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In-person policy debate rounds are usually held in classrooms, where the opposing teams will set up their computers and evidence at different sides of the room. “With in-person debate, you get to interact with everyone around you and have more of a social and chill atmosphere compared to online debate,” sophomore Subrat Poudel said. “The interactions that you get while being in person aren’t usually replicated in the online debate space.”

Speaking through the screen

December 20, 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
The National Chemistry Olympiad has several rounds of exams and tests students on a number of different chemistry topics. “The first part [of the test] is pen and paper, and then I think [for] the two [students] that get selected to go on to the nationals, there’s a lab component of that,” chemistry teacher Mr. Adam Smolinsky said. “I think most students take it just because they’re interested in chemistry, and here at TJ students are also really interested in competition, so I think that they like to show off how much they know.”

Cramming for chemistry

February 17, 2020
Science Fair: Photo Gallery

Science Fair: Photo Gallery

February 1, 2020
Freshman Athan Zhang swims at the dual meet against Wakefield on Friday, Jan. 17. Optimism ran high during the meet, and the team pulled through with a decisive victory. “I think TJ is a pretty strong team - I think we have a pretty good chance today,” sophomore Sarina Saran said.

Jefferson Swim and Dive defeats Wakefield

January 24, 2020
Sophomores Alyssa Rask (right) and Alana Nii (left) perform a taiko routine as a duet. “I love the program here at TJ because it’s very relaxed. I also do taiko outside of school, and my experience with the taiko community is just - there’s a lot of fantastic people,” Nii said.

Drumming your heart out

December 19, 2019
Freshman Alyssa Gatesman (left) holds the birdhouse steady as freshman Mary Loyola-Gomez (right) uses a drill to assemble the parts. “The birdhouse activity was really fun since we got to make it on our own. My favorite part was hammering it together,” Gatesman said. “I think the birdhouse activity should be continued because it encourages students to build for fun and do an activity aside from schoolwork.”

Making a difference, one birdhouse at a time

December 9, 2019
Sophomores Jeanie Qi (left) and Sofia Najjar (right) prepare ice cream and milkshakes to sell to the students browsing the marketplace. “I went to the first [FBLA] meeting last year, and that was fun and I’m interested in marketing and business so I stayed at marketplace,” Najjar said. “We sold milkshakes and brownies, and we ran out of everything really quickly, so we just sold as much as we can.”

FBLA Marketplace: Photo Gallery

November 22, 2019
Writopia Lab manager Lucian Mattison oversees students working on a poetry activity in the library on Wednesday, Oct. 23. “I believe writing has a lot of benefits, even if it is just creative, that we kind of don’t really give enough credit [to it],” Mattison said. “Where in prose, narrative prose [and] poetry, on top of just the expression of the self and the expression of personal voice, we also tend to not emphasize enough that within prose and the creation and craft of prose, there’s a lot of technical stuff that goes into it.”

Writopia Lab gives students opportunity to develop literary skills

November 10, 2019
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