This 2020-21 school year, Amanda D'Avila, Katherine Dillon, Anthony Fullman, Desmond Hernandez, Christian Quinteros and Kayla Zimmerman join the teaching staff. Gil Carey joins the staff as project success...

As the COVID-19 pandemic forced stores across the country to shut down, many former and aspiring student workers had to postpone their employment as well. However, as the world is slowly adapting to life...

Before the 2020-21 school year started, all K-12 chose between three academic models: Irvine Virtual Academy (fully online), Hybrid (two in-person days) and Blended (combination of IVA and Hybrid). Along...

From cancelled family trips to indefinitely-postponed birthday parties, the COVID-19 pandemic caused many students’ summer plans to be put off or abandoned entirely. Despite the global panic, students...

Long ago, in 2005, the landscape of animated children’s shows was barren in its inclusivity. Then, everything changed when “Avatar: The Last Airbender” (ATLA), an animated show created by Michael...

Sports are resuming in-person practices during September under strict guidelines released by the Centers of Disease Control in July in order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.  “Currently our team...

The fifth annual fall play, Tracy Wells’ “One Stoplight Town,” will be entirely virtual, from production to presentation, according to play director and performing arts teacher Samantha Sanford....

The Top of the World, Laguna Beach, is the traditional spot that most Irvine High schools host their senior sunrise, because of the local shops and breakfast spots nearby, and the breathtaking view of...

Junior Justin Choi hunches over his computer. On his computer screen, we see words come together in sentences, then in paragraphs: a movie review. Choi, a lover of film and media, has been posting twice...

As the movie opens, we fly over terraced rice paddies to a cozy village center. We dive into the bustle of everyday life in Mulan’s hometown: the chase of an escaped chicken, the gossip between bored...

Amid concerns regarding possible spikes in COVID-19 cases, students found their own compromises to the traditional Labor Day picnics, barbeques and fireworks. Labor Day weekend is often the symbolic...

Assuming that current downward trends of coronavirus spread continue, Irvine Unified students enrolled in the hybrid model will resume in-person instruction Sept. 24-25, depending on their cohort assignment.  The...