November 17, 2006

Evergreen SchoolScene

Evergreen School District 4.0 GPA students

Cadwallader
4th Grade – Kristie Nguyen.

5th Grade – Joey Hollenkamp, Jason Hung, Tricia Huynh, Daniel Mercado, Michelle Truong. 6th Grade – Gurpreet Bhoot, Victor Diep, Yesenia Martinez, Alexandra Montijo, Kimmy Nguyen, Peter Tran.

Carolyn Clark
4th Grade – Shivani Bandaru, Jason Bao, Kushol Bhattacharjee, Tiphanie Chow, Amy Chu, Kevin Dong, Jeremiah Fan, Tanmay Ghai, Tanvi Gupta, Akhil Harapanahalli, Vivian Hoang, Lewis Hong, Tara Iyer, Anuraag Kalluri, Mila Le, Shirley Li, Zoe Liao, Cindy Liu, Mindy Luong, Pooja Patel, Kalpita Prabhu, Catherine Qiu, Andrea Quimson, Vinay Rajagopal, Adil Salhotra, Kyle Sandoval, Arvind Sankar, Karey Shi, Rohan Varma, Megana Vasu, Sarina Vyas, Karina Wong, Jackie Zou.

5th Grade – Fabiha Ahmed, Kayla Blasco, Ryan Boun, Dylan Castellino, Jim Fahey, Justin Gaspar, Sarah Giovannini, Crystal Gutierrez, Megan Ho, Allen Huynh, Pooja Kaur, Shawn Lo , Gavin Lopez, Carolyn Luu, Justin Ma, Manav Maroli, Richard Martinez, Joseph Mendoza, Carolyn Ngo, Christine Nguyen, Maxine Patwardhan, Briana Pong, Richard Qian, Catherine Tran, Justin Tran, Thuyvy Tu, Emily Vu, Vincent Wang, Sebastian Wong, Madeline Yamashiro, Vivian Yu, Jamie Zhang, Lillian Zhou.

6th Grade – Sabreen Bains, Yvonne Chau, Louis Chen, Christopher Dinh, Amy Doan, Andrew Duong, Cathy Gonzales, Kevin Ip, Anjali Kuchibhatla, Michelle La, Brandon Le, Don Lee, Tiffany Lee, Tracey Luong, Shyam Mervana, Bao-Minh Nguyen-Phuc, Joseph Orduna, Crystal Pan, Zayd Parekh, Jonathan Purcell, Samir Rahman, Anjuli Taunk, Giselle Verbera, Scottie Wan, Stephanie Wong.

Cedar Grove
4th Grade – Zenab Ali, Kendall Allums, Jennifer Bedania, Elizabeth Bettencourt, Alexus Brown, Adam Calderon, Wilson Cao, Michael Carillo, Crystal Conrriquez, Karla Cruz, Derek Cuenca, Naomi De-Guia, Katelyn Delapaz, Marleyne Delrosario, Yvonne Duong, Erron Estoque, Anthony-Manuel Gomez, Louis Guttierez, Christine Le, Samantha Lim, Yanaira Lopez, Jessica Manzano, Adriana Mendez-Guizar, Diana Nguyen, Kristen Oreiro, Audris Pham, Luis Ramirez, Aleeza Roque, Mark Sanchez, Alexa Scaglione, Kathrina Tran, Vincent Tran, Johnny Trang, Malik Turner, Karely Velazquez, Jason Vinh, Helen Vo.

5th Grade – Janae Angel, Bianca Borceguin, Tee Jay Cabuag, Maggie Chan, Angela Dayrit, Kali Gabler, Vincent Garcia, Vincent Ha, Newton Huyehn, Nathan Huynh, Alofa Lasi, Nicholas Monico, Jazmyn Perez, Justine Perez, Alyssa Phan, Daniel Santos, Richard Suarez, Amanda Tena, Sharon To, Josephine Vu.

