Arts and Tech – Page 4 – The Edition GA

15May

Appreciating GA’s Mission With Poetry

Every April in the United States, poetry is celebrated in its many forms through National Poetry Month. A classic form of literature that has been used for centuries, poetry is beloved for its expressiveness, open-ended nature, and elegance. Different readers can interpret the same poem in an infinite number of ways. As such, it’s a […]

Student artist’s work celebrated with annual Honors Art Show and reception

4May

Taryn DiFranco '25

Katherine Song '25No Comments

Student artist’s work celebrated with annual Honors Art Show and reception

The most recent show on display in the Art Center was the Upper School Honors Art show, which ran from Dec 5, 2022 through Feb 1, 2023. The show featured students’ work from a variety of art classes, including 2D, 3D, sculpture, photography, and digital media. One student, Taylor Weiss ’23, decided to focus her […]

Lawsuit on AI for Copyright Infringement

15Apr

Brendan Hodgens '24

Shae Sawyer- St. Clair '24No Comments

Lawsuit on AI for Copyright Infringement

In Nov. 2022, a lawyer and the legal team at Joseph Saveri Law Firm teamed up and filed a proposed class action lawsuit against OpenAI’s Copilot tool that generates code within a programmer’s code editor (The Verge). Copilot is trained to reproduce the publicly available code from GitHub, a code hosting platform. This lawsuit targets […]

Australian Team develops Revolutionary Hydrogen and Diesel Engine

13Apr

Grace Taylor '24No Comments

Australian Team develops Revolutionary Hydrogen and Diesel Engine

As of this year, engineers at the University of South Wales in Australia have discovered a new technology that has the potential to revolutionize the construction and mining industries: a hybrid diesel and hydrogen engine. This technology was developed to cut carbon emissions from machinery, and has since proven successful with an 85% reduction in […]

10Apr

Zara Bhatt '24

Carmela Jenckes '24No Comments

The Dangers Of Self-Driving Cars

Recently, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration initiated a recall for Teslas with full self-driving technology. While the feature required drivers to be somewhat attentive at the wheel, the NHTSA noted several safety concerns; for example, the vehicle would drive straight through intersections in turn-only lanes and would perform a rolling stop at stop signs. […]

2Mar

Celina Bagchi '24No Comments

Humanoid Robots

This robot might just be the answer to all your household cleaning needs. The latest prototype from the Japan-based company Aeolus Robotics is here to do the dishes for you. Currently on display at CES 2023—the most influential tech event in the world—the prototype is a humanoid robot designed to benefit people through the use […]

16Feb

Benjamin Moorhouse '26No Comments

Imitation or Over Hiring?

In 2022, large tech companies fired over 154,000 employees, 60,000 of which occurred during November and December. Twitter led the layoff charge that immensely shook the economy, as Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk released 50% of the entire workforce. Halfway through the year, the employee count sat at 7,500; by the year’s end Musk slashed […]

A Recent Upsurge in a New Artistic Form of Technology

11Dec

Jessica Wang

Neha Jonnalagadda '25No Comments

A Recent Upsurge in a New Artistic Form of Technology

In the past few years, the technological and artistic world collided to form AI Generated art. AI generated art creates pieces of artwork by combining images found online. Types of softwares such as Midjourney, StableDiffusion, and Artbreeder, require users to input certain descriptive words, in turn creating new, highly detailed art pieces that match. In […]

10Dec

Zara Bhatt '24No Comments

We Might be Driving Flying Cars in 2025

Alef Aeronautics is a California-based startup that was founded by Jim Dukhovny in 2015. The Alef Model A, which is the company’s most recent prototype, can fly for 68 miles and is capable of vertical take-off. After the proposed vertical take-off, the Model A will rotate to its side and transform into a biplane with […]

Faculty Art Show: Faculty art inspires the GA community

24Oct

Roma Reddy ' 25

Misimi Owolabi '25No Comments

Faculty Art Show: Faculty art inspires the GA community

The annual faculty art show, an exposition that displays various mediums such as sculpture, painting, and photography, took place in Sept. to present the work done by the teachers of Germantown Academy. Artwork from Nicholas Wynia, Sara Krupnick-Ritz, Dainis Roman, Karina Slapinsky, Romy Burkus, Elizabeth Buckman, Jessica Killo, Alia Tahvildaran, and Kaitlyn Fabiani were displayed […]