Matadors Breaking the Bias

Women’s empowerment in STEM at MVHS This year’s international women’s day slogan Break the Bias celebrates women everywhere — breaking glass ceilings and finding ways to collectively empower themselves in institutions and systems of sexism.  STEM fields house many such ceilings; women hold only 26% of tech sector jobs. In software-related careers, women systemically make …

The Awaited Dissection

Exploring MVHS FPPN and MVHS Neuroscience’s annual sheep brain dissection club collaboration

Hacked and Tracked

Different types of hacking and the future of hacking Teenager Jack Sweeney has taken the world by storm since he hacked and tracked the jets and yachts of Russian oligarchs in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. By publishing his tracker bots on Twitter, he has made this tracking data public, for just about …

Facing Face Pareidolia: Gendering of Inanimate Objects

Exploring gender bias in individuals’ perception of inanimate objects

The Interview

“Good evening, Mister Wellis. Please take a seat.” The chair creaks with his weight. His face is at level with that of his companion, but he does not meet her eyes. Click. He flinches. His fists clench as her monotone voice cuts through the silence. “My name is Normandy Crowe. I will be handling your …

Lepus

Exploring our galactic excursions in a distant-but-perhaps-not-so-distant post-apocalyptic world. In the year 2182, NASA sent a team of researchers up to the moon after Earth’s total livable acreage went down by over one-third since the start of the century. The continents all had shrunk as they were consumed by the oceans. Large swathes of land …

Sweet Dreams

A teen recalls how her dreams and nightmares have changed over the years “Did you have nightmares growing up?” the lady asks, pulling out a notepad from her large wooden desk.  I open my mouth to speak, but then pause to think about it. Growing up I remember having nightmares regularly. Looking back now, they …

The Secret Room

Margaret has been chosen to be one of the Elite who run the world, but the truth about how the Elite get some of their power is much darker. The sound of the mailbox slamming closed rang through the quiet downstairs of Margaret’s house. When she jumped up and ran to check the mail, her …

Wordle-ly Wise

Five Letters, Six Guesses, Infinite Strategies Tears. Crate. Adieu. Five letter words like these, seemingly unrelated, have taken the world by storm in the new New York Times trending word game — Wordle. Wordle was created by Josh Wardle, a software engineer from Brooklyn, NY, as a romantic gift for his partner. Wardle’s game has …

To the Stars

Starships will be the future of space travel