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- The Rubicon is on Summer Break. Our reporting will resume in late August.
- Iris: Art + Lit "Missing Piece / Missing Peace" has been named a 2025 NSPA Pacemaker finalist.
- The Rubicon has been honored with a 2026 NSPA Online Pacemaker for the 10th year as a finalist or winner.
- The Rubicon print and online earned a 2026 CSPA Gold Crown. This is the publication's 11th consecutive crown award.
- Congratulations to Iris: Art+Lit on their CSPA Silver Crown. This is the magazine's 9th crown award.
- Want more photos? Find them in the yearbook galleries on the Ibid Flickr.
![CALCULATING THE CHANGES. As study habits have changed, the materials used have changed too. "I remember the day when [my brother] came home with his graphing calculator, [which] had Mario. And I was blown away," Spanish teacher Peter Daniels said. (Photos: Fair Use; Wikimedia Commons)](https://www.rubiconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Untitled-design-4-1200x800.png)
![BEWARE. Junior Maisy Torres was expecting a Nickelodeon ride when she entered the haunted house at the State Fair. What she encountered was much more horrifying. "There's not enough money in the world to pay me to do [it again]," Torres said.](https://www.rubiconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Never-again-with-nabeeha-1-e1778077989386-1200x802.png)
![[QUIZ] What famous scientist are you?](https://www.rubiconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Untitled-design-3.gif)
![Freshman Reuben Vizelman dances at Cinema Ballroom with his partner. "“Working with Maddie [my dance partner] is a lot of fun. It is important that we have a good relationship because we have to work and compete together. In dance, trust and chemistry between the partners is almost as important as the dance itself,” Vizelman said.](https://www.rubiconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ballroom-1-900x867.jpg)
![Members of the safe space task force discuss plans for the year. "My goal [in serving on the task force] is for everyone to have the safest school experience possible,” senior Shaymus O’Brien said.](https://www.rubiconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Capture.jpg)