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Current MAP seniors at Universal Studios on the MAP LA trip in junior year

Senior Mag 2024: 2 seniors reflect on what made their MAP experience memorable

Anamika Anand May 30, 2024

The Media Arts Program is a path of study that almost all Saratoga High students have the opportunity to pursue, but typically only a few dozen overcome scheduling challenges and remain in the program...

Students visiting the Academy Awards Museum on March 9.

MAP 11 students explore production and film in Los Angeles

Florence Hu March 18, 2024

From March 7-10, 42 juniors in the school’s Media Arts Program (MAP) toured parks, studios and museums around Los Angeles. The annual trip, which started in 2013, marked the second year back from trips...

Sophomores Lucas Hawthorne, Somei Ogata, Ian Johnson and Alex Sinton on the zipline course bridge. 

MAP 10 takes on Mount Herman’s Ropes Course and Ziplines

Christina Labban November 21, 2023

The Media Arts Program’s (MAP) long-awaited ropes course field trip tradition made a return after a 4-year hiatus due to the pandemic. On Oct. 26, sophomores in the MAP program visited Mount Hermon...

Sophomore Navya Chawla practices using Adobe Photoshop with the new iMacs.   

New Mac lab for MAP classes replaces aging equipment

Annika Gho September 27, 2023

The multimedia collaborative classroom looks starkly different than it has been over the past few years. The sleek computers and comfortable armchairs lining the walls now make the room feel more like...

Smash’n will orbit around an “Out of this world” theme. 

‘Out of This World’-themed SMASH’N event to show off the best of MAP

Anamika Anand May 27, 2023

On the most special night for the MAP, the McAfee will be lit with blue fairy lights and outer space-themed decorations as formally dressed MAP teachers, students and family file in, taking pictures and...

Hemmerich helps a group of students edit a project. 

MAP teachers Hemmerich and Muñoz to leave SHS

Anamika Anand May 27, 2023

As the school year comes to an end, the Media Arts Program is saying goodbye to two teachers: longtime MAP, Digital Animation and Photography teacher Alex Hemmerich and MAP and Ceramics teacher Theresa...

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