Santa Clara resident Ivette Bookman’s son is autistic. Benetton Bookman, 9, is a third grade student in Braly Elementary School’s special education program. He likes soccer, classical music and swimming. So it made sense for Ivette Bookman to enter her son in the Special Olympics Spring Games Northern California, which took place on May 6 … Read more
From Washington Open Elementary School, fifth graders Grace Calfee, Ioan Har and Krishav Gandhi constructed Instant Growth, a bright contraption that guides a water container to water a plant on its own. Demonstrating different energy types, this science project is considered a Rube Goldberg machine (a machine with an end purpose), one of the new … Read more
Sara Norris, 18, costume designer at Wilcox High School described how Belle’s trademark gold dress was created for the Wilcox Stage Company’s “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” performed May 12-14 at the Mission City Center for Performing Arts. Starting with a donated yellow top, the school’s Fashion Design department, led by teacher Mindy Trisko, added … Read more
I n one corner of Hall B at the Santa Clara Convention Center during the April 29 Bay Area Women’s Expo, people concentrated on painting a blossom tree with its reflection in the water via PaintNite. Across the hall, at the station for Paul Mitchell The School San Jose, designers styled the hair of attendees … Read more
At Sutter Elementary School’s 52nd annual Frog Jump, students gathered outside at “frog pads” next to the playground. After setting down their assigned frogs–with names such as Top Hat McGee, General Hop and Vladimir Putin–students waited for their frogs to jump. After a frog’s third jump, a frog catcher swept the frog up into a … Read more
At the April 29 STEM Central, a fair celebrating Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, 26 exhibitors and 15 innovation stations filled the library. Children assembled Lego structures, learned about robotics, posed for pictures inside Auro’s self-driving shuttle, launched handmade rockets and played Coder Bunnyz, a coding board game created by Santa Clara student Samaira Mehta. … Read more
Clearing out over 40 years of stuff from a community college building is no easy feat. Nonetheless the Main Building at Mission College will come down and be replaced by open space when its offices relocate to the new Student Engagement Center in early 2018. Niall Adler, Mission College’s Director of Marketing and Public Relations, … Read more
At the end of March, State Senator Bob Wieckowski hosted his 2nd Annual Women of the Year Ceremony at the Berryessa Branch Library. One of the three women honored was Hilary Keith, Director of the Santa Clara City Library. During the 2015-16 fiscal year, the Santa Clara City Libraries (Central Park Library, Mission Library and … Read more
On April 5, about 175 people gathered inside Central Park Library’s Redwood Room to meet award winning graphic novel creators Raina Telgemeier and Faith Erin Hicks. The two cartoonists chatted about their careers creating novel-length comic books for young audiences. After remembering how they met at a convention in Toronto 10 years ago, Telgemeier and … Read more
After reading about the great monuments in Egypt, Shreyan Mitra, 11, decided he would like to visit there someday. Another place worth visiting for Mitra is Iceland, where this sixth grader learned of the country’s geothermal activity and hidden volcanic vents in the ice cap glaciers. It makes sense that a boy who holds such … Read more