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Junior Arul Nigam prepares to bring food into a hospital as part of his initiative ‘Heroes of COVID’. Courtesy of The Connection.

Helping our heroes

May 22, 2020

Putting the chef in Jefferson

May 20, 2020

Above, sophomore Annika Topchy competes in a track even during the 2019 spring season. Because of the coronavirus, the spring season of 2020 is cancelled. Student athletes must rely on other means besides sports practices to stay conditioned and in good shape.

Hurdling past Coronavirus

May 7, 2020

“It is harder to communicate ideas and information because it's harder (especially for young children) to articulate their thoughts through a video call where it might be more difficult for them to show what they are doing,” junior Cynthia Wang said. “This can make assisting students harder but we still try our best.”

Students volunteering online during quarantine

May 7, 2020

These are masks created by ProjectYCRO's 3D printing team.

ProjectYCRO: aim to impact

April 13, 2020

Pictured is the Jefferson dome entrance built in Minecraft. “The Minecraft replica is coming together really well,” junior Quentin Lovejoy said. ”Everything has worked out how we imagined.”

mineCRAFTING Jefferson

April 6, 2020

Working diligently on the IBET robot project, students are required to make their robots in 3D printing software, then convert it into a 2D sketch. Shown above is the culmination of hours of work for a student.

I, Human

March 10, 2020

An analytical take on Tuesday

An analytical take on Tuesday

March 7, 2020

This school year marks the 35th year of Sandra Chhabra's education career, as well as the 33rd of her career at Jefferson. Originally, Chhabra worked in the biotechnology lab and gradually made her way back to chemistry.

A changing school, a constant teacher

March 6, 2020

Junior Senna Keesing, who ran the Fiction Writing Special, discusses what makes fiction good or bad and what makes this type of writing so appealing. “I learned a lot of interesting things,” Keesing said. “I saw the perspective of those who prefer to write science fiction more, because I’m not one of those people. Our sponsors, Ms. Glotfelty and Ms. Henry, brought up essays by Mark Twain that justify writing with consistent or inconsistent style or things that I thought were really interesting points to bring up.”

Down the rabbit hole of writing

March 5, 2020

Pressing down on the piano keys, senior Robert Crotts improvs a slow melody

Piano Man

March 5, 2020

Junior Shan Lateef presents his groundbreaking research on traumatic brain injury to a judge at the 2019 Virginia Academy of Science symposium.

JUMPing into the future of Traumatic brain injury treatment

March 4, 2020

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