June 1, 2007

Evergreen SchoolScene

Evergreen Elementary School District 4.0 GPA students

Note: listings are for Elementary school 2nd Trimester Reporting Period and Middle School 3rd Quarter Reporting Period

Cadwallader
4th Grade – Caitlin Mayo and Athena Westmoreland.

5th Grade – Jason Hung, Tricia Huynh, Alexandre Nguyen, Coung Nguyen, and Miira Snell.

6th Grade – Gurpreet Bhoot, Victor Diep, Alexis Martinez, Yesenia Martinez, Kimmy Nguyen, Marissa Renteria, and Peter Tran.

Carolyn Clark
4th Grade – Shivani Bandaru, Jason Bao, Kushol Bhattacharjee, James Chen, Aaron Deng, Kevin Dong, Jeremiah Fan, Tanmay Ghai, Amy Gooding, Tanvi Gupta, Akhil Harapanahalli, Vivian Hoang, Lewis Hong, Tara Iyer, Janet Le, Shirley Li, Zoe Liao, Cindy Liu, Mindy Luong, Minh Mathias-Nguyen, Alvin Nguyen, Pooja Patel, Kalpita Prabhu, Andrea Quimson, Vinay Rajagopal, Adil Salhotra, Arvind Sankar, Karey Shi, Charlie Tian, Rohan Varma, Megana Vasu, Michelle Vu, Sarina Vyas, Karina Wong, and Jackie Zou.

5th Grade – Fabiha Ahmed, Saba Ahmed, Kayla Blasco, Ryan Boun, Louis Chen, Justin Gaspar, Megan Ho, Allen Huynh, Kevin Ip, Arshdeep Kaur, Shawn Lo, Tracey Luong, Justin Ma, Zuhayeer Musa, Carolyn Ngo, Annhien Nguyen, Maxine Patwardhan, Briana Pong, Richard Qian, Anjuli Taunk, Thuyvy Tu, Emily Vu, Vincent Wang, Stephanie Wong, Vivian Yu, Jamie Zhang, and Lillian Zhou.

6th Grade – Sabreen Bains, Kirsten Blasco, Christain Celeste, Yvonne Chau, Kevin Cordon, Christopher Dinh, Amy Doan, Andrew Duong, Cathy Gonzales, Anjali Kuchibhatla, Michelle La, Brandon Le, Don Lee, Tiffany Lee, Shyam Mervana, Bao-Minh Nguyen-Phuc, Crystal Pan, Zayd Parekh, Angela Pham, Jonathan Purcell, Samir Rahman, Shruti Rajagopal, Giselle Verbera, Sonya Vyas, and Scottie Wan.

Cedar Grove
4th Grade – Zenab Ali, Gerald Bernales, Yvonne Duong, Andrew Khan, Christopher Lai, Diana Nguyen, Audris Pham, Lynn Pham, Aleeza Roque, Evan To, and Helen Vo.

5th Grade – Lorenz Alquiza, Gabriela Alvarez, Tee Jay Cabuag, Nicolette Fregoso, Kali Gabler, Vincent Garcia, Nathan Huynh, Tiffany Luu, Frank Nguyen, Jade Nguyen, Yvonne Nguyen, Sarah Pham, Amnesty Reyes-Bueno, Sharon To, and Devin Udasco.

6th Grade – Selina Aviles, Naomi Campbell, Kelly Duong, Andrea Huerta, Kevin Mahany, Jolene Nguyen, Alana Pronge, Maleny Quiroz, Kirpa Rai, Shyamal Sheth, Nicki Sordello, Patrick Tran, and Nancy Wang.

Chaboya Middle
7th Grade – Samya Abdela, Tabitha Ahearn, Christopher Ancheta, Jann Antolin, Amal Asghar, Jamie Banh, Sarah Benton, Nicole Cabrera, Jing-Jing Cao, Lauren Chang, Amanda Chen, Helen Chen, Abhijith Chitlur, Cynthia Chiu, Charvi Choksi, Audrey Chou, Irene Chou, Tiffany Chung, Lauren Clark, Nicole Cuenca, Dan Dang, Queenbelle Delacruz, Karisma Desai, Thuydan Do, Krystal Dominguez, Martin Dowdy, Kelsey Foo, Veronica Gaska-Guevara, Saloni Gupta, Amanda Guzikowski, Uyen Ha, Scott Harano, Ruby Hernandez, Vivek Iyer, Brandon Johnston, Sravani Kondapavulur, Isabella Lam, Tiffany Lam, Shing Lau, Claudelle Le, Kristine Le, Hannah Lee, Janey Lee, Melissa Ling, Megan Liou, Brian Ly, Catherine Mace, Darien Manalac, Darren Ngo, Diana Nguyen, Jennifer Nguyen, Jessica Nguyen, Kathy Nguyen, Michelle Nguyen, Michelle Nguyen, Natalie Nguyen, Susan Nguyen, Thomas Nguyen, Vivian Nguyen, Nicolete Noto, Raquel Orosa, Dennis Pang, My-Linh Pham, Pauline Pham, Jonathan Phan, Justin Phan, Vinh Phuong, Andrew Quan, Kelsey Rieger, Jessica Rodriguez, Lizbeth Rosas, Jordan Rowley, Amanda Schmitt, Neerav Sharma, Jessica Sheu, Katie Shih, Kamalpreet Sidhu, Elika Sudo, Michelle Sung, Alvin Thach, Diana Tran, Jacquelyn Tran, Jennifer Tran, Patricia Tran, Stephanie Tran, Tiffanie Tran, Maxime Tremblay, Kevin Tsai, Mariko Tumangan, Crystal Vo, Jessica Vongnarat, Angeline Vu, Annie Vu, Brian Wang, Julia Wiggin, Brandon Wilson, Kevin Wong, Lindsey Wong, Kevin Yoshioka, Brent Younger, and Annie Zaccarin.