6th Grade – Danica Arbiol, Danielle Arbyol, Crystal Calderon, Naomi Campbell, Merideth Chaidez, Nancy Chen, Cassandra Contreras, Sammy Davidson, Mark De Guia, Kelly Duong, Jacob Flores, Brent Fujii, Andrea Huerta, Gabriela Jamarillo, Gwyneth Jaramillo, Zohaib Javed, Martha Joya, Valery Lu, Jonathan Ly, Anh Ngoc Le, Cathy Nguyen, Jolene Nguyen, Julianne Nguyen, Marylynn Nguyen, Ralph Orteza, Alana Pronge, Kirpa Rai, Melend Ros, Shymal Sheth, Nicole Sordello, Joshua Tejada, Patrick Tran, Guadalupe Vallin, Bryant Wong.

Chaboya Middle School
7th Grade – Guillermo Ancheta, Anika Arif, Jaskaran Atwal, Anthony Banuelos, Nikhil Bellamkonda, Daniell Bellow, Meghena Bhimarao, Casey Blum, Chelsea Braza, Jennifer Brevik, Christiane Cabreros, Liselotte Caris, Alison Chen, Sandeep Chera, Sophia Choi, Ariq Chowdhury, Kevin Chuang, Hiba Dada, Anay Dattawadkar, Dolly Diep, Brian Do, Rachel Do, Brandon Doan, Sukhreet Dosanjh, Tiffany Duong, Mikelle Foster, Chaddy Georges, Barbara Gould, Alexia Green, Nancy Ho, Vivian Hsu, Balaji Kalluri, Rohan Kapre, Manasi Kasbekar, Winston Kim, Tiffany Koval, Monica Kullar, Evie Lee, May Lu, Peter Luong, Christopher Ma, Manisha Maharaj, Mariella Manalac, Mark Manaois, Julia Mcdaniel, Milan Mishra, Ronodeep Mitra, Amelia Neil, Graham Nelson, Brandon Nguyen, Christine Nguyen, Eric Nguyen, Kim Nguyen, Michael Nguyen, Gabriela Padilla, Preethi Padmanaban, Natalie Pang, Chandni Patel, Vanessa Peneyra, Michelle Pham, Nancy Phan, Praneetha Potiny, Wendy Qiu, Yang Qu, Timothy Quach, Kalie Radsmikham, Surya Ramanathan, Uma Sakhalkar, Vincent Sanchez, Greeshma Sanchula, Komal Sharma, David Tan, Jiahui Tan, Alexander Tang, Andrew Teuthorn, Gabriella Titinger, Lillian Tran, Cynthia Truong, Kelly Truong, Emily Wang, James Wei, Albert Wong, Amanda Wong, Shelby Zahn.

8th Grade – Hannah Abalos, Tabitha Ahearn, Christopher Ancheta, Jamie Banh, Neda Bazofti, Sarah Benton, Jing-Jing Cao, Iverson Chan, Lauren Chang, Amanda Chen, Helen Chen, Rebecca Chien, Monorom Chim, Amala Chirayil, Abhijith Chitlur, Cynthia Chiu, Audrey Chou, Irene Chou, Tiffany Chung, Nicole Cuenca, Dan Dang, Queenbelle Delacruz, Melvin Delavega, Ameya Deshmukh, Shivani Deshmukh, Linh Diep, Danielle Dinh, Krystal Dominguez, Martin Dowdy, Kelsey Foo, Uyen Ha, Scott Harano, Vivek Iyer, Katherine Ja, Sahil Jain, Carter Johnson, Pallavi Kidambi, Edward Kim, Sravani Kondapavulur, Brianna Krong, Shing Lau, Michael Lawson, Claudelle Le, Kristine Le, Kevin Lee, Melissa Ling, Megan Liou, Brian Ly, Lillian Ma, Catherine Mace, Sarah Mahdavi, Darien Manalac, Jessica Martinez, Yonas Michael, Darren Ngo, Amy Nguyen, Jennifer Nguyen, Jessica Nguyen, Matthew Nguyen, Michelle Nguyen, Michelle Nguyen, Natalie Nguyen, Viet Nguyen, David Olivas, Parisa Oveyssi, Dennis Pang, Aira Penaranda, My-Linh Pham, Jonathan Phan, Vinh Phuong, Samah Pirzada, Amber Por, Andrew Quan, Jordan Rowley, Amanda Schmitt, Pallavi Setty, Neerav Sharma, Jessica Sheu, Kamalpreet Sidhu, Sneha Singh, Stephanie Solorio, Michelle Sung, Taylor Tanton, Marevel Tepora, Brandon Tran, Brandon Tran, Caroline Tran, Diana Tran, Jacquelyn Tran, Jennifer Tran, Stephanie Tran, Tiffanie Tran, Viet Tran, Maxime Tremblay, Kathleen Truong, Viet-Victor Truong, Kevin Tsai, Kevin Tsukamoto, Mariko Tumangan, Joshua Vieyra, Claramie Vo, Angeline Vu, Annie Vu, Brian Wang, Deshanique Williams, Ho-Him Wong, Kevin Wong, Lindsey Wong, Kimberly Yamaji, Brent Younger.

