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 Annie Kwok, Staff Writer Carrying on his family tradition of attending Galileo Academy is a source of pride for Senior, Patisela Ale, who goes by Pat for short, as many of his family members have been and will continue to be part of the lion tradition. Pat has eleven other siblings all who have or will follow...
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By Sandy Wong Being enrolled in a ballet class since the first grade has encouraged Sophomore Briana Wong to become motivated to take on more challenging roles, such as being the Class President of 2012 at Galileo for two years in a row. Between ballet class and the duties of Class President, Briana has come to see herself as someone with strong determination, and...
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