As a freshman, Hanness Yeung applied for and was accepted into the Navy’s youth development program, U.S. Naval Sea Cadets.
The yearlong program is similar to Boy Scouts, and mainly focuses on seamanship...
Amid the experience of high school, filled with gossip, stress, dancing, unfortunate grades, and more, heartbreak is one of the more unfortunate experiences anyone can go through. There are few ways to...
Staring at the draw at a regional tennis tournament, Samik Pattanayak noticed that one of his opponents was going to be attending the same middle school as him. That opponent was Shrey Jain. Little did...
When it comes to unconventional sports, you may think of the adrenaline rush of extreme skiing or the impressive feats of parkour. But for Maddy Hubb and Vidhi Patel, their passions lay in vaulting, the...
Yashom Kapoor started playing chess in 1st grade when his grandfather brought a chess set over from India. At first, he simply remembers liking how his grandpa would always let him win, but as he improved,...
In the past couple of years, some of Jarrett Singh’s favorite days were punctuated with his after-school runs to Yogurtland, many of which were inspired by Buy One Get One (BOGO) and triple reward days....
Thirty-one students and their chaperones, all wearing matching gray puffer jackets, filed out of a bus on the chilly Thursday morning of Dec. 7. They made their way to the cafeteria, where they were greeted...
Half-eaten apples and oily cafeteria pizza littered the ground as Class of ‘22 alumna Selina Chen — a former news editor for The Falcon — dug through six overflowing recycling bins around the school....
In July 2022, sophomore Yash Sharma started People of Programming (POP) — a non-profit that runs coding workshops and competitions in order to inspire students to pursue programming.
Since its creation,...
Besides teaching this year, biology teacher Jennifer Lee is coordinating the school’s mid-cycle report as part of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) accreditation process.
As...
Last March, senior Sahar Noor visited Vasona Lake County Park to attend the Nowruz Festival, a traditional Persian festival to celebrate the new year. She gazed in awe at the intense colors of the dancers’...
After blasting “Marvins Room'” at 3 a.m. or going bar for bar to “Family Ties,” many hip-hop fans think about what it might be like to pursue hop-hop as a glamorous career. For most, that’s...