8th Grade – Jasmine Adams, Helga Afaghani, Anusha Ayub, Ariel Backman, Gagan Basandra, Sahithi Battini, Zarina Bhatia, Christopher Blum, Nikhil Chadda, Tzu-Hsien Chan, Daphne Chang, Eric Chen, Josh Chen, Clarabelle Cheng-Yue, Tinron Cheung, Jawahar Chigurupati, Joseph Choe, Amy Chuang, Yvonne Co, Nicholas Concepcion, Rucy Cui, Bobby Dang, Hali Deprima, Priscilla Diep, David Do, Doreen Dominguez, Emilio Esquivel, Anjelica Fall-Brooks, Samantha Feril, Regina Flora, Katarina Gevorkian, Akash Gupta, Vishakha Gupta, Joyce Ham, Lichen Han, Ryan Ho, Steve Ho, Lucia Huang, Katherine Huynh, Jessica Jin, Erica Johnson, Kristine Jose, Ian Karlsson, Christopher Kasinski, Joshua Kast, Arun Kastury, Eric Kauzlarich, Jessica Kennedy, Katie Kim, Tiffany Kyi, Christine Larson, Christopher Le, Dina Le, Monique Licardo, Christine Lu, Matthew Ly, Fontaine Ma, Glenn Manaois, Erica Martinez, Melbin Mathew, Larry Melton, Sushma Murthy, Allen Nguyen, Connie Nguyen, Elaine Nguyen, Grace Nguyen, Jessica Nguyen, Kevin Nguyen, Kimberly Nguyen, Kimberly Nguyen, Michelle Nguyen, Nancy Nguyen, Hardeep Obhi, Andrew Park, Soo Hyun Park, Yovanna Perez, Emily Pham, Jennifer Pham, Vance Phan, Yvonne Radsmikham, Lia Randazzo, Alexandra Roberts, Allison Rodriguez, Kelsey Roland, Brian Sajor, Jillian Santos, Samantha Seo, Neha Shekhar, Megan Simpson, Stephanie Snider, Ashwin Sundar, Joann Thach, Michelle To, Annie Tran, Diana Tran, Jacqueline Tran, Wesley Tran, Iyah Turminini, Sara Untrauer, Daniella Vainberg, Michael Visenio, Andrew Vo, Alex Vu, Hubert Wang, Peican Xu, Sandy Yi, Jeffrey Yu, Christina Yuen, and Randy Zaatri.

Dove Hill
4th Grade – Jenna Cagatao, Amberly Ramirez, and Kevin Tran.

5th Grade – Robirt Kong, Michelle Nguyen, Vanessa Nguyen, and Asiah Reynolds.

6th Grade – Leon Dang, Kayla Gracia, Manpreet Grewal, Mark Grio, Danny Le, Henry Nguyen, and Neeya Santos.

Evergreen
4th Grade – Brittney Crawforth, Dilpreet Dosanjh, Ayya Elzarka, Sindhu Giri, Abhi Gupta, Lennon Kalodrich, Winston Liao, Suzy Lou, Claire Lu, Michelle Luo, Katheryn Mar, Brian Nguyen, Siddarth Pratapneni, Emily Spacek, and Jackie Yago.

5th Grade – Andrew Aganad, Oindrila Das, Divyahans Gupta, Francesca Hellebrandt, Steven Kou, Adrian Sim, Michael To, and Cindy Wang.

6th Grade – Ridhi Arun, Harshika Chowdhary, Christie Ho, Stacy Ho, Ariel Hsing, Yizhe Lu, Vijeetha Sridhar, Timothy Tan, and Breanna Tran.

Holly Oak
4th Grade – Nhi Chu, Mithila Dastider, Andrew Daysog, Kevin Le, Tracy Nguyen, Destinee Torrez, and Christina Truong.

5th Grade – Matthew Camacho, Remy Dinh, Adrian Escobedo-Zavala, Kim-Mai Hoang, Alexander Lee, Olivia Nguyen, and Danica Tiongson.

