Aditya Chaudhry

All male dance dancers in Bombay in the Bay find interest in Yu-gi-oh.

A new coach goes about remaking the team's attitude and playing style.

With a record of 2-3, the wrestling team is looking to improve key underclassmen and its program while sending top wrestlers onto CCS.  

Preview of boys lacrosse

As a senior and key mechanical designer, Riaziat is a jack of all trades, working on all aspects of this year’s robot.

While it may seem like a thing of the past, the movies remains the best place for a romantic evening. AMC 14, the closest movie theater to the school, is the No. 1 place for students to go on a date because of its variety of movie choices as well as its proximity to many eateries.  

Going into high school, junior Gina Drapal knew she wanted to join the wrestling team. Even if it meant being the only female on a small team, she wanted to participate.  

Local kids got a taste of robotics during the annual Saratoga High FIRST Lego League (FLL) and FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) qualifying tournaments held over the weekend of Nov. 21-22.  

Becoming a leader of anything in the world of engineering is difficult, but being a female and rising to the top is harder still. 

The Falcons are still in the running for a CCS berth.

In a recent survey taken by 29 students, the ASB learned that most students want to see the nearly $270,000 in accumulated funds spent on everything from boys’ bathroom urinal dividers to solar panels in the parking lot.

The season-opening 22-7 victory inspired optimism for the Falcon football team, but that optimism has been challenged after two straight lopsided defeats. The Falcons stand at 1-2 record going into next Friday’s key league road opener against the Palo Alto Vikings.

Starting in 2012, the Mechanical Science and Engineering team (M-SET), better known as the robotics club, started to compete in a smaller robotics competition known as the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) that occurs in the fall as well as their normal larger robotics competition, FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), which takes place in January.  

Despite some trouble at the beginning of the season, the girls’ softball team qualified for CCS as the No. 12 seed.  

The fish feel inspired to repeat their success this year

Senior point guard Michael Cole wasn’t always the star scorer who could carry his team to victory. 

Senior finds his passion for dancing

The Measure E bond, a $99 million bond for the Los Gatos Saratoga Unified High School District, will start making a noticeable impact on the school starting this summer. With large renovations planned, the school hopes to make a difference on campus in the next couple of years, especially for music students and athletes.

With a 14-0 loss to Los Gatos High School on March 27, the boys’ lacrosse team dropped its record to 1-5 overall and 0-3 in the De Anza League. Before the loss to Los Gatos, the Falcons lost to Gunn 11-7 on March 20 and Palo Alto 16-5 on March 18 and beat San Jose Latino Prep 15-4 on March 17.    

Week after week, junior twins Nathan and Brendan Ney run through set after set of history, trivia and science questions, mentally preparing themselves for the competitions that lie ahead. Working extra hours to memorize the last pieces of information such as facts on American History, the Ney brothers are part of some of the most challenging and competitive clubs on campus.

Every morning, the parking lot is filled with an assortment of car brands, ranging from Toyota Civics to Ford Mustangs. What most people don’t realize is that some students use these cars — and other ones they never drive — for recreational racing, an expensive but thrilling hobby that many find addicting.

Preview of the boys lacrose season. 

The boys’ soccer team recently beat Lynbrook High School 1-0 in their senior game on Feb. 5. The team has a record of 3-5-1 and is sixth in the SCVAL League El Camino Division. The record means the team can only make CCS if they win their final two games and gain a wild card. 

The Mechanical Science and Engineering Team (M-SET) got the 2015 First Robotics Competition (FRC) challenge, Recycle Rush, on Jan. 6. With six weeks to build a functioning robot, M-SET is geared up to meet the challenge. Five weeks into their six allotted weeks of build, the team is pushing forward with manufacturing their robot.

The upper field is set to be renovated and transformed into a turf field, similar to the football field with the goal of making the area much more useful to a variety of sports teams.

Due to disappointing moments like this last year, the Falcons finished with a 2-12 record and were pushed down to the lower El Camino League this year. Starting the ‘14-15 season, senior goalkeeper Edwin Chen has high hopes for improvement.

Two students discuss playing for soccer club teams rather than the school's teams.

Student examines his Hindu herritage and the impacts on his life. 

Student, Jared Beach, tells of his past time of hunting. 

On the weekend of Oct. 3, the Mechanical Science and Engineering Team (M-SET) partook in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) offseason event called CalGames.  

Students discuss being an "only child" at home after their older siblings leave for college.

After losing valuable members who graduated last year, M-SET hopes to bounce back with the help of new officers and summer training. Students in May of last year elected junior Naveed Riaziat as president to lead the changes.

Senior Alex Holz gains from unique experience living in the Netherlands.

The year opened with an abundance of school spirit. Both the rally and spirit commissions ran a successful week of school spirit reaching its peak at the rally on Sept. 5.

