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Robots compete at Town Hall in tech class demonstration

By Alexa Fishman, Community Editor December 24, 2013

Amid loud cheering, stomping, and yelling, student-built robots competed for the first time in Shalhevet history during Town Hall on Thursday, Dec. 19. The robots — built by ninth and 10th-grade...

CANCELLED: Shalhevets Model Congress team won 15 awards at Penn last year, above.

Penn Model Congress trip off due to ‘egregious’ behavior on Princeton trip

By Alexa Fishman, Community Editor and Tamar Willis December 17, 2013

Administrators have cancelled this year’s annual Penn Model Congress trip due to student misbehavior on an earlier debate trip, effectively cancelling a whole semester of the one of the school’s most...

UNANIMOUS: From left, Marsha L. Brown, Chanchanit Martorell and Franklin Acevedo of Central Area Planning Commission viewed slides before voting to overturn and appeal Shalhevets building project. the apartments shown are planned for the Southern part of the current campus which will vacated when Shalhevet moves into its new building on the Northern side.

Shalhevet wins construction appeal; demolition to begin within 60 days

By Noah Rothman, Staff Writer December 13, 2013

The final appeal holding up construction for Shalhevet’s new building was overruled at City Hall downtown last Tuesday night, paving the way for demolition and construction to begin in either January...

DELAYED: Plans for Shalhevets new three-story building are still tucked away near Robyn Lewis’s office.

New building won’t open before January 2015

By Alexa Fishman, Community Editor November 25, 2013

According to Head of School Rabbi Ari Segal, unforeseen delays in the permitting process mean that approval from the city of L.A. has not been finalized, escrow is not closed, and construction will not...

WINNERS: Jonah Gill, Boaz Willis, Sigal Spitzer and Daniel Soroudi celebrated this morning in Washington, D.C., after the Firehawk debate team learned of its awards this morning at the Princeton Model Congress competition.

Model Congress team brings home 13 awards from Princeton’s conference

By Anna Gordon, Staff Writer November 24, 2013

The Model Congress team received 13 total awards from their time at Princeton Model Congress in Washington, D.C. this past weekend.  Of 24 students on the team, half brought home awards. Of those thirteen...

WINNERS: Jonah Gill, Boaz Willis, Sigal Spitzer and Daniel Soroudi celebrated this morning in Washington, D.C., after the Firehawk debate team learned of its awards this morning at the Princeton Model Congress competition.

Four gavels, nine Honorable Mentions at Princeton Model Congress

By Staff Report November 24, 2013

Sophomore Boaz Willis won Shalhevet's first-ever gavel in full session, and junior Sigal Spitzer became the school's second to have a bill she wrote pass committee and full session and be signed into law,...

ELIMINATED: Prosecutors Scotty Silver 
and Alec Fields prepare to cross-examine.

Mock Trial team knocked out in first round

By Alexa Fishman, Community Editor November 24, 2013

Shalhevet’s Mock Trial team has been eliminated after losing in the first round to Damien High School of La Verne by just seven points at the Los Angeles County Mock Trial Competition Nov. 5. Even...

LEARNING: Students at the Veerni School in India in one of their classrooms. Shalhevets chapter of Girls Learn International hope to support the school wide increasing awareness of a gender gap in education in many parts of the world.

GLI club partners with school in India to help girls learn

By Mayaan Waldman and Nicole Soussana, Staff Writers November 21, 2013

Shalhevet now has a sister school in Jodhpur, India, through which the Girls Learn International club hopes to support female education in a place where girls usually receive less schooling than boys. The...

GLI Club partners with girls boarding school in India

GLI Club partners with girls’ boarding school in India

November 19, 2013

By Maayan Waldman and Nicole Soussana, Staff Writers Shalhevet now has a sister school in Jodhpur, India, through which the Girls Learn International club hopes to support female education in a place...

Meet Stacey, your new best friend

Meet Stacey, your new best friend

By Alec Fields, Staff Writer November 19, 2013

A self-described "go-to gal" -- meaning she can be counted on to get things done – Stacey Enoch is known to most students as the receptionist in the Annex.  But officially, she is assistant to Director...

Rebecca Elspas wins first Discourses essay competition

Rebecca Elspas wins first “Discourses” essay competition

November 19, 2013

The following e-mail was sent by General Studies Principal Mr. Roy Danovitch last Thursday, announcing that junior Rebecca Elspas had won the first-ever "Discourses" essay competition.  His original e-mail...

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