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By: Staff Writer Andrew Choi Five MSJ teams competed at the 2015 Northern California FIRST Tech Challenge Championship Tournament at Logan High School from February 21-22. The FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) is a robotics competition…
By: Staff Writer Harshita Gupta Over 450 high school students congregated at NestGSV’s Redwood City headquarters to kick off the winter hackathon season with Hacking Generation Y (Hack Gen Y). Held from January 24-25,…
By: Staff Writers Harshita Gupta & Chakshu Hurria Local: Berkeley Approves Tax on Soda On November 4, voters in Berkeley, California approved Measure D, a one-cent-an-ounce tax on sugary sodas and energy drinks. The…
By: Opinion Editor Alice Cheng Local: New California gun control bill passed In late August, the California Senate passed a bill that confiscates firearms from individuals who have the potential to commit acts of…
By: Staff Writer Michael Hsiu This March, a Western Accreditation of Schools and Colleges (WASC) committee visited MSJ to administer its accreditation process. Through hard work on the part of everyone involved, the Accrediting Commission…
By: Aamir Rasheed The Legend of Korra first premiered in 2012, a continuation of the extremely successful Avatar: The Last Airbender series, which concluded in 2008. Both have gone on to be two of…
By: Michael Hsiu The first and only showing of Night on Broadway is to take place on October 5 in the Little Theatre. Tickets are available for the show only or for a dinner and…
By: Anjali Kanthilal In early November, DECA announced their yearly Creative Idea Challenge. The competition tested middle school, high school and college students to find new creative uses for a plastic grocery bag within…
By Leland Bernstein During a time when movie watchers complain about how every movie they see has the same plot or is a digitally re-mastered version, Chronicle stands far above the crowd. The movie begins…
On November 2, the entire Smoke Signal staff went to San Francisco to watch and review the musical Hair. This musical, which was set in the late 1960s, spoke of topics that shocked, surprised, and entertained us. The teenagers…
