Archive for February 28, 2017

Scholarship opportunity –Female senior students-South Bay area-March 15 deadline!

SouthBayPanhellenicScholarship

The South Bay Panhellenic Foundation is offering an opportunity for our female senior students to apply for a scholarship.  The eligibility criteria:

-Female resident of the South Bay

-Attend participating high school in South Bay area

-Have a minimum GPA of 3.5

-Plan to attend a four year college

-Financial need

The application is attached, and the deadline for receipt of all materials is March 15, 2017.

 

 

$1000 School Hack Challenge – Opportunity to Innovate & Create Change in your School or Community

DVD,

Reframe Labs (https://www.reframelabs.org/) is an organization that helps to launch new, innovative schools. Da Vinci staff has worked with Reframe in a number of ways and they have offered up this unique opportunity for our students. They have passed along this message:

In 13 days (March 11th), Reframe is hosting The $1,000 School Hack Challenge, a free daylong event in which Los Angeles students ages 13-18 team up to design and test their innovative ideas to improve their school, classroom, or community. Winning ideas get $1,000 for implementation, and they will be selecting 5-10 winners.  

The event will most likely be held at Mendez High School at 1414 Kemmett Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90033. 

It’s free and open to middle- and high school students. Here’s the registration page to pass along for any potentially interested students: https://www.facebook.com/events/1282261318520501/

A few other things to know…

  • Students attend as individuals. After pitching, the top 10 ideas will be identified via crowd-sourced voting and students participants will then self-form teams. A team of Da Vinci students could still work together under this process.
  • Students don’t necessarily need their own ideas to participate, since they can simply join another team, but they do hope each student comes with his/her own idea for the initial pitch.

Please let us know if you have any other questions and we will be happy to answer (or find the answer!) for you.

 

 

Parent Workshop: Counseling services available at DVD/C

Please join us for a parent educational workshop: Counseling Services provided and available to DVD/C families.

Who: Da Vinci Design and Communications families

Presented by: Nicole Cabalar- DVD counselor &

Brittany Goodacre- DVC counselor

What: Workshop for families: Counseling Services provided and available to DVD/C families            and trends counselors are seeing in students.

Where: DVD Boardroom

When: Tuesday 2/28, Wednesday 3/1, and/or Thursday 3/2

2:00-2:30 p.m. each day

Questions? Contact Nicole Cabalar: ncabalar@davincischools.org

 

SENIOR REMINDER: FAFSA due Thursday 3/2

CASH for college is offering free workshops if you still need assistance. See the link for more information.

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/unitela/pages/2621/attachments/original/1487809694/CFC_Workshop_Flyer_2.20.17.pdf?1487809694

Week 25 Update – SLC Week, Girls Who Code…

Designers, next week is SLC week! The school day runs from 9:00-1:30 and then Student Led Conferences will run from 1:45-4:00 Monday through Thursday. Friday is a regular schedule, running from 10:00-3:55.

Teachers have provided materials in class as well as on their weebly sites. Please make sure you have signed up for an SLC spot!

DVD 16-17 Week 25 update families

SLC Schedules

 

Girls Who Code Opportunity

Da Vinci students – we encourage you to apply to this great opportunity.  Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program (SIP) is a free, 7 week summer program for current 10th and 11th grade girls to learn computer science. The application is due on March 17th and is fairly simple. Students don’t need any prior computer science experience. Here a flyer with more information. 

 

 

 

Parent Volunteers Needed for Prospective DV Counselor Interviews – Friday 2/24

Counseling Hiring Event – Parent Volunteers Needed for Friday 2/24

Would you like to interview prospective Da Vinci counselors? This Friday, 2/24, there are candidates coming in for both a morning and afternoon session.  Please sign up at the link below if you would like to participate!

Parent Interviews for Prospective DV Counselors – SIGN UP HERE!

Morning Session runs from 10:00am-12:00pm and the afternoon session runs from 1:30 pm-3:30 pm. We need at least 1 to 2 parents per session. If you can only make it for a portion of the session, it is still helpful. Please contact Kate Parsons, Principal, at kparsons@davincischools.org or 310-725-5800 if it is easier to RSVP using either of those methods.

Thank you in advance!

Volunteer on Saturday 2/25 with Aviation Little League, 10 am-2 pm

Da Vinci Design students – if you are looking for a volunteer opportunity, Aviation Little League needs your help! This Saturday, February 25th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, you are invited to their Field Clean Up at Aviation Little League.

Sign up at the “Sign Up Genius” link below if you would like to attend and earn some hours!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0b4ea8aa2ba0f58-aviation1

MESSAGE FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT OF AVIATION LITTLE LEAGUE

The league fields are located North of Del Aire Park and behind some of the Da Vinci Schools (Design and Communications).

See our website – Aviation Little League

The Opening Day of the baseball season is March 4th. Every year we have a large crowd for opening ceremony and we want the fields to look very presentable.

Due to the past storms we have not been able to complete some of the field clean up. One major project will be painting a large size of wall that is located west of the fields. It is the wall that divides our fields to the aerospace parking lots. We have the paint and some materials (brushes/rolls).

We understand your students need volunteer hours and we will like to invite your students to come down to the field to help us paint the wall and even possible draw a mural(s) on the wall. Please bring brushes and/or rolls if you have extras. It will be a big help for us.

Week 24 Update – Parent Volunteers Needed (hiring), PSAT, SLCs

Designers, we hope you had an excellent 3 day weekend. Updates for this week:

PSAT for 10th Graders

Tomorrow, 2/22

Make sure to get plenty of sleep and eat a balanced breakfast!

Counseling Hiring Event – Parent Volunteers Needed for Friday 2/24

Would you like to interview prospective Da Vinci counselors? This Friday, 2/24, there are candidates coming in for both a morning and afternoon session.  Please sign up at the link below if you would like to participate!

Parent Interviews for Prospective DV Counselors – SIGN UP HERE!

Morning Session runs from 10:00am-12:00pm and the afternoon session runs from 1:30 pm-3:30 pm. We need at least 1 to 2 parents per session.  Thank you!

SLCs are Next Week

Please be on look out for materials from grade level teams regarding sign-ups.  These were given out to students last week.

Odd Friday Bell Schedules

 

 

Seniors…DV Extenstion (DVX) Parent Info Session…TONIGHT!

What: DVX Parent Info Session for Seniors and their families

When: TONIGHT (Tuesday February 21) 5:30pm-6:30pm

Where: Ms. Hannouche’s room 103 (9th grade Physics room)

Come and listen to Kim Merritt (DVX Director) discuss all of the wonderful opportunities at DVX, the different pathways, application process, and much more!

Click on the link below for a introduction about DVX:

http://davincischools.org/extension.shtml

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