Skip to Main Content

The Piedmont Highlander

Piedmont High's Student-Run News Site

The Piedmont Highlander

The Piedmont Highlander

Play Like a Girl+ Scores Over 1,000 Attendees
Play Like a Girl+ Scores Over 1,000 Attendees
Dylan Hickman, Campus Editor • May 12, 2025

On Sunday, May 4, Piedmont Recreation Department hosted the 4th annual Play Like a Girl+ event at Witter Field. The event featured 29 individual stations, featuring more common sports like basketball, football, soccer, and tennis, as well as offering...

Senior Haylee Cheang and freshman Cristobal McKay win the audience’s vote for best act at Phantasmagoria on Thursday, May 1st, 2025. The two perform an original dance routine they created to the rhythm of popular rap songs.
Phantasmagoria Returns with Music, Comedy, and Crowd Favorites
Sasha Jerez, News Editor • May 3, 2025

  The Advanced Acting class hosted the third Phantasmagoria talent on May 1 in the Alan Harvey Theater. Some acts included lip-syncs, dances, musical performances, comedy, and others. Members of the other acting classes emceed the show, performing skits...

Senior Snapshots
Senior Snapshots
Raffaello Banin, ACL Editor • May 29, 2025

Close It
Close It
Dylan Hickman, News Editor
Click It
Click It
Oliver Horsley, Staff Writer
Spring Captains Corner
Marius Arno, Zach Dupree, and Sophie Hess Apr 24, 2025

Badminton Captains: Justin Phmah, Ava Saephan, Maddie  Xiong What have you learned from previous team captains that you want to bring...

More than a Leader
More than a Leader
Apr 24, 2025
AI is booming, PHS is lagging 
AI is booming, PHS is lagging 
Raffaello Banin, ACL Editor • May 25, 2025

Just a few years ago, the most Artificial Intelligence (AI) we used in school was Grammarly, which fixed our grammar or autocorrected us from...

One of Caitlin Boothby’s (12) works in her portfolio, made with gel pen and watercolor depicting a moment from China Town in Oakland. Boothby is now committed to Cal Poly SLO for architecture.
Piedmont Creatives Advancing to College
Megan Foster, Opinions Editor • Apr 24, 2025

  While many seniors rushed to fill out last-minute essays, CommonApp questions, and waited anxiously to hear back from colleges and universities,...

Prop. 28 Brings Additional Funding to the Arts
Nuala Price, Staff Writer • Apr 24, 2025

Passed in 2022, Proposition 28 provides annual state funding for art education in California’s K-12 public schools, according to the California...

Donate to The Piedmont Highlander