Andrew Barney, 17, a senior at Arcadia Senior High School and future aeronautical engineer, recently participated in the 8-day U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, AL, where 50 students learned about the space shuttle, sampled astronaut training, and trained for a simulated space mission.
The Arcadia High School Constitution Team won the state level competition in Sacramento. They will now compete in the national finals in Washington, D.C., in April.
Arcadia High School's state champion Constitution Team is in Washington D. C., vying for the national title in an interscholastic competition on constitutional principles.
A quiz team from Arcadia High School faced tougher competition than expected in the National Science Bowl in Maryland in the second to last round, placing among the top 12 teams nationally.
The Arcadia High School Constitution Team was awarded first place at the California State Finals of the "We the People:the Citizen and the Constitution" competition held in Sacramento.
A team of Arcadia High School advanced placement government students edged out 48 other state champion teams to win the 6th annual "We the People... the Citizen and the Constitution" competition in Washington, D.C.
A team from Arcadia High School was the regional winner in the 1996 National Science Bowl. They will join other regional winners in the finals of the competition in late April in Florida.
Arcadia High School's advanced placement government class will enter the "We the People: the Citizen and the Constitution" Constitutional law competition in Sacramento, with the winning team to go the the national finals in late April. The same coach, Ron Morris, led a team to the national title in 1993.
The 9-person team of Arcadia High School placed 3rd out of 73 teams in the county's 41st annual Academic Decathlon, thus performing the best ever in Arcadia High School history. The decathlon consists of speech, math, science, fine arts, social science/history, economics, language, literature and essay competitions.
For the third year in a row, a five-member team from Arcadia High School took top honors in the regional National Science Bowl and is headed for national competition in Washington, D.C., in May.
Five high school whiz-kids left Friday for the National Science Bowl in Maryland. The team includes Alex Fabrikant, Alex Hong, Brian Li, Silvia Ngo and Vincent Auyeung.
The Arcadia High School team is preparing for the state championships in the Bill of Rights competition, directed by the Center for Civic Education and funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education. They are trying to repeat as national champions.
The Arcadia High School advanced placement government class defeated 13 other state teams in the "We the People" Bill of Rights and Constitution competition in Sacramento. The 29 member team will represent California in the national competition May 1-3 in Washington, D.C.
Andrew Wong, 23, a former microbiology major, is now a fashion design student at Otis School of Art and Design in Los Angeles. He was the winner in both the men's and women's fashion categories of the school's annual Silver Thimble Awards.