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Apr 24, 2024 | 
palyvoice.com | Motoko Iwata |Carissa Tsui
The Palo Alto High School library has resumed lending out Chromebooks to students after temporarily shutting down the program in March, on the condition that students provide collateral such as phones or wallets to incentivize timely returns. Starting April 15, when borrowing Chromebooks students must now give librarians an item of value that the library will hold onto until the Chromebook is returned.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
palyvoice.com | Carissa Tsui |Motoko Iwata
April 21, 2024 With the recent addition of “Strands” on March 4, the New York Times now hosts 10 games on its website with new rounds of each game available daily. These games range from easy to hard, text-based to image-based and skill-based to luck-based. The Paly Voice took a look at all 10 games to see which are worth incorporating into your daily routine and asked some students at Palo Alto High School for their input as well. Strands: 9/10Strands is played on a six-by-eight grid of letters.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
palyvoice.com | Carissa Tsui
The holiday season is usually one of reprieve and relaxation for high school students and staff, but for the main characters of “The Holdovers” it is anything but. Directed by Alexander Payne and set in 1970, “The Holdovers” centers around one student and two staff members who must “hold over” and stay in their New England prep school, Barton, over winter break.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
palyvoice.com | Sophia Yang |Carissa Tsui
One semester into a new “ungrading” grading system, the AP English Language and Composition team at Palo Alto High School is reevaluating and adjusting the grading system in response to student feedback. The 2023-2024 guide for the course says students receive “descriptive feedback” on their assignments instead of traditional grades, with an emphasis on improvement of skills rather than just level of performance. Grades are then determined by the category of the rubric met.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
palyvoice.com | Kristine Lin |Carissa Tsui
The Associated Student Body is launching a new initiative ASB Studios with a talent show at 5:30 p.m. today in the Performing Arts Center. All participants will receive Palo Alto High School merchandise and the top three contestants will get prizes including an ice cream machine. There is no entrance fee. Seating will be limited and provided on a first-come-first-serve basis, and food will be provided. David Wu, sophomore class president, said all kinds of acts and spectators were welcomed.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
palyvoice.com | Carissa Tsui
Students are expressing excitement to attend Palo Alto High School’s annual Winter Rally during extended lunch tomorrow in the Big Gym. According to Associated Student Body President Julian Hong, the rally will feature a student-vs-staff basketball game and reveal the upcoming Prom date, location and theme. The student rosters for the game were released in ASB’s Instagram post. Sophomore Jose Pinto Saldana said he welcomes the opportunity to watch a fun game between the students and staff.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
palyvoice.com | Celina Lee |Carissa Tsui
As part of a schoolwide initiative to strengthen student culture and promote a more inclusive community, Palo Alto High School is hosting Breaking Down the Walls this week where students are participating in a day-long program starting today with bonding activities to connect with fellow classmates. Monday was a training day for group leaders, with the program itself running everyday, today through Friday.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
palyvoice.com | Carissa Tsui
The onset of phones and technology have shifted the high school experience over the past 20 years, but some things have stayed the same — there will always be mean girls. “Mean Girls” — one of the most well-known and beloved high school movies of the 2000s — is back, and though the girls’ devices and social media habits may have changed, the core story has not. 20th Century Studios released the latest “Mean Girls” movie, directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., on Jan. 12.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
palyvoice.com | Carissa Tsui
A film about getting trapped in your home with your family and a dwindling toilet paper supply would have been more on point during COVID than 2023, but since when has “Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever” protagonist Greg Heffley (Wesley Kimmel) ever aimed to please? Since Christmas presents were on the table, apparently. Adapted from Jeff Kinney’s novel “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever” and directed by Luke Cormican, the animated movie was released on Dec.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
palyvoice.com | Carissa Tsui |Celina Lee
The senior class is eager to win Spirit Week this year after toppling the junior class in today’s lunchtime rally at the Earl Hansen Viking Stadium. The stands erupted in cheers and excitement as the seniors won and the point total was announced. Seniors lead with 1,500 points, followed by juniors at 1,200, sophomores at 1,000 and freshmen at 800. The main event of the rally, organized by the Associated Student Body, was the Tug of War.
