Years of Gears: Robotics Team Makes World Championship for Third Straight Year
March 30, 2011
The robotics team has qualified for the FTC World Championships for the third consecutive time this year. Here, Mrinal Kumar '14, Erin Gandleman '14, and Haris Durrani '11 attend to their robot at a previous contest. | Photo contributed by the robotics team Although most teenagers know... Read more »
The Parent Trap
March 30, 2011
For some students, it is not various combinations of AP classes, participation in multiple varsity sports, or even mediocre cafeteria food that induce unprecedented quantities of stress. Instead, it is their nurturing and all-too-caring parents who get the job done. According to one Staples student,... Read more »
Real World Survival 101
March 30, 2011
Spring Fashion has Sprung and Colors are All the Rage
March 22, 2011
An image from the J Crew Spring 2011 catalog, shot at the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles, California. Silk shorts for J Crew made their debut in the catalog. (Courtesy J Crew via Los Angeles Times/MCT) Rachel Labarre ’14 and Jordyn Patterson ‘14 Staff Writers This spring, fashion trends are going... Read more »
The Cougar
March 22, 2011
Holly Stewart ’11 and Grant Jessup ’13 are dating. And yes, those are different graduation years attached to their names. Graphic by Chiara Pucci ’12 Among a minority of Staples upperclassmen girls, Stewart is a self–proclaimed “cougar.” By definition, the slang term “cougar”... Read more »
The Roomate Finder: Find Your Perfect Match
March 21, 2011
Thibodeau and Justin Gaither, Graduates of the University of Miami, created a website in 2009 to help pair high school students with a college roommate. The website is called RoomSurf and contains over 800 colleges and universities in which it matches incoming freshmen to room together. Over the past... Read more »
For some students, allergies pose everyday challenges
March 21, 2011
Safety first: The nurses’ office carries a variety of medicines and tools to help combat allergic reactions of at-risk students. | Photo By Madison Horne ’12 As soon as the bell rings for lunch, hundreds of students rush to the cafeteria to claim their spot in a line filled with people anxiously... Read more »
Unexpected Teachers: When the road to the classroom has some colorful detours
March 21, 2011
Behind the gradebook of many Staples teachers lies another story, a hidden past. Several teachers have held previous careers, some being in a completely different field from teaching and even the subject they teach. “I think teachers who have had experience [outside of teaching] bring a lot to... Read more »
Above and Beyond: ASR Students continue research after school
March 21, 2011
An optimal presentation: Lenskiy ’11 shows a graph that validates his results, from a presentation he created outside of the ASR class to summarize his research on his project, “Modeling an Optimal Receiver for the Binary Quantum Channel.” One period a day, four days a week, Marcus Russi ’13... Read more »
Endless Possibilities: Online Textbooks at Staples
March 16, 2011
Some students use iPads as a source for textbooks and novels in classes at Staples. (Michael Bryant/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT) Most Staples students enrolled in a Spanish course are familiar with the struggle of constantly lugging around heavy “Realidades” or “Galeria de Arte y Vida” textbooks.... Read more »
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