The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

The Californian

The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

The Californian

The Official Student-Run Newspaper of California High School

The Californian

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Clockwise from top left: Jessica Coulson, Christopher George, Dave Kravitz, Jon Campopiano.

District Zooms through Students’ Concerns

Christine Oh, Co Editor-in-Chief April 30, 2020

This morning, the San Ramon Valley Unified School District held a livestream on YouTube through Zoom to answer the many questions students have had over the past weeks. Jon Campopiano, the district’s...

JP Singh teaches Honors Precalculus, Accelerated Algebra II, and AP Calculus BC remotely from his living room with the help of his iPad Pro. Photo courtesy JP Singh.

Cal Goes Digital: Schooling Away from School

Emmy Burrus, Co Editor-in-Chief April 17, 2020

In the new era of social distancing and shelter-in-place orders because of the coronavirus pandemic, teachers at Cal High and across the country are learning to adapt to the new requirements for online...

All hail the almighty Switch.

Soda crusade switches up Cal campus

Shirin Afrakhteh, Opinions Editor April 9, 2020

A handful of students decided to gather and end an injustice that they believe has plagued Cal High for years: the quality of school lunches. Students have taken matters into their own hands by collecting...

Interact members gain volunteer hours by creating posters to advertise their community
carnival which would have been held at Cal High on April 3 from 5-8 p.m.

Interact club helps local community

Angela Deanne Paloma, Co News Editor March 28, 2020

The Cal High Interact club has been serving communities both locally and globally for years.  Interact is an independent service club for high schoolers sponsored by San Ramon Rotary, which...

Teachers march in front of the school to communicate their hopes for improving Cal.

Teachers strike averted

Ronnie Gogoi, Co News Editor March 28, 2020

The San Ramon Valley Education Association ratified a tentative agreement with the school district last week that helped prevent a teachers strike for the second straight year. Nearly 99 percent  of...

Class of 2021 officers from left to right: treasurer Andrea Georgieva, vice president Amanda Le, and president Alicia Loney had a meeting discussing the 2020 Junior Prom, which they have been planning for about two years.

Junior prom: Behind the scenes

Emmy Burrus, Co Editor-in-Chief March 24, 2020
Junior officers hope to impress with “Roaring 20’s” themed prom
Sophomore Shaurya Srivastav, left, and freshman Andrew Chen, right, build a robot during one of the Grizzly Cub Program meetings.

Robotics state canceled

Ronnie Gogoi and Angela Deanne Paloma March 24, 2020

For the first time since 2008, both of Cal High’s robotics teams have made it to state competitions.  Officially, the teams are known as the Fighting Grizzlies. The two teams, known as 1516A...

Cal’s mock trial team won first place in the county competition for the third time in a row. Photo courtsey of Contra Costa County Office of Education.

Mock trial team makes history with three-peat

Jeana Lee, Staff Writer, Photographer March 20, 2020

For the first time in Cal High history, the mock trial team won the Contra Costa County championship and qualified for state finals for the third consecutive year.  “Everyone has worked really...

History Bowl participants practice eagerly for the History Bowl, which has since been cancelled.

History Bowl Cancelled Due To Coronavirus

Andrew Sousa and Nick Harvey March 12, 2020

Cal High was supposed to be the epicenter of the History Bowl for the 2019-2020 school year. For the first time in school history, Cal was going to host the Northern California History Bee and Bowl...

Substitute teacher Spencer Hight hands out papers to Smith’s Spanish 3 students. Hight was the class’s sub for 30 days between the first and second semesters. Students ares still waiting for their long-term sub to arrive.

Lack of substitutes a problem

Christine Oh, Co Editor-in-Chief February 11, 2020

Imagine having a foreign language teacher who doesn’t actually know the foreign language.  Seems strange, right?  Well, that’s been the situation in Cal High’s Spanish 3 classes since...

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