By: Ben Yi, Grade 10 Tesla’s Robotaxis, announced mid-2025, initiated its first services in Texas with active deployment in Austin, Dallas, and Houston as of April 2026. Tesla’s robotaxi service is an on-demand ride-hailing system in which riders can book trips through an app that uses Tesla’s Model Y cars …
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The Felicity of Dopamine
By: Elizabeth Tang Grade 6 On a hot summer afternoon, you walk down the street eating your favorite ice cream. As you take a big bite of your favorite chocolate ice cream, a wave of cool, sugary delight sweeps through you. Does it sound good? This is because dopamine creates …
Read More »What Makes a Good Leader?
By Elle Shi, Grade 7 In sports, leadership is often associated with team captains or star players, but being a great leader goes beyond wearing a title. A true leader influences a team through actions, attitude, and the ability to bring out the best in others even if those people …
Read More »How to Stay Mentally Healthy
By: Heran Zhang, grade 9 I think health is not only about our bodies, but also about our minds. Recently, many students feel stressed because of schoolwork and exams. So I want to talk about how we can keep our minds healthy and happy. First of all, we need to …
Read More »Who is the master? Robotic persons? Humanoid machines?
By Sarah Zhu, Grade 8 Imagine, the skyscrapers stand like a forest, nestled close to one another. The towering buildings before us reach straight into the clouds, and the sunlight reflected off the glass makes the world fresh and bright. Self-flying cars zip through the skyEverything is running in perfect …
Read More »Are electric cars really as eco-friendly as we think?
By: Elle Shi Grade 7 One of the most common beliefs today is that electric cars are completely environmentally friendly. Since they don’t use gasoline and don’t produce exhaust fumes, many people assume they are the perfect solution to climate change. In reality, it’s more complicated. Electric vehicles or EVs …
Read More »ShinyHunters Brings Down Canvas During Finals Week in Historic Education Breach
For millions of students already stressed about final exams, the week of May 7, 2026, brought an unwelcome surprise: their school’s learning platform had been hijacked. The 2026 Canvas security breach is an ongoing cybersecurity incident affecting Canvas LMS, a learning management system operated by Instructure. In early May, Instructure …
Read More »AI within Business
By: Ben Yi, Grade 10 With AI being one of the biggest markets in the world right now, it’s difficult to think of a world where it won’t be integrated into everyone’s lives within just a few years. Still, however, with how big AI currently is, the business model still …
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