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The Student News Site of Lynbrook High School

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The Student News Site of Lynbrook High School

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Local Communities Tackle Problems Around Lynbrook

Ethan Wong and Isabella Chiu May 2, 2025

Need help finding ways to contribute to the community? Introducing four local organizations that tackle various issues around Lynbrook. From providing food for the community to promoting education and...

Exploring Fantasy Football at Lynbrook

Robert Yu, Staffer May 2, 2025

Filmed by Robert Yu Edited by Alexandra Wu.

Teachers embrace new classroom environments

Amanda Jin and Meadow Shen April 28, 2025

Epic staffers Amanda Jin and Meadow Shen take a look at how teachers are adapting and navigating the move to different classrooms around campus after the recent construction.

Track athletes from different high schools leap over hurdles while bounding toward the finish line. Photo by Akash Anand. Graphic illustration by Anna Cen

Setting track athletes up for success

Yvonne Wu, Web Editor April 28, 2025

Rows of tents and tables stand orderly near the path, and beneath the shade, a plethora of snacks, sports drinks and refreshments wait for the athletes to round the corner. Vibrant melanges of pastels...

Machine Learning systems such as ChatGPT require scraping the web to improve its capabilities. Websites hosting illegal pirated and copyrighted materials such as Anna's Archives or Library Genesis, thus have its copyrighted materials used to improve AI material.

Unlicensed materials in AI model databases undermine original works

Isabella Chiu, Staffer April 28, 2025

Seven million books. Eighty-one million research papers. Millions of unlicensed copyrighted works on the online shadow library Library Genesis. When The Atlantic released an article revealing an unprecedented...

Go Club tournament tests strategy and wit

Go Club tournament tests strategy and wit

Kieran Hau, Staffer April 28, 2025

Lynbrook’s Go Club held a tournament starting March 27 and ending on April 24 Contestants started with small boards and went up in size as they progressed The tournament was formatted in...

Sylva Scott cares for her alpaca and other animals at McClellan Ranch. Photos used with permission from Sylva Scott and with Creative Common Licenses.

Caring for alpacas with Sylva Scott

Robert Yu, Staffer April 28, 2025

As they drove across California, the Scott family carried an unconventional passenger: Max the Alpaca. This road trip was the culmination of many months of campaigning, based around a GoFundMe set up in...

Elizabeth Louie helps senior Meghana Babu understand a French passage during tutorial. Photo by Erin Fitzpatrick.

Elizabeth Louie recognized with Teacher-Leader Award

Erin Fitzpatrick, Staffer April 28, 2025

Despite challenges with continuing enrollment, Louie continues to advocate for the importance of learning languages. Elizabeth Louie, Lynbrook world language department lead and French teacher,...

Bolang Zhu, Om Modi and Vikrant Vadathavoor (left to right).

LD debaters speed through limits of debate success

Saavan Saraf, Staffer April 28, 2025

For juniors Om Modi, Vikrant Vadathavoor and Bolang Zhu, it’s all about speed. During debate competitions, they fire off arguments as fast as they can. Judges watch as their opponents furiously take...

Athletes, from high school and college, are able to use their popularity and skill for profit through different sponsorships. Graphic Illustration by Amanda Jin.

Name, image and likeness are reshaping the culture of athletics

Akash Anand, Staffer April 28, 2025

In both high school and college sports, the incentive to have a reward for athletic skill has notably risen. The increase in sponsorships and partnerships has simultaneously impacted the culture and life...

Allen Chan and Toan Phuong work hard to replace security cameras and pick up calls.

Behind the screens with the information technology team

Maddy Chang and Irene Hwang April 28, 2025

Beneath the white glow of overhead lights, the quiet hum of computer servers permeates the air. A monitor flickers as another help ticket pops up, after somewhere on campus, a teacher’s projector fails...

On March 18, author Suzanne Collins released “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the second prequel in her popular dystopian franchise “The Hunger Games.” Graphic illustration by Akash Anand and Qianzi Loo.

“Sunrise of the Reaping” fails to provide new substance to an already told story

Gary Pan, Staffer April 28, 2025

On March 18, author Suzanne Collins released “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the second prequel in her popular dystopian franchise “The Hunger Games.” Taking place 24 years before the first novel “The...