Dove Hill
4th Grade – Richard Ngo, Amberly Ramirez, Wesley Tran.

5th Grade – Robirt Kong, Cathy Nguyen, Michelle Nguyen, Vanessa Nguyen.

6th Grade – Nischaydeep Kaur, Matthew Pham, Crystal Mana-ay, Henry Nguyen, Tina Wong.

Evergreen
4th Grade – Kalodrich Lennon, Winston Liao, Claire Lu, Siddarth Pratapneni, Emily Spacek.

5th Grade – Andrew Aganad, Wendy Ching, Eller Juco,
Steven Kou, Andy Long, Michelle Luo, Lilian Nguyen, Adrian Sim, Michael To, Andrew Wing.

6th Grade – Breanna Arun, Stacy Chowdhary, Christie Ho, Lannie Ho, Ridhi Hsing, Ariel Ly, Michael Sridhar, Vijeetha Tan, Timothy Tran, Katie Trieu, Previn Trieu, Harshika Wong.

Holly Oak
4th Grade – Christina Truong.

5th Grade – Matthew Camacho, Olivia Nguyen, Vina Nguyen-Ha.

6th Grade – Gulveen Cheema, Tiffany On, Marissa Reed.

J.F. Smith
4th Grade – Divya Balchander, Arooshi Barua, Akash Bellipaddy, Anneloes Caris, Aryaman Das, Kevin Dinh, Wicia Fang, Eyvonne Hu, Jennifer Kim, Daniela Lee, Arvind Nandi, Brandon Nguyen, Tina Nguyen, Lillian Thio, Katherine Tian, Joanne Tu.

5th Grade – Elsa Althof, Nathan Bao, Martha Cabatic, Maxwell Chan, Rhea Dadoo, Amanda Dao, Serena Dhillon, Shaheen Eskandari, Wesley Hsu, Vincent Hu, Priyanda Krishnamurthi, Shannon Lam, Adrienne Le, Timothy Le, Jessie Lee, Andrew Lung, Shannon Luu, Jeffrey Malkofsky-Berger, Anila Mamidi, Julia Minko, Rachan Narala, Nathan Ngo, Mandy Nguyen, Vinshaan Nguyen, Viviene Nguyen, Meghan Noyes, Jonathan Pham, Andrea Quan, Rhea Roy, Diana Tang, Yvonne Tran, Alexander Vu, Jennifer Williams.

6th Grade – Kabir Budwal, Katie Bui, Simrin Das, Felicia Fang, Diana Le, Alison Luu, Vidush Mukund, Rahul Nalamasu, Andrew Nguyen, Michael Ning, Alexander Sosa, Samantha Swenor, Lexing Tong, Bryan Tran, Duy Trinh, Ann Truong, Nancy Vu, Christine Wang, Connor Weiss.

K.R. Smith
4th Grade - Alejandra Amador, Ethan Castro, Inderpreet Chakal, Maria Christina Dalisay, Audrey Dufort, Tommy Huynh, Stephanie Luong, Deena Manithep, Itzel Plancarte, Nam Tang, Emily Tiet.

5th Grade - Jessica Huynh, Christina Ly, Quynh Phan.

6th Grade - My-Linh Do, Ryan Galito, Priyanka Khanna, Saurab Kumar, Jessica Ledesma, Jayleen Leodones, Malcom Morales, Rianna Romayor, Angela Stender.

