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Student Salutes
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Two students from Jennifer Oliger's third grade class at Edison Elementary were selected winners in a poetry contest sponsored by Scholastic's Instructor magazine. Daniel Jimenez won the grand prize in the Spanish K-3 category for his poem "Mi adorado abuelito." Cynthia Sanchez was a runner-up in the same category for her poem "Mi guerida abuelito." Their poems will be published in the April issue of Instructor magazine. Daniel's poem is also featured on the magazine's website. Daniel and Cynthia's poems were selected as winners from more than 10,000 poems submitted from all over the country.
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More SDCS budding poets were winners in this year's Border Voices Poetry Fair contest, sponsored by many local, state and national arts and education organizations, along with The San Diego Union-Tribune and San Diego State University College of Arts and Sciences. First place winners included Spreckels Elementary fourth grader Paige Landis (Grades K-5 category); Hawthorne Elementary sixth grader Cristina Cabrera (Grades 6-8 category); and University City High ninth grader Hannah Slater (Grades 9-12 category). Second place winners included Jerabek Elementary fifth grader Erin Byrne and La Jolla High twelfth grader David Wright. Third place winners included Tierrasanta Elementary third grader Natalie Schmidt; Central Elementary sixth grader Alma San Juan; and University City High ninth grader Alec Fernandes. First-place winners in each age group received $100, second-place winners received $75 and third place earned $25. An article about Border Voices and the winners was featured in the March 18 issue of The San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Daniel Hagos, School of Creative and Performing Arts; Hope King, Gompers Secondary School; Briana Lewis, Hoover High School; and Darius Savage, Morse High School, will be presented with Students of Achievement scholarships by Women Incorporated at the organization's 41st Annual Civic Luncheon on Saturday, April 22. The purpose and mission of Women Incorporated, founded in 1965, is to help develop civic programs to meet the needs of our society and to honor women who are making worthwhile contributions as volunteers for the betterment of the community.
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Nia Gipson, a senior at San Diego High Educational Complex-School of International Studies, has been named a recipient of a 2006 National Achievement $2,500 Scholarship. The National Achievement Program, a privately financed, academic competition was established in 1964 specifically to honor scholastically talented Black American youth and to provide scholarships to the most outstanding participants in each annual competition. More than 130,000 students entered the 2006 competition. Nia was one of five students selected in San Diego County to receive this scholarship.
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Angel Munoz, Mayra Chavez, and Erendira Miguel, seniors in the Academy of Information Technology at Hoover High School, won the Grand Prize award in the My City Now Future Filmmaker National Contest, for their documentary "The Painting of a Culture." More than 60 entries representing nine cities in the U.S. were submitted. A panel of three judges chose 13 finalists to be posted on the My City Now website. After a week of online voting, the Hoover students won the national recognition award. Three other Hoover Academy students, Salvador Cardenas, Vanessa Galindo, and Omar Jimenez, were among the top 13 finalists with their documentary entitled, "San Diego's Military; What Will the Future Bring." |
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