New courses are not a rare occurrence at Minnehaha. The school is always looking for new and creative ways to create opportunities for students. Creating new courses is one of the many ways they do...
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Talon Articles
In the stands
MA’s student section has been good this year... mostly Over the summer of 2025, Jessa Anderson, David Hoffner, and Derrick Swanson met up and made a plan to boost the positivity and attendance at...
Life in the circus
M.A. students perform in Solstice at St. Paul's Circus Juventas It’s a Tuesday night in early December, and Circus Juventas (CJ) has just finished dress rehearsal....
Dating: it’s complicated
How social media complicates today's teenage relationships Through the beautiful traditions created over time, there have also been detrimental changes specifically over the past couple years in...
Waymo: Safer Self Driving Cars
What if cars drove themselves? I used to think about that a lot, being a big sci-fi fan. But I don’t have to ask anymore: they can and do. The new Waymo LLC, originally a Google project, has begun...
Israel-Palestine: What’s next?
For months, Minnesotans driving north towards Downtown Minneapolis have seen the massive “Stop the Genocide” banner just next to the 35W Freeway—it’s difficult to miss. The phrase “Stop the...
100 days of stock market volatility
The scale of the U.S. economy is difficult to wrap our minds around, especially when it is summed up by fluctuating...
Are we hard-wired to embrace or fear diversity?
Do the “Big Five” personality traits control our behaviors and biases? If so, can we change? In different communities,...
Minnehaha athletic field gets renewal
New lights, scoreboard, seating & world-class turf for Guido Kauls Field The morning of August 2, 2017, Josh...
M.A. baseball
This season there have been lots of ups and downs, but even though being an underclassmen it could be hard with a...
New Greek class at Minnehaha
At MA, Greek has not been taught for over 100 years – until now. “It's something I’ve always hoped I would have time...
Ezra May, tops in hurdles
Have you ever wondered how big of a deal a tenth of a second is in track? For most people, a tenth of a second...
Golf doesn’t have to be pricey
Find some used clubs, sign up for a youth discount, & swing away Golf is widely known as one of the most expensive...
DiNardo chooses teaching
This is Mike DiNardo’s fifth and final year of being the Minnehaha Academy’s Upper School principal and his 20th year...
The Power of influence
How rising stars come to fame on social media -- and impact you Many have heard that winning the lottery will...