gotten too carried away with shading haha.

Those thoughts I think as I lie in bed deciding whether to go to school in the morning

Jex Popov June 1, 2025

It’s 7:30 a.m. and your alarm blares its jarring screech, ripping you out of whatever dream you were lucky to have in the measly five hours of allotted sleeping time — staying up late because nighttime...

A typical day-in-the-life as passenger princesses.

Senior Mag 2025: Living the life of passenger princesses … as seniors

Emma Fung and Divya Vadlakonda June 1, 2025

As we wearily shuffle into the school lunch line, our eyes drift over to the swarms of juniors and fellow seniors excitedly rushing off campus, eager to grab food from Safeway, Saratoga Bagels, Taco Bell...

Senior sunrise marked the start of the end of an era.

From Zoom calls to future college halls, friend group stays strong

Divya Vadlakonda June 1, 2025

They say the friends who survive quarantine — enduring cringey TikToks and emotionally charged late-night conversations — stay together. For Aadhya Naveen, Kinnera Potluri, Shreya Raghuvanshi, Anika...

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