Snapchat recently released a new update for iOS and Android devices on May 1, adding a new feature called Chat. It enables users to video chat live and send text messages.   

When people imagine prom, they probably think of a guy asking a girl and the terrible stress a girl has to go through to get ready for prom. From the hours spent picking out a dress to the many more pouring over their makeup, girls seem to be the most important in the prom equation.

Over the past 18 years, the British band Coldplay has become one of the most prominent bands of the current generation.

On the evening of March 4, six parents filed into the library. This was not a parent-teacher meeting or a talk about next year courses. This was a workshop about suicide prevention. The entire teaching faculty also met during collaboration the next day and underwent the same training as the parents did the previous night.

This past weekend the the school’s M-SET robotics team travelled to Madera for the Central Valley Regional tournament to fight for the championship against 45 competitors. The team advanced to the semifinals — finishing in sixth place overall.

Course requests for the upcoming 2014-2015 year are here, and the prerequisite rules have seen a change.

Some seniors have time for senioritis. Daniel Martin doesn't. That's because he's working part time at auto repair shop, pursuing one of his main passions.

When seniors Akshay Madhani and Alex Renda walked into the guidance office in early February, they had a suspicion of what was going to happen. Yet, that didn’t stop the two from being “in a state of disbelief” when they left. Madhani and Renda had just received the school’s highest academic honors: valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively.

Spring has come earlier than usual to California this year. With temperatures around 70 degrees and drought conditions prevailing for most of the winter, it may be the perfect time to go out and explore the nature around Saratoga. One of the great things to do in this weather is go hiking.

Spring is coming into full swing, people look for new places to visit. With places like Vasona Park becoming monotonous with each passing year, students will be looking for the next local attraction that provides something new. Lake Elizabeth Park in Fremont is one such place.  

Robotics continues to become more challenging every year. This year’s challenge, called aerial assist, is a combination of volleyball, football and soccer.

Early on, the girls’ soccer team kicked off with a strong 4-0-2 record during preseason. Lately, though, the Falcons have fallen on hard times with tough losses to Los Gatos, Palo Alto and Los Altos. The team currently stands it fifth place in the De Anza league.

With two rallies so far this year, the rally commission is attempting to help build school and class spirit. But recently, the rally commision has come up with a new plan to boost student attendance at the rallies this year. They are asking teachers to lock their classrooms during tutorials on rally days, forcing students to come join the rallies.

When the the girls’ water polo players started their season in the De Anza League, they were the underdogs of the league. Having moved up to the league from the El Camino league this year, the team expected to be challenged with the fiercer competition. But the team has overcome these hurdles and finished with a  record of 12-10. 

In the gym on Nov. 24, a different kind of sporting event will be taking place: one involving machines instead of athletes.

College Confidential. What seems like an innocent pair of words is actually one of the largest college counseling websites propagating college paranoia nationwide.

Scrolling down the Facebook newsfeed, many people are greeted by a big blue box with white and green letters inside. The link opens up ask.fm, a webpage filled with questions such as who are you best friends? who do you like? and the answers to these questions. The site also contains a text box for people to submit anonymous questions. 

As I lifted the garbage can in room 405, I was ready to faint from the disgusting smell it produced. The garbage can was lined with a mixture of chewed up gum, food, paper and paint. This was just one of many experiences that I had the Friday I shadowed night custodian Octavio Escobedo.

From getting up early to doing homework and taking tests, everyone has a difficulty at the beginning of the school year. New students from different schools have the added challenge of finding new friendships and trying to fit in. Now imagine, on top of all these pressures, having to move from a country where english is not spoken. Everything is brand new: the people, the customs and especially the language.

Every year the Mechanical Science and Engineering Team (M-SET) attends CalGames, a competition where they replay last year’s FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) game. Teams from all over the Bay Area and even from out of state join in the competition.

After moving up to the tougher De Anza League, the girls’ water polo team did not expect to win many games.

After the flurry of adding and dropping classes during the first few weeks of school, many upperclassmen have discovered sophomores and even freshmen as classmates in AP Statistics, AP Computer Science, AP Music Theory and AP Calculus BC. Although upperclassmen recieve priority in being placed in these advanced classes, a limited number of underclassmen gain spots alongside juniors and seniors.

Imagine teaching at Saratoga 13 years from now. Many current teachers will still be teaching, while a new generation of students will walk the same halls you once walked. 

After ending a successful season last year as co-league champions with Harker in the El Camino League, the girls' water polo team has been bumped up to the more difficult De Anza League.

The STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) job field has greatly expanded in the past 20 years. As part of Silicon Valley and the heart of this growth, the school has had a strong reason to include an engineering track in the curriculum. 

Hoping to draw new student engineers and parent volunteers, the Mechanical Science and Engineering Team (M-SET) held an open house on Aug. 25.