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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
DR. GARY PRITCHARD
President
JOHN M. ALPAY
Vice President
LYNN HATTON
Clerk
ELLEN M. ADDONIZIO
JACK R. BRICK
ANNA BRYSON
SUE PALAZZO
SUPERINTENDENT
JOSEPH M. FARLEY, Ed. D.
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Soccer Players Earn State Honors
Several Earn Major Awards
After winning the Southern California Regional Championship and a No. 1 National Ranking, the awards keep rolling in for the Aliso Niguel High School girls soccer team. Senior goalkeeper Sammy Prud’homme was named the All-CIF Southern Section Player of the Year and Coach Randy Dodge was named the All-CIF Southern Section Coach of the Year. Prud’homme and Dodge led the Wolverines to a national No. 1 ranking and the SoCal regional title. In addition, three other Wolverines were selected to the All-CIF Southern Section First Team. They are: Seniors Lauren Benner and Ashley McCutcheon, and freshman Sarah Roberts. San Clemente High School seniors Sheridan Hapsic and Marlee Carrillo and sophomore Nikki Farris were also selected.-more-
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PTSA Hosts Parent Ed Workshop
Class to Discuss Art Education
The Capistrano Unified Council of PTSAs will host a parent education seminar on the subject of arts education. The workshop, titled, “Keeping Creativity and Imagination in the Classroom,” will be held on Tuesday, April 17 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sarah Burr, community investor, art and culture for Boeing Company, Pat Wayne, deputy director of Arts Orange County, and Jim Thomas, coordinator for Visual and Performing Arts for the Orange County Department of Education are the panelists. It will take place in the Board Room at the District Education Center, 33122 Valle Road, San Juan Capistrano.
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District Briefs
News from Around the Capistrano Unified School District
Six District students were recently recognized by the Mission Viejo Kiwanis Club for their academic achievement during the winter quarter. Honored students from Capistrano Valley High School were Aria Daneshvar, Meagan Shinbashi, and Mark Neumiller. Students honored from Tesoro High School were Alexandra Ivanov, Angela Compania, and Laura Liegler. … Dana Hills High School’s South Orange County School of the Arts (SOCSA) held its ninth annual Opera Gala on Sunday night at the Soka Performing Arts Center. All proceeds from the event go to support the SOCSA program. … The District has reopened its search for a person to fill the Deputy Superintendent, Business and Support Services position.
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AP Biology Students Author Rockfish DNA Barcodes
Hand-on Learning Helps Build Genetic Database
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SJHHS AP Biology students authored DNA barcodes for three species of rockfish.
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Students in the Advanced Placement Biology class at San Juan Hills High School will be named authors of the DNA barcodes for three species of rockfish, thanks to the time they spent editing DNA sequences last weekend. The 10 students in Debbie Miyamoto’s AP Biology class spent four hours at Coastal Marine Biolabs in Ventura editing DNA sequences from rockfish as part of their participation in the International Barcode of Life Project. For three weeks in January, the whole class took part in a program designed by the scientists at Coastal Marine Biolabs to barcode rockfish from Channel Islands National Park. A DNA barcode is a short sequence of DNA that is used as a unique identifier for a particular animal. These students worked with 20 tissue samples from three species of rockfish. Using the same molecular techniques currently used in research labs around the world, the students extracted the DNA, and then used polymerase chain reaction to make a billion copies of the bar-coding gene for each fish. The students then purified the gene and sent the DNA back to Coastal Marine Biolabs to be sequenced. On Saturday, March 24, the students edited the sequences to prepare them for upload to the Barcode of Life Database. These students will be listed as the authors of the barcodes for three species of rockfish. The Coastal Marine Biolabs program is the only one in the world that involves high schools students in solving a real world problem of building a digital genetic registry of every organism on Earth. The data stored in the databank will be valuable to the research community and the public in dealing with global problems of maintaining Earth’s biodiversity and conservation of habitats.
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Board Saves District $893,000
Retirement Incentive Helps Balance 2012-2013 Budget
The Board of Trustees this week saved $893,000 out of the 2012-2013 budget by approving a retirement incentive for 158 teachers. The savings is just one of several steps that will need to be taken in order to close an estimated $31 million to $51 million budget deficit for the 2012-2013 school year. The retirement incentive will pay the employees 85 percent of their final year’s salary over a minimum of five years. The savings is realized by replacing them with employees who are lower on the salary scale. Over five years, the District will see at least $2.8 million in savings.
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San Clemente HS Dancers Capture Three State Titles
Team Prepares for Nationals in Anaheim
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The San Clemente HS Dance Team roped itself three state titles.
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Neither wind nor rain, nor some of the top high school dance teams in the State of California could stop San Clemente High School from capturing state titles in three events at the California Association of Dance/Drill Team Directors State Championship in Fullerton. The SCHS Dance Team was named State Champions in Intermediate Dance, Medium Lyrical, and Character, and State Runner-Up in Hip Hop and Large Lyrical. This marks the best results by an SCHS dance team at the state level to date. Most notable and encouraging are the first place finishes Intermediate Dance and Large Lyrical, finishing ahead of last year’s National Champion in those categories-Westview High School from San Diego. “Many of the spectators are not only impressed with the quality of our dancers, but with the variety of talents displayed. We go from tough, almost scary characters in pink wigs during Hip Hop (“Talking Tina”), to buck-teethed hillbillies in Character (“Yee Haw”), to elegant dancers in Medium Lyrical (“Beautiful Things”). It’s a credit both to the girls’ abilities as well as the creative choreography of Kaely, McPhee, Hartley Adams, Kelly Devine, and Tim Stevenson,” Dance Team advisor Mike Conlon said. The team is peaking at the right time, headed to the USA (United Spirit Association) Nationals, March 30 and 31 at the Anaheim Convention Center.
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The Aliso Niguel HS String Orchestra won a Gold Award at the New York International Music Festival.
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Aliso Niguel HS Orchestra Wins Award at Carnegie Hall
Students Perform at International Music Festival
Earlier this month, 75 students from the Aliso Niguel High School string orchestra participated in the New York International Music Festival, a four-day event culminating in their performance on stage at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, March 20. They were the only ensemble that evening to receive a gold award, the highest possible award of the festival.
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SJHHS Senior Wins Fashion Competition, Scholarship
Student to Compete for National Design Award
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San Juan Hills HS senior Brionna Summer Voytovich won first place in a fashion design contest. Photo appeared in the Orange County Register.
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San Juan Hills High School senior Brionna Summer Voytovich recently won first place in The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition at The Art Institute of California – Orange County in the Fashion Design category. Voytovich earned a $3,000 tuition scholarship to study Fashion Design. In addition to her tuition scholarships, Voytovich will progress to the national round of The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition where her entry will be judged against other local winners from throughout North America for the Competition’s grand prize: a half-tuition scholarship to an Art Institutes school, and a VIP trip to New York City to include a “meet and greet” at Seventeen’s New York City offices, lunch, a $500 shopping spree at DKNY with a Seventeen Style Pro, and a $500 gift card to shop anywhere in the Big Apple. In the Fashion Design category, entrants were asked to create innovative and wearable evening wear designs. Voytovich says, “I really want to be able to explore all of the different avenues in the fashion industry in order to find the perfect fit for me.”-more-
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