A Cut into the Dissection Program at Staples
October 11, 2010 • 1 views
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Although she is now a senior, Jenn Hoets ’11 has much to recall from her freshman year biology course. She thinks back to classes spent discussing evolution at length and extracting DNA to study during lab periods. And of course there is the memory of walking into her classroom to a series of ominously... Read more »
Staples Community Remembers Science Teacher Stephen Roberts
September 17, 2010 • 359 views
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Image via Wikipedia Danny Cooper '13 Staff Writer Staples High School science teacher Stephen Roberts died on Sunday, Aug. 29 at the age of 43. Roberts had battled cancer since his twenties. Although Roberts was ill last year, he still looked forward to teaching this fall. He leaves behind a... Read more »
Green to Attend Prestigious MIT Science Program
April 16, 2010 • 1,905 views
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DJ Sixsmith '11 Sports Editor While most of the students at Staples High School will be spending their summers traveling the country and enjoying the beautiful weather, Tessa Green ’11 will be hard at work in a science lab on the coast of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The scientifically driven junior... Read more »
Students Showcase Projects in Statewide Science Fair
February 23, 2010 • 748 views
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Stevie Klein '12 Web A&E Editor On Feb. 6, students from Staples, Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge, Darien High School and Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, shared their scientific findings at the 10th annual Southern Connecticut Invitational Science and Engineering Fair. Each... Read more »
A Novel of Change, the Art of Engineering, and Social Entrepreneurship
January 15, 2010 • 956 views
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Haris Durrani ’11 Opinions Editor A lot of science fiction writers—or a lot of readers—seem to think the S.F. genre is aimed to predict the future. This might be true to some extent, but to blogger, columnist, copyright activist, and writer Cory Doctorow, S.F. is more... Read more »