Laurelwood
4th Grade – Vivienne Bui-Tu, Jasmine Carvajal, Ashley Delrosario, Brianna Hoang, Sara Hoshino, Spencer Johnson, Amanda Luong, Kendall Mcclung, Dean Nguyen, Mackenzi Noto, Ingrid Tran, John Tran, Minh-Khang Vinh, Rebecca Zheng.

5th Grade – Krishna Babu, Sean Cantu, Keitel Delrosario, Alyssa Stride, Ryan Tsukamoto.
6th Grade – Sara Brogan, Trevor Delrosario, Kayla Long, Kelsey Mcclung, Esther Melton, Daniel Stahlnecker, Christine To, Jinny Vo.

LeyVa Middle School
6th Grade – Vivan Alejo, Juan Barajas, Joshua Castro, Bang Luong, Almar Marcaida, Diana Nguyen, Chan Sopheak Nun, Andy Senh, Brian Tombo, Desiree Torrecampo, Michael Tran, Michelle Tran, Thea Tuliao.

7th Grade –Jennifer Brooks, Thinh Bui, Joshua Bulman, Johanna Cabading, Erin Nicole Cariaga, Adilene Cervantes, Hoang Huy Dam, Jim-Floyd Deocampo, Brian Fama, Jennifer Gallegos, Jodie Gee, Nathalie Halley, Blenda Hoang, Anderson Huynh, Gina Huynh, Kelly Huynh, Javier Ibanez, Naushaba Khan, Duyen Le, Jasmine Lopez, Christina Luong, Jasmine Ly, Christy Meunruakham, Shanelle Nebre, Gina Nguyen, Mary Nguyen, Michelle Nguyen, Quynhanh Nguyen, Chioma Nwuzi, Stephanie Poon, Darlene Rodriguez, Steve Shim, Pavanpreet Sidhu, Cymoril-Jessica Sonico, Ly Tan, Nancy Tang, Lilian Thoi, Amy Tran, Cecilia Tran, Diane Tran, Lisa Tran, Tai Trinh, Jessica Vu, Katie Vu.

8th Grade – Gabrielle Argonza, Jozielyn Balceta, Sally Chau, Johnny Dao, Kevin-An Dinh, Buu Duong, Bernadette Fernandez, Heather Heath, Alvin Hong, Kathy Huynh, Judy Kim, Van Lam, Steven Nam Le, Annie Luu, Liem Ly, Ivy Ma, Mariel Mackay, Cathy Nguyen, Kimberly Nguyen, May Nguyen, Nhi Nguyen, Stephanie Nguyen, Susan Nguyen, Deoel Noveno, Angelica Rodriguez, Tylyn Santos, Scott Tang, Alex Thoi, Ajay Tripathi, Don Truong, Huy Truong, Meilani Villamor, Sylvia Vizcardo, Shannon Wallace.

Matsumoto
4th Grade – Ruchi Aggarwal, Himani Aligreddy, Cassandra Antunes, Riya Bansal, Stephanie Cheng, Ashley Ding, Samuel Han, Samreen Haque, Darissa Hicks, Harleen Kaur, Nithya Kiron, Haeden Kyung, Andrew Lam, Shannon Lam, Emily Luong, Arjun Mandyam, Srivarsha Nandula, Michelle Nguyen, Amogh Pathi, Nandan Polisetty, Don-Robert Pornaras, Isha Sakhalkar, Sakshi Soti, Kendric Trinh, Michelle Truong, Michelle Vu, Andre Xiong.

5th Grade – Shiv Bhandari, Akhil Choppa, Ethan Chou, Siddharth Gampa, Trishika Shetty, Aamir Hasnat, Tanmayee Khadilkar, Richard Min, Suraj Mohan, Lisa Principi, Ashley Ta, Richa Wadekar, Marco Zuniga.

6th Grade – Sarah Abalos, Aneesh Akella, Soumya Banna, Vagisha Barot, Frederic Chen, Julie Chen, Anna Cho, Marvinne Flora, Daniel Gomez, Kaneesha Hasnat, Sophie He, Shankar Iyer, Karina Kak, Akash Kakumani, Minal Khan, Avinaash Korrapati, Christine Li, Anthony Nguyen, Mia Nguyen, Annie Phan, Brandon Pieterouiski, Tharusyan Pillay, Mamata Polisetty, Ajay Shimoga, Dani Steinberg, Rachel Steinberg, Anisha Sunkerneni, Nicholas Teuthorn, Amanda Tran, Chi-Lan Tran, Tyler Valdez, Danica Van, Monica Van, Rebecca Wang, Jenna Wetzel, Katherine Zu.

