By: Lucia Zhang This past summer, I had the wonderful opportunity of participating and performing with the Jenny Lin Music Foundation’s youth summer music camp. This outstanding and unique organization was established in the mid 1990’s in memory of a talented young …
Read More »Swimming: What Good Does it Do?
By: Josie Huang What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the beach? Is it people laughing and sun tanning? Or do you think of sand and waves with the sun shining bright and people swimming with …
Read More »The Widespread Appeal of K-pop
By: Jocelyn Li Any fan of Korean culture, whether it be the food, the language, or the entertainment, is bound to have heard of K-pop. Korea’s entertainment industry includes TV shows and dramas, music, and gaming, and their distinct way of portraying …
Read More »Finding Passion
By: Sarah Yao Honestly, growing up finding something that I liked and something that I was good at was difficult. As I got older, I began to realize that I didn’t have much time to choose. I felt pressured and stressed about …
Read More »Traveling Back in Time
By: Eric Guo Time travel is something that has been on everyone’s minds for the past few centuries. It has inspired many movies and fictional novels. Many people are particularly interested in traveling back in time due to the urge to …
Read More »The Way to the Soul
By: Tammy Lu American writer, Bill James, once said, “It’s easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.” A lifestyle could be defined as the way a person lives, …
Read More »Coding is Cool
By: Angela Luo Amongst the vast community service and charitable work that Global Leadership Initiative (GLI) has done this year, one of its most notable accomplishments is what the GLI Web Team has done since its establishment in spring of 2015. Led …
Read More »How to be an UPstander
By: Raymond Jin On a sunny day, Mary was going out for a bike ride, but she wasn’t very joyful about it. She knew that every time when she was out in the park she would be stared at and bullied by …
Read More »Verizon Cell Tower
By: Henry Guo Verizon is planning to build a new cell tower in Danville near Diablo Vista Middle School. Verizon has submitted a land use permit request to the Danville Planning Commission for approval. According to Verizon’s proposal, Verizon is planning to …
Read More »The Dawn of Genetically Engineered Humans
By: Eric Guo In a world’s first, Chinese researchers at the Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou were able to use gene editing to modify human embryos. The 16-person team of researchers sought to alter the gene that causes the fatal blood disorder …
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