As COVID-19 forces people to partake in social distancing, the popularity of the video conferencing app Zoom has skyrocketed, with the number of new monthly active users in February of 2020, at 2.22 million, already being more than the total number of added monthly active users in 2019, 1.99 million. As such, it has gone…

March 17 might seem like months ago, but for candidates running in the 2020 Primary election, March 17 was supposed to mark both an end and quite possibly a beginning. What was scheduled to be Ohio’s main day of in-person voting was halted through an executive order issued by Governor Mike DeWine, and in its…

Beginning at sunset on Wednesday, April 8, and lasting until sundown on Thursday, April 16, Jewish families around the world gathered in a unique way to celebrate the exodus of the Jews from ancient Egypt.  Whereas people typically travel to visit family and celebrate the holiday, stay-at-home orders and social distancing rules due to COVID-19…

With the uncertainty surrounding school returns amid the Coronavirus pandemic and the move from postponing the ice hockey, wrestling, and basketball state tournaments to cancellations, the OHSAA has started discussing the postponement of fall sports. Scott Kaufman, an OHSAA board of directors member and athletic director of Lakota West, says we have” too many unknowns…

  As stay-at-home orders are enforced across the nation, businesses, stores, and many public spaces have been forced to close their doors and send employees home due to the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the United States. Yet healthcare workers must continue to risk their lives as they fight on the front lines of…

Over lunch one day in 2015, when Mr. Bolognese (Mr. B) and Mr. Mena’s were in their first year as teachers at Academy, they discussed over the relationship between math and art and how interesting it would be to show this intersection as an exhibit. Flashforward four years later and the two were hard at…

During these past few weeks, students and teachers have been scheduling for next year. Now in its second year, students hadthe opportunity to listen to their older peers’ perspectives on classes and workloads, as well as what they wished they knew the previous year.    On Monday, March 2, and Tuesday, March 3, groups of…

Spread of education world map. (Needpix) We are always searching for means to connect minds across the globe. For the 2020-2021 school year, rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors are eligible to enroll in courses through the Global Online Academy, uniting 70 schools in 15 countries. GOA offers an opportunity to thrive in a global network…

Dr. John Mafi (left) and Dr. Daniel Barnett’89 /Courtesy Dr. Mafi (University of California, Los Angeles) and Dr. Barnett (Johns Hopkins). As of March 1, a sixth American died of the coronavirus near Seattle.  Florida, New York, Oregon, California, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Nebraska, Massacushetts, Illinois, and Rhode Island have also reported new cases. As of…

(Courtesy/Emily Dennett) On Tuesday, February 25, students in the Honors Computer Science 2 and 3 classes duked it out in the Dining Hall by playing a childhood classic: Uno-or rather, the “bots” that they coded did the brawling for them. To provide some context, the HCS3 class has a unit in the second semester that…