What we’ll read Kelly P. and Daniel W. 06/03/2017 Get the Most Out of Your Summer Vacation Of Beetles and Angels, by Mawi Asgedom When I was told to write this article, I honestly had no idea what next year’s summer reading was going to be about. Of Beetles and Angels by Mawi Asgedom: Was it...
Five lessons from starting at a startup Oliver F. 06/03/2017 Get the Most Out of Your Summer Vacation Interning at most companies may seem like a constant stream of coffee runs, copying pages, and fetching documents. That won’t happen at a startup. The entrepreneurs I worked for at my internships were...
12th graders talk summer plans, pre-senioritis Shereen L. and Anya L. 06/03/2017 Get the Most Out of Your Summer Vacation Michael WenAfter taking introductory research classes at TAS, Michael Wen ('17) was able to put his new laboratory skills to work by interning at the National Yang-Ming University Institute for Brain Science...
Selene Kung & April Tsai: Real-Life #FriendshipGoals Shereen L. 06/03/2017 Get the Most Out of Your Summer Vacation Selene Kung (10) and April Tsai (10) will spend their summer as teaching assistants at the Model United Nations (MUN) Summer Academy course: earlier in the spring, the program instructor, Middle School...
Mapping Memories Charlotte L. and Catherine L. 05/25/2017 Features Karen Dalton: a fall on the waterfallWhen Karen Dalton (10) was in second grade, she and her friend Ella had what they thought was the best idea ever: a game of waterfall tag. “We were running around on the...
ON OR OFF: TAS athletes in the offseason Daniel W. 05/24/2017 Features With the conclusion of season 3 IASAS sports, the offseason for every Taipei American School sports team has officially begun. Many athletes still have a lot of time left, but for season 1 athletes, their...
Maxwell C. (10): Fencing Coco L., Audrey K. and Christine L. 03/01/2017 Avant-Garde Athletes Maxwell Chen (10) began fencing in second grade when he joined a club at his old school in New York: “I wanted to try it out and ended up really enjoying it.” When asked why he preferred this sport...
Thomas C. (11): Martial Arts Coco L., Audrey K. and Christine L. 02/28/2017 Avant-Garde Athletes To Thomas Chen (11), doing martial arts is like “fulfilling a childhood dream.” The Chinese Kung Fu movies and books that surrounded him during his childhood, as well as Jet Li, his role model, drew him...
Yvonne H. (11): Ballroom Dancing Coco L., Audrey K. and Christine L. 02/28/2017 Avant-Garde Athletes Yvonne Hao (11) has been ballroom dancing for 8 years. As a young girl, she was instantly intrigued by ballroom dancing when she saw that girls got to wear high heels, and eventually fell in love with the...
Laurent H. (12): Ice Hockey Coco L., Audrey K. and Christine L. 02/28/2017 Avant-Garde Athletes Laurent Hsia (12) has been playing ice hockey since he was very young. He first started skating then naturally moved on to ice hockey. “I think is a very different sport from what normal people would play...
