Category: The Azure

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 Continue Reading

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 Continue Reading

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.

Sophie Krayna: Close the Door This piece received first place in Project LPIE’s Sustainable Lafayette category.

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 Continue Reading

Zevin Acuna This piece received first place in Project LPIE’s 3-D Art-Applied Design category.

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 Continue Reading

Blake Levinson: “‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore”This piece received first place in Project LPIE’s Acting category. Madison Payne: “Children of Virtue and Vengeance”This piece received second place in Project LPIE’s Acting category. Keith Johnson: “The Laramie Project”This piece received third place in Project LPIE’s Acting Continue Reading

Brahm Sasner: “Pure Imagination”This piece received first place in Project LPIE’s Instrumental Music category. Stella Heo: Rachmaninoff “Prelude in C Sharp Minor”This piece received second place in Project LPIE’s Instrumental Music category. Andrew Zheng This piece received third place in Project LPIE’s Instrumental Music category.