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By Staff Writers Jennie Wang & Annie Xu Drawing a crowd that filled C-120, MSJ welcomed Carnegie Mellon University Professor and International Math Olympiad CoachPo-Shen Loh for a guest speaker event during lunch on December…

By Staff Writers Sanah Bhardwaj & Kaylee Wei MSJ’s Leadership 2 (L2) held its first-ever Anti-Racism Forum at 6 p.m. on December 13 over Zoom. The forum, with roughly 15 Zoom attendees and 114 views…

By Staff Writers Selina Kao & Priyanka Shah On Tuesday, October 5, staff and administrators responded to a fire in the B-wing which resulted in alarms and class evacuations. The fire — which began in…

By News Editors Larry Shi & Alina Zeng Update 11/19/2021: As of November 2, Hopkins Junior High School Principal Corey Brown announced that students and staff will not return to the Hopkins campus until a tentative…

By Staff Writers Kruthi Gollapudi & Helen Tian To spread mental health awareness amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Peer Resource held their annual Peer Benefit show on Friday, April 23, streamed live on Twitch from 5-6:30…

By Staff Writers Sumani Alem, Nishi Bhagat, Sabrina Cai & Brooke Zheng As the summer approaches, the Smoke Signal has rounded up the most noteworthy achievements, competitions, and school changes of the 2020-21 school year….

By Staff Writers Joanne Park & Larry Shi Throughout the 2020-21 school year, MSJ Impromptu has hosted various online concerts, featuring some of MSJ’s most talented musicians, with the last concert published in the first…

By Staff Writers Joanne Park & Helen Tian MSJ recently hosted its ninth annual Relay for Life (RFL) event from 12-6:30 p.m. on April 24 over YouTube, raising $48,113 to support cancer research. The RFL…

By Staff Writers Kruthi Gollapadi & Helen Tian After four years, TEDxYouth@MSJHS  kicked off their first virtual year with a bang as 67 people attended their speaker conference. Held on March 20 from 3-4:30 p.m.,…