By Micah Tam Staff Editor In honor of Celebration of Learning, Summit Prep senior Milo Kemper and Summit Prep sophomore Adam Graziani imparted their personal views of the impact their Holocaust and Genocide class has had on them. In the Holocaust and Genocide class, students learn in-depth about different aspects of the Holocaust and about genocides that occur around the
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By Kristian Bekele and Micah Tam Staff Editors Helen Farkas, a beloved member of the community and an honorable Holocaust survivor, recently passed away. Ms. Farkas was a grandmother figure to one of the Expeditions teachers, Lissa Thiele, who encouraged her to share her story with a number of Summit Public Schools as part of the History of the Holocaust
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By Kenneth John Catimbang, Kristian Bekele and Micah Tam Staff Writers In media and society, teenagers are often portrayed as lazy, defiant or disruptive (the list goes on.) However, there’s a group of teenagers in Redwood City who challenge that exact idea. Once a month, the Teen Advisory Board meets up at the Red Morton Community Center. Teenagers from all over
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By Kristian Bekele and Micah Tam Staff Editors On Aug. 30, students from the Sociology of Law class at Summit Prep attended a symposium that included guest speakers such as Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant, Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner and Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice. The event also included a town hall discussion, a film screening
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By Eliza Insley and Micah Tam Staff Editors On Aug. 21, Summit Prep students took 20 minutes from their morning class to watch the first total solar eclipse in America that was seen coast to coast in the past 38 years. The solar eclipse occurred across the nation, reaching totality in 14 states, including Oregon. In Redwood City, California, the
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By Micah Tam Staff Writer On May 25, Summit Preparatory Charter High School had a Celebration of Learning in which students got the chance to exhibit the life skills they acquired during Expeditions. Among the selection of Expedition courses that offer different learning opportunities from content knowledge to the arts, there are also courses that teach life skills that benefit
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By Micah Tam Staff Writer As a native of the Bay Area, I personally feel very lucky that I get to be surrounded by so many different cultures and ethnicities. That diversity helped me form my views on the world and become more open-minded. To exhibit what community means to me, I am presenting the different cultural influences in the
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By Micah Tam Staff Writer Though America is usually referred to as a “melting pot” of different races, cultures and ethnicities, cultural ignorance is widespread. According to Chimes, Biola University’s student-run newspaper, “America continues to struggle with cultural ignorance. Some national pride is useful, but too many people take this pride beyond proper proportion and forget that America is only
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By Micah Tam Staff Writer On March 8, not only was it International Women’s Day, it was also the observation of the #ADayWithoutAWoman protest, which acted as an extension of the #ADayWithoutAnImmigrant protest. On this day, women all over the world struck to show how the absence of women would impact society and the economy. Among the women who chose
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