Guidance Student Services first of many future construction projects
By Jacqueline Beaufore, Emily Choi, Shruti Magesh and Saanvi Thakur
September 12, 2019
With the construction of the I-Hub — a center with 10 classrooms for engineering, business, art and computer programming classes — now complete, a new construction project near the original D-building has commenced. The new project will be the Guidance Student Services building (GSS), which will house the...
Roundup more than ‘one stop shop’
By Dexter Tatsukawa, Karen Li, Jackson Faria, Sara Shohould and Jack Xu
September 9, 2019
Students trickle into the line clogging the entrance to the Student Center, waiting to receive supplies for the year. The event, Roundup, took place from Aug. 12-13 and served as a chance for students to receive their schedules, buy an ASB sticker, take yearbook photos and meet up with friends. As...
Guidance department prepares students for college
By Renee Wang, Leila Salam, Allen Zhang, Elaine Huang and Jane Park
September 9, 2019
Students are well aware of the pressures in Silicon Valley surrounding college acceptances. According to the district website, HHS has a 93 percent college-going rate. This puts Homestead well above the state average of 84 percent, according to EdSource. With a 598:1 student-to-counselor ratio, acc...
Alumni speak on college application process, life after high school
By Sara Shohoud and Leila Salam
September 9, 2019
On Thursday, Aug. 29, the college a panel of six alumni spoke on the college application process at an event hosted by the PTSA. Held in the auditorium to a packed audience of parents and students, the panel of graduates from as recent as last year to as far back as 2015 clarified uncertainties about t...
Bringing mental health to the face of school shootings
By Melody Chen, Miya Liu, and William Ren
September 3, 2019
A lthough gun-related incidents have dropped from 67 to 47 occurences on U.S. school grounds up until August last year, according to the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, the debate has certainly not stopped for the district. “We have been doing a lot of talk about [school shootings] obviously,” Principal Greg Giglio said. “It’s on everyo...
National bike to school day promotes healthy, safe transit
June 5, 2019
C elebrations for National Bike to School Day swept the nation’s schools on May 8. As the name implies, the national day prompts people to get to school by bike over other forms of transportation. At Homestead, much of the event was organized by the school’s Safe Routes to School team, a parent, teacher, and student group ded...
Science Olympiad dishes on competitions
June 5, 2019
Science Olympiad participates in a variety of competitions throughout the year. The competitions are comprised of participation in a variety of events. “For science olympiad, there are many different events. There’s two teams for our club. Each team has different events and basica...
FPA’s cow dissection helps members gain exposure to a possible career path
By Katelynn Ngo
June 4, 2019
Future Physicians of America held a cow eyeball dissection where members could get hands-on experience exploring and analyzing the anatomy of an eye on May 3. Around 16 members came to the event and got to dissect the cow eyeball that the FPA officer team had obtained from the science department. ...
Youth takes charge against climate change
June 4, 2019
Humanity has ten years left to prevent the worst of climate change, according to the United Nations. For the past five years, the debate about a federal bill regarding climate change has been discussed but never implemented. Now the youth of America has taken climate change into their own hands. Here ...
Science Olympiad strategies to success
June 4, 2019
Science olympiad has a variety of factors that contributed to their success in competitions. Some of these factors included organization and effective organization strategies. Science olympiad encompasses a lot of group work, so communication is an important aspect to achieving success during ...
Retraction for print article, “Cheating scandals tear through campus” in Issue 8
May 30, 2019
The Epitaph would like to issue a retraction for a statement made in a recent article published in Issue 8, “Cheating scandals tear through campus.” In the article, the authors mentioned a junior who was rescinded from Brown University as a result of their involvement in the cheating scandals. Th...
FBLA’s Partnership With Business Project collaborates with SkinIQ and their new app
By Katelynn Ngo
May 6, 2019
Partnership With Business is one of the four projects in FBLA, and whose goal is to bridge the gap between companies and FBLA. “The Partnership With Business project basically aims to create a mutually beneficial partnership between a company and Homestead FBLA. The goal is to give members the opportunity to ...