Frederick Kim

Saratoga Math Club excels in math competitions, scoring in the top 5% in the nation. 

Korean Club dances to K-Pop music during lunch on Jan. 27 for Lunar New Year celebrations.

Watch clips of the March 14 walkout in protest of gun violence and in memory of the Parkland school shooting victims which took place during tutorial.

Senior Raquel Boales talks about how she overcame her disability in order to continue her passion in synchronized swimming despite the many obstacles she faced.

Junior Iman Laique talks about her struggles with her panic attacks and how she overcame them.

Senior Prashant Malyala talks about his struggles and resolutions with his step-father for his speech during the Speak Up For Change assembly on Jan. 15.

Senior Solomon Bailey talks about his experience moving to the U.S., discovering his philosophy of being who he wants to be and doing what he wants to do during the Speak Up For Change assembly on Jan. 15.

Math club hopes to continue trend of success in math competitions. 

The freshmen's skit was a takeoff on the movie "Footloose."

The Class of 2018 came together to produce a "Grease"-themed Quad Day.

Teachers revisit the '80s in their Quad Day. 

Reporters interview Luke Roh about his adaption to Saratoga after he moved from Korea.

California, with its solar panel industry rapidly expanding, still has people questioning its worth.

ASB makes changes to its constitution.

Although the robotic team did not perform in their top condition at the first regional tournament of the year, they set their eyes on the next regional tournament in Las Vegas.

Campus conservatives exist despite liberal enviorment. 

Cable's death marked by dropping football viewership.

Tardy policies are handled differently between teachers. 

Actors should be able to speak their political views

Junior confesses to being afraid of light switches

Prom makeup more than meets the eye

School's social media giving a new perspective

Attendance experiences a drop in tardies after the implication of new block schedule.

In the age of electronics, computer science now plays a major role in many diverse jobs.

Junior talks about plasitc water bottles and their reusability.

APCS class requries new prerequisite knowledge.

Article talks about the many changes Measure E is bringing to the high school. 

Students recall past experiences in 4-year long engineering class.

Implemented on Aug. 2, Instagram Stories was introduced as a new feature of the app, which is owned by Facebook. Much of the public viewed this new feature as a plagiarism of Snapchat Stories, introduced three years ago.  

Golfers finished their regular season strong with an emphatic 202-216 win against Wilcox on April 21 at Santa Clara Golf and Tennis Club (par 36), concluding a 9-3 run and finishing second in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League behind Los Gatos. No. 1 player senior Lucas Peng medaled in the match with a 37, the best score of both teams in the match.

Nearly every American student who has attended public school can recognize the opening song for the iconic TV show, “Bill Nye the Science Guy.” The days in elementary and middle school, when science teachers played episodes to give students a break from notes, have long since passed, but the catchy song still stays close to many students’ hearts.  

Following Disney’s trend of converting animated classics into live-action movies, the industry recently released “The Jungle Book” in theaters on April 15, bringing the 1967 animated classic back to life.  

Engineering in Design and Development (EDD) will be introduced next year as a new elective for aspiring engineers, completing the four-year engineering program. The class will be project-based with hands-on learning, exposing students to real-world experience.

So far the boys’ golf team, led by No. 1 player Miles Peng, has handled sometimes rainy conditions and managed to achieve a 5-1 record as of March 11.

The school’s AP Environmental Science students traveled  to Año Nuevo Natural Preserve in Pescadero for their annual trip on March 10. 

Following a successful preseason, the girls have progressed through the highly competitive De Anza league with a record of 12-6 through Jan. 21.

New schedule has many flaws.

Residential and vehicular burglaries in Saratoga have increased in the past three years, as its affluence and the at times lax security of the neighborhoods have made the community easy prey for burglars at a time when the state is making an effort to release non-violent offenders from prisons.

With every day of painstaking training, Chen knew he was one step closer to achieving his dream: becoming fit enough to become a U.S. Marine.

One of the safest ways to skip school is by pretending to be sick. With a simple feigned cough and a hairdryer-heated thermometer, students can avoid an unexcused absence and scolding from their parents.

Senior Caroline Jens describes her experience as an Irish dancer.

Students may notice that hallways and the quad during lunch have been slightly less crowded this year. The reason? The school has about 100 fewer students, with about 1,300 now enrolled.

Sue’s Gallery Cafe will open in downtown Saratoga on Oct. 14, selling coffee and tea in addition to ceramicware handmade by Sue Kwon, co-owner of the cafe.

Gaining far more knowledge and experience than they had expected, 10 AP Environmental Science students, along with their teacher, Kristen Thomson, and Biology teacher Kristofer Orre, returned from a five-day turtle observing excursion to Tortuguero, Costa Rica, on Sept. 28.

On the morning of Aug. 25, administrators, counselors, booster members and parents of both new and current students came together in the cafeteria for coffee and a meeting to discuss future events organized by the PTSO.

Whether in-class or take-home, each type of essay has its purpose. With at-home essays comes great pressure, because having more time and resources means being graded more harshly. At the same time, the more stressful in-class essay prevents procrastination and pushes students to think faster.