In each installment of the five-part SO LONG, SENIORS series, a graduating Octagon editor-in-chief will write a final piece before heading to college. Allison ...
On May 6, anonymous students put up a mural made of tape on the outside of the gym. Large letters spelled out "RESPECT EVERYONE," and on the smaller strips of ...
Of four mural proposals given to head of school Lee Thomsen on March 4 by AP Studio Art students, only senior Bella Mathisen’s was approved.
After goi...
Before the 2017-18 school year, three murals — located on the large wall next to the entrance to the gym, the wall next to the weight room and the wall on the ...
Thirteen Octagon staff members attended the Spring National High School Journalism Convention in Anaheim on April 25-27. The convention, sponsored by the Journ...
Prom will be held on the Sacramento RiverTrain from 8 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, April 13.
The train will depart from 400 North Harbor Blvd. in West Sacramento...
The Octagon won its fourth Silver Crown award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) on March 22 in New York.
In October, the 2017-18 Octago...
On March 2, three high school students and 23 eighth graders competed in the Sacramento County National History Day (NHD) event at Inderkum High School.
Thi...
Whitney Gorton, ’04, is a middle school English teacher who has lived in Chicago for nearly three years. The school she teaches at was closed Jan. 30 and 31 du...
From Tuesday, Jan. 22, to Thursday, Jan. 24, Country Day high school students will be sitting in neat rows and columns in the gym, completing final exams for t...
When she has nothing else to do, senior Allison Zhang goes through her contacts and customizes text vibrations to vibrate the first letter of someone’s name in morse code, thus allowing her to tell who sent the text without touching her phone. She also arranged the apps on her phone by color (they used to be alphabetized), a result of being bored after finishing AP Physics C and AP U.S. History. Contact at azhang19@scdsstudent.org
