Student Voices

Eileen Tse/Special to the Town Crier
Miraslau Kavaliou shows his Google Site to one of the parents attending the Climate Change Expo Feb. 15

Our Earth will not have any rain forests in 100 years. According to National Geographic, if humans continue deforestation at today’s rate, our children will live in a world without rain forests.

Each year, the deforestation problem worsens. Deforestation is one of the main causes of climate change, a topic that Santa Rita School sixth-graders have been researching for more than a month now.

“I would like my granddaughters, when they pick up the Constitution, to see that notion – that women and men are persons of equal stature – I’d like them to see that is a basic principle of our society.”

Those entering the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art walk under an ominous sculpture – a 26-meter-long smoky-colored dragon suspended from the ceiling. Squinting some more, they see the head is constructed of broken bicycles, its body is made of bikes’ inner tubes and its stomach is filled with thousands of peanut-sized toy cars.

This sculpture is the prelude to SFMOMA’s “Art and China after 1989,” on display through Feb. 24.

In the first week of December, thousands of schools across the country participated in the Hour of Code, a coding initiative designed to expose students to computer science.

I used to think Yosemite was overrated.

The first time I went there was in fifth grade with my family. After hearing comments about how “breathtaking” and “absolutely wonderful” Yosemite was, we were looking forward to a great trip. But due to the weather (winter was just turning to spring), we didn’t get to enjoy the outdoors as much as we had hoped.

In my six years living in Los Altos, no other election has caused as much of a fuss in the community as last month’s did.

Between city council candidates and Measure C, one thing is certain: Our city ironically resembles the division seen in national politics. And I don’t mean right along party lines. Residents are overwhelmingly liberal, but when it comes to deciding on downtown growth and citywide development, there is no clear majority.