Students continue to interact with college representatives virtually Will Thomas January 4, 2021 Lifestyle, Student Life It is 7 a.m. on a Monday morning and senior Lexi Gwyn is up preparing for a virtual college information session. Scribbling in her notebook, Gwyn jots down a list of questions to ask the school’s representative...
Lights, webcam, action! Valerie Chu December 23, 2020 News Makeup, clothes and props ready, junior Arnav Singhal looks into the camera, preparing to put on one of the semester’s biggest plays for a faceless audience. This year, he is performing at home, with a greenscr...
Senior Sadness Emma Todd December 4, 2020 Lifestyle For the class of 2021, instead of becoming a Second Semester Senior, it faces the prospect of Seasonal Senior Sadness. With the COVID-19 pandemic raging, college application season in full gear and the loss of ...
Preseason practices begin under COVID regulations Jack Galetti November 9, 2020 Sports When then-junior Diego Mazzon had his swim season cut short at the end of the 2019-2020 school year, he never expected that when he returned to captain the team this year, COVID-19 would still be haunting Paly ...
Elementary schools begin to reopen Braden Leung October 31, 2020 News, Showcase Kindergarten and first grade students returned to district campuses and began in-person learning on Oct. 12, with other grades to follow in the coming weeks. This decision was voted on by the Palo Alto Unifi...
The positives of online learning Bruno Klass October 23, 2020 Column, Opinion Classrooms? More like class Zooms. While schools are now taking place online in the comfort of our own homes, students are still divided on whether or not the benefits of comfort outweigh the costs of decreased...
Students support local restaurants during covid Parker Wang October 21, 2020 Food, Lifestyle Jing Jing, a Sichuan and Hunan gourmet restaurant, has been a staple of Chinese food in downtown Palo Alto since 1986. At a time when the restaurant industry is struggling, owner Betty Tsai is appreciative of t...
Interactive classes find ways to continue their course such as Band and Auto Ajay Venkatraman October 9, 2020 Science/Tech The first quarter of the school year has seen PAUSD schools move classrooms online. Even with the change to remote learning, many courses at Paly are finding ways to use onlie platforms creatively by exploring ...
Back to School Blunder Jace Purcell, Braden Leung and Siddhartha Sahasrabuddhe October 8, 2020 News, Showcase, Spotlight Spring Transition When the United States reported its first case of COVID-19 on Jan. 20, no one could have predicted what was to come. President Donald Trump called it the flu, faces remained unmasked and scho...
Palo Alto Unified School District announces a Fall reopening plan Siddhartha Sahasrabuddhe June 30, 2020 Breaking News, News, Showcase In an email sent to parents on June 30, Superintendent Don Austin announced a reopening proposal for the 2020-21 school year, which entails fall semesters starting with full distance learning for secondary scho...
