Smartphones have become a major part of everyday life. Phones are designed to facilitate communication through calls and messages and to be highly convenient while doing so. However, too much phone usage and screen time can lead to addiction. In the last decade or so, researchers have noticed that phone addiction rates have gone tremendously…
A short case study of 7 teachers and 7 students at Agoura High School I interviewed seven teachers and seven students from seven academic departments at Agoura High School to determine how good teaching is perceived in real classrooms. The two pie charts above summarize the most common responses to one question both groups were…
Today Agoura High School has a flourishing robotics program–but did you know that four years ago this program was virtually unrecognizable? Mr. Guce, the teacher who took robotics to its present heights, paints a nightmare picture of what robotics used to be. As he recalls, “In the early stage robotics didn’t join competitions; we didn’t…
After the installation of the new government administration, many drastic changes have been both proposed and implemented. We constantly hear a barrage of rumors and facts and sometimes they are indistinguishable from one another. As high school students looking towards the future, it is more important than ever to be engaged in our country’s politics…