Skip to Main Content
  • Dec 9-12Winter Wellness Week
  • Dec 16-20Finals Week
  • Dec 23-Jan 3Mid-Year Break
  • Jan 27-29Lunar New Year Celebrations
  • Jan 24Winter Rally
  • Jan 15-17Lynbrook Idol
  • Jan 20-24Charity Week
The Student News Site of Lynbrook High School

the Epic

The Student News Site of Lynbrook High School

the Epic

The Student News Site of Lynbrook High School

the Epic

Japanese teacher Jeremy Kitchen attempts a Chinese 4 test.

Jeremy Kitchen cooks up lost Chinese knowledge

March 8, 2022

Kitchen’s exploration of the Chinese language started in high school, as most of his friends spoke Chinese at home. As such, many of his recreational activities and the pop culture he was immersed in...

Chen takes Japanese test, a return to her college days.

Jasmine Chen tries her hand at Japanese

March 8, 2022

Chen’s passion for the Japanese language and culture began in college, where she received her bachelor’s degree in Japanese. “Although I enjoy Japanese culture, I haven’t used my knowledge in...

Language Arts teacher Anna Kirsh attempts a math test

Anna Kirsh picks up her calculator

March 8, 2022

Kirsh’s journey in high school math consisted of Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 classes, and she later continued her education in math at UC Santa Cruz, where she took a few college-level math classes required...

Kurt Kuenne, Class of 1991: Filmmaker

Kurt Kuenne, Class of 1991: Filmmaker

March 8, 2022

It started with a letter. After drafting a crude 10-page script of E.T., nine-year-old Kurt Kuenne mailed his childhood masterpiece to several literary agencies in Hollywood. To his surprise, one of them...

Elizabeth Slaughter's bittersweet return to the language arts

Elizabeth Slaughter’s bittersweet return to the language arts

March 8, 2022

Slaughter’s love for language arts started in fifth grade when she won an essay writing contest at her school. Slaughter did not enjoy studying novels in high school because she was a slow reader and...

Chris Cavanaugh, Class of 1980: Olympic Swimmer

Chris Cavanaugh, Class of 1980: Olympic Swimmer

March 8, 2022

As an Olympic gold medalist, world-record breaker and national champion, Chris Cavanaugh has had a successful career at the highest level of elite swimming.  Born in South Florida, Cavanaugh’s journey...

Senior Samantha Wu will be competing for the UPenn gymnastics team.

Samantha Wu

February 1, 2022

After 15 years of training, senior Samantha Wu will continue her gymnastics career to the University of Pennsylvania, where she hopes to concentrate in health science or neuroscience. When Wu was 3 years...

“A Novel and Efficient Method of Persistent Homology to Detect and Remove Topological Errors in Triang Mesh Data”

Alexander Zhang

February 1, 2022

“A Novel and Efficient Method of Persistent Homology to Detect and Remove Topological Errors in Triang Mesh Data” Modern algorithms take nearly 20 minutes to find and correct errors in 3D models...

Senior Jodi Au will dive for Northeastern University.

Jodi Au

February 1, 2022

Senior Jodi Au will be attending Northeastern University as a diver and a business major after seven years of diving. Au’s athletic career began with gymnastics but she transitioned into diving because...

Four Regeneron STS Semifinalists.

Four semifinalists for Regeneron Science Talent Search

Elliu Huang, Managing Editor February 1, 2022

With research ranging from astrophysics and biology to machine learning and topology, four Lynbrook seniors were named 2022 Regeneron Science Talent Search’s Top 300 Semifinalists.

Luke Zhao

Luke Zhao

February 1, 2022

“Single-cell Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Genetic Drivers of of Fast/Slow Motor Neuron Identity” Motivated by his grandfather's paralysis due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Luke Zhao discovered...

Kento Nishi

Kento Nishi

February 1, 2022

“Augmentation Strategies for Learning With Insufficient Data” In the data-driven world, algorithms require massive amounts of data in order to accurately model the world. However, many fields of...