By Patricia Seto, Staff Writer
Despite the amount of time spent by Galileo staff members planning the Back to School Night on Monday, September 21, 2009, there wasn’t a big turnout, possibly because of last minute change of the dates. However, the parents that did show up felt that they got a lot...
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By Patricia Seto, Staff Writer
Galileo has several new clubs this year, including the Stage Crew Club led by Mr. Joseph Taylor, the Visual and Performing Arts department chair. The club consists of about 12 students who work behind the scenes to assist the students and staff whenever there is a performance, setting up numerous...
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By Karen Tan, Staff Writer
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris came to Galileo on October 1 to give a small press conference to highlight domestic violence among teenagers—dating violence in particular—and acknowledge the work the Wellness Center has done for those teens, having served 6,600 district wide last year.
DA Harris announced the...
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By Karen Tan, staff writer
Following the SFUSD school board’s
approval of a November 2009 proposal,
the 2010-2011 school year
for all SFUSD schools will begin a week
earlier on August 16 and end on May 27.
This change is, in part, meant to align the
school calendars with that of colleges, allowing
high school students to take concurrent
enrollment classes at City...
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By Patricia Seto, staff writer
The college and career counselor position has
been switched twice in the past two years.
This year, because of 9th grade counselor Ms.
Josephine Ho’s maternity leave, Ms. Candace Boran,
the previous college and career counselor has taken
over as freshmen counselor while Mr. Shane Papatolicas,
the tutoring coordinator at Futurama, is now the
new college counselor....
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By: Jacqueline Xu, staff writer
Mr. Ben Chun, AOIT teacher
at Galileo, recently
won the Rambus-KCI
Innovation Award, which honors an
exemplary technology or program
that benefits the Silicon Valley educational
community which was officially
announced on November 4,
2009. Out of 25 entries, Mr. Chun’s
class project on” Educational
Games” impressed the judges from
Rambus with its real-world application
and cross grade level connections.
High school juniors...
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By Jacqueline Xu, staffwriter
Mr. Bai Zhen has become
the new college counselor
at Galileo for this
academic school year, taking over
for Ms. Susan Tu, the previous college
counselor, who went back to
school at Stanford to study education.
As the new college counselor,
Bai assists Galileo students in applying
for colleges, providing college
fieldtrips to CSU, UC, private
schools and community colleges.
Before working at...
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By Sandy Wong, Staff Writer
This year, instead of the graduation ceremony being held at the Bill
Graham Auditorium, Masonic Auditorium, or AT&T Park, the senior
class of 2010 will be the first class to graduate on our home
athletic field. Some of the contributing factors to where graduation should
be held was that Galileo’s Athletic Field was newly...
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By Annie Kwok, Staff Writer
In order to provide for the safety of Galileo Students, the Galileo
Administration is now strictly enforcing the Galileo dress code.
Because of an assault incident which occurred on October 30th due
to assumptions of gang affiliation, Galileo is now asking students to
restrain from wearing any bright red or bright blue clothing to...
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65th Annual Song&Yell
By Sandy Wong, staff writer
Galileo’s 65th annual Song & Yell contest held on October 9th, celebrated the opening of the new George White Field, setting the stage for all the spirited students along with George White’s family to add a more exciting feel for the Song and Yell festivities. Before classes competed...
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