By Sophia Bassi, The American School in London
• January 31, 2023
California has experienced three weeks of deadly flooding after years of drought, according to The Guardian. The storms, which released 24.5 trillion gallons of water across the state, have killed 20 people...
By Nora Vedder, Prosper High School
• January 30, 2023
It's been 82 years. Yet, just a week and a half ago, art students in Room 1035 found a discovery on the lightbox in their work area. But, they stopped before turning it on to help with their pieces. ...
A beloved San Francisco Bay whale washed ashore dead last August. That whale was Fran, the most popular and photographed humpback in the San Francisco Bay, with 277 recorded sightings since 2005.
Fran...
By Hannah Lee, Avery Wang, Samantha Wu, Claire Xu, Claire Yu, and Davi Jacobs
• January 27, 2023
Shortly before dismissal on Tuesday, Jan. 24, RM’s security staff identified a 15-year-old former student trespassing in the school building. As the staff escorted the student off campus, they suspected...
By Sophia Bateman and Nassef Sawiris
• January 25, 2023
Supporters of Brazil’s far-right Former President Jair Bolsonaro protested the inauguration of new President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasília Jan. 8. Thousands of his supporters invaded Brazil’s...
Since 1972, the Iowa caucuses have marked the start of a busy schedule of presidential primaries. However, the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee voted to approve President Joe...
By Kaden Bryant, Oviedo High School
• January 25, 2023
“Why would you want to censor people from learning about their own history?”
Kiana Wilkerson, 12, pondered this question in her bedroom with tears in her eyes on a chilly Florida morning on Jan....
By Harper Barnowski, Walt Whitman High School
• January 23, 2023
One year after a shooting in a Magruder High School bathroom left one student in a coma, parents remain frustrated with MCPS leaders and Montgomery County police over their response to the incident.
...
By Kara Kim, Carlmont High School
• January 23, 2023
A 2019 bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed has recently come into effect in 2023, banning the use of single-use plastics for bathroom essentials in California hotels with over 50 rooms.
The bill, titled...
On Nov. 10, the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced a proposal to return grizzly bears to the North Cascades National Park. The proposal announced that, starting in...
By Jonathan Xue, The Harker Upper School
• January 23, 2023
FTX, previously the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange internationally with a valuation of 32 billion, declared bankruptcy in November 2022, prompting an FBI investigation into its founder Sam Bankman-Fried...
By Louis Auxenfans, University of Chicago Laboratory High School
• January 23, 2023
New artificial intelligence writing software has changed the game, and now educators and students must determine the line between academic benefit and dishonesty.
ChatGPT, an AI language model released...
WSPN's Nina Wilson and Sophia Oppenheim explore the influence of ChatGPT, a recently developed AI tool, at Wayland High School. Scroll to read their article and take a quiz to decide if you can tell which...
By The Tide Staff, Richard Montgomery High School - MD
• January 19, 2023
RM transitioned to a lockdown on Friday, Jan. 13 at 12:56 p.m. following a report of an individual allegedly in possession of a handgun on school grounds. The Rockville City Police Department is continuing...
By Danielle Haynes, Ritenour High School
• January 19, 2023
Dr. Jana Haywood was hired last year as the Ritenour High School principal, but if the history of the principal position at Ritenour over the last ten years repeats itself, she will be gone by the class...
By Audrey Chang, Archer School for Girls
• January 18, 2023
In the first two weeks of 2023, people across California and in Los Angeles have seen a lot of something they are not used to: the rain.
The past three years have been the driest ever recorded in California...
By Caroline Caruso, Liberty High School - TX
• January 18, 2023
Still on the shelves of some Frisco ISD high school libraries, “The Perks of Being A Wallflower” and “Glass Castle.”
Gone are “The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” “Check Please,...
By Laura Rivera, McNeil High School
• January 18, 2023
Senior Aniruddh Mishra was awarded Second Place in the 2022 US Congressional App Challenge for his website on Dec. 13, 2022. The portion of the website that he coded, dashboard.educationisttutoring.org,...
By Grace Roddy, Walt Whitman High School
• January 17, 2023
Each Saturday afternoon since Sept. 23, chants of “Zan Zendigi Azadî” — Farsi for “Woman, Life, Freedom” — have filled the National Mall. Thousands huddle around the green, white and red Iranian...
By Logan Wilkowski, Salem High School - MI
• January 17, 2023
Eden Ericson, Starkweather Academy senior and former Plymouth High School student, makes her way to Canton High School’s library to attend Anime Club after school. At Canton, a short flight of stairs...
