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Student
Salutes
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Students
at Bell Junior High are dedicating themselves to raising
awareness about the issues of suicide prevention, homelessness
and hunger for their National Youth Service Day (NYSD)
project. NYSD, being held the weekend of April 11-13, focuses
national attention on youth volunteerism. Students representing
Bell's Club Live, a peer program designed to build partnerships
for positive and healthy youth development, and the Associated
Student Body will sponsor a Homelessness and Teen Suicide
Prevention Rally. The rally will include guest speakers
and class groups will be able to sign up for specific presentations. |
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Mission Bay High School student Bow Chinnapong was featured
in the March 30 issue of "Parade" in the "Fresh
Voices" column focusing on volunteerism and National Youth
Service Day. Bow began volunteering in 7th grade, spearheading
an after-school trash clean-up program. Bow says for this year's
NYSD, she'll spend the day asking senior citizens to tell stories
from their past. Then she and her co-volunteers will make a
book for them with all their memories. To learn more about this
year's National Youth Service Day, visit the Save
the Date column or visit the National
Youth Service Day website. |
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E.B.
Scripps Elementary student Zachary Haist will soon be a
published poet. Zachary and his fellow students in Mr. Shobar's
class had participated in a program designed to promote creative
expression among young people by submitting entries for publication
in the 2003 edition of the Anthology of Poetry by Young
Americans. Zachary's was accepted for publication. |
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The
La Jolla High School Mock Trial team placed 1st in the
Regional Competition. They beat Carlsbad High School and will
move to the state competition at the end of the month. Student
participants include Robert Rose, Suzy Price, Tim Hughes,
Lauren Behr, Christian Ewton, Noa Simchoni, John Lee, Jacob
King, Nicole Landguth, John Keller O'Hara, Arjun Lall, Max Waggoner,
Kate Wegrzyn, Nick Oswald, Kevin Zeidler, Ann Gnanaratnem, Hannah
Laiken and Peter Borgstrom. |
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La
Jolla's Speech and Debate team captured 2nd place overall
in the State Qualifying Tournaments. Students who will be moving
on to the State Tournament in May include Matt Bohrer, Justin
Glavis-Bloom, Ashley Fox, Dariush Nothaft, David Popkin, Eric
Sefton, Michael Shih, Hilary Strong, Matt Valjii and Albert
Wu. Justin also received the Speaker of the Tournament award
for being a finalist in all four events he entered. |
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Fellow
Vikings Harish Khadrika, Ryan Keane and Alex
Kritchevsky were named winners of the Exploravision Western
Regional competition. Now they compete for $10,000 each in the
national competition. |
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