On the morning of April 1, the sophomore class cautiously approached the Terry Center to drop off their molecule projects, hoping that they would not drop them or that the vicious gusts of wind would not separate the spray-painted Styrofoam atoms and the chipped wooden toothpicks from the rest of their projects. One by one, each sophomore entered the...
Every year, the junior class- at least, the ones in the regular physics class- get ready to construct a daunting challenge: a Rube Goldberg machine. The rules are relatively simple: one can use any tools to build the Rube Goldberg, it must be built only at school, and as Ms. Clayton told her class, the "Engineer Daddies" can't build...
December assessments are never a hit for Jesuit students. And because of this, I wanted to get a deeper look – via a student opinion poll – at the dreaded December assessments.
Methodology
To conduct this poll in a method that avoided potential and probable skews, I decided to get 20 students from each of the four grade levels; and in...
It was just a normal day for the students of “Forensics: Field Techniques,” about a week before mid-terms, when all of a sudden their teacher, Ms. Page, began coughing intensely in the middle of class. The students did not react much to the coughs, but abruptly Ms. Page rushed to the trashcan, where she then vomited and seemingly passed...
Donning their best poker faces, the students in Mrs. Bean and Mrs. Mattachione’s statistics classes have bluffed, called, and raised their way to victory. In a brand new classroom activity, these two statistics teachers have been hoping to teach the seniors in their classes about probability by constructing a casino in their classrooms.
Attempting to have a very real and...
While many people do not look forward to the PSAT, some students don’t realize that scoring well on the test may give them scholarships to help pay for their college tuition.
The National Merit Scholar Corporation’s goal is to recognize the academically-talented students of the United States and reward them with various nationwide academic scholarship programs. Some of the scholarship...
This past September, nine Jesuit seniors—Michael Artigues, Will Brown, Ben Carver, Cole Fincher, Ivan Gan, Aidan Johnston, Matt Tulli, Jason Uy, and Oliver Valenti—were honored as semi-finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program, one of the most prestigious high school awards in the nation. The award, given by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), has been given to high-achieving...
The U.S. presidential election may be one of the most highly anticipated events in the world. As candidates and voters alike hold their breaths, the votes are tallied to decide who will lead the American people. In a race that will culminate in November, this is the critical time in which many Americans choose their candidate. The U.S. republican...
