Tag: News

The Asian American Student Association (AASA) at Germantown Academy (GA) held a celebration for the Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival. Asian American students and faculty came together and shared mooncakes, Songpyeon, snacks, pomelos, and aloe vera drinks together while watching a presentation about the festival. AASA wishes to make opportunities like this to provide a […]

This fall, GA welcomed a group of exchange students from Colegio Internacional Europa in Sevilla, Spain. For several weeks, the students lived with GA host families, attended classes, participated in extracurricular activities, and fully immersed themselves in the daily life of GA students.  “I hope that we can provide the best experience possible for the […]

Since TikTok first became embroiled in controversy in 2019, ownership of the app has been a major topic of discussion for many people. The primary fear regarding TikTok has been that the Chinese government can access data harvested by the app and its parent company, Chinese software company ByteDance. After years of scrutiny and exposés […]

This year, Mr. Ryan Baber, the new Computer Science (CS) department head, has made some substantial changes to GA’s CS curriculum, including new course offerings and the implementation of new teaching styles to these classes.  Previously, under Mr. Jason Oswald’s leadership, the CS department offered Computer Science 1 (CS1) at the standard and honors levels, […]

Mr. Schellhas, Head of School, announced on Thursday July 30 that students and families have the option to return to campus in the fall or participate in the virtual program, GA at Home.  GA plans to open the week of Aug. 31. The school has gone 1.7 million dollars above the initial budget to ensure […]

The best-selling author of Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi, visited GA from February 11th to 13th, giving a series of talks to the GA community. In these interview-style Q&A sessions, Gyasi read excerpts of her novel and answered thoughtful questions posed by facilitators Mr. Schellhas and Cianni Williams ‘20.  Homegoing is Gyasi’s debut novel, the idea of […]

Recently, you may have heard discussions of something called “GA TV” throughout GA’s halls, but what exactly is it anyway? GA TV is a club started by Dean Millard ‘21, Daelyn Nwabosi ‘21 and Blake Smith ‘22. Daelyn says that the club was designed to “not only to serve as an entertainment medium for the […]

I’m baaaaaaack! That’s right, your favorite pop-culture-drama-gossip-news section just got renewed for another Edition. For this Edition, I’m here to talk about the new year. More specifically, I’m here to talk about the pretty rocky start to 2020 seen throughout pop culture. So, without further adieu, here’s this Edition’s rundown of What’s Dishin’. Things have […]