6th Grade – Bianca Aibuedefe, Gulveen Cheema, Jennifer Chung, Minh-Tuan Duong, Matthew Ho, Jennifer Lao, Timmy Ngo, Charlie Nguyen, Diana Nguyen, Tony Nguyen, Tiffany On, Jenine Pesayco, Kyle Plata, Aishwarya Rajan, Marissa Reed, Matthew Row, and Gavin Tran.

J.F. Smith
4th Grade – Divya Balchander, Arooshi Barua, Anneloes Caris, Arvan Das, Anushka Deshmukh, Kevin Dinh, Sean Graham, Eyvonne Hu, Daniela Lee, Saba Mahdavi, Lillian Thio, Katherine Tian, and Pavan Tumuluri.

5th Grade – Elsa Althof, Adriana Andal, Nathan Bao, Maxwelle Chan, Rhea Dadoo, Amanda Dao, Serena Dhillon, Shaheen Eskandari, Wesley Hsu, Vincent Hu, Isabelle Kim, Priyanka Krishnamurthi, Judy Le, Timothy Le, Adrienne Lee, Jessie Lee, Andrew Lung, Jeffrey Malkofsky-Berger, Julia Minko, Rachan Narala, Tiffany Nguyen, Truman Nguyen, Vinshaan Nguyen, Viviene Nguyen, Meghan Noyes, Jonathan Pham, Andrea Quan, Rhea Roy, Diana Tang, Yvonne Tran, Andy Trinh, Alexander Vu, Jennifer Williams, and Miranda Yu.

6th Grade – Tausif Ahmed, Kabir Budwal, Katie Bui, Simrin Das, Felicia Fang, John Kumbuckal, Philippe Langlois, Diana Le, Vidush Mukund, Andrew Nguyen, Michael Ning, Christina Pham, Andrea Rodriguez, Alex Sosa, Samantha Swenor, Lexing Tong, Bryan Tran, Randall Tran, Ann Truong, Jasmine Tu, Nancy Vu, and Christine Wang.

K.R. Smith
4th Grade – Alejandra Amador, Christine Bui, Shirley Doan, Savannah Hernandez, Tommy Huynh, Alexis Jimenez, Stephanie Luong, Deena Manithep, Alex Nguyen, Itzel Plancarte, Kimberly Segura, Nam Tang, and Christian Tran.

5th Grade – Araceli Arias, Sam Chau, Jessica Huynh, Christina Ly, Quynh Phan, Adam Romayor, and Alicia Tran.

6th Grade – My-Linh Do, Fei Yan Huang, Preyanka Khanna, Saurab Kumar, Jessica Ledesma, Malcom Morales, Rianna Romayor, Liberty Tang, Justina Tran, and Scarlett Vasquez-Mays.

Laurelwood
4th Grade - Vivienne Bui-Tu, Jasmine Carvajal, Michaela Flores, Brianna Hoang, Sara Hoshino, Spencer Johnson, Kendall McClung, Mackenzi Noto, John Tran, Jeremy Wong, and Rebecca Zheng.

5th Grade – Krishna Babu, Sean Cantu, Keitel DelRosario, Karin Gandler, Andre Nguyen, Alyssa Stride, and Ryan Tsukamoto.

6th Grade – Aanand Dave, Trevor DelRosario, Kayla Long, Kelsey McClung, Esther Melton, Jillian Tarr, and Jinny Vo.

LeyVa Middle
6th Grade – Arthur Arboledo, Juan Barajas, Rithina Chhoun, Bang Luong, Almar Marcaida, Paloma Mendoza, Diana Nguyen, Chan Sopheak Nun, Sandy Pham, Linda Ramirez, Jeannie Salmeron, Andy Senh, Brian Tombo, Desiree Torrecampo, Michael Tran, Michelle Tran, Thea Tuliao, Angel Villa, and Susan Virrueta.

7th Grade – Rebecca Arreola, Jennifer Brooks, Marissa Brown, Thinh Bui, Olivia Cane, Erin Nicole Cariaga, Adilene Cervantes, Edgar Covarrubias, Hoang Huy Dam, Jim-Floyd Deocampo, Diona Diep, Jamie Duran, Jodie Gee, Blenda Hoang, Anderson Huynh, Gina Huynh, Kelly Huynh, April Ibuos, Naushaba Khan, Christina Luong, Karen Luu, Kimberly Mabalot, Christy Meunruakham, Shanelle Nebre, Kathy Nguyen, Mary Nguyen, Michelle Nguyen, Chioma Nwuzi, Vilma Rueda, Cymoril-Jessica Sonico, Ly Tan, Lilian Thoi, Landy Tran, Lisa Tran, Michael Truong, Anthony Van, Katie Vu, and Yanely Zarate.

