Vanessa Chen (vanessa-chen)

Vanessa Chen ('24) is a Features writer. She enjoys debating, singing, cooking, and writing. Vanessa prefers to cover stories that ask questions that she also wants to find the answer to. Though, she's open-minded to any topic.

Features

DREAM Big: Inside the Program that Prepares Students for the Specialized High School Admission Test

Vanessa Chen 

A glimpse into the preparations, aspirations, and reactions that make up the DREAM program.

Issue 17, Volume 113

Features

America Retold: AP African American Studies

Samaria Noel, Vanessa Chen, Abigail Jin 

AP African American Studies, a new and controversial course, will be offered at Stuyvesant starting this fall.

Issue 15, Volume 113

Features

Standardized Testing in an Un-Standard Year: Here Comes the SHSAT

Khujista Umama, Saiyedah Nayra, Chloe Boccara, Vanessa Chen 

The pandemic has left eighth-graders to deal with an uncertain future regarding high school admissions. What are their responses to the upcoming SHSAT?

Issue 9, Volume 111

Features

Standardized Testing in an Un-Standard Year: Here Comes the SHSAT

Saiyedah Nayra, Chloe Boccara, Khujista Umama, Vanessa Chen 

The pandemic has left eighth-graders to deal with an uncertain future regarding high school admissions. What are their responses to the upcoming SHSAT?

Issue 9, Volume 111

Features

How the Virus Stole Christmas (and How We’re Stealing It Back)

Ellen Pehlivanian, Kaeliana Yu, Catherine Ching, Vanessa Chen 

Stuyvesant student holiday wishlists and how gift-exchanging is being affected by COVID-19.

Issue 8, Volume 111