The student news site of Santa Margarita Catholic High School in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.

The Eagle Eye

The student news site of Santa Margarita Catholic High School in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.

The Eagle Eye

The student news site of Santa Margarita Catholic High School in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.

The Eagle Eye

Illustration by Xiang(Lucy) Chang

A Year Online

Xiang (Lucy) Chang, Staff Writer, Illustrator May 3, 2021

After the school transferred to online schooling last year, many international students, especially the Chinese students, went back to their countries and became distance learners. Different than the regular...

Rise of integrated community farms

Sofia O, Staff Writer Mar 1, 2021

Environmentalism continues to increase in popularity and people are still feeling confined in their homes due to the pandemic. Citizens have taken up gardening as a solution to both. This trend began...

Infographic by Giulia Henshaw. Flexible schedule- Depending on what schedule a school decides to do, students have various opportunities to take their AP tests. The College Board provided three different styles of testing.

New format for AP tests

Giulia Henshaw, Copy Editor Feb 9, 2021

After almost a year in the COVID-19 pandemic, schools are still in a hybrid schedule. As Advanced Placement (AP) tests approach, the College Board implements a flexible testing schedule for students to...

New Progress on COVID Vaccines

New Progress on COVID Vaccines

Kendrick Choi, Web Editor-in-Chief Feb 9, 2021

It has been almost a year since the COVID-19 pandemic first caused the world to shut down. Now, scientists are making progress to create and distribute vaccines to ensure that herd immunity is created....

#Bekind- Follow these challenges each day this week. Kindness Challenge week was created in tandem with the Peer Mental Health and Kindness Presentation.

MUN Impact leads Peer Mental Health and Kindness presentation

Evelyn Driscoll, Print Editor-in-Chief Feb 3, 2021

MUN and Speak Up collaborated on January 25 to share the Peer Mental Health and Kindness Presentation virtually on Teams. The presentation, led by MUN students and Speak UP ambassadors, featured an open...

Picture via Sky News

SoCal faces complete shut-down

Devon Nguyen, Opinion Editor Dec 14, 2020

Since COVID restrictions began to lift in the middle of the year, cases within Southern California have only skyrocketed. Governor Gavin Newsom has enforced a region wide shutdown for eleven counties that...

Lighting up the season

Alexis McCabe, Staff Writer Dec 13, 2020

The excitement of Christmas is here but things are looking a bit different this year. Saddleback Church shifts their normal Christmas celebrations into a whole new experience in order to make it COVID-19...

Students reflect on evacuation from Silverado fire

Evelyn Driscoll, Print Editor-in-Chief Nov 18, 2020

Group B classes took place virtually on Monday Oct. 26 in response to the Silverado wildfire raging in the Santiago and Silverado canyons, which forced around 90,000 Orange County residents to evacuate...

One mask at a time

Sofia O'Keefe, Staff Writer Nov 5, 2020

After seeing the unfortunate impacts of Covid-19, local politician Stephanie Oddo created a Facebook group known as Healthcare Mask Collaborative (HMC) to manufacture cloth masks in impoverished and high-risk...

Store fronts are being boarded up in major cities in preparation for the election.

Looming election day

Emelin Conboy, Staff Writer Nov 3, 2020

Major cities across the nation are becoming eerie and apocalyptic as the election approaches this November. Store owners put up plywood in fear of violence, similar to during the political unrest in the...

New season new clubs

Katharine Lee, Feature Editor Oct 30, 2020

Every fall, Club Rush begins with a bustling gym filled with students, high energy, and various clubs. This year, however, was different. Fall Club Rush was held virtually via Flipgrid on October...

Confirmed student cases of coronavirus in Irvine

Confirmed student cases of coronavirus in Irvine

Kendrick Choi, Web Editor-in-Chief Oct 29, 2020

With schools returning in-person, it was only a matter of time till students and teachers would test positive for COVID-19. Such an occurrence has struck the Irvine Unified School District days after returning....

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