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After three days of auditions and callbacks, the cast for the school’s spring musical, “Fiddler on the Roof,” was announced on Jan. 27.  Starring in the show are senior Taylor Zhou as Tevye, senior Peilin Zhang as Hodel, junior Anastasia Ramirez as Tzeitel, freshman Ashly Henry as Golde and freshman Diya Iyer as Chava. “Fiddler […]

Senior Green Team president Cici Xu spent her Jan. 25 tutorial walking around campus holding what looked like a small ruler, and dipping it into water samples collected from various fountains and dispensers. What she discovered surprised her. The numbers on her TDS meter — the device used to measure the amount of total dissolved […]

From Feb. 11-13, the student production “She Kills Monsters,” directed by senior Taylor Zhou, will be performed in the McAfee Center.  The drama-comedy, written by Qui Nguyen and debuted in 2011, tells the story of a woman grieving her late teenage sister through exploring the latter’s passion for Dungeons and Dragons, a roleplaying game. Senior […]

In order to combat the common dilemma of students having to choose between taking Intro to Computer Science or Intro to Engineering, a proposed new class called Intro to STEM will combine the two. The new class will replace Intro to Engineering and Intro to Computer Science, merging the two classes into one year-long course […]

As spring semester starts, several clubs are planning to host national academic competitions on campus. Science Club plans to host the F=ma and USA Biolympiad (USABO) exams, Math Club will hold the American Invitational Mathematics Examination  (AIME) competition, and both the Quiz Bowl and Science Bowl teams are preparing for their upcoming competitions.    Science […]

The 2022 Benefit Fashion show is currently scheduled to be held in the quad in late March, though plans are subject to change depending on the status of campus COVID-19 protocols.  Since September, the Benefit Fashion Show Commissioners — consisting of lead commissioners seniors Grace Hsu and Tiffany Wang and co-commissioners seniors Chris Liu and […]

The day before their competition on Dec. 10 at Rosemont High School in Sacramento, everything went wrong for the MSET Cuttlefish, the Mechanical Science and Engineering Team’s veteran FTC team: The servos controlling the extension and retraction of the robot’s intake snapped, sending the team’s hardware team scrambling for a solution. “We ended up zip-tying […]

On a crisp, Saturday morning on Jan. 8, junior Anjini Mani hiked the trails of Saratoga’s Quarry Park in search of a green, flowering shrub known as French Bloom. Peering through the undergrowth, she trekked alongside eight other volunteers participating in the city of Saratoga’s “Let’s Work” program. The program was founded in 2015 by […]

The start of the second semester marks the beginning of one of the biggest projects for the junior and senior class officers: planning a combined junior and senior prom. It will be the first combined prom in recent memory and a model the school plans to follow in the future. “We’re still just getting started, […]

Note: Statistics in this story were last updated on Jan. 21. Following the return from winter break, the school experienced a large uptick in COVID-19 cases due to the omicron variant. Before the return to school on Jan. 3, at least 29 students and five staff members had initially tested positive, assistant principal Brian Thompson […]