November 12th, 2025 marked a momentous and tragic day for numismatists and average citizens all over the United States: the last-ever penny was minted in Philadelphia, ending a 238 year long lineage of this famous American coin.

Located at 4884 Eagle Rock Boulevard, the local indie movie theater, Vidiots blinks with inviting neon signs seven days a week. Step inside, and you might feel like you’ve DeLoreaned back several decades to a time where people actually watched movies together.

Stewardship, an important value to the Sequoyah community, is both a Habit of Mind (a core school principle) as well as a program at Sequoyah’s high school. While the Habit of Mind remains, the program has undergone significant changes, to the satisfaction and dissatisfaction of students.

On a cloudy Saturday morning on September 13, 2025, Friendship Pasadena Church welcomed residents, advocates, officials, and planners into a community workshop that could reshape the future of the city.

In late August, the 10th graders went on their High Sierras backpacking trip, their first trip of the school year. Each grade at Sequoyah goes on two camping trips a year. On the High Sierras trip, every group participating had to backpack, which entails hiking while carrying a backpack with all of your gear.

When the Eaton Fire hit on January 7th, 2025, the Pasadena and Altadena communities reeled from its impact. Over twenty-four days, thousands of buildings and acres burned before the fire was fully contained. It is estimated that over 100,000 people were displaced.

The Sequoyah H2 Grand Prix team qualified for the World Finals this year, which was held in Chemnitz, Germany, in August. The team made an excellent showing, placing 1st in America and 9th in the world.

The county of Los Angeles has a lot coming for it, not least of all the 2028 Summer Olympics, which will take place in the one and only city of Angels. This is significant because it’s the first time Los Angeles has been represented on a scale this large since 1984, when LA hosted its second Summer Olympics.

According to Ohio University’s student newspaper, The Post, recently more preteens have been trying to act older, to the point that it negatively impacts them. But haven’t younger kids always wanted to be older? So why is it becoming a larger issue now?

Vinyls were an essential piece of technology from the 1950s to the 1980s. However, with the invention of modern-day digital music, vinyls quickly became obsolete and sales dropped dramatically. However, according to Camoin Associates, vinyl sales started increasing in 2007 and continued to rise every year up to 2023.

The topic of homework has been a point of contention between schools and students for a long time. Is it necessary, and if so, when is it most effective? What do Sequoyah high school students believe homework’s role should be in education?

If asked, do you think you could find Mississippi on a map? How about Malawi? Mauritius? Have you ever heard of the Maldives? Depending on your geography education in school, whether it was rote memorization back in third grade or if it was nonexistent, you may have very different answers to these questions.

What is “good” weather? More specifically, what is “good” weather for a Californian? At Sequoyah, it’s pretty dang specific.

In conjunction with the updated Curriculum Guide released to the student body the week of March 17th, Mathematics Department Chair Alexi Burgess made a surprising announcement at March 20th’s Morning Meeting: Sequoyah will no longer be offering the class known as “Precalculus.” This news came after Burgess sensationally announced to his fall semester Precalculus class that the subject does not in fact exist.

In late March, Sequoyah’s high school theater program staged a production of Alice by Heart, a dark and touching musical set during The Blitz—an eight-month period in which the Germans bombed Britain during WWII.

Oxford Dictionary defines adulthood as “the length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed.” Though the concept is easy enough to comprehend on these terms, the confusion seeps in when the sectioning begins. In the United States, the first major divide occurs at age 18, when you legally become an adult.

As the Sequoyah high school community knows, several Sequoyah staff members said their goodbyes last year; however, many new members joined the community this year. This means new teachers and faculty, and most importantly, new advisors!

For many, getting a driver’s license at sixteen is a rite of passage, providing freedom for teens to go wherever they want. However, fewer and fewer teenagers are getting their license. In California, teens can get their driver’s license at the age of sixteen after having a permit for six months. Although sixteen has long been the age of getting a driver’s license, many teens nowadays are choosing not to drive.

The Sequoyah High School is offering seniors a new option for the Social Innovation Program (SIP) called the Action Collective. The students who joined are in the same group for the whole year. This new addition is a third option for seniors’ SIP journey, along with internships and impact projects from their junior year.

The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Institute is back after a year-long break, and Sequoyah students are excited about all the opportunities it brings.