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Ban Bossy encourages young female leadership

Ban Bossy encourages young female leadership

by Ayushi Gautam, Opinion editor April 7, 2014

Two hands shoot up in a classroom when a teacher asks a question. Two hands that look nearly identical. If one hand was a girl’s and the other a boy’s, would that affect the teacher’s decision? According...

Bridging educational gaps with mobile apps

Bridging educational gaps with mobile apps

by Raveena Kapatkar and Emily Lin April 5, 2014

With the release of the Apple App Store in 2008, apps from a wide variety of categories have become popular for consumers of all ages. The education category, in the case of children and teens, is designed...

Intel finalist presents at capital

Intel finalist presents at capital

by Kacey Fang April 5, 2014

Senior Sreyas Misra’s very first research project spent him hours hunched over a laptop or in a lab. After months of work, it would take him as far as the nation’s capital. As an Intel Science Talent...

Facial recognition: no longer science fiction

by Stephanie Chen April 5, 2014

Facial recognition may have sounded like science fiction ten years ago, but today, it is being used in everything from security to social networking to pet retrieval. The technology has created benefits...

Tinker Tour and Karen Korematsu visit the Upper School

Tinker Tour and Karen Korematsu visit the Upper School

by Vasudha Rengarajan, Aquila Features Editor April 5, 2014

Faces brightened and smiles widened as the second period journalism students welcomed Mary Beth Tinker, Frank Lamonte, and Karen Korematsu to the Upper School. The Tinker Tour made a stop at the school...

Creativity beyond the Classroom: Art Teachers as Artists

Creativity beyond the Classroom: Art Teachers as Artists

by Vivek Bharadwaj and Tara Parimi April 5, 2014

To students, teachers may seem to simply teach classes and grade papers, shutting down like a computer outside of school in anticipation of the next 8:00 bell. This scenario leaves no room for the mural...

Trash System Updated

Trash System Updated

by Shannon Su and Vineet Kosaraju April 4, 2014

System: Improved The Upper School is working towards a cleaner campus, especially around the eating locations, by improving student habits through a grading system and spreading awareness. ASB...

Meet the ASB Candidates

Meet the ASB Candidates

by Sharanya Balaji, Reporter April 3, 2014

The ASB Candidates for the 2014-2015 school year answer a few questions for the students to get a better idea of who they really are. Voting closed at the end of Friday's lunches and election results...

Keller’s Korner – 3/28

by Alyssa Amick, Managing Editor April 1, 2014

The past week had both the annual HOSCARs talent show and the multicultural fair. Meanwhile, the boys’ volleyball team and the boys’ golf team both have significant wins.   This has been a fun...

The top five speakers and two event coordinators pose for a shot.

Junior places 2nd at regional JSHS symposium

by Roshni Pankhaniya, Aquila Sports Editor March 31, 2014

After spending a weekend in Reno packed with competition, discussion, and labwork, junior Neil Movva placed 2nd out of 16 contestants at the Northern California/Western Nevada Junior Science and Humanities...

Noa Sasson (9) does a vertical split during her poi performance. Her act won the award for Best Solo Performance.

Behind the lights: the Hoscar experience

by Meilan Steimle March 28, 2014

The air backstage is humid and humming with nervousness. Students cluster together, holding hands, uttering words of encouragement, or just standing alone, trying desperately to calm themselves. As the...

2048 takes the stage as newest hit game

2048 takes the stage as newest hit game

by Stanley Zhao and Juhi Gupta March 26, 2014

Groups of students gathered around with laptops and vigorously started mashing their keyboards. Was an English paper due next period? Was the programming assignment that difficult? No, it was the math...

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