By: Elle Shi, Grade 7 In sports, it is easy to believe that the most talented athletes will always be the most successful. Some athletes seem to be born with incredible speed, strength, coordination, and natural abilities. However, talent can only take an athlete so far. When it comes to …
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Happiness and How You Can Buy It
As a society of young adults, we consistently prove that money and happiness go hand in hand. In recent years, spending has increased, yet happiness in life has remained relatively the same. Relentless pursuit of wealth has hindered people’s appreciation for the journey that is life. John Stuart Mill, in …
Read More »Quantum Computing Inches Closer to Practical Reality
By: Mitchell Cui, Grade 11 Quantum computers have spent decades as more of a promise than a product — locked away in research labs, always “a few years off” from doing anything useful. That story is starting to change. Scientists have been chipping away at one of the field’s toughest …
Read More »What is Blue Carbon?
By: Elle Shi, Grade 8 When people think about climate change, they often imagine forests and trees absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, there are some other ways to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere other than from trees that are not even found on land at all. These …
Read More »El Niño Raises Global Concerns for Heat, Drought and Food Security
A rapidly strengthening El Niño became a major climate story in mid-August 2026 as scientists warned that the phenomenon could become exceptionally strong later this year. On August 13, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center reported more than a 90% chance of a very strong El Niño developing during the Northern …
Read More »Robot Cleaners
By: Ben Yi, Grade 11 Photo from Walmart Globally, the cleaning robot market is somewhere between 17 and 21 billion dollars in 2026, growing at roughly 18% a year toward the high 40s by the early 2030s. This includes household cleaning robots, such as simple floor cleaning robots, and pool, …
Read More »The Aftermath of the FIFA: An Ugly Closing to the 2026 World Cup
By: Elle Shi, Grade 8 Every four years, the FIFA World Cup brings billions of people together. Even those who have never watched a soccer match often tune in to see the excitement, the national pride, and the unforgettable moments. This year’s tournament delivered all of that, ending with a …
Read More »Develop Healthy Daily Habits
Good health supports everything we do, so we should form healthy living habits from an early age. Now many teenagers have unhealthy lifestyles. They prefer fast food and snacks to vegetables and fruit. Few of them take regular exercise. Instead, they spend plenty of spare time playing mobile games at …
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