The Musket

Prospective STEM Team Members Prepare for Upcoming Tryouts

Aaminah Shams and Atreya Mallanna

At Lexington High School, STEM team tryouts are in full swing. Whether they are refining their robots or writing tryout tests, clubs are preparing for the upcoming year of events and competitions. For...

A Look Into the New Robotics and Engineering Course at Lexington High School

Ethan Zhou and Jessica Wu

Amid the dynamic atmosphere of Lexington High School, the new Robotics and Engineering course is paving the way for innovation and collaboration among students. Introduced in 2024, this course invites...

STEM Spotlight: Ella Kim

Mo Yang and Sid Srivatsan

Lexington High School senior and math team captain Ella Kim has no shortage of math awards. Kim has qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination three times and received the Math...

LHS Students Teach Middle Schoolers STEM Subjects in All the Sprouts.

Chelsea Guo and Rohan Pai

In 2020, current Lexington seniors Owen Jiang, Stephanie Wan, and Nishtha Chhabra founded All the Sprouts: an educational organization offering various STEM programs for local middle schoolers. All...

LHS Team Wins National Science Bowl Title

Nolan An and Nathan Cunningham

This past month, the Lexington High School Science Bowl A team defended their title as the top team in the United States, earning their third win in a row. Competing against 67 other teams, the Lexington...

LHS Teams Compete at VEX Robotics Worlds

Justin Wang and Aditya Chiduruppa

From April 25 to May 3, Lexington High School VEX Robotics teams participated in VEX Worlds, where teams from around the world competed against each other. VEX Robotics is an organization that hosts...

LexMACS Prepares for Summer Computer Science Tournament

Owen Jiang and Atreya Mallana

This summer, the Lexington Mathematical Computer Science Club (LexMACS) will host their fifth Lexington Informatics Tournament (LIT), a virtual competition centered around cybersecurity and coding. The...

STEM Spotlight: Caroline Ehmann

William Tang and Melissa Ng

Lexington High School junior Caroline Ehmann is a passionate advocate for environmental science and a dedicated leader in the LHS community. Ehmann serves as captain of the LHS Envirothon team, capturing...

LHS Science Olympiad Wins 2nd Place at States

Aarya Atale, Melissa Ng

On March 2, Lexington High School’s Science Olympiad (SciOly) team participated in the Massachusetts Science Olympiad States competition at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. “It...

2 Bits and a Byte Wins the FTC Robotics State Competition

Allison Liu and Annie Wang

On March 9, Lexington High School’s robotics team 2 Bits and a Byte won first place at the First Tech Challenge (FTC) Robotics State Competition, qualifying for the Worlds tournament. During...

LHS Guest Speaker On Discovering Exoplanets

Ellen Lei and Katie Lin

During I Block on March 14, Katharine Hesse, a scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, visited Lexington High School to deliver...

LHS’s Annual Science Fair

Riyanna and Vaishnavi

On Wednesday, Feb. 14, Lexington High School held its annual science fair in Commons II, where students presented independent research projects on numerous scientific topics, including biology, physics,...