Show BioHide BioJeremy Park is a 12th grader at AISG. This is his second year writing for The Beacon. He covers a wide variety of topics in the AISG community as well as world events. He loves playing sports and also takes part in the community service Crossroads.
People feel that it is impossible for a person to change his/her personality. However, studies indicate that personalities can be changed, and the rate of change in personality depends on the extent of influence one receives. One of the most important influenc... More »
Habitat for Humanity is a community service group in our school that focuses on providing help to the people in our community. Each semester, the group has a build where students sign up and travel to a remote village in Guangdong province for three days to pr... More »
Did you know that AISG’s faculty is home to a band made up of rock-spirited teachers called “Gigantic”? The band’s name was taken from the title of a hit by alternative rock band The Pixies, and they chose it to show how powerful and loud the band is. The band... More »
On the 25th of October, Crossroads community service group traveled to the Hong Kong Crossroads headquarters for its annual Hong Kong trip. The Hong Kong Crossroads headquarters is a place where donations are packed and sent off to areas that need donations. A... More »
The most recent and final presidential debate took place today, October 20, 2016, between the two presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Similar to the previous debates, this debate was full of accusing the other of a wrongdoing and trying ... More »
The Jazz Band is a school activity where musicians meet every Friday after school in the black box theatre (currently Mr. Bott’s room) to learn the fundamental and improvisational skills of jazz. This year is the 7th year Mr. Bott has been in charge of the Jaz... More »
The Business Club is a club that was formed last year by graduate Boon Yeow Koh and sophomore Stanley Wang under the help of Mr. Boulton as a Business & Management club to introduce the course of Business & Management, learn about how to finance and manage bus... More »
Following the musical last year, “Adrift in Macao”, AISG is featuring another musical this year, “The Addams Family”. This musical was originally a movie produced in 1991 and is also performed as a Broadway musical. The plot is firmly based on the broadway mus... More »
Soccer may seem like a relatively simple game to play. But in reality, it is a game that operates based on the 17 basic rules, which is in fact seriously complicated and separated into great detail. These rules are controlled, maintained and constantly changed... More »
On March 29, the FBI announced that it was successful in hacking into the locked iPhone of the San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook. This put a halt on the controversy between Apple and the FBI, with one side arguing that the hacking is required for solving the m... More »
Therefore, many IB students are not able to get enough sleep, spending their night studying for their various IB courses, which include a lot of memorizing along with , seniors experience great amount of stress during the time they are awake. In particular, se... More »
Abortion has been a controversial issue in the US politics that existed starting from a long time ago, even with the fact that abortion was legalized 40 years ago by the Supreme Court. Ever since abortion was legalized in the year of 1973, numerous attempts ha... More »