Hawaii Baptist Academy's Student News
ChatGPT, the cutting-edge language model developed by OpenAI, has been making waves in the tech industry for its ability to generate human-like text. As the Eagle Eye of Hawaii Baptist Academy, I had the opportunity to test out ChatGPT and its capabilities firsthand. In this article, we will hear from Hawaii Baptist Academy teachers and …
After performing their past four plays with COVID restrictions, HBA’s theater production class has returned to a more normal semester this year. On December 2 and 3, the fall cohort will present their latest play "Brainstorm" in the high school gym, a departure from the usual elementary school auditorium stage. The play, written by Ned …
As this school year began, Hawaii Baptist Academy completed its transition to a new online education management system. This system, previously known as MyBackpack, is now called MyEagle and is the digital portal that connects students and their families to a myriad of services, from making tuition payments, ordering school meals, to viewing grades and …
This year at the Oscars, a deaf man won the Academy award for Best Supporting Actor, the first time in history; “Dune” won six Oscars, the most at the ceremony; and a movie produced by a streaming service won Best Picture, hinting that the industry may be headed in a new direction. Yet all of …
Ever since the pandemic started, work has been more tiring. For me, especially when we were online for school at the end of ninth grade, it felt as if there was no respite from work. I would stare blankly at a screen for eight hours every day trying to process information through online lessons. Then, …
Music genres are ever evolving, and with greater distribution and access, music listeners now have more variety in what they listen to. With the increased use of music streaming apps, users have millions of songs at their fingertips, from classical symphonies to mumble rap. One of these apps, Spotify, had over 365 million active listeners …
HBA’s junior-senior banquet, commonly referred to as prom, was not held in a hotel or a resort this year. Instead on April 24, juniors and seniors, dressed in their formal wear, arrived at the high school mall and gym for a banquet unlike any other. Planning this year’s banquet was much more complicated than previous …
This coming August, HBA plans on bringing back all students for in-person classes with only one day of online learning. The school will continue its current safety protocols for students on campus. According to high school principal Marsha Hirae, masks will be required, temperatures will be taken in the mornings, regular hand sanitizing and washing …
The year 2020 has brought massive changes to all aspects of school life and HBA's band program is one of those areas that has been dramatically impacted. The program, HBA’s largest performing arts group with around 300 students in five bands last year, faced a variety of challenges, not limited to those brought about by …
