A Baldwin Park Unified high school senior who dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon and eight other exceptional seniors received $10,000 in scholarships on May 10 from Baldwin Park Unified administrators, teachers and community supporters. The top honor at the Joint Scholarship Ceremony went to Alana Resendez, a bilingual student at Sierra Vista High School who has been inspired to study medicine by her mother’s battle against a neurological disease. Resendez received a $5,000 prize from the Ramona Burnham Scholarship Foundation.
Carlos Ortiz, a senior at Baldwin Park Unified's Sierra Vista High School, is one of 300 U.S. high school students chosen for the inaugural Gates Scholarship. Ortiz says his appreciation for his parents’ sacrifices drives his desire to succeed. Ortiz earned a perfect 4.0 GPA (4.47 weighted), took 10 Advanced Placement classes and four honors courses and won acceptance to UC Berkeley.
Alejandro Flores, a senior at Baldwin Park Unified's Sierra Vista High School, will study business at Cal State University, Fullerton with the aid of a $20,000 Dell Foundation scholarship, which includes a laptop and other support services.
Baldwin Park Unified’s Walnut Elementary School will host families at 5 p.m. Friday, May 11 for “Nuestras Raíces,” a celebration of the school’s Dual Language program through songs and dances. The event will conclude with all students presenting flowers to their families while “The World Es Mi Familia” plays in the background. Walnut Elementary School is at 4701 Walnut St., Baldwin Park.
Students from Baldwin Park Unified’s 13 elementary schools will walk and bike to school from 7 to 8 a.m. Thursday, May 10 to raise awareness of the need to create safer routes for walking and bicycling and to emphasize the importance of issues such as increasing physical activity among children, pedestrian safety, traffic congestion and concern for the environment. The event is a collaboration between the District, the City of Baldwin Park and Bike San Gabriel Valley. The event is designed to build connections between families, schools and the broader community. Students will be eligible to win opportunity drawing prizes that include LED lights and helmets. For information on Bike SGV, contact Monica Curiel at monica@bikeSGV.org or 909-764-8737 or go to bikesgv.org or www.saferoutesinfo.org.
Baldwin Park Unified and Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center will hold a year-end celebration at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 10 for their award-winning Nutrition in the Garden partnership, which teaches elementary students the value of healthy eating. The program received a 2017 Golden Bell from the California School Boards Association. More than 160 fourth-graders took part in the program, planting seeds in the Baldwin Park Community Garden, tending them throughout the year, harvesting the produce and creating meals to share with their families. About 80 students along with instructors, parents, school and Kaiser Permanente officials will attend the event, which will feature a meal made and served by students from garden produce. The event will be at the community garden, 13067 Bess Ave., Baldwin Park.
L.A. Board of Supervisors Honors Baldwin Park Unified Robotics Team
Holland Middle School’s robotics team, which won the Teamwork Award at the VEX Robotics World Championships in Kentucky in April, was honored by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on May 1. The team is in its first year of competing and secured a spot at the World Championships with a come-from-behind second-place finish in the California finals. Photos are available. Photos are available.
Baldwin Park Unified’s Adult and Community Education program lauded more than 190 graduates of its academic and career technical training programs during commencement exercises held May 24 at Baldwin Park High School. The festive event included the National Anthem performed by the Baldwin Park High School band and speeches by valedictorian Tarah Zharny Abregana Amor and salutatorian Lourdes Suastegui Melchor, as well as the awarding of scholarships
Students from Baldwin Park Unified’s Sierra Vista Junior High and DeAnza and Tracy elementary schools are growing stronger emotionally and physically through Girls on the Run, which meshes running with social-emotional learning.
Students at Baldwin Park Unified high schools are learning ways to strengthen understanding of mental health issues as part of an emerging mental health career pathway to be launched in the 2018-19 school year. Baldwin Park and Sierra Vista high schools already offer courses in psychology, including Advanced Placement Psychology, and are home to National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) clubs. The pathway is expected to include a new course in sociology and existing courses in psychology.
