There is frequently so much good news to share at EHS, we have decided to start a new feature celebrating just that! (Updated on May 14th).
The EHS Track Team had great success at the BSAL Finals this past weekend. Coached by Derrick Lyons, the following students qualified for North Coast: April Cunningham (shot & discuss), Dalila Stanfield (long jump & 400), Brianne Taylor (long jump), Alice Nguyen (long jump), Layla Stebbins (long jump), Galen Evans (long jump), Chyna Motte (400), Tyrel Carrigan (100), Nia Aiken (200), Blake Capper (3200), and the Men's 4X400 Team and the Women's 4x100 team and 4x400 team. Go Jets!!!!
Freshman Armando Negrete was accepted in to the SMASH (Summer Math & Science Honors Academy) at UC Berkeley. SMASH is a part of the LPI (Level Playing Fiekl Institute). He will get a chance to live on campus for five weeks and will take science and math classes with other SMASH Scholars. This is a highly competitive program and we are so proud of Armando! We are wishing him the best at Cal this summer!
Junior Deja Lyons won first place in the grades 9-12 Alameda MultiCultural Community Center's Annual Poetry Contest. Her poem was entitiled, "My Emotions Captured." Great job Deja...way to represent the Jets!
Encinal students recently participated and competed in the 2011-2012 DECA International Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. This conference hosted about 14,000 DECA students from around the world. The students representing Encinal High School were: Deborah Yu, Kelly McCormick, Hannah Selhorst, Ling Yee Wong, Emani Pollard. Kelly McCormick placed and currently ranks in the TOP 10 in Hotel Lodging. This hasn’t been accomplished in about 10 years, and it has only happened about 3 times since DECA has been established here at Encincal (1989). The DECA Team is coached by Mr. Derreck Lyons. Congratulations to the entire DECA Program, but especially this group of young ladies and their advisor!
Wayne Ng has won the prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarhship!!! This scholarship will fund Wayne's under-graduate and graduate school education. We are so happy for Wayne!
Ruby Wagner finished first and Alexandra Barajas finished second winning cash prizes in the Season of Non Violence speech competition held at the Alameda Library on Saturday afternoon, April 14. This competition, which honors the lives and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and Cesar Chavez, was open to all teens 9-12 in Alameda, and featured incredible and moving speeches given by Alameda teens who each were required to speak on the theme of "Unity through Community.". The text of Ruby's award- winning speech will be published in Teenzine Magazine. Brian Rodriguez coached both contestants. Congratulations Ruby & Alexandra.
Encinal seniors have been busy opening envelopes with good news in them...college acceptances! EHS seniors have been accepted to the following schools (that we are aware of): University of Virginia, University of Michigan, University of Vermont, University of New Hampshire, Unversity of Oregon, University of Colorado, University of Houston, University of Massachusetts, Indiana University, Arizona State, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, UC Merced, UC Riverside, Chico State, Fresno State, CSU Humboldt, CSU Esst Bay, SF State, Long Beach State, San Diego State, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly Pomona, San Jose State, Sac State, Boise State, Colorado State, Alabama A&M, Florida A&M, Xavier, Dillard, Bethune Cookman University, Bennett College, Stephens, Long Island Brooklyn, Texas Southern, Hofstra, Clark Atlanta University, Barnard, Vassar, Wesleyan, USC, NYU, Brown, Occidental, DePaul, Sweet Briar College, Amherst, Swarthmore, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Macalester and Harvard.
Other news will be forthcoming re: the Class of 2012 post-secondary plans! Go Jets!
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