The Student Newspaper of Acalanes High School
Category: The Azure
The Azure: May 2023
What is The Azure? The Azure is Acalanes High School Blueprint’s literary magazine. We partner with Lafayette Partners in Education (LPIE) to publish the winners of Project LPIE, and we accept submissions directly from the Acalanes student body to create this publication. This year, Azure Editor-in-Chief, Blueprint Coordinator,
The Azure: May 2022
What is The Azure? The Azure is Acalanes High School Blueprint’s literary magazine. We partner with Lafayette Partners in Education (LPIE) to publish the winners of Project LPIE, and we accept submissions directly from the Acalanes student body to create this publication. This year, Managing Editor and senior Ella
The Azure: May 2021
What is The Azure? The Azure is Acalanes High School Blueprint’s literary magazine. We partner with Lafayette Partners in Education (LPIE) to publish the winners of Project LPIE, and we accept submissions directly from the Acalanes student body to create this publication. This year, Managing
The Azure
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The Azure: Video Production
Jordan Pratt: The Changemakers of the Future This piece received first place in Project LPIE’s Video Production category. Oliver Lane: Live in the Moment This piece received second place in Project LPIE’s Video Production category. Lizzy Xie: Shanghai by Day and by Night This piece
The Azure: Science and Engineering
Nelson Rogers: Grand Strategy in Catan This piece received first place in Project LPIE’s Science and Engineering category. Ariel Shehter: Soap This piece received second place in Project LPIE’s Science and Engineering category.
The Azure: Sustainable Lafayette
Sophie Krayna: Close the Door This piece received first place in Project LPIE’s Sustainable Lafayette category.
The Azure: Community Service
Owen Myall: Lamorinda Skate Park Project This piece received first place in Project LPIE’s Community Service category. Kayley Altbaum: Xenophon Therapeutic Riding Center This piece received second place in Project LPIE’s Community Service category. Jon Davis: COVID-19 Free Shelter-In-Place Essential Shopping Service This piece received
The Azure: 3-D Art-Applied Design
Zevin Acuna This piece received first place in Project LPIE’s 3-D Art-Applied Design category.
The Azure: Computer Programming
AJ Hesby: Discord My programming project for LPIE was a bot for the voice conferencing application “Discord.” The bot interfaced with the text chat through user commands (e.g. “$play [chosen_song]”). It used Google’s Youtube API to search for videos and to play an audio stream