8th Grade – Gabrielle Argonza, Anh-Hoang Chau, Sally Chau, Nemesis Garcia, Perla Gonzalez, Brittney Gregoire, Heather Heath, Alvin Hong, Van Lam, Thuythanh Le, Carlos Leon, Liem Ly, Ivy Ma, Mariel Mackay, Tania Mariscal, Kimberly Nguyen, Nhi Nguyen, Olivia Nguyen, Deoel Noveno, Angelica Rodriguez, Jessie Samson, Tylyn Santos, Sukhbir Singh, Danae Stahlnecker, Vega Tang, Ajay Tripathi, Huy Truong, Meilani Villamor, Shannon Wallace, and Nabila Zaidi.

Matsumoto
4th Grade – Himani Aligireddy, Siri Balusu, Riya Bansal, Rahul Battini, Emily Chan, Stephanie Cheng, Anusha Dandamudi, Ashley Ding, Samuel Han, Darissa Hicks, Harleen Kaur, Nithya Kiron, Aarti Lalwani, Shannon Lam, Gauri Laxman, Brian Le, Isabella Le, Katherine Le, Amanda Luong, Emily Luong, Parvathy Menon, Samhita Mungamoori, Srivarsha Nandula, Amogh Pathi, Don-Robert Pornaras, Isha Sakhalkar, Samir Shingane, Gianni Thi, Kendrick Trinh, Sonakshi Vatsa, Michelle Vu, Isaac Wang, and Andre Xiong.

5th Grade – Vincent Abalos, Vihaan Behi, Shiv Bhandari, Namrata Challa, Angeline Chen, Akhil Choppa, Ethan Chou, Erica Esquivel, Siddharth Gampa, Mayank Ganesan, Apurva Gorti, Aamir Hasnat, Jacob Hawker, Vishanth Iyer, Tanmayee Khadilkar, Alisha Khieu, Vivian Li, Richard Min, Wendy Mu, Daljodh Pannu, Lisa Principi, Arshdeep Sabharwal, Trishika Shetty, Vighnesh Sridhar, Ranju Subramani, Ashley Ta, Richa Wadekar, and Marco Zuniga.

6th Grade – Sarah Abalos, Ashhar Akbar, Aneesh Akella, Soumya Banna, Vagisha Barot, Frederic Chen, Julie Chen, Anna Cho, Marvinne Flora, Daniel Gomez, Atiriya Hari, Kaneesha Hasnat, Sophie He, Shankar Iyer, Karena Kak, Akash Kakumani, Avinaash Korrapati, Yoon-Shin Lee, Christine Li, Anthony Nguyen, Mia Nguyen, Brandon Pieterouiski, Tharusyan Pillay, Arushi Sardana, Ajay Shimoga, Dani Steinberg, Rachel Steinberg, Anisha Sunkerneni, Nicholas Teuthorn, Amanda Tran, Chi-Lan Tran, Danica Van, Monica Van, Jenna Wetzel, and Katherine Zu.

Millbrook
4th Grade – Marcus Alipaz, Sanjana Bolleddu, Michelle Cang, Richard Dinh, Harrison Doan, Andy Huynh, Jannat Irshad, Kiran Kalsi, Tiffany Le, Britt-ni Luu, Emily Moncada, Queenie Ngo, Anthony Nguyen, Amy Pham, Leilani Quisenberry, Lucy Tran, Carina Ulengco, Cassandra Vierra, Willson Voong, and Diana Vu.

5th Grade – Victoria Duong, Gaganjit Ghardhora, Anna Gonzalez, Amy Huynh, Anna Le, Brandon Luu, Jasdeep Mundra, Dana Ngo, Brian Nguyen, Jenny Nguyen, Andrew Pham, Johnpaul Rindfleisch, Brandon Santa Elena, Ravi Sharma, Nicholas Tran, Ivy Truong, and Andrew Vu.

6th Grade – Amanda Alipaz, Kevin Bernaga, Julie Dang, Kevin Diep, Lindsey DiSilvestre, Kevin Hong, Julie Huang, Cindy Lam, Sarah Lau, Huyen Le, Brendan Lee, Crystal Llanes, David Ngo, Jennifer Ngo, Christina Nguyen, Larry Nguyen, Jeremy Pereyra, Vivian Phan, Kylee Piazza, Michael Quach, Megan Sagala, Mark Ta, Paulina To, Melissa Tow, Emily Tran, and Victoria Tran.

Montgomery
4th Grade – Jessica Cabrera, Joseph Gaska, Justin Le, Eric Luong, and Adrian Orozco.

5th Grade – Vonnie Co, Vicky Dinh, Jennifer Do, Cynthia Hernandez, Long Huynh, Casandra Kelley, Erica Seu, Eric Trinh, and Silvana Valle.

6th Grade – Lauren Foster, Wynonna Fuentez, Brandon Guerrero, Justine Jimenez, Emily Lam, William Le, Daniel Nguyen, Kimberly Nguyen, Brian Vo, and Larry Yi.