Millbrook
4th Grade – Nicholas Almogela, Sanjana Bolleddu, Michelle Cang, Brytni Cook, Kiran Kalsi, Tiffany Le, Emily Moncada, Queenie Ngo, Anthony Nguyen, Leilani Quisenberry, Harsh Shah, Carina Ulengco, Diana Vu, Nina Zamora.

5th Grade – Alyssa Banuelos, Kim Dinh, Victoria Duong, Raymond Farias, Gaganjit Ghardhora, Anna Gonzalez, Lillie Kengly, Brandon Luu, Jasdeep Mundra, Dana Ngo, Jenny Nguyen, Ivy Pham, Alex Scantland, Ravi Sharma, Andrew Vu.

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

Montgomery
4th Grade – Joseph Gaska, Keith Lazaro, Justin Le,
Eric Luong, Kimberly Nguyen, Adrian Orozco, Ca-Jeanna Parks.

5th Grade – Hiabu Abdela, Vonnie Co, Vicky Dinh, Jennifer Do, Cynthia Hernandez, Long Huynh, Casandra Kelley, Victor Nguyen, Aris Paz, Erica Seu, Eric Trinh, Silvana Valle, Edgar Vargas.

6th Grade – Joel Demarest, Lauren Foster, Wynonna Fuentez, Brandon Guerrero, Justine Jimenez, Nancy Luu, Eric Melgar, Daniel Nguyen, Kimberly Nguyen, Brian Vo, Larry Yi.

Norwood Creek
4th Grade – Brian Han, Jennie Phung.

5th Grade – Jenny Duong, Kristiann Guevarra, Daniel Gylnquist, Minh Le, Nghi Le, Danielle Mendoza, Priya Mittal, Akshay Naik, Roshan Nayak, Julie Nguyen, Jaclynn Phan, Shreya Ramesh, Dominique Rosete, Alex Thach, Ryan Tran, Minh Truong, Minh Truong, Oshton Tsen.

6th Grade – Priya Bhattacharjee, Hien Do, Gaurev Gupta, Tomson Mathai, Vivian Ngo, Reann Pham, Danielle Rivas, Tiffany Thang, Jenny Trinh, Izabela Villanueva.

O.B. Whaley
4th Grade – Jennifer Nguyen, Jacob Palarca, Alexander Reyes, Tatyanna Robles, Lily Toch.

5th Grade – Qian Cen, Nhu-Y Chau, Paulina Cortes, Christie Luu, Rose Mangahas, An Nguyen, Jessica Nguyen, Trang Nguyen, Mark Sapien, Stephanie Tombo.

Quimby Oak Middle School
7th Grade – Kyle Alipio, Brandon Apostol, Florante Aqui, Alexandra Arauz, Miles Caliboso, Jordan Chung, Karen Dao, Pratir Doshi, Chheang Duong, Lawrence Fung, Bianca Garcia, Gurnit-Kaur Ghardhora, Nathan Gonzales, Meha Gupta, Katharine Hall, Sarah Haroon, Johnny Huang, Stacey Huang, Brian Huynh, Michelle Huynh, Osam Javed, Simranjit Kalotia, Manjot Kaur, Emil Kirov, Rahul Kuchibhatla, Shayal Kumar, Ryan Ladao, Kimberly Lam, Victor Loi, Derrick Luong, Charlie Ly, Marissa Martinez, Jennifer Maung, Amtoj Moonach, Erin Nale, Priscilla Ng, David Ngo, Alan Nguyen, Alan Nguyen, Anh Nguyen, Christine Nguyen, Evelyn Nguyen, Joanne Nguyen, Jonathan Nguyen, Kevin Nguyen, Phuong-Quynh Nguyen, Shannon Nguyen, Stacey Nguyen, Tam Nguyen, Winifred Nguyen, Adam Nhuong, Lyn Nuygen, April Oreiro, Navya Palacherla, Ritu Parekh, Avi Patel, Marian Pham, Tina Pham, Badoi Phan, Tyler-Tho Phan, Sharika Rakibullah, Chloe Rasmussen, Diosann Regaspi, Jessica Sabadin, Nathan Satterwhite, Samuel Scaglione, Kunal Shalia, Kelly Shi, Deep Singal, Avneet Sra, Jerik Straetker, Ashley Tran, Beverly Tran, Grace Tran, Katherine Tran, Kathileen Tran, Vivian Tran, Brittany Valdez, Gabriel Velazquez, Amanda-Mae Villanueva, Sherry Vu, Mimi Williams, Amy Yu, Junwei Yu.

