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Cupertino, Lynbrook, & Monta Vista High Schools
are 2007 California Distinguished Schools!
State Superintendent Jack O'Connell presented a 2007 California Distinguished School plaque and flag to a delegation from each school
at the awards ceremony held at the Disneyland Hotel on May 18, 2007.
This designation is for four years. In order to be invited to apply for Distinguished School honors, schools must meet a variety of eligibility criteria including designated federal and state accountability measures based on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and the Academic Performance Index (API) requirements. Elementary
and secondary schools are recognized during alternate years.
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Homestead High School claimed its ninth consecutive state championship at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference held last April in Santa Clara. At the conference, Homestead’s FBLA students captured 20 first place spots and 54 students (a new California FBLA record) qualified to compete at the FBLA National Leadership Conference to be held in Chicago, Illinois June 28-July 1. There will be 50 events in the national competition and Homestead will have students in 33 of the events. Over 1,500 students representing 79 schools competed at the state conference. Homestead earned a record 562 points (85 students competed) to second place Troy’s (109 students competed) 308 points. Our high schools’ FBLA advisors have done a great job in promoting business education and the results prove it!
SWEEPSTAKES RESULTS: 1st Homestead High — 562 points, 2nd Troy High — 308points, 3rd Monta Vista High — 192 points, 4th Moorpark High — 153 points, and 5th Lynbrook High — 147 points. PRESS RELEASE
PHOTO by Edmond Kwong: State Officer Jim Danz (who is also a Homestead FBLA Officer) presents the 2007 Sweepstakes Award (9th consecutive for Homestead) to Charles Liu, the president of Homestead FBLA.
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Energy Conservation and Solar Power at Cupertino High |
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Jason Heskett and Sean Cryan, special education teachers at Cupertino High School, were awarded a $10,000 grant from BP’s A+ for Energy program. Their grant proposal “Energy Conservation and Solar Power at Cupertino” involves buying and utilizing a solar panel to run a cell phone charge station, run a watering system for a garden, and create an energy conservation/solar power curriculum for a transitions class and science class. |
Telluride Summer Program |
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Jenny Sun, junior at Monta Vista High School, has been awarded a full scholarship to the 2007 Telluride Association Summer Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor — "Race, Space, and the American Self." This year, 86 students from around the United Stated and abroad were selected for Telluride Summer Programs from 871 applications. |
USA Biology Olympiad |
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Jingkun (Ginger) Yang, junior at Monta Vista High School, is one of 21 National Finalists in the USA Biology Olympiad. She will attend a two week training session at George Mason University in June that will prepare the finalists for compeition in the International Biology Olympiad. Congratulations to her Biology Teacher Pam Tsai, too. |
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Lynbrook High School's chess team Kamal Gudla, Don Kim, Kenneth Law, Stephen Leung, Jiang Lin, Steven Liu, Rohan Sathe & Justin Wang took 2nd Place out of 47 high schools in the Santa Clara County High School Chess Tournament. Rohan Sathe also earned second place as an individual player. Saratoga High placed first and Monta Vista High School placed third. PHOTO: Kenneth Law, Steven Liu, and Rohan Sathe. |
District Students Excel in California State Speech & Debate Competition
At the awards assembly
Sharon Prefontaine (MV), as president of the California High School Speech Association, accepted a Certificate of Recognition “to all the hardworking students, coaches, judges and other volunteers
who make this Championship Tournament possible” and a Certificate of Congressional Recognition from Representative Ed Royce (R) of The 40th District acknowledging “your dedication to encouraging, supporting,
and sponsoring student oral communication.”
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The California State Speech and Debate Championship took place the weekend of April 20-22. Homestead High School student Michelle Ho is the state championship in Original Advocacy, an original persuasive speech which defines a problem and proposes a legislative solution. Michelle, a senior, is not new to winning. She was state champion in her sophomore year and took second in her junior year. From Lynbrook High School, Patrick Diehl ranked in the top eight Lincoln-Douglas debaters in the state. Monta Vista senior and student member of the Board of Trustees Peter Lu is ranked 5th in the state in impromptu speaking. Congratulations to all these students, their coaches and teams for the hard work, dedication, and commitment that it takes to succeed in speech and debate at local, state and national levels of competition.
Recently, various Lions Clubs in the Bay Area hosted student speaker competitions. Students created orations on the topic: “Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?”Janhavi Athavale won the club and zone levels and continued on to win the district level competition earning a $4,500 scholarship. Janhavi is also the first student from Monta Vista in 10 years to qualify in the California Coast National Forensic League district to compete in the National Championships. This is a week-long tournament and will be held in June in Wichita, Kansas. Janhavi is competing in oratory, an event in which the student writes her own persuasive speech of approximately 10 minutes. Janhavi’s speech, entitled “Take Your Criticism Like a Man, or a Woman For That Matter,” persuades that we should learn to use criticism to our benefit.
Junior Janhavi Athavale and Sophomore Amogh Havanur recently won the District 20 Optimist Oratorical Contest. The theme was "My Biggest Challenge is..." and each student received a $1,500 scholarship. The Monta Vista High School Speech Team coached by Sharon Prefontaine, MVHS English Teacher, has been participating in the Optimist Oratorical Contest for over 25 years. |
Tres Bien! |
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Cupertino Senior Alamelu Natesan was named the American Association for the Teacher's of French Senior of the Year. Alamelu completed level 5AP, has
maintained an “A” average in French with at least a “B” overall, is not a native-speaker, and
has shown exceptional commitment to the study of French by participating in the following extra-curricular French-related activities: National French Week, French Grand Concours (Test), Societe Honoraire (Honors Society), and as French Club President this year.
At Cupertino High School, 97% of the French students took the American Association for the Teacher's of French National French Exam last March. This Exam is taken in all 50 states, Canada, Singapore and Israel with over 104,000 French students and 3,300 teachers of French participating. Thirteen Cupertino High School students — Shervin Nakhjavani, Jacob Conston, Micaela Belles, Aretha Yeh, Vaishnavi Govind, Gilli Weiner, Emily Anthony, Bird Wang, Bruno Aboussouan, Vanessa Yeh, Robin Lai, Blandine Glaize, and Hadrien Mayoraz — placed in the 90-95th percentile receiving national recogntion with certificates and medals. Over 70 other Cupertino High School French students placed in the upper 50th percentile.
Results for students in Lynbrook High School French Teacher Suzy Darwish's classes:
Anna Tchetchetkine first place
Lauren Comisar 4th place
Christine Wang 7th place
Aaron Kahn 9th place
Miqi Wang 9th place
Dana Manea 11th place
Andre Shmakov 16th place
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