Forbes magazine selected six alumni for its annual 30 Under 30 North America list announced Nov. 29.
The six chosen alumni are Lukas Czinger ’12 in the Manufacturing Industry category, Vivien Mao...
By Jasmine McIntosh, La Salle Catholic Preparatory High School
• January 17, 2023
La Salle’s robotics team, Maker Industries, has made history. On Jan. 7 at a Rose City League Meet, the team broke a world record for most points scored without penalties, scoring 284 points. This feat...
By Ananya Chaudhary and Lillian Wang
• January 11, 2023
Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine — even a two-milligram dose, the equivalent of 10 to 15 grains of salt, could be fatal. According to U.S. Drug Enforcement...
By Emily Rice, Linganore High School
• January 11, 2023
Imagine studying for hours on end for the biggest test of the semester. The test begins, and you immediately start scribbling down your answers. The time ticks down and students turn in their tests until...
By Adin Halbfinger, CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
• January 11, 2023
The new Migrants Assistance Partnership, created by three CESJDS parents, works to increase assistance of migrants from the local community. Since their launch in Sept. they have organized events to put...
By Amelia Sinclair, Algonquin Regional High School
• January 11, 2023
Freshmen Gracen Huang and Stephanie Davis placed first and second in an international InfoZones competition held by Checkology.
Checkology is a free educational platform run by the News Literacy Project,...
By Urvi Kulkarni, Carlmont High School
• January 11, 2023
Constantina Bakolista left her job as an academic researcher at UC Berkeley earlier this fall to work with those in her lab to lobby against workplace power abuses in the University of California (UC)...
By Lucas Pinaire, La Salle Catholic Preparatory High School
• January 6, 2023
La Salle announced its new partnership with online youth support resource Appa earlier this fall. This resource comes in addition to the counseling department’s efforts to support struggling students...
By Molly Menashe, Shalhevet High School
• January 6, 2023
Rabbi Abraham Lieberman, Shalhevet rabbi and teacher, says terminating a pregnancy violates Judaism’s prohibition against murder, lo tirzach.
“The fetus is a life – if you abort it, you kill it,”...
By Maya Silberman, Liberty High School - TX
• January 4, 2023
Candles are lit.
Latkes are fried.
Dreidels are spun.
Jewish people across campus and the world have been celebrating the Festival of Lights as Hanukkah continues until Monday evening.
“I...
By Nadya Chase, Aimee Smith, and Katya Luzarraga
• January 3, 2023
From 7:45 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 22, Wayland community members held an antiracism rally in response to racist graffiti targeting Superintendent Omar Easy found on the Wayland Community Pool,...
Food banks and charities are having a difficult time keeping up with the increasing demands as prices soar.
Rising inflation has caused basic necessities, such as food, to become harder to afford....
Students and staff evacuated the school after a bomb threat was called in at around 9 a.m. this morning. Police and K-9 units swept the school for threats before students and staff were allowed to...
By Allan Zhang, Dougherty Valley High School
• December 21, 2022
On Nov. 16, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first cultured meat product, lab-grown chicken produced by food technology company UPSIDE Foods. Faced with increasing concerns about the...
This year, for the first time, Creek is offering a semester-long CP African American Studies course. The College Board is currently developing an AP African American Studies class that will likely be available...
Meta and Twitter — along with several other tech companies — announced the layoffs of thousands of employees this November, citing concerns about less income and the possibility of a recession. As...
By Dani Klein, Walt Whitman High School
• December 20, 2022
Antisemitic graffiti that contained the words “Jews Not Welcome” was found on the sign outside Whitman this morning, Principal Robert Dodd wrote in an letter to community members today.
School administrators...
Two months ago, graffiti that included threats and a swastika was found in a school bathroom. While this act of antisemitism might be the most visible at LFHS in years, it is certainly not the first.
“Seeing...
An opioid overdose can end a life in four to six minutes. However, it takes an average of seven minutes for emergency medical services to respond to an emergency. If naloxone is used in overdose situations,...
By Eric Zhou, Monta Vista High School
• December 15, 2022
Over 48,000 University of California graduate student academic workers took to the streets on Nov. 14, protesting mainly for higher wages to offset the cost of living. The strike, which reverberated across...
With President Biden’s signature on Tuesday night, federal legislation codifying existing protections for same-sex and interracial marriage became law. P-CEP students from all over campus celebrated...
By Juli Mejia, Lafayette High School
• December 14, 2022
Senior Jayla Jones first heard about it in language arts teacher Sophia Beasley’s Black Literature class.
