Blocky letters fade in and out as the camera pans through a dense South American landscape, revealing a caravan of three with eyes flickering with desperation — all except one. Our titular character clad in shades of brown topped with…
Octagon staffers review their favorite childhood movies. Read them below.
A team of three Country Day students ranked No. 14 out of a field of over 150 teams in this year’s March 6 HP CodeWars High School Programming Competition. Members included senior Keshav Anand, junior Nihal Gulati and sophomore Samhita…
It’s an exciting time for space exploration. New startups like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin have changed the way the space game works with commercialization and new innovations like reusable rockets. NASA has committed to return to…
Our stock market has made major headlines over the past few weeks. For Country Day students and others around the world, this stock market frenzy has produced endless opportunities. A primary cause for this dramatic fluctuation has been the influence…
Shimin Zhang, ’20, is majoring in chemical biology. She lives in Qingdao, China, and takes online classes at the University of California, Berkeley. Q: Why did you decide to attend UC Berkeley? A: I decided to go to UC Berkeley…
The team’s third match against Faith Christian was a success, with all three team members achieving their best scores of the season: 45 by sophomore Samrath Pannu 58 by junior Nihal Gulati 60 by freshman Delsyn Beaton “We played really…
Donald James, a Country Day alumnus and the school’s first Black graduate, has learned that the most important factor for a successful career, a job interview or a simple conversation is a person’s manners. James spoke about what he learned…
Despite Country Day being in a hybrid schedule, many students have chosen to remain at home. Some recent schedule changes and COVID-19 concerns have affected high school students’ decisions. Fridays now follow a club schedule, with meeting times for advisory,…
Senior Kenyatta Dumisani begins many JEDI Council meetings by explaining the meaning of his name and encouraging new members to do so as well. “My father named me Kenyatta because he wanted me to be like Jomo Kenyatta, a catalyst…
