About Us

The Wildcat Online is a daily publication of Brea Olinda High School's journalism students, serving the Brea community with news and multimedia content. It seeks to report the facts while highlighting achievements in the Brea community. The Wildcat Online encourages the exchange of free ideas as it cultivates independent thinking. Reader opinions and views are welcomed as the publication strives to provide a public forum for the many voices and viewpoints of the Brea community.

The opinions expressed in editorials, columns, blogs and reviews that appear are not necessarily those of the staff, adviser, or administration. The Brea Olinda Unified School District has not reviewed, nor does it endorse, the products advertised.

Staff members of the Wildcat Online may be contacted by using their first initial and their last name appending @thewildcatonline.com. For example, Adam Smith will receive mail sent to asmith@thewildcatonline.com

In the final quarter of the 2008-2009 school year, Albert Luk ('09) and Chelsea Yeh, senior, decided to establish BOHS's newspaper website as their Global IT Academy final project. With over 200 hours of time and effort spent into their final project, their final product provided a template for future improvement. Seeking to become one of NSPA 2010 Online Pacemaker Winners, as editor-in-chief of the Wildcat Online Yeh, recruited nine GITA students to renovate the website over the following summer. The nine GITA students include AJ Aman, Aaron Keech and Kate Jaihee Lee, seniors; Hye Rhee Chi, Natty Lee, Jina Moon and Shelby Stiles, juniors; and Jean Chow and Sherman Uyeno, sophomores.

During summer 2009, the web team met at the Brea Library and Stiles' house, where they collaborated on the final design and features of the revamped website. Under the direction of Aaron Keech, webmaster, the Wildcat Online's blogs and comment boxes were created from scratch. Yeh's crew also met an additional three days with Alex Koers, adviser, for further advancement of the website.

With an aggregate of 500 hours, the Wildcat Online officially launched to the Brea community on September 18, 2009. It continues to be enhanced by the web team.