Jason Zhao

Players adjust to new coaches and positions.

Falcons take first steps to turn around season with a rebuilt team.

Overview of the 2016-2017 school year badminton team

The problem with party culture

Football charges into CCS

MAP students learn more about campaign through mock election.

Junior fights disability through syncronized swimming

With the 2016 presidential election coming up in November, AP Government and Economics teachers Kirk Abe and Mike Davey have reversed the curriculum to teach U.S. Government first semester so that students will be educated about the election process.

Students share opinions on new leadership class.

At the beginning of the school year, ASB officers sent out a survey on the SHS Facebook page, looking for suggestions on how to spend the $276,000 that had accumulated over the years.  

After two long days, the Falcon badminton team members emerged victorious from CCS on May 13-14, sending No. 1 boys’ singles player Stephen Ding and No. 1 boys’ doubles players Partha Shah and Josh Li onward to play at the NorCal State Championships on May 21.  

Starting next year, Leadership will be a mandatory class period for commissioners, elected class officers and ASB members.

“Good game, Wilcox!” echoed throughout the gym on April 21, as the Falcons came out victorious 22-8, their fourth consecutive  win in this season.

The Falcons lost their first two games against Cupertino on March 10 and Monta Vista on March 10, both with scores of 20-10. 

The first thing you notice about junior Balakumaran Balasubramanian is, of course, the name: 26 letters, an alphabet in itself and one that never fails to stun and amaze the teachers he has had the first time they see it.

The Saratoga Falcon conducted an interview with AP Literature teacher Jason Friend, AP Language teacher Cathy head, and Nina Nelson, one of several seniors taking both classes this year, regarding the differences between AP Lit and AP Lang.

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.

There is something about Benedict Cumberbatch. It might be his needle-sharp jawline, his charming British accent or his deprecating humor. Whatever it is, he’s endlessly fascinating to  to watch as Sherlock Holmes.  

Food waste has become such a problem in the United States to the point that a man could seemingly survive by eating out of the landfill.

Reporters experience wrestling for themselves

The school is often criticized for its pressure-cooker academic atmosphere and college-level workloads. As part of an effort to combat student competitiveness and stress, assistant principal Kerry Mohnike interviewed a select group of students to hear their stories and learn what factors contributed most directly to their stress.

Hello Barbie, the new artificial intelligence doll created by the company Mattel, is designed to listen attentively to a child’s questions and ask intimate questions in hopes of helping with moral dilemmas.

Over the past year, the learning management system Canvas has quickly become a popular way for students to check their homework or see notifications their teachers have posted. In the next couple of years, Canvas is expected to replace Aeries as the school’s grade portal, and Aeries will only be used to send out report cards.

We weren’t really sure what to expect when we were  pressured by Falcon staff members to attend a varsity cheerleading practice. Our initial feelings were a cross between relief, as we were getting a break from academic stress of junior year, and apprehension, as we were bound to embarrass ourselves. 

Creating a new state-of-the-art music building is the result of the Measure E bond, a measure passed in the spring of 2014 that will renovate facilities at both Los Gatos and Saratoga High School. The new music building will be approximately 23,000 square feet and have two stories. Other projects around campus include an additional multi-purpose room to meet the needs of sports teams and other groups, renovation to the paths near the tennis courts, turfing of the upper field and a Wi-Fi upgrade, among many other improvements.

After six years at the school, Media Arts Program teacher Cathy Leather will leave this fall to teach at Archbishop Mitty High School. 

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

High up in the Caucasus Mountains, six cars escort an armored van. Suddenly, four more cars pull onto the road and ram into the escorts, which topple over. This scene is just one of many action-packed moments included in “Furious 7.” 

Junior Aakash Thumaty beat Luke Salin by just four votes after the elections took place in early April, but the result of that narrow victory may not have been the biggest story.

The annual event raises $1,140.

This year, California has recorded its lowest amount of rainfall in the past 60 years. The dry period has been made worse by the unusually high temperatures.

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.

Common Core will be a focus as middle school and high school staff meet

The school will be adopting a rolling block schedule for the 2016-2017 school year, principal Paul Robinson announced at a faculty meeting on Monday. The decision was made without the voting and discussion among staff that had occurred in previous years.

As of January, $2 million of the $99 million Measure E funds are now available to be used specifically for technology at Saratoga High. With the money, the school will work with the PTSO to purchase and upgrade new technology over the next few years.

The decision was made without the staff vote that had occurred in previous years.

Preview for the Spring BAseball season for the school year 2014-2015. 

Two reporters review Mod Pizza, a restaurant recently opened at Westgate West.

To the surprise of video game fanatics at this year’s Blizzcon, a semi-annual game convention held by Blizzard Entertainment to promote their major franchises, Blizzard announced its first ever first-person shooter game, “Overwatch.” First-person shooter involve situations in which the player plays from the perspective of a character.

League of Legends is a MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) video game developed by a company called Riot Games. Players get to become 100 different characters called champions. The goal of the game is to fight the opponents and destroy the enemy base. But however active the characters on screen may be, League of Legends should not be considered a sport.

After much heated debate, Gov. Jerry Brown has assented to signing  the bill banning all plastic bags in California. Once signed, the ban on plastic bags would kick in for grocery stores and pharmacies on July 1, 2015, and extend to convenience stores and liquor stores a year later. In place of plastic bags, stores will offer a paper or reusable bag at the cost of 10 cents.

Sophomore fencer Eric Pei recounts his experiences of how he rose in the world of fencing. 

Over the past month of the new school year, students have been adjusting to the new Canvas learning management system, the first of several improvements by the school in response to the results of its Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) report.