Remote learning promotes communication
Charlotte Armstrong '21, Staff Writer
March 27, 2020
Samira Saad ’21 rises out of bed at 9:00 a.m. and after a languid breakfast, she opens her laptop to Schoology. Over the next few hours, she rotates between typing up work and taking pictures of her notes. At 2:00 p.m., she retires her schoolwork and has the rest of her day open. Saad’s routi...
Precautions taken at Yale Children’s Hospital ensure minimal spread of COVID-19
Samantha Felner '22, Paper Opinions Editor
March 26, 2020
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World Language Week returns to Staples
Chelsea Strober '21, Paper Opinions Editor
March 20, 2020
All over the country, the first weeks of March are recognized as World Language Week. The week promotes and celebrates foreign languages and cultures from all around the world. While it has not taken place at Staples in over 10 years, World Language Week made its return on Monday March 9 and will continue...
Mandayam, Schussheim code stuttered speech recognition algorithm
Audrey Bernstein '20, Editor-in-Chief
March 19, 2020
It was summertime when Rishabh Mandayam ’21’s phone lit up with a text from Benji Schussheim ’20. “I want to create a machine learning algorithm for stuttering,” it said. “Are you in or are you out?” In the months following the text exchange, Mandayam and Schussheim coded a prototype...
Yearbook surveys attempt to integrate opinions, many don’t contribute
Hannah Conn '23 and Prasaus Yeager '22
March 11, 2020
When yearbooks are sent out to the school, there is a rush of students looking to see if their picture is somewhere besides their class photo and what is featured in that year's book. The Yearbook Club, which is responsible for bringing these books to life, sends out surveys to students as a way to promote...
Mindfulness curriculum garners positive response from students, teachers
Allison Gillman '23 and Maya Hruskar '23
March 10, 2020
Close your eyes. Relax your muscles. Soften your mind. Focus on your breath, noticing how it enters and leaves your body. Envision yourself in a calm, peaceful, quiet place, such as a beach or the countryside, and allow any stress to melt from your body and soak into the ground beneath you. This i...
Dobin-Smith emphasizes push for climate action in community
Allison Gillman '23, Staff Writer
March 10, 2020
Each year, an area of coastal ecosystem larger than New York is destroyed. Every 45 minutes in Louisiana, an entire football field of land vanishes from rising sea levels. And over one million species around the planet run the risk of extinction due to habitat loss, disappearing ecosystems and ocean acidif...
Lauren Tarshis inspires kids through historic graphic novels
Lily Caplan '22, Staff Writer
March 10, 2020
Most Staples’ students know the book series, “I Survived” by Lauren Tarshis ’81; little do they know she is a Westport native. Tarshis is the Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Scholastic Magazine. Her first series was “Emma Jean Lazarus, Fell Out of a Tree” and she then began th...
B3 trip forms lasting relationships through philanthropic community service
Karina Murray ’22, Staff Writer
March 5, 2020
While February break brings a time for exotic vacation, time to spend with the ones you love or time to grow individually as a person, for Builders Beyond Borders (B3) participants, it combines all three. B3 students spent a week in Costa Rica over February break serving and constructing buildings in...
Leaplings excite over added day to February
Shira Zeiberg '22, Staff Writer
March 5, 2020
Are you one? Are you two? Are you three? Are you four? Stop! chants Lily Aldridge’s ’22 parents as they celebrate her 16th birthday. Instead of a sweet 16 party this year, she might need to call it her sweet 4th instead. Once every four years, people born on Feb. 29 get the opportunity to celebrate...
Horticulture class saves the (Valentine’s) Day
Ella Stoler '22, Sports Paper Editor
February 26, 2020
On a day associated with romance and budding relationships, it's easy to feel excluded if you find yourself without a valentine. However, regardless of your current relationship status, the Staples Horticulture class managed to make the whole school feel included this Valentine’s Day. The process...
Westport native incites global change
Ella Alpert '22, Staff Writer
February 25, 2020
Around 90 miles North of Venezuela, in the Eastern Carribean sea, approximately 20miles long and 12 miles wide, lies the island of Grenada. Home to around 110,00 people, the island is made of mountainous terrain and white sand beaches. However, the beautiful scenery can’t protect the people from the pro...
GFA eliminates AP courses
Rebecca Kanfer '21, Paper Sports editor
February 25, 2020
The bell rings. Students stuff their pencils and papers back into their bags. Anxious looks are shot towards the teacher collecting the tests. The class exits as murmurs about the exam stream down the hallway. Stress and anxiety build as students await their grade. This experience is common among students...
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Remote learning promotes communication
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Staff Writer
Graham Wood ’20 is a staff writer who is taking Advanced Journalism for the first time this year. He took the class because he reads the news all the time in order to keep up with what’s happening...