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AP Art Students Awarded

In the last few weeks, several Advanced Placement Art students have been recognized for various awards.

Hans Sebastian Rivas

Hans was selected as a recipient for the Pima County Youth Scholarship Award on behalf of the Tucson Pima Arts Council and the Pima Community College Foundation. ($1,500)

Here’s a video portfolio of his artwork:

Luis Zozaya

Luis was a winner in the Arizona Daily Star’s Senior Class Achiever art contest. His artwork below was published in the Sunday edition of the Arizona Daily Star and online.

Tania Verdugo

Tania was awarded Best Of Mixed/Other Media at the Fourteenth Annual High School Art Invitational for her Vessel Of The Earth piece.

Congratulations to these Warriors and their teacher Mrs. Dolores Carrion!

What do you think of their artwork, leave them a comment.

Education Professions Students Visit Chase Field

Education Professions students made the trip to Phoenix for the Diamondback Line Up for Learning Field Day at Chase Field. Eight Pueblo students attended on April 21st.

The event included Phoenix Science Center demonstrations and Character Education videos by the Diamondback players. Darren Sutton was the host.

There were over 5000 elementary aged students and Education Professions students from five high schools in attendance. Pueblo was the only group from Tucson.

The culminating project for the Education Professions students was to write a lesson plan based on the lesson at Chase Field. The Pueblo group wrote a lesson on the Water Cycle.

Education Profession is a class for student interested in Education as a career. Students learn about leadership & learning styles, learning disabilities, creating lessons, participate in field based learning in elementary classrooms.

Prom Night 2009 – Hollywood Fusion

Waiting for a good song, friends hang out

The glitz and glamour of Hollywood was in full display at Prom this year. Warriors lined up on the red carpet anxiously waiting to start jamming to their favorite tunes. The dance floor was packed the entire night!

Prom Royalty was announced at around 10:45 and the King and Queen were: Xavier Jacobo-Garza and Marbella Lopez

[View Entire Prom 2009 Gallery]

[View Video Of Prom 2009]

Leave a comment on your impressions at Prom.

Drinking & Driving Kills Presentation

Gilbert Manzanares tells his story to Seniors

Gilbert Manzanares came to Pueblo to share a personal message to our Seniors about the danger of Drinking & Driving.

With Prom and Graduation approaching, this information will teach our students the consequences of driving while intoxicated and help them make the right decision when faced with these situations.

Gilbert stressed the importance of realizing how your life will change in an instant, if you choose to drive drunk.

[Video Of His Presentation]

Earth Day 2010

Pueblo celebrates Earth Day by taking action:

Mrs. Jennie Elrod decided to make an “Earth Day resolution” every year. This year, starting today, I am going to bike to school one day a week to help reduce my impact on climate change. Wish me luck!
PE classes running the mile fun-run outdoors
Mr. Lorin Labardee not using lights all day
Mrs. Jennifer Sprung doing the following:
Classroom lights off all day long to save energy-wear my Be Green Shirt and do activities with students.
Bell work/writing activity -students think about and write- 1. What are problems for Earth now and in the future? 2. What can people do to help? 3. List 5 or more simple things you WILL personally commit to try and do to make a difference for the Earth.
Play music and video from youtube to celebrate Earth day as students think and write- EARTH DAY song, Climate Change song, “where are we going to go”, others
All students share after bellwork activity as a whole group-new responses added to student notes
Show video segment titled GLOBAL WARMING cartoon -talk briefly about video “An Inconvenient Truth”-discuss importance, purpose, impact
Introduce importance of RECYCLING in Tucson-poll students-how many really use their Blue bin-show Tucson Recycles video-BlueBin101-to educate all on how and what to recycle! Students write down 5 new concepts/ points of learning from video-questions and answers
Show realia (examples) of various recycleables ( steel, aluminum, cardboard, plastic bottles, containers, lids)-pass around room- review Plastic codes 1,2,4 to recycle-3,5,6,7-not recycleable now-why…review the universal recycle symbol-3 arrows and 3 R’s-what do they stand for?
Pass along flyers and magnets from City of Tucson on Recycling
Talk about most polluted populous cities and why… What about Tucson in the future? Compare LA, Mexico City, Salt Lake City, Denver, Phoenix…then show brief video-“Clear the Air “about Chicagoland in the summer and ground level ozone… students record 1. effects of groundlevel ozone, 2. how to reduce problem?
Quick quiz at end of class- prizes given for correct answers-reusable shopping bags, magnets, keychains, pencils, 5 minute shower timer, super water saver fans, Earth Day bubbles, etc.
“Earth Day Every Day” and “Everyone can do their part” points to get across to all students in classes today!
The Environmental Biology classes have planted 21 Mesquite Trees and 21 Octopus Agave at the North end of the ESC (Environmental Study Center). We also are maintaining a beautiful Science Garden with several unusual plants and trees, by the Chemistry Wing. The view of the garden from the Chemistry Wing window is quite nice and can relieve symptoms of Pueblo Stress.
Thanks to Mr. De Weerdt’s help, we have been able to save the Spadefoot Pond by the Tennis Courts from being buried by the Groundskeepers. We need to think of the least of the Pueblo denizens too.
Teachers & Staff wear Earth Day Shirts
Pueblo Student Portal goes green
Canon Copy Machine will not be used for the day

Staff wear Be Green T-Shirts during Earth Day

Do your part today!

Volunteer Appreciation Dinner

Pueblo recognized all the volunteers that generously give their time and energy to different activities on campus. A dinner prepared by the Parent Association started the festivities followed by a photo slide show.

Principal Patricia Dienz handed out colorful certificates of appreciation to all 108 volunteers that served this year and thanked them for their continued support to Pueblo students.

[Short Video Of Dinner]