By Claire C. According to the AISG website, AISG’s Annual Fund celebrates Chinese New Year with Hong Bao Campaign. Hong Bao means ‘red envelope’ and it is a tradition to place a monetary gift in the envelope and give to friends, family, and relatives as tokens... More »
International Day took place on Saturday, April 22nd at the Ersha Campus of AISG. The event included booths from Student-led CCA as well as booths that represented various countries. Inside the gymnasium there were booths for many different countries like Jam... More »
Student life is hard and sometimes is taken much too seriously. The Beacon is pleased to present episode 4 of Humans of AISG where you get to know more about your peers and teachers casually and not professionally. Our guest this episode is the... More »
Student life is hard and sometimes is taken much too seriously. The Beacon is pleased to present episode 3 of Humans of AISG where you get to know more about your peers and teachers casually and not professionally. Our guest this episode is the M... More »
Student life is hard and sometimes is taken much too seriously. The Beacon is pleased to present episode 2 of Humans of AISG where you get to know more about your peers and teachers casually and not professionally. Our guest this episode is the grade 12 HDL ... More »
Every half-year, 24 of the best CS:GO teams are flown to the ‘major’, which is an official event coordinated by Valve, the company that owns CS:GO, and have a chance to immortalize themselves inside of the esport’s history. This year the major was hosted by th... More »
Reddit is one of the largest discussion boards on the entire internet and forms much of its modern culture. On April 1st of this year, the company had decided to bring back one of its April Fools experiments from 2017:r/place. A collaborative art project in wh... More »
On May 2, in New York’s Upper East Side, 600 guests were invited to honor the theme: “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at this year’s Met Gala. Many celebrities took inspiration from America’s Gilded Age, an era which saw America go through great developme... More »
A question that you’re always asked once you come out of quarantine is “How was quarantine?” or “How bad was it?” Quarantine wasn’t a common topic to talk about before Covid-19 had started but now this topic is all the rage. I had gone to Shanghai thinking tha... More »
Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month lasts the entirety of May each year. Officially instated in 2009 by President Barack Obama, the month of May was selected to commemorate the first Japanese and Chinese immigrants’ arrivals into the Unit... More »
Kanye West, now legally known as Ye West, has had no shortage of controversy as of late. In the midst of his headline-making antics, he has released his latest album, “Donda 2”. Only four short months following his last album, named “Donda” after his recently ... More »
From Pixar, an animation company currently owned by Disney and known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated films widely known to be enjoyed by a plethora of ages, comes a Disney Plus original film: Turning Red. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEA... More »