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Dancing the Night Away - A Homecoming Recap

By Alicia Peng and Shreya Sadhwani | October 27, 2023

As a long-standing high school tradition, Homecoming is integral to the high school experience. BASIS Homecoming Spirit Week was filled with fun days of dressing up from Monday, October 16...

How the Newark Area 4 Baylands are Essential in the Fight for Climate Change

By Ayush Swarnakar | October 27, 2023

In some certain popular video games that many would play within the comfort of their home, one would be able to fight for their lives. If one is in a team, they would also fight for...

The Perfect Fall Destination: Ardenwood Farms

By Pooja Kanthala | October 27, 2023

It’s that time of the year again. The time when the leaves change into warm colors and the weather becomes chillier. This period also signals the return of the Ardenwood Farms’s annual pumpkin patch

Teachers' Greatest Gifts

By Joleen Pan and Amanda Wu | December 16, 2022

On a cold December morning in 2022, two curious BASIS students set out to investigate the secret holiday lives of their teachers. They decided to interview select teachers about the best Christmas...

Navigating School Life: Interview Series

By Oriana Deng and Thanisha Thambidurai | December 16, 2022

Are you interested in how to prepare for the tiring high school? We asked six high schoolers advice to middle schoolers and eight students about what activities they do in their leisure time.

BIFU Diwali Celebration

By Alicia Peng and Anjali Prabhu | November 18, 2022

On October 21, BASIS Independent Fremont Upper School held its annual Diwali celebration event. Click here to learn more about all the festivities!

Retrospective: Loma Prieta 1989

By Sachit Parekh | November 18, 2022

The Magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989 was one of the worst natural disasters to ever hit the state of California, affecting millions of people living in the Bay and the surrounding areas...

Spooky Scary...Dinosaurs?

By Heeya Das | November 18, 2022

Halloween has passed by once more, this time with students sporting a brand-new variety of costumes! However, the highlight of the day was undoubtedly the school Halloween carnival...

Desensitization: Oakland School Shooting

By Ariana Yi and Amber Wong | October 21, 2022

On Wednesday, September 28th, gunshots pierced the silence at the King Estate school campus in Oakland. Six people were killed, minutes before students were dismissed for the afternoon. Soon after...

GMUNC Conference For Model UN

By Joleen Pan and Amanda Wu | October 21, 2022

On October 8th, 30 students from the BIF Model UN club attended the Gunn High School Model UN Conference...

Lower School Carnival

By Thanisha Thambidurai | October 21, 2022

“Mommy, Daddy, look, a treasure chest! I wanna go there!” On October 1st, 2022, BASIS students gathered at the Lower Campus for the Lower School Carnival, where students engaged in various indoor...

For the Love of Clubs!

By Ada Costiniano and Amanda Wu | September 30, 2022

One of the biggest downsides of online school during the pandemic was the lack of in-person, interactive clubs. This article explores the thoughts of some BIF students about the clubs that they’re in!

Reaction to the Death of Queen Elizabeth

By Esha Bansiya and Joleen Pan | September 30, 2022

On September 8, 2022, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen of the United Kingdom and longest reigning monarch of the British crown, passed away. This interview expresses a variety of viewpoints towards her.

Retrospective: 9/11

By Esha Bansiya and Joleen Pan | September 30, 2022

On September 11th, 2001, a terrorist attack shook the entire world. This interview, conducted with the teachers at BASIS Independent Fremont, displays the firsthand experiences.

Homecoming Week Recap

By Heeya Das and Alicia Peng | September 30, 2022

The week of September 18th was BIF's first-ever Homecoming Week, click to learn more about what happened!

New Fremont Bookstore

By Aarna Kumath | September 30, 2022

June 21, 2022 marked the opening of Banter Bookshop, a local, independently owned bookstore. A dream project of Amy Holmes Davis, the owner of Banter Bookshop, this shop provides customers with...

Cooking Corner: Dr. Dixit's Delicious Dessert

By Esha Bansiya, Anjali Prabhu and Jay Thanki | September 30, 2022

Three of our staff writers each set out to compete for who would make the best cheesecake, documenting their experiences along the way. The cheesecakes would be ranked by Dr. Dixit herself...

Fremont's Winter Flooding

By Oriana Deng | February 3, 2022

At the beginning of 2023, a powerful storm hit California, threatening to cause severe damage to the West Coast. January 4th and January 5th seemed to be the worst of the storm...