By Jason KUROSU NASA’s Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars (or WISH) program selected 84 female high school juniors from across the country to take part in an intensive two-week program this June and July. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and the WISH program is geared towards young women interested in […]
By Misty DUPLESSIS For most of her life you might say that Girl Scout Kate Linkchorst has had her head in the clouds – or at the very least, among the stars. Linkchorst’s father Fred is an aerospace engineer and early on the Girl Scout discovered her own fondness for gazing at the heavenly bodies. […]
The American Academic Competition Institute (AACI) released the results of the Inaugural National High School Sports Medicine Championships that took place on May 21. AACI’s goal is to give students from across the nation an opportunity to excel in their chosen areas of study through online competition and testing. To achieve this, AACI developed the […]
A group of students from Crescenta Valley High School recently conducted a survey regarding gender prejudice. The students – Philip Song, Jocelyn Chia, Kayleigh Carrillo, Marcus Monterroso, and Zoey Marroquin – wanted to spread awareness of gender prejudice to increase recognition of situations in which it is prevalent, and possibly help prevent it. They asked […]
Valley View principal Carla Walker had a unique way of congratulating the first grade students in Holly Woodward’s class who reached or surpassed their accelerated reader goals – she kissed a pig. This year the students chose a balloon launch for their reward if they achieved the first grade benchmark, and asked if their principal […]
Valley View Alexis Abboud Anthony An Jacqueline Armenian Jennifer Bae James Baek Talin Bakalyan Kevin Bedrosian Kristen Cassel Joel Chang Esther Chin Yena Cho Chris Choi Mina Choi Won Suk Choi Yena Chung Eric Cleenewerck Sylvie Damargi Natalie Di Nicola Jacob Eichensehr Nathan Eichensehr Diego Enslow Robert Gallarza Isabela Gallegos Justin Galvan Susan Gasparyan Kiya […]
By Misty DUPLSSIS On Friday, June 1 the fourth grade students of Valley View Elementary wrapped up this year’s social studies lesson on California’s history by participating in a daylong reenactment of what life was like for early California miners. The fourth graders began the year learning about Native Americans, the state’s early settlers, California […]
The CCY Dynamite Gymnastics Team recently brought home its first state championship banner in the history of the Crescenta-Cañada Family YMCA. The California State Gymnastics Competition was held on May 19 and May 20 and featured teams from Los Angeles, the Inland Empire and Orange County. The Y’s team is composed of 17 girls between […]
La Crescenta Girl Scout Elizabeth Hakes ended her senior Scouting career with a Gold Award project that started in Los Angeles and ended in Nairobi, Kenya. Elizabeth’s project assisted many young African women in understanding their menstrual cycle by bringing and teaching them how to use cloth feminine sanitary kits, thereby enabling these young women […]