Staff Bulletin: Student Salutes, April 21, 2004

April 21, 2004

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Student Salutes
•	CTA Students Present to American Subcontractors Association and CSI Construction Tech Academy (CTA) students Brianna Boling and Allister Caluza were chosen to present term projects to the American Subcontractors Association and CSI during a joint chapter meeting. They also assisted CTA Director Glenn Hillegas in a presentation of Construction Tech Academy, a small school at Kearny High School that focuses on Engineering, Construction and Architecture. Brianna and Allister are pictured here with the American Subcontractors Association's Executive Director Lisza Pontes (left) and 2004 President Kim Clark (right).
•	Marshall and Crawford Students Win Top Science Honors Last month, 40 students from Marshall Middle School and 8 from Crawford High School attended and presented their science projects at the 50th Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair at Balboa Park. These projects were developed over a 5-month period and required an extensive commitment of time from all of the students involved. All of this hard work certainly paid off. First place awards were given to 15 Marshall students, and 10 will be competing at the State Science Fair to be held at the University of Southern California in May. Also, Thanh Phamdo from Crawford won first place in microbiology. A full list of the winners appears below. First place winners at Marshall included Romy Boiskin, Rachel Brown, Jeremy Hahn, Tyler Heckendom, Kristina Leung, Jared Mimms, Anna Nowak, Jeremy Patashnik, Nicole Poletto, Lindsey Ritter, Bobby Schult, Krystal Tran, Katie Troja, Lindsey Wrape, and Ben Wu. Second place winners included Matt Adler, Shane Bissonette, Brendan Edwards, Spencer Gordon, Annie Hammang, Marcus Montanile, Stephanie Moore, Christine Poletto, Marissa Rea, Donna Reyes, Timothy Shin, Heather Snow, and Alexander Tanzer. Third place winners included Kevin Barber, Adria Brieck, Andrew Burke, Michelle Gaynor, Anna Maske, Natalie Sawaya, Kyle Toups, Chad Whiteley, and Angela Yue. Fourth place winners were Margot Gandy, Christopher Phillpott, and Jordan Rick. Two Marshall students also won sweepstakes awards. Rachel Brown was the winner in physics, and Nicole Poletto was the runner-up in Life Science. At Crawford, Sihu Lin and Ngoc Truong won second place in medicine and health, Angela Calderon and Rusa Tong won third place awards for medicine and health, Karin Tran and Sherry Tang won third place in botany, and as stated above, Thanh Phamdo from Crawford received first place in microbiology. Hang Pham and Dangthanh Phamdo from Crawford also participated in the Science Fair. Crawford would like to thank the science department, Gear-Up, former Crawford Student Arturo Torres, and the help of Dr. Park Trefs from UCSD's CHUM program.
•	Mini Mural Project at Taft Explores Truth about Alcohol and Tobacco In March, Taft Middle School Club Live members Kevin Wynne, Sam Merrill and Sean Merrill entered the 7th annual "Arts Reflecting Prevention" Mini Mural Contest. The contest, which included a guest speaker, was designed to increase awareness of the misleading messages the media gives youth regarding alcohol and tobacco. Entrants created a mini mural that portrayed the truth about alcohol or cigarette use and attended an awards ceremony in January. Thanks to STAR/PAL for co-sponsoring the contest with the Club Live partnership through the San Diego County Office of Education.
•	Mira Mesa Wrestler Wins County Championships Mira Mesa High School student, Ken Nguyen won the County Freshman Championships for wrestling last month at 105 lbs.
•	SDEA Recognizes Read Across America Student Hosts Students from Mira Mesa High School were awarded with $300 from SDEA for their outstanding efforts hosting Mason Elementary School during "Read Across America" in March.
•	Student Poll Workers Earn Money for SDCS During the Student Poll Workers Program on March 2, sponsored by the Registrar of Voters, 131 seniors from 10 San Diego City high schools volunteered as poll workers for the Presidential Primary Elections. Normally, poll workers receive a stipend for working at the polls. However, because the students participated as part of a service learning project, money earned was donated by the Registrar of Voters to each participating school's ASB for senior class activities. The students each worked a total of 15 hours and earned $8,365.00 for their schools. Congratulations to Clairemont, Henry, La Jolla, Madison, Mira Mesa, Mission Bay, Morse, Scripps Ranch, Serra and University City high schools and thank you to the seniors. For more information about the Student Poll Worker Program and to learn how students can participate in the November elections, please contact Nancy Hemmings in the Community Relations Department at (619) 725-5597 or nhemming@mail.sandi.net.

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