The high school Theater group performed The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 live at the Lineage Performing Arts Center in Pasadena on April 19-23. The play follows Elsa Von Grossenkneuten, a theater financier who gathers a team of actors to produce a new theatrical experience after their previous play was deemed a flop. That play, Manhattan Holiday, was plagued by a mysterious killer, the “Stage Door Slasher,” who stabbed choir girls and has now returned for an encore.  

Global Online Academy (GOA) has been one of the most controversial topics at Sequoyah’s high school for a long time. From the number of credits each class is worth, to the effectiveness of the classes, GOA has split the students into different factions. Some students praise it as a useful supplement to the Sequoyah curriculum, while others question its value.

AI has been a very controversial topic that has been circulating through mainstream media recently. It spiked in popularity in January of 2023 when the first stable version of a program commonly known as ChatGPT was released by OpenAI. ChatGPT allows users to chat with artificial intelligence that provides answers to almost any prompt that is input by the user.

At Sequoyah, every grade goes on a Field Studies trip. The Barefoot Times followed up on the tenth-grade Costa Rica trip orientation to discover what exactly the trip consists of and what students' opinions of it are.

Recently, Sequoyah purchased its first property, 500 S. Pasadena Avenue. It was formerly home to Pasadena Community Christian Fellowship (PCCF), and will now house Sequoyah’s administrative operations including admissions, athletics, the business office, communications, development, Field Studies, facilities management, parent engagement, Summerhouse, and technology.