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Outdoor School destroyed by 2017 Whittier Fire reopening for 2024-2025 school year
The Outdoor School near Camp Rancho Alegre, once burnt down by the 2017 Whittier Fire, is set to reopen for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year. The post Outdoor School destroyed by 2017 Whittier Fire reopening for 2024-2025 school year appeared first on News Channel 3-12.
Santa Barbara High Schoolers Are Speaking Up About What’s Bringing Them Down
Ever since the pandemic, teenagers are finding themselves in the center of the United States’ self-diagnosed mental health crisis. The stereotypical angst and cynicism associated with their age group is becoming a real problem — a recent study from UC Santa Barbara, for example, found that teens’ social well-being plummeted during the pandemic and has not recovered.
College-bound Seniors Commended for Taking That Next Big Step
Nearly 100 Pioneer Valley High School (PVHS) seniors were honored recently for their decision to pursue higher education at four-year institutions. At the event, students were called to the outside stage by the name of the school they are planning to attend. The students then announced their name and intended study major, and signed a letter of intent.
Kiwanis Club Awards 11 Scholarships
The Kiwanis Club of Santa Barbara Foundation awarded scholarships to 11 local graduating seniors during its annual awards dinner May 14 at the Carriage Museum. The awardees were Mayleen Montes De Leon, Gianna Stump, Amanda Sanchez Moctezuma, Lindsey Rios, Valeria Tiburcio Romo, Edward Perez, Natalie Martinez, Citlali Ibarra Torres, Alejandra Lira, Victor Rendon and Sandra Najera.
Mario T. García: A Lifetime of Achievement in Chicano/a History
This article was originally published in UCSB’s ‘The Current‘. For his body of work in history that has inspired progressive social change as it advanced the inclusion of the poor and oppressed, this year’s Bert Corona Lifetime Achievement Award honors Mario T. García, a distinguished professor of Chicano/a studies and history at UC Santa Barbara.
Robert Sulnick: Santa Barbara School District Needs Climate Change Curriculum
The Santa Barbara Unified School District has an impressive history of responding to climate change. It should add curriculum upgrades that educate its students on the facts that climate change is caused by fossil fuel emissions; is global; and the consequences of the climate having gone over the 1.5c tipping point.
GoGaucho maximizes student access, efficiency
The Associated Students Office of the Student Advocate General and a group of engineering students at UC Santa Barbara have joined forces in revitalizing a functioning mobile and web application. GoGaucho intends to be a “one-stop-shop” for all UCSB student engagement. The app includes features such as academic...
Open Books Project Works to Instill Love of Literacy in Young Students
The Open Books Project, a literacy initiative of the Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF), has distributed 5,500 new books to transitional kindergarten (TK) through third-grade students in 12 elementary schools in the Santa Barbara Unified School District. The Open Books Project is designed to foster a love of reading among...
Peabody Charter School is Overall Winner at Track and Field Meet
Elementary students from Roosevelt, Peabody Charter, Adams, Cleveland, Washington, Harding, Monroe, Franklin, McKinley, and Cold Spring schools participated in the 11th annual All Santa Barbara and Montecito Schools Track and Field Meet May 24 at Westmont College. Peabody Charter School emerged as the overall meet champion, followed by Roosevelt, Washington,...
Three Alumni Earn Fulbright Awards
Three Westmont alumni, Kenna Brase (‘22), Simeon Michelson (‘24), and Elizabeth Potter (‘22) have won prestigious Fulbright Scholarships to teach English outside the United States. Brase will serve in Turkey, Michelson in Azerbaijan, and Potter in Thailand. For Brase, the trip to Turkey is coming to fruition...
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