Dear Zia Sun, Your article about High School Diplomats 2019 focused in on the most important aspect of cultural exchange: relationships. When I was accepted to the HSD program this year, I expected to form restrictive, somewhat weak relationships with all the japanese students, but this wasn’t the...

The ION System Administrators (SysAdmins) recently made the option for dark mode on ION public with the arrival of Halloween. Dark mode presents a new way for users to customize their user interface by inverting the color.  After many suggestions from the student body to implement dark mode, the SysAdmins...

Japanese Ambassador Yusuke Sato and Japanese Cultural Center Representative Melinda Marquardt visited Jefferson during eighth period on Wednesday, Oct. 30. Students were able to sign up for A block to view a presentation about the upcoming Tokyo Olympics’ actions towards making the games more eco-friendly....

The Jefferson Band performed the fall concert at Jefferson on Wednesday, Oct. 23 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.  After months of practice, Jefferson performed their first band concert of the year. For the freshman coming in this year, this is their first concert in their high school career. Mira...

The Latin Honor Society celebrated Halloween by hosting the Mythological Pumpkins event on Wednesday, Oct. 23 during 8th period. The materials the students had were mostly comprised of paint and pipe cleaners. Their task was to decorate a pumpkin like a mythological hero or monster. The teacher sponsors,...