Tracy High School Junior Jasmyne Sermeno won the Area 3 American Legion Oratorical Contest on Feb. 21 at the Modesto City Council. She won a $400 scholarship and a chance to compete in the Legion’s state finals, which will be Feb. 28 in Modesto.
WHS student wins job interview contest
West High sophomore Kristina Teese won the Novice Delta-Cal Sectional FFA Job Interview Contest on Jan. 27 at Lodi High School. Her sister, West sophomore Megan Teese, placed fifth.
During the job interview contest, students learn how to prepare a resume, cover letter, job application and interview. Students are then judged on all the items and rated based on who did the best overall and would have received the job in a real-life situation. Students from 15 schools participated in the contest.
Megan is currently the West High FFA chapter vice president, and Kristina is the chapter reporter. Both students are chairpersons for the chapter’s scrapbook and fair animals committee. Monte Vista students complete computer program
Monte Vista Middle School seventh-grader Hayden Jackson and eighth-graders D’Andre Witherspoon, Navjot Riyat, Anthony Bell, Ruben Ceja and Jacob Glover were the first students to finish the Youth Builder Program, which teaches kids how to assemble a computer and how each component works.
The program is offered by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Tracy and Uneed2, a local nonprofit, and is designed to provide an opportunity for kids to build pride, leadership, self-esteem and self-respect.
The students received a refurbished computer they re-built themselves after finishing the program. Delta students shine at speech contest
Delta Charter High School students Melissa Pacheco, Hannah Rodriguez and Jessica Smith placed first, third and sixth in Dramatic Interpretation at the Yosemite Forensic League speech and debate tournament last month.
Delta was the only school that represented Tracy in the competition.
The Yosemite Forensic League, affiliated with the California High School Speech Association, supports and promotes oral communication education through sponsorship of speech and debate competitions open to any high school in the Central Valley. Teacher talks climate change
Tracy High School physics and biology teacher Dean Reese lectured about climate changes and the carbon cycle at Bankhead Theater in Livermore on Feb. 20.
The lecture, “Understanding Climate Change: Seeing the Carbon Through the Trees,” was a part of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory “Science on Saturday” series, which is geared toward middle and high school science teachers and students. Scientists from the Livermore laboratory partner with science teachers and relate basic scientific principles to research done at the lab.
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