8th Grade – Sarah Chau, My Chiem, Charvi Choksi, Chester Chu, Julie Dang, Vivian Dao, Crystal Desousa, Jasjeet Dhanota, Elizabeth Dinh, Nhat-Dang Do, Emmanuel Espinoza, Megan Gage, Bryant Ha, Prasiddha Halder, Kelcie Harris, Margaret Ho, Phillip Ho, Catheleen Hoang, Nhu-Quynh Hoang, Pauline Huynh, Aarshdeep Kahlon, Amrita Khare, Brandon Lam, Luna Li, Bonnie Liang, Jonathan Ly, Kim Ly, Wai Mak, Spencer Marsh, William Maung, Maitree Mervana, Pavan Nayak, Kimberly Ngo, Michael Ngo, Amanda Nguyen, Ann Nguyen, Bonnie Nguyen, Cathy Nguyen, Hong Phuc Nguyen, Jeanne Nguyen, Jessica Nguyen, Minh-Toan Nguyen, Quynh Nguyen, Thomas Nguyen, Timothy Nguyen, Cristina Nunes, Miguel Osorio, Melyssa Perla, Elizabeth Phan, Quynh Phuong Phan, Jaelien Pinheiro, Bryant Pong, Adil Rahman, Roxanne Roxas, Claire Satterwhite, Meghana Seshadri, Eshita Shah, Rhed Shi, Navroop Singh, Jessica Su, Derek Tang, Tahned Tantiyavarong, Kevin Tong, Ashley Tran, Brendan Tran, Lauren Tran, Emily Trinh, Richard Truong, Thu Vo, Michelle Williams, Chao-Chun Yang.

Silver Oak
4th Grade – Ankita Bhanot, Rachel Chan, Michaela Haaser, Navya Konda, Jason Li, Ryan Mack, Rebecca Scarra, Karina Sharma, Julianne Taylor, Jalene Weatherholt.

5th Grade – Thanh Bach, Elise Barsch, Ally Bascom, Thomas Benton, Daniel Berestov, Karen Chou, Colette Hendry, Erica Kao, Christine Kim, Rebecca Lee, Connie Li, Amanda Macaraeg, Megan Nguyen, Brittany Oliveira, Sarah Shaffer, Andy Wang, Nelson Wang, Jaclyn Woodward, Claire Yoshioka, Catalina Zhao, Ryan Cuenca, Danielle Davis, Bhrigu Gollabinnie, Smriti Pramanick, Monica Thukral.

6th Grade – Neeraj Baid, Allison Chan, Tiffani Chanroo, Gareth Chen, Nicole Feldman, Amanda Fish, Vivienne Gunhadhi, Molly Haar, Shayna Herns, Victoria Johnston, Kelly Larson, Daniel Lee, David Mace, Sarah Mitchell, Jasmine Nguyen, Alexandra Schmitt, Laura Taylor, Madeline Taylor, Haley Titinger, Tyler Wong, Kalmina Wu, Maxime Zaccarin.

Note: 4.0 GPA listings are for elementary schools’ first trimester reporting period and for Middle Schools’ first quarter reporting period

EVHS senior wins San José City College’s First Annual Science Poster Show

Evergreen Valley High School senior Isabelle DaLuz took “best of show” and won $750 at San José City College’s First Annual Science Poster Show on Nov. 9.

Evergreen Valley High School senior Isabelle DaLuz.