Norwood Creek
4th Grade – Rohit Godbole, Brian Han, Brian Nguyen, and Jennie Phung.

5th Grade – Jenny Duong, Caisey Escolano, Priya Mittal, Akshay Naik, Julie Nguyen, Vivian Nguyen, Jaclynn Phan, Tiffany T. Tran, Minh Truong, and Pshton Tsen.

6th Grade – Priya Bhattacharjee, Hien Do, Daisy Gonzalez, Miranda Halverson, Angelina Huynh, Tomson Mathai, Vivian Ngo, Anna Pham, Reann Pham, Danielle Rivas, Jenny Trinh, and Izabela Villanueva.

O.B. Whaley
4th Grade – Mikaela Argonza, Jennifer Nguyen, and Jolie Uk.

5th Grade – Nhu-y Chau, Christie Luu, Van Ly, Rose Mangahas, An Nguyen, Jessica Nguyen, Trang Nguyen, and Mark Sapien.

Quimby Oak Middle
7th Grade – Kyle Alipio, Alexandra Arauz, Nhat-Dzu Bui, Michelle Dao, Amanpreet Dhoor, Christina Doan, Pratir Doshi, Chheang Duong, Katie Duong, Bianca Garcia, Samantha Garcia, Nathan Gonzales, Meha Gupta, Katharine Hall, Sarah Haroon, Leonard Hua, Johnny Huang, Stacey Huang, Brian Huynh, Michelle Huynh, Simranjit Kalotia, Manjot Kaur, Emil Kirov, Rahul Kuchibhatla, Ryan Ladao, Christine Lam, Royale Lim, Jeric-Ray Llanes, Derrick Luong, Calvin Luu, Charlie Ly, Marissa Martinez, Erin Nale, Alan Nguyen, Alan Nguyen, Anh Nguyen, Evelyn Nguyen, Joanne Nguyen, Kevin Nguyen, Stacey Nguyen, Tam Nguyen, Adam Nhuong, Lyn Nuygen, David Opulencia, Navya Palacherla, Ritu Parekh, Avi Patel, Angela Pham, Rebecca Pham, Tina Pham, Badoi Phan, Tyler-Tho Phan, Chloe Rasmussen, Diosann Regaspi, Amanjot Saini, Kanwarvir Saini, Nathan Satterwhite, Samuel Scaglione, Deep Singal, Avneet Sra, Hannah Suh, Mabel Tong, Jocelyn Torres-Guzman, Ashley Tran, Beverly Tran, Grace Tran, Katherine Tran, Kathileen Tran, Maivy Tran, Angie Truong, Melissa Vasquez, Amanda-Mae Villanueva, Sherry Vu, Amy Yu, and Junwei Yu.

8th Grade – Ricardo Alcaraz, Joshua Baculi, Kevin Brasil, Alex Bui, Brian Bui, Janella-Kay Cariaga, Charvi Choksi, Aaron Chu, Chester Chu, Vivian Dao, Christ'l De-Guia, Ariel Dela Torre, Jenna Deleon, Jasjeet Dhanota, Nhat-Dang Do, Megan Gage, Shannen Go, Prasiddha Halder, Kelcie Harris, Margaret Ho, Phillip Ho, Catheleen Hoang, Aarshdeep Kahlon, Stephanie Le, Timothy Le, Luna Li, Bonnie Liang, Bohan Lin, Becky Lu, Monica Luong, Anthony Luu, Jonathan Ly, Kim Ly, Spencer Marsh, Maitree Mervana, Rochelle Neria, Kimberly Ngo, Michael Ngo, Ann Nguyen, Bonnie Nguyen, Cathy Nguyen, Hong Phuc Nguyen, Jessica Nguyen, Minh-Toan Nguyen, Norman Nguyen, Quynh Nguyen, Thomas Nguyen, Timothy Nguyen, Cristina Nunes, Jezza Orpia, Miguel Osorio, Melyssa Perla, Jessica Phan, Monica Phong, Jaelien Pinheiro, Henry Quach, Adil Rahman, Claire Satterwhite, Meghana Seshadri, Eshita Shah, Rhed Shi, Jessica Su, Tahned Tantiyavarong, Kevin Tong, Ashley Tran, Lauren Tran, Tony Tran, Emily Trinh, Richard Truong, Thu Vo, Michelle Williams, Calvin Wong, and Chao-Chun Yang.

Silver Oak
4th Grade – Nivedita Ahlawat, Kylie Burdsall, Rachel Chan, Jennifer Choi, Michaela Haaser, Diana Knott, Navya Konda, Charles Li, Jason Li, Amanda Marsh, Tien Phan, Pranav Pradeep, Rebecca Scarra, Tanisha Shankar, Karina Sharma, Jenny Sherwood, Alexa Vitale, and Stephanie Yang.

