Occasionally when driving around Milpitas, you might stumble upon a white minivan on the road, labeled with a leaf logo. The Simple Mobile Access to Reliable Transit (SMART) is an app-based system that provides affordable car transit within Milpitas, according to the City of Milpitas’s website. The transit system beganContinue Reading
As a high school student running a clothing and jewelry business, senior Rosie Do believes the most enjoyable aspect is seeing people from school and around the world wear her products, shesaid. Upcycled by Do is Do’s self-run business where she sells handmade jewelry and clothes on Instagram and Depop,Continue Reading
Cheating, a commonly practiced habit among some students, can be done in many ways, and results from students looking for an easy path to complete tests or assignments. Oftentimes, students cheat because they are in need of help, not because they lack morals,English teacher Ginger Roy said. “It doesn’t meanContinue Reading
The Digital Map Project (DMP) is a club that is building a physical and digital map of the school that can be accessed through an app or as a website and has had 27 different members over the past 3 years, founder of DMP, senior Kavinkumar Sainathan said. DMP receivedContinue Reading
Detentions have always been around, Assistant Principal Jonathan Mach said. It’s just that the reappearance of people normally think of as detention has started around this year, he added. As there was increased paranoia and restrictions on the amount of students in a classroom afterschool hours due to COVID-19, thereContinue Reading
There has been a 33% increase in books being banned across the nation over the last school year,according to an article called “Eating away at democracy” from The Guardian. Although the vast majority of books are being banned outside of California, many teachers find it important to understand why someContinue Reading
Two new administrators have joined MHS for the 2023-2024 school year. Former Rancho Milpitas Middle School Principal Casey McMurray and former Thomas Russell Middle School Principal Sean Anglon have moved to MHS as assistant principals, according to musd.org. McMurray previously worked at MHS for 20 years, first as a SpanishContinue Reading
Substitute teacher Art Krikorian has been working at MHS since 1986 and has since evolved his teaching technique and formed valuable bonds with generations of students, he said. Over time, students taught Krikorian how to be a better substitute teacher, he said. His style of handling a classroom has changedContinue Reading
Affirmative action was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on June 29, and it was declared that race can no longer be a factor in college admissions, according to Education Week. The affirmative action ruling mainly affects students applying to private colleges, considering how University of California (UC) and CaliforniaContinue Reading
Milpitas es una ciudad con muchos inmigrantes, y la gente joven llegando a los Estados Unidos necesita aprender como comunicarse apropiadamente y a adaptarse al sistema educativo local. El departamento de Desarrollo del Lenguaje Inglés (ELD) es un programa diseñado para asistir a estos estudiantes a integrarse a su nuevaContinue Reading
The first thing you see upon entering Associate Principal Skyler Draeger’s office is the large, colorful quilt that repurposes various class and Trojan Olympics T-shirts from the past 28 years. The quilt reminds Draeger of his commitment to MHS, he said. “I was 23 years old when I started onContinue Reading
Most people have only ever read about trekking across a mountain range or going on a safari across Africa in novels, but English teacher Heidi Shannahan has already done that — and plans on continuing her adventures after retiring at the end of the 2022-23 school year, she said. ShannahanContinue Reading