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Live Oak High School student Sarah Ann Leal recently placed fifth in Public Speaking at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Bay Section Leadership Conference, according to the chapter’s advisor.Leal was in competition with some powerful Bay Area schools such as Monte Vista, Lynbrook, Homestead and Dougherty Valley.Meanwhile, the local FBLA chapter delivered 528 teddy bears to all first graders in the Morgan Hill Unified School District for Valentine’s Day.Member Kai Leong spearheaded the special Valentine’s Day deliveries to Jackson Academy of Math & Music, El Toro Elementary School and Nordstrom Elementary School.

Students at the Charter School of Morgan Hill celebrated Valentine’s Day in a unique way Feb. 14 as they successfully collected enough cans to go around a 1/8-mile track for a schoolwide “We LOVE our community” canned food drive.The canned food will be given to Second Harvest Food Bank for distribution to those in need.Students used critical thinking skills to calculate how many cans it would take to go around the 1/8-mile track, and then demonstrated personal and social responsibility with their donations, according to CSMH staff. They also were given the challenge of collecting enough canned food donations to do so.“I am happy to report that our CSMH community was able to demonstrate how much we care about our larger community by meeting the challenge of donating enough cans to go around our 1/8-mile track,” said Diana Gill, CSMH Community Liaison and Outreach Coordinator.

Fifty-five high school seniors spent a day on the job Feb. 2 as they took advantage of the inaugural Job Shadow Day, which was organized by Morgan Hill Unified School District and the Chamber of Commerce.

Morgan Hill school officials did not receive encouraging news from a second parcel tax poll conducted this month, as the results revealed a $75 parcel tax would not pass voter approval on the June ballot.

Nearly $7 million in upgrades to the outdoor athletic facilities at Gavilan College are in full swing. The end result will put the local community college in a league of its own.

Three mothers of students at Nordstrom Elementary School expressed their concerns Jan. 23 about the district holding adult education classes on campus during school hours. District staff say the program is partly intended to encourage more parent involvement in their children's education.

Morgan Hill Unified School District’s Board of Trustees will hear a presentation on parcel tax recommendations and a budget reduction proposal for 2018-19 among its list of discussion items for the Feb. 6 meeting.

Brick bots blazed trails at the annual NorCal FIRST LEGO League Silicon Valley Championship in Morgan Hill Sunday, Jan. 28.

With Morgan Hill Unified School District moving toward placing a parcel tax on the June ballot, its Board of Trustees Jan. 23 approved a $15,000 expenditure to conduct a second survey of voters for further assurance that such a measure will pass.

Three Live Oak High School juniors, Julie Muzzi, Lindsey Hillesland and Gabe Milos, earned highly coveted Future Farmers of America State Degrees, which are awarded to only 3 percent of all California FFA association members.