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- Written by: Jesse Harrell
On Wednesday, Dec. 19, the Lower Lake Community Action Committee will be hosting its monthly dinner.
As we have for more than 15 years now Carlé will have community service volunteers helping out. This month they will include Mayra Pantoja, Junior Garcia, and Charles Trujillo. All will be serving and cleaning. The students will be led by retired Carlé teacher Verna Rogers.
New this week at Carlé: Several fun activities have been taking place led by Student Council. Events like karaoke, dancing, door/tree decorating and voting for future events have already been held in advisories.
Friday, Dec. 21, will be a half-day at Carlé, and also a fun day. The day hosted by the student council will be filled with friendly competition, more decorating, dancing, watching movies, and much more.
Antoinette Percoats had her portfolio review last week in front of staff and friends. According to staff Miss Percoats did a great job highlighted by a recorded song she performed. We’re all very proud of you and are very happy to see you progress further.
In Alan Siegel’s Civics/Economics class the students are participating in an Econ Game called “On Your Own, Coast to Coast.”
The Econ Game is a life simulator that puts the students into real life situations forcing them to save money and budgeting specifically what they’ll do with said money.
This game is an excellent tool, and has given many a great insight on troubles of adult life. You can choose where to live, to own a car or not, how much money you’ll make, whether to have a roommate and much more.
The most useful tool is the budgeting aspect of the game. While it is the hardest part budgeting is an important financial tool that every student at Carlé should take advantage of and utilize in their real lives.
Finally here is the list of the Gold and Silver level students from the second grading period who are, once again, showing just how successful our students can be. Thanks you guys and girls, keep up the great work by continuing to be fine examples for Carlé.
Gold Level: Timothy McGuire, Kobi Minard, Blossom Neidenbach, Mayra Pantoja, and Lance Thurston.
Silver Level: Cody Beers, Nura Brown, Michael Field, Junior Garcia, Emilio Gonzales, Ray Green, Josh Kennedy, Jessie Mason, Antoinette Percoats, Roxie Purdum-White, Antonia Rosiles, and Rosie Wright-Trejo.
Jesse Harrell attends Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. – The newest member of Mendocino College’s counseling department provides general academic counseling with a special emphasis in American Indian outreach.
Guillermo Garcia was hired six months ago.
He fell in love with community college education when he was a student himself.
“I went to community college, a counselor inspired me about education, and I saw what education could do for somebody,” he said.
Garcia worked previously at Long Beach City College, doing outreach and financial aid counseling.
“It’s been a really smooth transition,” he said of the change. “The community is really welcoming, staff and faculty have been really great.”
He now works Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on the Ukiah campus, while Tuesdays and Thursdays he is at the college’s Lake Center in Lakeport.
“He’s a bundle of energy,” according to college Interim President/Superintendent Roe Darnell.
That energy is helpful this time of the academic year, as students are finishing up their fall classes while also registering for the spring semester, which starts Jan. 22.
Garcia was attracted to the counseling position at Mendocino College because he appreciates the natural beauty of the area, and the natural fit of the population with which he would be working. “I’ve always wanted to work with Native American youth, and this is a great place to do it.”
Being a first-generation college student is a common challenge for both the American Indian and Latino populations in our area, Garcia said, and this can mean growing up with a lack of access to information and encouragement.
“Parents may not understand the importance of education, or they may simply not be aware of what’s out there. Many times parents may encourage ‘work, work, work’ first, before education, but right now it’s the other way around. Get your education first, and then go ahead and get yourself a fruitful career,” he advised.
Another barrier to college education may be a high school experience that wasn’t rewarding. This is where Garcia hopes to intervene.
“I think there’s a big disconnect there,” he said. “As an outreach counselor, I like to get students engaged with how higher education can be different from the high school experience.”
Summer bridge programs are a great way for students to begin their higher education and improve their math and English skills if they need some help getting up to speed.
One example of such a program is the Summer Math Institute, offered by the college’s Math, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) program.
This resource is useful for a variety of students, Garcia said, including “students from high school, adult reentry students, and everyone in between.”
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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Are you Lego Smart? Sixteen teachers from Lake and Mendocino counties are.
They attended an all-day training on Saturday, Dec. 8, to learn about the Lego Mindstorm NXT system.
Thanks to the generosity of a SB70 grant from Mendocino College, the Lake County Office of Education Career Technical Education Department was able to purchase 24 robots, curriculum and software licenses to split between the two counties.
The kits will become a mobile lab that teachers who attended the free training can check out and utilize in their classrooms.
Teachers who attended the training are encouraged to teach other teachers so that they too may utilize the lab. All schools teaching grades 7-12 were encouraged to send a teacher.
Participating Lake County schools included Lucerne Elementary, Burns Valley Elementary, Lower Lake Elementary, Lower Lake High, Middletown Middle, Kelseyville High and Terrace Middle School.
The workshop was led by Lego Instructor Greg Intermaggio at the Lloyd P. Hance School in Kelseyville. Student volunteers Nate Falkenberg, Cord Falkenberg and Eduardo Alatorre were on hand to help the staff and serve as workshop participants.
Lego Mindstorms combines the versatility of the Lego building system with all-new technologies, an intelligent microcomputer brick and intuitive drag-and-drop programming software.
The Green City Challenge Kit is a step-by-step introduction to robotics in the classroom. Students are then challenged to apply their programming and problem-solving skills by making their robots solve real-world engineering challenges related to renewable energy.
The mobile labs can be used for middle and high schools and comes with a variety of curriculum tied to the California State Standards. It provides cross-curricular opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math.
Some Lake County students are already familiar with the robots.
Barbara MnIntyre from the Taylor Observatory volunteers as a coach for a county wide team of students who recently competed in a US First Lego League competition.
During the 2011-12 school year, Lower Lake Elementary teachers Jeannine Fanning and Sharon Vizena coached a group of 14 students, who went on to become the first Lake County participants in the Sonoma County Robotics Challenge, hosted by the Sonoma County Office of Education.
The team met on Fridays after school to develop an understanding of the Lego Mindstorm kits while refining their designing, building and programming skills.
The effort will continue in the 2012-13 school year with a team at Lower Lake Elementary and another at Burns Valley schools with plans for further expansion in the near future.
For more information about the mobile lab or the Lego Robotic competitions, contact Barbara McIntyre at 707-972-1905 or
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Burns Valley Elementary has released its Principal’s List and Honor Roll for the first trimester of the 2012-2013 school year.
The school congratulated the fourth through eighth grade students who were honored at an assembly for their achievements on Friday, Nov. 30 They also were treated to an afternoon movie and popcorn party.
Principal’s List (4.5-5.0 GPA): Jaqueline Galvan, Willie Alderson, Mary Nguyen, Jared Meek, Jenny Landeta, Lyzet Montanez, Edsel Robles, Dominic Sabala and Dennys Vaquero.
Honor Roll (4.0-4.49 GPA): Nikolas Dickson, Rebecca Chavez, Estefania Chavez, Hailey Trejo, Zoe Sanders, Alexander Landeta, Kyle Richardson, Destynee Mittelstedt, Jade Berrard, JJ Cushman, Sydney Pells, Devan Dawson, Eric Espinoza, Lilliana Garcia, Nellie Ramsey, April Fernandez, Alexandria Fielden, Priscilla Ramirez, Samantha Strowbridge, Amy Sweeden, Xavante Wonderwheel, Kasey DeWalt, Emmet Blunt, Raudel Castaneda, Carlos Avelar, David Bejar, DeAnna Lambert, Lenny Landeta, Brian Hernandez, Nistha Waland, Daniel Seawater, Corbin Penny and Ashley Fields.