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James Lowdon

James Lowdon, Senior Reporter

James Lowdon is currently a Senior at Burlingame High School. When he is not at BHS, James enjoys playing waterpolo, swimming, video games, and watching comedy. His favorite subject is history and he likes the Talking Heads.

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Mr. Burke teaching his second period class.

Mr Burke teaches for his 28th and final year

James Lowdon, Senior Reporter
May 23, 2019

English teacher Jim Burke is teaching for his 28th and final year here at Burlingame before he moves on to Middle College this fall. Burke came to Burlingame in 1992 and has since taught English at various...

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New World Champions

Iron Panthers Win World Championships

James Lowdon, Senior Reporter
April 23, 2019

Burlingame’s Iron Panthers robotics team took home the title of World Champions in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC)  World Championship after four hard fought days of competition. The tournament...

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“The human voices, actions and behaviors of the soldiers force the audience to recognize them as such”

They Shall Not Grow Old Brings WW1 to Life

James Lowdon, Senior Reporter
March 25, 2019

The World War I documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old,”directed by Peter Jackson, first premiered in the U.K. on Oct. 16, 2018, and later aired on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on the 100th...

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Administration experiments with new tardy policy

James Lowdon, Senior Reporter
February 19, 2019

Starting this semester, Burlingame administration has begun to implement a new tardy policy. Currently, the new policy is in a tentative state and may be subject to change by the administration should...

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A Robotics Recap

James Lowdon, Senior Reporter
December 20, 2017

So far, 2017 has been a great year for the Iron Panthers, Burlingame’s robotics team. In this semester alone, the “student-built, student-run” team has beaten a world champion team sponsored by NASA, competed in semifinals and finals, and even won a tournament by a huge margin on Nov. 19.

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BHS Robotics Wins Recognition

James Lowdon, Senior Reporter
October 27, 2017

The Burlingame robotics team, known as Team 5026 or the Iron Panthers, has recently won recognition for itself and the school by competing in the finals of an offseason FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) event, Chezy Champs, for the first time on Sept. 17 and the semi-finals of the CalGames tournament on Oct. 15.

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Is television really in a “Golden Age”?

James Lowdon, Senior Reporter
May 1, 2017

The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, House of Cards—all of these shows have millions of followers and have influenced our culture at BHS immensely. The television industry as a whole is experiencing a multitude of successful shows and the birth of a new competitive market where certain TV shows are achieving levels of success that shows in previous years have never seen before.

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Robotics team preps for STEAMworks competition

James Lowdon, Senior Reporter
February 21, 2017

The BHS Robotics team’s build season has begun, and around 70 members of the robotics team are hard at work building a robot that can compete in this year's FIRST STEAMworks challenge. Every year, the FIRST organization (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) creates a new, unorthodox challenge that prompts robotics teams to design a robot that is able to accomplish the challenge more efficiently than any other robot in the competition.

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