5th Grade – Thanh Bach, Elise Barsch, Thomas Benton, Daniel Berestov, Stacey Chin, Karen Chou, Austin Coon, Ryan Cuenca, Maddie Faircloth, Bhrigu Gollabinnie, Colette Hendry, Erica Kao, Rebecca Lee, Kevin Ma, Siddharth Mattela, Megan Nguyen, Brittany Oliveira, Smriti Pramanick, Brandon Sanchez, Megan Seo, Sarah Shaffer, Allen Speers, Monica Thukral, Andrew Wang, Jaclyn Woodward, Claire Yoshioka, Celine Younger, and Catalina Zhao.

6th Grade – Allison Chan, Tiffany Chanroo, Gareth Chen, Shelly Chopra, Laura Dovek, Nicole Feldman, Amanda Fish, Vivienne Gunadhi, Richard Guzikowski, Molly Haar, Shayna Herns, Nour Itani, Victoria Johnston, Kelly Larson, Daniel Lee, David Mace, Kary McKinnon, Jenna Morgan, Jasmine Nguyen, Josh Ogrey, Sereena Pathiratne, Sidart Pradeep, Laura Taylor, Madeline Taylor, Haley Titinger, Tristan Tran, Christine Vu, Michelle Wang, Tyler Wong, Kalmina Wu, Waylan Yee, and Maxime Zaccarin.

Evergreen couple helps students who have turned their lives around

Jim and Dorothy Crownover, who live in the Villages, have been active in Kiwanis for a number of years. Since there’s no Kiwanis Club in the Evergreen area, the two are members of the Willow Glen Kiwanis Club. The two are shown here, surrounding Mike Rubino, the Willow Glen Club’s President, after the annual Turnaround Scholarship award ceremony on May 9 at the Three Flames Restaurant. This year’s luncheon honored 26 students who attend San Jose Unified High Schools, most of whom reside in the Almaden and Willow Glen areas, by the Almaden and Willow Glen Kiwanis Clubs. The scholarship awards are an annual event providing money for college or trade school to seniors that have managed to turn their lives around. Several of the students that were honored raised their grade points from below 1.0 to 4.0s, with the majority seeing averages of between 3.0 and 3.9 their senior years. The program began 12 years ago, when the Willow Glen club received a $10,000 check from Applied Materials and created the fund. This year’s fundraising has grown to more than $50,000 with the support of other Silicon Valley industries, the Leo M. Shortino Family Foundation and the Kiwanis Clubs in the San Jose/Santa Clara areas.

— By Carol Rosen

Rock-it Science camp registration now open for summer sessions

Rock-it Science, located in Santa Clara at 2110 Walsh Avenue, recently announced an expanded schedule of their summer science camps. Camp sessions are still available for June 18-22, June 25-29, July 2-6, July 9-13, July 16-20, July 23-27, July 30-August 3, and August 6-10. Registration is open now at www.rockitscience.com.

The Rock-it Science summer camps utilize storytelling and innovative science experiments to capture the children’s attention and imagination. Camp themes run the gamut from experiments that fly to experiments that bubble and smoke! The camps serve children ages 5-12.

The goal at Rock-it Science is to spark, nurture and develop young people’s enthusiasm and ability to learn science successfully. Each camp day begins with a scientific concept introduced through a zany tale involving Jack, Jill, and The Evil Mr. Fred. Then the kids begin hands-on experimentation to determine possible solutions to the cliffhanger story.

Kids are encouraged to think creatively, to try things out, make mistakes, make corrections and discover how to solve problems. They don’t just reproduce a pre-determined result – they experience the joy of discovery for themselves.
To learn more about Rock-it Science and this summer’s camp offerings, go to www.rockitscience.com or call Rock-it Science at (408) 969-1900.

Silver Creek student takes first place at annual Bay
Area Regional Business Plan Competition

Eight Bay Area high school students, including Silver Creek freshman Warda Ali, recently competed in the annual Merrill Lynch/NFTE Bay Area Regional Business Plan Competition for cash prizes totaling $4,500.

Ali took first place at the event, which was held at University of San Francisco, School of Business and Management. Sophomore Lizbeth Escobar of San Leandro High School Business Academy took second place.

Warda Ali

“Both young women have taken the skills they gained through the NFTE entrepreneurship curriculum and found ways to meet needs in their communities,” said Gerald Richards, Executive Director of NFTE Bay Area. “These young ladies represent the dedication, engagement and ownership of their futures that we hope all students take away from their education.”

Ali’s first place finished awarded her with $1,500 of investment capital to use in her businesss, “Sure Shot Cricket Gear,” an online retail business selling customized cricket equipment.  Escobar’s second place finish gave her $1,000 worth of investment capital to use in her business “Liz’s Zesty Enchiladas” – which provides enchiladas that are sold in the cafeteria at San Leandro High School. Both will compete in New York in October of 2007 at the national competition before a panel of executives from global companies.

