As my time at Harvard-Westlake comes to an end, I’d like to share one of the most important things I have learned. “The little things matter,” Coach Scot Ruggles would constantly tell us. “We...

Science teacher Walt Werner’s Anatomy and Physiology class determined by experimentation that texting and talking on the phone while driving can increase reaction times by more than 50 percent. Students...

Seniors can now check out to leave campus during frees by scanning their IDs on an iPad instead of signing out on paper. Assistant to Head of Upper School Michelle Bracken sent an email to all seniors...

Students browsed booths on the quad during Academic Fair to help them sign up for courses next year. The sign-up process is now completely online, and math teacher and head scheduler Beverly Feulner...

The Honor Board Review Committee is considering whether to bring any students before the Honor Board after a cheat sheet was discovered at the end of the last Geology midyear assessment in December. All...

Blake* ’16 spent his summer between ninth and 10th grade like many other students: working at a summer job. However, the money he earned for each scoop of ice cream he served went to paying a debt to...

Geology and Geology Honors students retook a section of their midyear assessments on Jan. 6 and 7 after a cheat sheet was found in the Geology classroom after the last assessment was completed in December....

The CEO and co-founder of NewSpace Global Dick "Rocket" David, discussed the new and growing industry of NewSpace and its role in the future during break Nov. 10. NewSpace Global is an information provider...

Kelly Morrison ’16 has managed to profit from the gluten-free trend with her food blog, www.foodiefiasco.com. Morrison went vegetarian in 2011 for moral reasons and also started her blog that year. Quickly,...

// Actress Jennifer Lawrence calls it "the new cool eating disorder, the ‘basically I just don’t eat carbs.’" Yet, many students at Harvard-Westlake and across the country still eat gluten-free...

Ellie Wen ’05 told La Femme club members at their meeting Nov. 17 to accept their challenges and to move on. The Alumni Office recommended Wen to speak to students about optimism, the fifth goal in the...

Science Bowl announced its A and B teams today after school in an email to all members. Nicholas Abouzeid ’15, Marko Fejzo ’15, Jonathan Heckerman ’15 and Aaron Shih ’15 are on the A team, along...

Hannah Dains ’16, Kelly Morrison ’16 and Matt Beyer ’15 were accepted into the Get Lit poetry program, an educational organization that works to increase teen literacy with different forms of poetry. Dains...

  All Peer Support members will participate in a series of icebreaker activities to learn about each other and Peer Support itself at the first group meeting on Monday. According to Peer Support coordinator...

Students roamed the quad and signed up for clubs at Activities Fair Sept. 15 during break. The 66 clubs each tried to attract sign-ups by displaying posters and handing out treats such as candy, cookies...

Prefect Council will host Activities Fair during break Sept. 15 to allow students a chance to browse and sign up for clubs. "I didn’t really have much time to participate in clubs at the upper school...

The number of enrollments in the summer program increased this year by 10 to 15 percent, with 1,071 students signed up by mid-June and a few hundred more students expected to sign up by August. About half...

Grizzly bears can grow up to nearly 10 feet tall and five feet wide, and can weigh up to 1,500 pounds. Darby Caso’s ’14 bear is nearly as big, but weighs almost nothing and is made out of plastic. The...

Mid-year assessments will replace midterms next year and will be held in December the week before winter break. There will be two 90-minute exams each day. "This decision was trying to be sensitive to...

English teacher Adam Howard ’93 is voice acting for his old student, Sam Farmer ’08, on Farmer’s video game, Last Life. Farmer put the game on Kickstarter April 9 to raise funds to finish development. "It’s...

Students and faculty packed the lounge Monday after school to watch singers, actors, musicians and magicians at the fourth Coffee House this year. To kick off the performances, coffee and snacks were served...

Two members of the faculty have been awarded the India Exploration and Immersion Faculty Fellowship sponsored by the Cultural Heritage and Arts of India Club and the Gunter-Gross Asia Initiative. Visual...

Internet security experts have found a major security bug, Heartbleed, that allowed people to access users’ connection to secure websites and obtain their secure information. The bug now has a patch,...

Sixteen students took the American Invitational Math Exam March 13, based on their scores on the American Mathematics Competition. The AIME is a three-hour, 15-question test. If students do well on the...

The College Board announced plans to redesign the SAT by spring of 2016. The new format will return to a 1,600 point scale, 800 for math and 800 for "Evidence-Based Reading." The essay will become optional...

A total of 16 students qualified for the American Invitational Math Exam March 13 with their score on the American Mathematics Competition. The math department administered the AMC 10 (for 10th graders...

Prefect Council hosted Academic Fair during break Monday to allow sophomores and juniors to learn more about classes offered next year. The event featured a table on the quad for every class, ranging from...

The Chronicle won Best of Show in the "Newspaper Broadsheet 17 or More Pages" category for the Nov. 13 edition and third place Best of Show in "Publication Website Small School" for its online content...

Classes in mythology, surrealism, fly-fishing and robotics will be offered next year, along with two new classes in math and foreign language. The four Independent Studies and Interdisciplinary Research...

The Chronicle won Best of Show in the “Newspaper Broadsheet 17 or More Pages” category and third place Best of Show in “Publication Website Small School” category at the  Journalism Education...

Students serving detention will now serve their detention cleaning tables and picking up trash in the quad. Students who receive detention must help the maintenance crew for 15 to 20 minutes for five days...

Juniors must turn in their tour preference form and a signed set of the college tour rules by Dec. 10 if they chose sign up for the east coast college tours. Both tours will take place over the first week...

Coffee House will be held Monday, Nov. 11 instead of Nov. 4, Prefect Council announced in an email sent Oct. 25. “We decided to change the date of Coffee House because we wanted to give students in...

Jazz students performed at Vibrato Grill Jazz for four hours Sunday night. Vibrato Grill Jazz was founded by seven time Grammy winner Herb Alpert and hosts daily jazz performances during its dinner service. “We...

Students walked around the quad to browse and sign up for clubs at Activities Fair during break Sept 16. Each of the 72 clubs had a table set up where they displayed posters, sign-up sheets and often...

UCLA professor Richard Kaner lectured students on graphene and its uses in Ahmanson Lecture Hall during activities Sept. 9. Kaner received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and...

Students browsed and signed up for different clubs Monday at Activities Fair held in the quad. The 72 clubs each had a table set up where they displayed posters, sign-up sheets, and often gave out treats...

UCLA professor Richard Kaner told students about the many potential uses of graphene in a presentation Sept. 9 in Ahmanson Lecture Hall. Graphene is a molecule made of a single layer of carbon atoms in...

Web Technologies will be offered next year as a directed study for students who want to learn about websites from a Computer Science perspective. Math Department Head Paula Evans, who will teach the class,...

Instructors of the Independent Theater Workshop visited drama classes on Dec. 12 to present a preview their new 2013 summer program. The two instructors gave condensed versions of the activities at the...