DaLuz was, needless to say, very happy. With a check for $750 in hand, DaLuz thanked City College, saying, “I would like to thank San Jose City College for giving me the opportunity to share my knowledge and skills in the Evergreen District. It is such a great joy for me to be a part of its history during the opening of the New Science Complex Building. I will always remember it.”

The poster session was just one part of the opening of San José City College’s new Science Complex. The Complex is over 50,000 square feet including a 638-square-foot greenhouse, a percolation swale, and landscaping featuring prehistoric and native Californian fauna. More important, the complex is state of the art and will support all science courses at SJCC including its new biotechnology program.

DaLuz’s winning poster was a three-panel presentation on Charles Darwin and judges were impressed by the content of information it contained, its design, and the research that DaLuz did while creating the poster. San José City College Dean of Mathematics and Sciences Leandra Martin said that, “Isabelle’s poster demonstrated superior research and presentation – you could tell she thought about what she was doing and her citations were of college quality. This poster really stood out.”

DaLuz was not the only winner from Evergreen Valley High School, as Simrat Otal also received a bronze medal in the “Careers in Science” category and won $50 for that medal.

The science poster show included 45 students from 11 local high schools (Andrew Hill, Independence, Gilroy, Mt. Pleasant, Del Mar, Evergreen, Latino Preparatory Academy, Silver Creek, Piedmont Hills, MESA, and Santa Teresa). The contest was judged by a panel of experts, including: Dr. Diane Pennica, a Senior Scientist of Oncology at Genentech; Dr. Tadd Hogg, Senior Researcher at Hewlett-Packard; Dr. Mike Goldman, Chair of the Department of Biology San Francisco State University, and several other notables.

School Briefs

Mt. Pleasant High School 2006 Cardinal Winter Holiday Fest Dec. 7
Come and join the students, staff and community at Mt. Pleasant’s Annual Winter Holiday Festivities. Bring the family and enjoy a crafts faire, music, food, dance, drama, and pictures with Santa!

The event will be held on December 7 from 4-8 p.m. at Mt. Pleasant High School, located on 1750 South White Road. Start the Holiday Season meeting and making new friends while sharing the spirit of the season.

Anyone interested in reserving a table to sell crafts is encouraged to contact Rebecca Palmer at: palmerr@esuhsd.org or call (408) 937-2896.

Crafts table reservations are $15 per table. Deadline to reserve a crafts table is December 3rd.

Silver Oak Elementary School presents “Narnia” Dec. 14 and 15
Silver Oak Elementary School will be presenting the play, “Narnia,” based on the Book, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, under the professional direction of California Theatre Center (CTC), a company celebrating its 31st season of theatre entertaining young audiences in the bay area.

This production is funded by the families of Silver Oak Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and Silver Oak Educational Partnership(SOEP), and in addition, is partially sponsored by Mandy McCurdy, realtor with the Kate Davey Team of Silver Creek Valley premier real estate services experts.

Come, support, and enjoy a wondrous night of entertaining from all the children and families of Silver Oak Elementary School in San Jose's Evergreen area.

Performances:

Thursday, Dec 14: Spring Cast – 4:30 p.m. and Winter Cast – 7:00 p.m.

Friday, Dec 15: Winter Cast – 6:00 p.m. and Spring Cast - 8:30 p.m.

Tickets will go on sale to the public beginning Thursday, Nov. 30 at 12:30 p.m. and Friday, Dec. 1 at 2:15 p.m. at Silver Oak Elementary at the flag pole. Sales will continue on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays at 2:15 p.m. until sold out. Cash or checks accepted.

Ticket Pricing: Thursday, Dec. 14, 4:30 p.m. performance: Pavilion $8, Premium $10. All other performances will be: Pavilion $10 and Premium $12.

Mt. Pleasant School District public hearing on Dec. 11
The Mt. Pleasant School District will hold a public hearing on Dec. 11 for the sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials, for the fiscal year 2006/2007, pursuant to Education Code Sections 60119, 60422, including notification that materials are aligned to state standards and adopted by the governing board and a Resolution attesting to the sufficiency of instructional materials. The meeting is to be held in the Mt. Pleasant School District Office Board Room, located at 3434 Marten Avenue, San Jose, CA 95148 at 7 p.m.