Sponsored by the Merrill Lynch Foundation, the competition included eight students from the following schools: San Leandro High School Business Academy, San Leandro High School Art Enterprise, Independence High School, Silver Creek High School, and Yerba Buena High School. Having successfully competed in classroom and semifinal competitions across the Bay Area, these eight students present their business plans to a panel of business executives from First Republic Bank, Anchor Brewing Company, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Hexon Company, Home Health Advocates, QuickCycle, and Merrill Lynch. 

Originally launched as a dropout prevention program, NFTE’s entrepreneurship education program teaches low-income students the business skills they need to start their own small business, while reinforcing basic academic skills. NFTE’s goal is to give young people the skills and confidence to seize their true potential and improve their lives and communities. 

Carolyn Clark Elementary school sisters collect water bottles to improve kids’ smiles

By Carol Rosen
Staff writer

Two sisters, Yu-Ting and Yi-Chen Lui, who moved to the United States from Taiwan about two years ago, have spent nearly a year collecting water bottles to raise money to help a child with a cleft lip or palette regain their smile.

Sisters Yu-Ting Lui, left, and Yi-Chen Lui carry bags of water bottles they collected from their classrooms from Carolyn Clark Elementary School. The money raised recycling bottles, and matched by their mother, allowed them to donate $250 for one surgery for a child with a cleft lip or palette.

The project began as Carolyn Clark Elementary third grade student Yu-Ting, known as Bebe, wanted an allowance. Her mother, Sheng-Hui Yang, told her to do something constructive like collecting water bottles. Bebe would use the money to buy hot lunch at school until one day, she and her mother found an advertisement for Smile Train, an organization that collects money in order to do surgery throughout the world on the cleft lips and palettes of children whose parents can’t afford the operation.

These children live lives that are black and white, said Yang. Because of their appearance, they don’t attend school or other social events. Some, she added, are the same age as Bebe (9 years) and her sister, who is 6. The 45-minute surgery is free to these children and gives them “a new smile and a new life,” said Yang.

Smile Train, which can be found online at www.smiletrain.org, has a mission to provide free cleft surgery for millions of children in developing countries and to provide free cleft-related training for doctors and medical professionals. Each donation of $250 can provide the surgery that will allow these children to speak and eat properly. The group annually oversees more than 60,000 surgeries per year.

The charity, now in its eighth year, states that 100 percent of all donations go toward the program, according to its Web site.

Once the two girls decided they would do the project, their mom told them she would match whatever amount the girls took in.

Every Monday, Bebe would bring empty bags to classrooms and ended up taking them back home filled with bottles. On weekends, the family would take the bottles to the recycling center to exchange money and save it for Smile Train.

“The kids learned that helping people is more helpful that eating hot lunch. Besides, Bebe now enjoys her mom-made lunch and still buys hot lunch one day per month,” said Yang.

“We care about our environment a lot. We recycle everything that we can - papers, bottles, glasses and even leftovers. Recycling can reduce pollution and make money. Everyone is winner,” she added.

“It takes an awfully long time to collect $125,” added Bebe’s teacher, Mary Ann Cave. “A one-liter water bottle is worth a nickel, while two-liter bottles bring in 10 cents.”

Bebe’s effort has given Cave another novel idea.

“We might do it as a class project,” said the third grade teacher. “The students will be able to see the process. I will talk with Bebe’s mom. If one little girl can do this, imagine what a whole class or grade level could do.”

Bebe and her mom noted the efforts of a number of people that helped, including Carolyn Clark teachers Cave, Allison Sutton, Cheryl Conolly, Larry Moots and Debbie Toll as well Yang’s YMCA friends and Lorine Hang.

Three Evergreen schools win Title I award

By Carol Rosen
Staff Writer

Three schools in the Evergreen School District won Title I Academic Achievement Awards from the California Department of Education and State School Superintendent Jack O’Connell.

O’Connell presented the awards to Dove Hill and O.B. Whaley Elementary Schools, as well as LeyVa Middle School during a ceremony earlier this spring in Costa Mesa, Ca, which honored 461 Title I schools throughout the state. Twelve schools in Santa Clara County received the award.

Title I schools receive special federal funding based on the number of students receiving free and reduced lunch and that have socio-economic subgroups. Schools do not apply for the award, but are chosen by the state. For example, Dove Hill received the award by meeting adequate yearly progress (AYP) requirements defined by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; by doubling its API growth target for the total school enrollment as well as the socio-economically disadvantaged subgroup of students, and by attaining or exceeding the 2006 API growth score it was assigned.

“I am extremely proud of the staff at Dove Hill, O.B. Whaley and LeyVa,” said Evergreen District Superintendent Clif Black. “These schools should be commended for what they are doing. They have challenging populations, and to be invited to look at all the measures that are weighted for this award shows they have made progress with their students.”

“We do well with the children that need us most so we must be doing well with all of our students,” said Dove Hill Principal Delores Garcia, who will move into the principal’s slot at LeyVa next year.

