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Bridging connections across the Pacific: Nirayama visits Poly

Bridging connections across the Pacific: Nirayama visits Poly

Anya Matz December 1, 2023

This November, Poly families opened their homes for two nights to forty students visiting from Nirayama High School near Mishima, Japan. Since Mishima is a sister city of Pasadena, Poly was introduced...

Poly Upper School students Dance the Night Away

Poly Upper School students “Dance the Night Away”

Greg Panossian December 1, 2023

From Nov. 16 to Nov. 18, Garland theater hosted a display of performances from Poly’s Upper School dance program. The show, titled “Dance the Night Away,” featured students from Dance 1 through 4...

Poly welcomes Cambodian Genocide survivor Arn-Chorn Pond

Poly welcomes Cambodian Genocide survivor Arn-Chorn Pond

Maddie Delbridge December 1, 2023

On the evening of Oct. 23, Garland Auditorium opened its doors to over one hundred Poly students, faculty and members of the United Nations Association (UNA) community. Pasadena’s UNA Chapter consists...

Fall play explores female empowerment and friendships

Fall play explores female empowerment and friendships

Ginny Cheung December 1, 2023

Amidst pearls and glitter, four teenage girls in 1970s Alabama crassly jeer and pepper each other with compliments and epithets. Set in a locker room, the girls’ chatter about a beauty pageant turns...

Upper School Jazz Band, Vocal Ensemble and Orchestra showcase their talents in the annual Music Assembly

Upper School Jazz Band, Vocal Ensemble and Orchestra showcase their talents in the annual Music Assembly

Kelly Zhang December 1, 2023

Poly's Upper School students and faculty gathered on McWilliams Courtyard on the morning of Halloween for the annual music assembly. Parents handed out Halloween-decorated donuts to students as everyone...

Poly hosts panel discussion amidst uncertainty in Nagorno-Karabakh

Poly hosts panel discussion amidst uncertainty in Nagorno-Karabakh

Greg Panossian December 1, 2023

On Wednesday, Nov. 8, Poly’s Global Initiatives Program and Pasadena’s United Nations Association chapter orchestrated a thought-provoking panel discussion in Garland Auditorium, the focal point of...

City of Angels class hosts filmmaker

City of Angels class hosts filmmaker

Parker Gooden, Assistant News Editor December 1, 2023

On Nov. 9, the City of Angels English class hosted award-winning filmmaker, Pablo Miralles, to lead a discussion on his latest film, “Can We All Get Along: The Segregation of John Muir High.” The film...

NASAs Psyche mission takes flight

NASA’s Psyche mission takes flight

Emily White, Staff Writer October 26, 2023

NASA and Arizona State University’s Psyche mission to its namesake asteroid successfully launched on Friday, Oct. 13 from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The spacecraft will travel 2.2 billion miles...

Ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh

Ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh

Greg Panossian, News Editor October 26, 2023

In September 2023, more than 100,000 Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh exited their ancestral homeland in one week, following another unprovoked and large-scale military offensive by Azerbaijan that...

Debate team argues their way to success at Jack Howe Tournament

Debate team argues their way to success at Jack Howe Tournament

Maddie Delbridge, Assistant News Editor October 26, 2023

Poly’s debate team has started this year’s season on a high note after achieving numerous wins at the 31st Annual Jack Howe Memorial Tournament in Long Beach over the weekend of Sept. 30. The season-opening...

Upper School students reflect on outdoor education trips

Upper School students reflect on outdoor education trips

Melanie Zhou, Student Contributor October 26, 2023

Whether sailing off the coast of Catalina Island or traversing the narrows of Zion National Park, Poly’s 9th, 10th and 11th graders recently returned from their outdoor education trips. In addition to...

Reading literally changes the brain: Dr. Maryanne Wolf speaks at Poly as a part of the Heinz Ethics Series

Reading literally changes the brain: Dr. Maryanne Wolf speaks at Poly as a part of the Heinz Ethics Series

Anya Matz, Student Contributor October 26, 2023

In her Heinz Ethics talk in Garland Auditorium on Oct. 12, Maryanne Wolf stressed that society’s increasing use of digital reading and writing technologies come at the cost of our ability to read deeply. Wolf...

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