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The student news site of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

tjTODAY
The student news site of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

tjTODAY
All content by Lilia Qian
A Japanese exchange student performs rapid calculations using soroban, a traditional Japanese mental abacus technique, during the cultural exchange activity. The activity took place on March 7 during eighth period.

Japanese students hold cultural exchange activity during 8th period

Lilia Qian and Aumena Choudhry
March 22, 2018
Historical Gaming Club members play a game of Risk, a historical strategy board game. The club had its third meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 3.

New eighth period club plays historical games

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
January 25, 2018
Sophomores and Art Club members Victoria Yang and Grace Cullen arrange glass tiles for the mosaic project. The club works on the project during weekly eighth period meetings.

Art Club builds mosaic for amphitheater risers during eighth period

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
January 3, 2018
Soup Club members share soup at a weekly meeting. The meeting took place on Dec. 1 during lunch.

Faculty members share soup at weekly club meetings

Lilia Qian and Aumena Choudhry
December 2, 2017
Relay for Life sophomores Manu Onteeru, Monica Saraf, Medha Gupta, and Pranav Wadhwa work on cards to send to cancer patients with the American Cancer Society at the Relay for Life Kickoff Event. The event took place on Nov. 15 during eighth period.

Relay for Life holds eighth period kickoff event to prepare for cancer fundraising

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
November 22, 2017
Photo courtesy of Diana Zavela. Principal Evan Glazer introduces the CubeSat project at the team’s kick-off event. The event took place on April 22.

Jefferson CubeSat holds kick-off event celebrating takeoff of space satellite project

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
April 29, 2017
Members of the National Honor Society decorate cookies to send to the Annandale Volunteer Fire Department. The event took place on March 29 during eighth period.

National Honor Society hosts cookie-decorating and card-making event for local firefighters

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
April 2, 2017
Photo courtesy of Creative Commons. Stress can often drive students to complain about things that are out of their, and their teachers', control. Many things can be done to control stress, and students can take measures to try and reduce the amount of stress they feel.

Complaining breeds an unhealthy school environment

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
January 18, 2017
Students practice writing Chinese characters on red paper using Chinese calligraphy brushes in a Chinese Honor Society cultural event. The event took place on Nov. 18 during eighth period.

Chinese Honor Society hosts Chinese culture event during eighth period

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
November 20, 2016
Club secretary Sachin Jain and president Sidharth Rampally introduce their club, MIT Launch. The club had its first meeting on Oct. 28 in the Optics Lab.

New business club MIT Launch begins meetings for student entrepreneurs

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
October 31, 2016
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stand together before beginning the first televised Presidential Debate of the 2016 campaign.

How modern students view Presidential elections through the media

Bayliss Wagner and Lilia Qian
October 30, 2016
J-Day Photo Booth Pictures

J-Day Photo Booth Pictures

Katherine Du, Ankit Agrawal, Uzma Rentia, Adithi Ramakrishnan, Lilia Qian, and Avni Singh
June 17, 2016
Intranet access is currently limited to logging in on school grounds and using Fairfax County WiFi. The restriction began on May 27.

Intranet access restricted due to cyber attacks

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
June 9, 2016
During the “Directing” session of Jefferson’s annual Shakespeare Festival, freshmen in the Nobel Commons gather to observe different viewpoints.

Freshmen participate in annual Shakespeare Festival

Angie Sohn and Lilia Qian
May 1, 2016
Fred Zhang, Alex Howe, Rohan Hegde, and Andrew Wang participate in History Bee nationals. The competition took place over three days in Crystal City, DC on April 22-24.

Jefferson History Bowl team participates in History Bee and History Bowl nationals

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
April 27, 2016
The new math system incorporates Research Statistics 1. The system shortens duration of tradition math classes such as Math 3 (Algebra 2) in order to make time for statistics curriculum.

Semester-long math courses do not provide students with enough time to learn the curriculum

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
April 10, 2016
"Three Women", a piece by Jefferson senior MinJoo Kang was entered into the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. The piece was a part of her art portfolio, which consisted of eight works.

Jefferson students participate in Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
March 23, 2016
Participants from over 40 countries came to compete in the 2012 International Olympiad on astronomy and astrophysics. The 2012 Olympiad took place at Rio Planetarium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Two Jefferson students qualify for round two of the USA Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
March 13, 2016
Jefferson students work in the new library during eighth period study hall. On Feb. 18 the library was officially opened for student use.

Jefferson’s new library opens on the second floor, after many months of renovation

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
February 22, 2016
Jefferson students congratulate Katherine Barbano and Eugene Jeong as they are called up to receive recognition and a ribbon for placing first in the Energy: Chemistry category of science fair. The awards ceremony took place in the Da Vinci Commons on February 9th during JLC.

Results of Jefferson’s science fair announced

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
February 12, 2016
Sophomore Sachit Gupta takes a moment to do some work in a commons area. Like Gupta, many students must use extra time, such as lunches, to finish homework due to their demanding teachers.

Tough teachers mean a tougher year for some students

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
January 19, 2016
Jefferson students listen to a Japanese exchange student present a research experiment. Japanese exchange students gave presentations all through eighth period on Jan. 6th in the Curie Commons.

Student representatives from five different Japanese schools visit Jefferson

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
January 10, 2016
Relay for Life committee members gather in the Galileo Commons to make and decorate cards for Jefferson alumni and student cancer survivors. The meeting was one of Relay for Life’s weekly meetings on Wednesday A blocks to support those fighting cancer.

Relay for Life committee members create holiday cards for cancer survivors

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
January 3, 2016
Kim and Jiang create paper crane earrings to sell at Oshōgatsu

Japanese National Honor Society plans for New Year celebration

Lilia Qian, Staff Writer
November 29, 2015
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