Cy Passley, a graduate of Carlé, is bringing his band “Typical Situation” to Carlé to talk with students about what it takes to make it in the music industry. Passley is a graduate from the Music Institute and will be playing with his band as well as talking with Carlé students. This will be very helpful because many of the students here are very talented in music and have plans to enter the music industry.

Erika Streckfuss and Paul Silsby sent a letter and video to the White House. If their submission is picked, president Barack Obama would come to Carlé's graduation and deliver a speech. This is a national competition that any school can enter and the two have been working very hard to put together a video and application.

“We took on the project because we thought it would be a unique and inventive experience for graduation. It was great to see Superintendent Bill MacDougall getting involved with the video we sent in, and the student body's interest in this project. It was fun!,” said Erika Streckfuss and Paul Silsby.

Our flag competition came to an end, and we had 20 winners. Each was unique and very well done. The flags will be flown through April from the ramparts of the school and each student will be able to take their flags home to keep.

The next and final contest of the year will be a t-shirt design contest with the theme tying in some way to Carlé. At the end we will have 20 unique t-shirts promoting the various activities that take place at this school.

Big thanks go out to Stefani Conner who came up with the idea to make sweatshirts for all the seniors this year. Jessie Eubanks was the main artist and Stefani came up with the design. The front displays “Carlé Seniors” and the back shows “Carlé – 2010” and has each of the senior's signatures. The sweaters will be made by Perfect Printers T-shirt shop and they will be sold for $26 each.

On March 25, Sandy Jones and Kinesha Wilson presented their graduate portfolios.

The CAHSEE test was held on March 16 and 17 in the library, this time for our juniors and seniors. We wish them all luck on this exam!

The WASC review team will be at Carlé as this goes to print. Mr. Donald Raynard (chair), Ms. Aubin Giampaoli (member) and Ms. Carmella Della Pia are all coming to review Carlé for accreditation. They can give us anywhere from a one- to six-year accreditation.

Our student of the week was Amanda Gamble. Among other things, Amanda is a gardener for Angie Siegel. Amanda is a great student who now firmly has her eyes set on graduation. Congratulations, Amanda.

Odyssey of the Mind is going to the state competition in Brentwood on March 27. They will be first to perform out of about 8 teams selected. All of Carlé are very proud of their hard work.

Last but not least, we have Tonya Smith, Chelle Pery-Alden, Michelle Larue and Shelby Saldana who are becoming docents for the Children's Museum of Art and Science (CMAS), this means they will become trail leaders for nature walks that go on at Anderson Marsh. Billy Gear will be training them at the historic site.

Andrea McMullen is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake.