Upper School Dean Adam Howard will teach the new course "Directed Study: American Playwrights—The Great Work Begins" next year, in which students will learn about a variety of works in contemporary theater. The course discusses playwrights such as Ayad Akhtar, Annie Baker, Quiara Alegria Hudes, David Henry Hwang and Dominique Morisseau, and students will also explore their own creative voices...

Web3 Social Founder Andrew Lee ’09 and Frax Finance Founder Sam Kazemian joined the HW Venture and Blockchain Club to discuss the decentralization of changed it so its kinda more about the overall decentralized nature">changed it so its kinda more about the overall decentralized nature" class="inline-comment collapsed">cryptocurrency and Web3 during Community Flex TimeI looked at old articles bc idk either">I...

Fatigued from the rush-hour drive from Santa Monica to Hollywood, Penelope Figueroa ’23 waited among dozens of other child actors contending for a role on the Disney Channel. Figueroa, then 10 years old and equipped with a manager and agent, said she struggled to stay engaged in the industry at a young age.“That's impossible, driving an hour and a half...

Team 62A, one of the school’s robotics teams, won the 2022 Southern California VRC High School State Championship and qualified for the 2022 Vex Robotics World Championship on March 5. Team members Dru Reed ’24, Kaito De Anda ’24 and Ben Ren ’24 won both of their finals matches and earned the Amaze Award, which recognizes a team with an...

The Community Health Office (CHO) announced in an all-school email the school will be lifting the mandatory mask mandate, meaning masks will be strongly recommended but not required on campus starting March 9. The school made the decision in response to the school's case count decreasing significantly and Los Angeles County lifting its mask mandate, according to the email. “One...

Following several losses in a primary battle with progressive Senator Bernie Sanders, and with the critical South Carolina primary looming, then-Presidential candidate Joe Biden pledged to nominate a Black woman to the U. S. Supreme Court in February 2020. Two years later, President Biden fulfilled his campaign promise by appointing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer...

The Science Olympiad team qualified for the Southern California State Tournament on April 2. The Science Olympiad is an international competition dedicated to improving the quality of science education by introducing students to a wide variety of fields including astronomy, chemistry, physiology, machine learning and physics. The Science Olympiad is divided into several chapters around the nation, each of which...

Los Angeles (LA) County lifted its indoor mask mandate March 4, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Previously, the CDC categorized LA as having a "high" COVID-19 risk, but as case rates dropped, the CDC moved LA into the "low" case risk categorization. This category includes counties where fewer than ten percent of inpatient beds are...

Animators' Club hosted professional animators and alumni alumni is plural men + women, alumnae is just women">alumni is plural men + women, alumnae is just women" class="inline-comment collapsed">Edwin Chang '01 and Wendy Chen '13 during lunch March 10. Following their time at the school, both Chang and Chen went on to work at Pixar Animation Studios as the Simulation Technical...

The annual Academic Fair took place on the Quad during Community Flex Time on March 8. Sophomores and juniors visited a variety of booths correlated to various courses and electives where they discussed course information with teachers and seniors who have taken the class. Lily Stambouli ’24 said the information she recieved at the Academic Fair was beneficial to her...