Audrey Cooper, SF Chronicle Editor in Chief

image of Audrey Cooper, SF Chronicle's Editor in Chief

An Interview with Audrey Cooper, Editor in Chief at the San Francisco Chronicle

By Aiden Ament, Lulu Barron, Michele Bear, Maddie Bruce, Jade Cooper, Jacie Datnow, Ariel Dunbar, Hayley Grimshaw, Caroline Hanson, Katrina Horsey, Robert Lammers, Maia Manzagol, Maddy O’hara, and Wheeler Young; from Davidson Middle School, Drew, Gate Academy, Marin Academy, Marin School of the Arts, Novato High School, Redwood High School, San Domenico and St. Ignatius Preparatory High Schools

Rising up from the ocean and barricaded by the tall buildings and headlands, the misty fog covered the city like a blanket. On the corner of the street, a clock tower rose up from the cement, the shorter part of the building jutting out on either side. Hovering above the entrance were the words: San Francisco Chronicle.

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Facebook's Menlo Park Campus

FastForward visits Facebook's Menlo Park Campus

ON LOCATION - October 2014

By Aidan Ament, Brianna Bernal, Margot Bickler, Joe Blair, Gemma Calandra, Bennet Carbone, Luca Evans, Madeleine Hawkes, Scott Hogan, Lauren Hopper, Nick Kostanecki, Ian Leonhardt, Rachel Richman, Eddie Rohosy, Jack Rousseau, Elena Sandell, Avery Van Ingen, Christine Watridge, Adley Weschler, Arthur Weschler, Aisha Whitney and Ellie Wynne; From The Bay School, Brandeis-Hillel Day, Branson, Convent of the Sacred Heart, GATE Academy, Katherine Delmar Burke, Marin Academy, Marin Catholic, Marin School of the Arts, Redwood High, San Domenico, Sir Francis Drake High, St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Tamalpais High and Urban School

Image of the FastForward Adventure Reporters on site at Facebook's Menlo Park campus What comes to mind when you think of an office building: bland cubicles, with employees hunched over their computers, mindlessly working in stale air? Come experience the magic of the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, California. It was like being transported to a completely different world, where workspaces become playgrounds for the imagination. Picture influences of The Grove in Los Angeles, an amusement park, with a twist of the tech industry, and you have the Facebook offices. The campus was created to look like a miniature town and was designed and built by architects who helped create Disneyland.

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Google Headquarters

Google Headquarters – Google Street Maps

ON LOCATION - October 2014

Image of the FastForward Adventure Reporters on site at Google headquarters Avirtual mirror of the world online? What more could we imagine from a company like Google? Arriving at their headquarters in Mountain View, we had a concept of what we were going to learn which quickly expanded beyond the limits of our imaginations.

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