Let's face it. Life is one big balancing act. Whether it's academics, sports, hobbies, or life in general, you'll always be juggling more than one thing. But what do you do when you're juggling too much For OHS student Mikayla Medrano ('27), this balancing act is more than familiar. Between her three schools, clubs, varsity basketball, tennis lessons, choir, piano, and other musical interests, she's learned how to stay focused when life gets busy.
From Aug. 4–14, OHS students traded Adobe screens for sunshine at Summer@Stanford, a program hosted at Stanford University. For seven to 10 days, students experienced everything from mini-classes and field trips to hallway laughter and late-night games that lasted well past lights out.
As the 2025-26 school year kicked off, families across the world joined to meet each other at their regional StartUp! event. With events spanning from Northern California/Nevada and Hawaii to Beijing and Europe/Africa, StartUp! was an opportunity for Stanford OHS families to come together and connect at the beginning of the academic year. Some regions organised in-person events, while others chose to host online events for new and returning families to connect with each other.
The annual OHS Homecoming took place on November 22-23 in the Boston area, drawing over 200 students and families to the Royal Sonesta Boston, a luxurious riverfront hotel. This annual event has grown from an informal gathering of a few families in Boston and MIT Splash into one of the most cherished and important OHS traditions.
Recently, the Pixel Journal invited Pedro Aguilar (‘24)—an OHS alumni—for an interview about his experiences at the University of Pennsylvania. Aguilar, who enrolled in tenth grade, was a full-time OHS student for 3 years.
Apsara Kasiraman (’22) is a recent graduate of SMU and the founder/CEO of two companies, Malibu View Records and Malibu View Productions.
Fall elections have concluded! Learn more about your student government representatives and what they’re planning to achieve for OHS this school year.
Last year, OHS implemented its new messaging platform: Pronto. Since OHS has moved onto Pronto, OHS students have already begun innovatively improving the app. Recently, juniors Michael Sha (‘26), Josh Tittiranonda (‘26), and Gene Yang (‘26) released a Chrome extension known as Pronto++. Pronto++ intends to refine students’ quality-of-life, with features such as markdown and mathematical notation.
Mrs. Kim Birge-Liberman has recently taken a spot as a new teacher for Unity & Diversity of Biological Systems. Her background and enthusiasm for teaching makes her the missing puzzle piece to the course at OHS.
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From the 2nd to the 4th of October, OHS students traveled from all over the world to the capital of the United States, Washington, D.C., for homecoming. Homecoming is traditionally an American football game at which alumni, students, and parents show their school spirit, and even though we do not have an official OHS football team, we can celebrate our school in our own way. From Thursday morning to Saturday night, this year’s homecoming was filled with events: ice skating, pastry walks, night tours, bowling, and even a Pixel detective to win a prize, students rating an average of 4.5/5 stars overall, but let’s recap from the start.