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Reasons to Fence
You’ve all seen the movie sword fights—blades clashing, metal ringing—and you might have thought, “I want to do that.” If so, consider fencing. Besides actually picking up a sword and challenging someone, fencing is one of the few sports that allows you to experience the thrill of the duel (without the pain of using real swords). To understand fencing, you need to understand the most important rule: “Hit the opponent while not getting hit.” Simple, right? Of course, it’s more complicated than that. In fact, many people refer to fencing as “physical chess” because the mental game is just as important as the physical one.

Combatting Prejudice at AB
Biases, both explicit and implicit, manifest in our speech, thoughts, and actions. Fortunately, our school has initiated a program to address these prejudices. As part of a wide-ranging partnership with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), AB is...

RJ Grey's New Speech Club Cap
You stand frozen, unable to move or speak, a million pairs of eyes boring into you. As a silence envelops the room, all you hear is the pounding of your heart. You open your mouth to speak, but only a feeble squeak escapes. Several years ago, this...

Chromebooks at JHS
Students wait eagerly in a singlefile line to pick up their Chromebooks. As the bell rings, however, they don’t return the laptops. Instead, they place them into their backpacks, and the Chromebook carts sit empty for the rest of the day. Thanks to a new initiative at RJ Grey, junior high students no longer waste precious minutes of class time walking to the Chromebook cart or listening to teachers complain about replugging the laptops. 

Programming: A Creative Outlet
Non-coders often perceive programming languages as a scramble of parentheses, commands, and infinite loops guided by a rigid set of rules, leaving no room for creativity. However, Maria Shkolnik, the new AP Java teacher at ABRHS, disagrees with that perception. She views learning and teaching programming as a transformational experience for herself and her students, by changing their views on problem-solving.  

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Model United Nations
Model United Nations might not have the most exciting name, but we can assure you that our club is the best one out there. Now, it’s at AB! The real United Nations is an international body of 193 countries that maintains peace and security between its member states. The institution’s actions play an indirect, but substantial, role in each of our lives—one overlooked by many Americans. Model United Nations replicates the UN processes, giving high schoolers the opportunity to learn about the intricacies...

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AB’s New Official Sport: Esports
AB’s newest sport does not take place on a track, field, or court, but instead within the magical confines of a computer lab. For the modern-day Colonials, the new battlefield is digital, and esports is the new frontier. For the past two years, the AB esports team has operated as an after-school club, but it will be absorbed into the Athletics Department as an official sport this fall. Speaking publicly this past January, Athletic Director Steve Martin remarked that the move would help them reach “a group of students who...