Education Briefs
Students win spelling bee
Los Gatos Christian School students Kevin Avanes, Amy Bettencourt, Sophia Chao, Larry Holford, David and Nicole Presley and Grace You won their school's annual spelling bee for their grade levels this spring.
Each year, LGCS students take written and oral tests before competing against other classes in a grade-wide spelling bee.
This year, school officials tested students on both words they had and had not seen.
AAUW selects local winners
The Los Gatos-Saratoga Branch of the American Association of University Women chose Ashley Peterson of C. T. English Middle School to attend Tech Trek, an annual math/science summer camp for seventh-grade girls. Participants were nominated by their science teachers. Tech Trek campers will participate in labs, field trips and stargazing at Stanford University for a week in July.
The Los Gatos-Saratoga Branch also awards annual scholarships to female West Valley College students who study math, science or a related field and will transfer to a four-year college or university the next year. This year's winners are Azita Ahmadi, an electrical engineering major who plans to attend San Jose State University; Elizabeth Kanazawa, an environmental studies major who will transfer to UC-Santa Cruz; and Sharon Ito, who is studying microbiology and will transfer to UC-Santa Cruz or UC-Davis.
Local Harker graduates
Nine high school seniors from Los Gatos and Monte Sereno celebrated a milestone with the rest of their classmates at The Harker School this month, as the Class of 2002 became the first one to graduate Harker's Upper School in Saratoga.
The students from Los Gatos are Alexander Combs, Eric Eguina, Mayuran Nagalingam and Paul Picazo, and the Monte Sereno students are Kimberly Kanada, Anjali Khurana, Daniel Lee, Georgia Manry and Jennifer Yao.
The school decided to add an upper school--grades 9-12--to its K-8 program in 1997. The graduates began attending the school as its first freshman class in 1998.
Nearly one-third of the 89 graduates were recognized in the National Merit program, with 16 named as finalists. All the graduates received acceptances to multiple colleges, including Harvard, Princeton, Duke and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Contact Rebecca Ray at rray@svcn.com with school news.
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