“We were all working and Mrs. Beasley walked up to me and was like, ‘Have you heard about...
By Lauren Clayton, Prosper High School
• December 14, 2022
Prosper High School decorates for the holidays annually. Trees, ribbons and lights are present across much of the school to raise spirit for the upcoming break. But this year, PHS student support counselor...
By Noah Elad, Shalhevet High School
• December 12, 2022
More than half of Shalhevet students surveyed who own Kanye West (Ye) apparel have stopped wearing it in response to his Tweet about going “death con 3” on Jews, but a majority of students who have...
By Audrey Park, University of Chicago Laboratory High School
• December 9, 2022
About 9% of students at the Laboratory Schools are Black, but throughout the 2021-22 school year, the number of Black students who withdrew from Lab was 17%, outpacing the overall enrollment.
For many...
By Vedant Desikamani and Ylin Zhu
• December 8, 2022
Cal High’s new ID scanners were implemented in October with the purpose of streamlining the attendance system.
But they have created attendance errors, false tardies and other issues as students and...
By Mary Carney, Lincoln High School - OR
• December 8, 2022
In October of 2022, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler unveiled his plan to ban houseless camping on city streets. Two weeks later, the resolution passed in a city council vote.
Over the next 18 months, the...
By Lizette Gonzalez, Archer School for Girls
• December 7, 2022
Los Angeles voters broke a record for most ballots casted for a mayoral race in the city this past November election. Former United States Representative Karen Bass faced businessman Rick Caruso, and...
By Nrithya Mahesh, Coppell High School
• December 7, 2022
A wave sticker, adorned with a unique design made by a fellow Coppell High School sophomore, decorates an iPad in the hallway. Beyond the engaging art and adhesive back, these stickers impact the lives...
By Triya Gudipati, Parkway West High School
• December 6, 2022
On Oct. 14 and 15, the Parkway West Speech and Debate Team kicked off the competitive season by hosting their first in-person tournament since 2019. While running the tournament, the raised money for Every...
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![SENIOR SEASON: Decked out in their jerseys, senior Parker Mitchell takes a photo of senior Sophia Kramer and friends before the first day of school in the senior parking lot. The night before, the class of ‘23 decorated their cars to show their senior pride going into their last year of high school. “It’s tradition for seniors to come and take [pictures] the morning before the first day of school,” Kramer said. “Being able to share that memory together is definitely bittersweet. I’m super excited for this year but I am anticipating all the lasts.” Reporting by Alice Scott.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/52288662181_5a1d0b7ef8_o-900x438.jpg)
![The cardiovascular system is painted on the wall outside the biology classrooms. The nicotine in vape and e-cigarette products have been proven to negatively impact the lungs, contributing to the concern the vaping epidemic will affect the health of youth for years to come. “There is an epidemic in our school of under-aged nicotine consumption… I think that this year that they did a really great job by bringing in Breathe NH… it was much more effective: there was a lot of data, statistics, infographics and [comparisons] especially to cigarettes, said Mary Martin 20, student council president.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/vapingphoto.jpg)
![Principal Mack Eagleton [left] and senior Aniruddh Mishra [right] pose for a picture shortly after Aniruddh received his 2nd Place Certificate from the US Congressional App Challenge.
“I think the challenge itself is amazing,” Aniruddh said. “Enroll in the challenge and create your own app. If you don’t know how to code, learn how to code. That’s my number one thing that I’d say to anybody because it’s one of the most important skills coming up in the modern world.”](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image1-3.jpg)
![Los Angeles mayor-elect Karen Bass talks with a group of young activists in an event organized by her campaigns youth group called Youth 4 Bass at WACO Theatre Center in Los Angeles Oct. 8. We had a dialogue between her with young people who agreed and disagreed with her. It was awesome to see such seamless organizing [take] place by young people, Youth 4 Bass organizer Bailey Swain said.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/unnamed-900x675.jpg)
![Getting a running start, junior Vita Madamanchi prepares to pie Speech and Debate Head coach Cara Borgsmiller after winning a bid. Borgsmiller was one of the coaches who volunteered to get pied, to raise money for Every Child’s Hope at the Speech and Debate team’s annual fundraiser. “Once I closed [donations, the team] wanted to bid on Borgsmiller, and it was a 10-minute bidding match between Madamanchi and [senior] Noah Schell. Madamanchi won and ended up spending 5,” junior Serpil Kucukkaya said.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Vita2_page-0001-900x600.jpg)