Sobrato High Student Is Appointed Congressional Page
Sara Morimoto, a sophomore at Sobrato High School, has received a congressional appointment to serve as a page in the U.S. House of Representatives this summer in Washington, D.C. Â
Morimoto applied for the program several months ago and recently heard she was selected from the 11th Congressional District as a finalist. Her name was then forwarded to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., for the final selections to be made. More than 440 congressional district candidates were considered but only 77 students were appointed congressional pages. Â
Morimoto left June 8 for Washington, D.C. Morimoto took her final exams early to participate in the program.Â
Morimoto has a 4.33-grade-point average. She plays on the girl’s varsity soccer team and on the boy’s varsity tennis team.
Students Win Competition
Tim Downer’s San Martin/Gwinn Elementary School ‘s fifth graders won a competition about the U.S. Civil War on May 25. The students competed at the Roaring Camp’s annual Civil War Living History days. The event teaches California students such things as gold panning, candle making, bounty hunting, civil war medicine, civil war weapons and mortar fire. Classes were judged by members of the American Civil War Association on participation, spirit and effort. Downer’s class won by singing songs from the civil war, reciting the Gettysburg Address, marching in step and learning and having fun at the same time.
Foreign Teens Need Help
Forte International Exchange Association is looking for families to host high school students from China, Germany, Thailand, Brazil, Taiwan and other countries for the upcoming school year.
The students are between the ages of 15 and 18 and will begin arriving in August to spend either a semester or an entire school year with the host family.
All students are prescreened and speak English. They have medical insurance and their own spending money to cover such things as clothing, school supplies and entertainment.
Families would provide the home, food and a place to study.
Host families can claim a $50-per-month deduction on their income taxes.
All types of families are welcome to host a student.
For more information, contact Keren Shell at 1-888-866-9148 or Carolyn Simmons at 1-888-866-9159.
Charity Gives Scholarship
The Ronald McDonald Charity House has given Morgan Hill resident and Live Oak High School student Maribel Portilla a $1,000 scholarship.
Textbook Input Needed
Morgan Hill Unified School District would like to invite parents and other community members to view and comment upon the advanced placement calculus textbook that is being considered for adoption by the district.
The viewing will be in the District Office, 15600 Concord Circle in the Educational Services Division, 2nd floor, from 8am to 5pm, Monday – Friday, June 1-30.
CMU Students Excel
Central Michigan University students Ahmed and Mahmoud Sultan, both seniors, of Morgan Hill, have earned a 3.5 grade point average during spring semester.
