2020-2021
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The 2020-2021 school year started drastically different from all previous years. With COVID-19 preventing people from staying in McConnell Hall, students faced their classes and club activities online.
Fall Semester[edit | edit source]
Fall Orientation[edit | edit source]
While Fall Orientation is normally held in-person, the Class of 2022 had to attend Zoom rooms. Among the activities hosted included Book Discussion, Club Bonanza, Junior Jubilee, Frog Night, Fall Olympics, and Service Showcase.[1]
Convocation[edit | edit source]
During Convocation, the following scholarships were given out:[2]
| Recipient | Scholarship |
|---|---|
| Andrew Beard | The James E. Miller Texas Scholarship |
| Sai Sarnala | The Jannon Fuchs Scholarship |
| Dave Banerjee | The Julian C. Stanley Award for Mathematical Aptitude |
| Angelina Xu | The Newman Foundation Endowment |
| Neel Shanmugam | The Nipul Foundation Award |
| Danny Zhang | The Patel Foundation Scholarship |
| Pranathi Pilla | The Steve and Kathy Weiner Research Scholarship |
| Joonghyun Kim | Tom Weiner Academic Scholarship |
| Shreyas Shridharan | |
| Ajeong Kim | |
| Allison He | The Scott & Myra Stoll Scholarship |
| Alexei Ukraintsev | The Tom Weiner Student Life Award |
| Shrika Eddula | The TAMS Dean's Scholarship |
| Tiffany Kumala | TAMS Class of 2000 Perseverance Scholarship |
This year, NHS eligible students were not announced.
Town Hall[edit | edit source]
Main article: 2020 Town Hall
agree to disagree :cowleybruh:
Sesame Call[edit | edit source]
Stanford student and TAMS alumna Lainey Wang created a video-calling Chrome extension start-up called Sesame Call with her girlfriend, Stanford student Maddie Wang. After Lainey introduced it to TAMS students, it quickly became one of the primary ways of socialization for TAMS students. Lainey later quit the Sesame development team, which is now solely run by Maddie. Sesame was popular amongst students, but did not completely catch on due to the extension being solely for Chrome; senior Ben Wang made a questionable Firefox port for the Sesame extension.
Spring Semester[edit | edit source]
Boot Camp[edit | edit source]
to be determined
Arctic Blast / Snow Week[edit | edit source]
On Saturday February 14th, 2021, Denton and surrounding areas received a sizable blanket of snow. This promptly lead to the closure of classes, both in-person and online, on Monday. Starting late Saturday, Texas initiated rolling power outages across the state due to the record power demand. Even cities in South Texas which were barely affected by the snow storm had controlled outages. On Monday at 9:36 AM, UNT cancelled class for Tuesday, and on Tuesday at 12:25 PM, UNT cancelled class until Saturday. Many students rejoiced from this news considering UNT had decided to remove spring break to contain COVID-19; this week became a pseudo spring break. Most students lost access to the internet, and even if they had cellular internet, UNT's websites and server infrastructures were offline.
Rosecutting[edit | edit source]
Graduation for Class of 2021[edit | edit source]
On March 15th, TAMS confirmed to its students that graduation would occur this year. Graduation occurred on May 3rd, 2021 in the UNT Apogee Stadium and was also available via YouTube livestream. The program of the event can be found here.