She added that a moment of pride came when O’Connell told the audience that “these are some of the hardest kids to reach and you’ve done it.”

Garcia will replace LeyVa’s current principal, Christopher Corpus, who is moving into the district office.

Garcia and assistant principal Tina Choy, who will move up to become Dove Hill’s principal for the 2007-08 school year, agree that the award came through a combination of hard work, a dedicated staff and working out methods to involve parents. They went to Costa Mesa to receive the award along with fourth grade teacher Deborah Lopez.

Getting parents involved in the school and its community can often be difficult when parents may not speak English well, may not have finished high school and typically work more than one job to make ends meet, said Choy. The Dove Hill administration and teachers plan activities designed to make these parents more comfortable with the school.

“We pull out all the stops to make parents feel more comfortable. We make it fun for the parents. Once we get them in to some of the activities like the spring fiesta, drama presentations and/or the music festival, we keep them coming. We also have a spaghetti night and a family line dancing night that allows parents to make connections with the staff and with other parents,” Choy said.

This has led parents to have faith in what the school does, said Garcia.

Dove Hill also has extensive after school programs that include homework centers and YMCA extended daycare as well as a Kids Club, music and drama, visual arts and a leadership program that targets a specific group of students. In addition, the school has received technical grants for computers and laptops, said Lopez.

“Our teachers are the backbone of the school,” said Garcia. “Whatever we ask them to do, they are there. At the spring fiesta, they are manning booths, selling food, whatever we need them to do. And that’s after teaching for a full day.”

Throughout Garcia’s six-and-a-half years at Dove Hill, most of the staff has remained at the school. Some that have transferred or moved to other schools call for openings because they want to come back, she said.

“Most, however, choose to stay and serve the school population,” Garcia said. “The longevity of the staff has been very helpful to the school and its students.”

She added that perhaps the school’s greatest “strength is that everyone puts the students first.”

J.F. Smith Art and Sole event nets needed school funds

Walk-a-thon and two fundraisers at event raise more than $46,000

By Diego Abeloos
Editor

A good time was had by all, and in the process, some important funds were raised to help education as James Franklin Smith Elementary School held its Art and Sole Fundraiser on May 18.

The event, held on the school grounds from 3-9 p.m., featured a three-hour kids’ walk-a-thon, a silent auction, as well as a live art auction. All proceeds from the event, totaling more than $46,000, went directly back to the school for much-needed learning tools, according to J.F. Smith Principal Keith Hodgin.

J.F. Smith students walk the course around the school’s grass playing field during the walk-a-thon portion of the Art and Sole fundraiser on May 18.

Still, Hodgin noted that the first-time fundraiser had some at the school on edge. In previous years, the school held its annual Books on Par golfing fundraiser, but decided to change course this year, choosing instead to hold the Art and Sole Fundraiser, as well as the school’s Casino Night fundraiser earlier in the school year. All told, the two fundraisers raised a combined total of approximately $52,000, Hodgin added.

“We’re really happy with the way the whole thing turned out,” said Hodgin. “It was really something very different for us over here. We’re used to having the Books on Par fundraiser and so we were all on pins and needles a little bit trying something completely different. But we felt like we wanted to make the event more all-inclusive, and have more of our families involved, and I think we accomplished that.”

Hodgin also credited the school community – particularly member of the school PTA, which organized the event – with providing an all-around effort in making the fundraiser a success. More than 350 students participated in the event, not only in walking the school’s playing field during the walk-a-thon, but several also pitched in providing ample artwork up for bid during the event’s two auctions.

“It’s very rewarding, very satisfying,” Hodgin said. “It really makes me very proud of a community that realizes just how important the role is of the parents in a child’s overall education.”

Art and Sole fundraiser attendees had the chance to bid on artwork created by J.F. Smith students during the live art auction on May 18.

Hodgin noted that the fundraiser could not have been possible without the efforts of event organizers Valerie Wetstone and Tracy Wilkinson, as well the 40 parent volunteers who helped out during the event. The group not only provided a fun environment for the kids, Hodgin said, but also other extras, such as food stations from Armadillo Willy’s, Jamba Juice and Marble Slab Creamery. Hodgin said even more volunteers, as well as an ample supply of teachers, helped out with helping students craft artwork for the auctions.

“It was amazing,” he said. “There were parents who pitched in who were not even signed up to volunteer. They just saw what needed to be done and dug in.”

The money raised, Hodgin said, is earmarked for important must-haves in any school, such as visual and performing arts classes, science classes, field trips, as well as updated technology for classrooms and small grants through the PTA for teachers in need of specific classroom supplies and other items, to name a few.

In short, May 18 was a fun – and needed – day for all at J.F. Smith.

“It was an excellent day,” Hodgin said. “…What’s really important was that a lot of kids and parents were having fun. The kids just walked far more than anyone imagined they’d be able to walk and they had fun doing it. The kids were having a great time, which was part of our goal too.”