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Varsity girls soccer draws Notre Dame San Jose 0-0 on senior night

Varsity girls soccer draws Notre Dame San Jose 0-0 on senior night

by Eva Cheng and Tiffany Zhu February 18, 2025

Varsity girls soccer battled to a 0-0 stalemate against Notre Dame San Jose on Friday during their senior night game on Davis Field.  Seniors Claire Anderson, Kylie Anderson, Gia Emelie and Sara Glusman...

Varsity boys basketball captains Vyom Vidyarthi, Advay Monga and Bowen Xia (12) lead a team huddle. The captains frequently take on the responsibility of motivating the team to improve on-court morale and performance.

Leaders of the pack

by Eva Cheng, Wenjie Zou, and Claire Xu February 6, 2025

As global temperatures and sea levels rise, climate change intensifies weather patterns. California has seen stronger
and more frequent wildfires, drier and hotter droughts and stronger winds and waves during storms.

Global Reset: Stronger storms, fiercer fires

by Jeremy Peng and Jonathan Szeto February 6, 2025

From rising sea level to retreating glaciers, global warming has caused radical changes in our world’s oceans, forests and ecosystems. But few places across the globe have seen as impactful a shift in...

Calorie-tracking apps and fitness trackers often feed into unhealthy habits related to eating. Teens who are already vulnerable to body image issues may become obsessed with counting every calorie.

Shattering the silence around eating disorders

by Disha Gupta and Suhani Gupta February 6, 2025

This article discusses topics related to eating disorders, including extreme dieting and unhealthy weight loss methods. If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, please seek support...

Even with severe post-traumatic outcomes, many military sexual trauma incidents, especially involving male survivors, go unreported due to fear of ostracization.

Breaking down barriers

by Young Min, Winged Post Managing Editor February 5, 2025

Trigger warning for topics of sexual assault. In discussions about military trauma, an oversimplified, distinct division is often made between combat trauma and sexual trauma, with the former usually...

As a history teacher, Callahan brings her interest in cinema to the classroom setting, whether through the movie posters that decorate her classroom walls or the historical films that are incorporated into her history lessons. Her interest in exploring history through elements of multimedia first blossomed when she studied art history, a major that intersects the two fields.

Meet your staff: Creative connoisseur

by Charlize Wang and Heather Wang February 5, 2025

The Princess Bride. Cool Runnings. Night at the Museum. These are just a few of the many movies history teacher Bronwen Callahan grew up watching with her family. What began as a simple form of weekly...

Chess engines play at a level higher than any human being alive by sifting through millions of possible moves with efficient algorithms and massive processing power. Players nowadays use engines to analyze complex positions, develop new openings, and improve their own skill.

Checkmate by code

by Victor Gong and Mihir Kotbagi February 1, 2025

64 squares, two sides and more moves than atoms in the observable universe. Before 1990, most chess experts felt that it was not possible to create a machine that could match the creativity and imagination...

Santana Row rally gathers protestors against Trump's presidential actions

Santana Row rally gathers protestors against Trump’s presidential actions

by Samuel Tong and Charlie Wang January 26, 2025

Uriel Magdaleno, Silicon Valley Immigration Committee member: We're here to protest Trump's inauguration day. Since day one, he's promised to pass a bunch of executive orders that attacked the immigrant...

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