2009-2010

At each board meeting during the course of the school year, each high school, on a rotating basis, sends a student representative to sit on the dais with board members. The board agenda calls for the student to be introduced by the school principal followed by an overview of school activities and events presented by the student.

Sandra Mendez, Stockton Early College Academy

Sandra Mendez was born in New Jersey and has now attained the ripe old age of 15. She has an older sister, Tania (age 19), a younger sister, Vivian (age 2), and another sister on the way. She arrived at SECA by way of Hamilton Elementary School, and immediately impressed both her peers and the SECA faculty with her high intelligence, outstanding work ethic, and engaging smile. Early in the year, she participated in the Delta College STEM competition, winning the Silver Medal in Mathematics. That amazing success was a prophetic harbinger of even greater things to come…
Sandra’s interests are wide and deep, and range from playing musical instruments (violin, piano, guitar, and clarinet) to drawing and reading, and, of course, chatting! Although she can, and does, create time for these diversions, her first priority is always school, which is, as she puts it, “…the source from which she can make all of her future career and lifestyle plans a reality.”
Sandra is well on her way to success. During her freshman year at SECA, she has successfully completed all four of her required core Honors courses, including Algebra II Honors, as well as earned nine units of college credit. Like all SECA students, she is also an AVID student. For her high school elective course this year, Sandra chose Journalism, and has had a number of her articles published in The Wolves’ Chronicle, SECA’s award winning newspaper. In addition, she served as a Teaching Assistant for her Mathematics Instructor, Dr. Hebert-Swartzer, and was a member of the SECA MESA team. Next year she will also participate in ACADEC. Her first semester GPA was a sterling 4.14, and this semester is poised to be even higher.
Her future plans include attending The University of Pennsylvania, double majoring in Pre-Medicine and Pre-Law. She would like to become a Nurse Practitioner and work in a hospital in either New York or New Jersey, eventually earning her Doctorate in Medicine.

Kennisha Fox, Jane Frederick Continuation High School

Kennisha Fox is 18 years old. She is the second to the oldest young person in her family where she has five siblings (three sisters and two brothers. Kennisha enjoys writing poetry and taking care of her family. According to Kennisha: “Family is a big thing to me”.

Kennisha is a member of our Jane Frederick family since July 2008. She is a senior who will be graduating in May 2010. She has participated in our credit recovery program where she has taken as many as nine classes per semester while maintaining a 5.86 GPA. Currently Kennisha has a 4.0 grade point average. She has excellent attendance and will be receiving recognition for her academic performance in May. Kennisha’s goal is to join the Air Force after graduation; after which she will pursue the student of pediatric nursing.

When asked to describe herself, Kennisha stated: “I’m shy, but outspoken and I consider myself a leader”.

Daniel Yanez, IBML

Daniel Yanez is currently a junior at IBML. He is fortunate to have attended all Stockton Unified schools since kindergarten. He is actively involved in leadership, student government, and athletics. He currently plays basketball and golf for his home school, Stagg High. Daniel's friend would describe him as athletic, friendly, and personable. In his spare time, Daniel enjoys listening to music, drawing, and exercising. Daniel is currently exploring his career pathway by taking some Criminal Justice and Business courses at Humphreys College and enjoying the various learning opportunities he has while attending IBML!
 

Melody Grace Madriaga Burdick, IBML

Melody Grace Madriaga Burdick, hails from Santa Clara, California. She attended schools in San Jose until she was 13 and then moved to Stockton where she graduated from Madison Elementary with high honors earning the Hazelton Award.

Though only a freshman at IBML, Melody knows what direction she is heading and celebrates many talents. In her spare time, she enjoys writing poetry, listening to music, and reading romance novels. She also loves watching action and comedy movies. Additionally, she writes songs and plays the guitar. Melody’s idol is John Lennon but her heroes are her parents. They inspire her to be the best person she can be.

Her goal is to graduate from IBML, attend college and become an author of books and articles.
 

Jacqueline Acosta, Merlo Institute of Environmental Technology

At this time, Jacqueline is the Junior with the highest GPA, has a perfect or near-perfect score on the CAHSEE math 450 and hopes to become class valedictorian.
Jacqueline was invited to the presentations for Ivy League Schools in the fall and plans to attend a four-year college or university. She has just found out that she has been preselected and won a full scholarship to attend Harvard’s Summer School Program where she will earn college credits and receive a Harvard Summer School diploma.
Jacqueline belongs to all of the school’s clubs including Leadership, AVID, Ski Club, SkillsUSA. She is involved in her community and works with a group from the City as part of a Youth Empowerment Team. She is the middle child of three children and lives with her parents and younger brother

Francisco Guiao, Franklin High School

Francisco is a TLC student with a 4.0 GPA and he is Class President for 2012.

He has been nominated for the People to People Ambassador Program which will take him to Europe to represent our country and he has participated in many other community programs including the Diabetics Association Walk, San Francisco Bay to Breakers run and the Cancer Walk-A-Thon.

Francisco also excels at sports; in his first year of wrestling he has already made the varsity team and won three medals in various competitions.

For his future, he is interested in a career in medicine as either a surgeon or a physical therapist and plans to attend either the University of the Pacific or University of California, Berkeley.

Francisco is strongly committed to his family and especially to helping his mother who is recovering from a stroke

Liugalua Dellafosse, Edison High School

Liugalua is 17 years old.

Her current club activities include:
President of Ineract Club
President of Vikings for Christ
NCH/CHS member
AP Club
She has been chosen as Homecoming Queen and participates on the following school teams:
Volleyball Team, Basketball Team, and Track

She is a member of the CSI and Law Small Learning Community.
Liugalua has a 4.0 GPA and has applied to Havard, Stanford, UCLA and University of San Diego.
Ms. Dellafosse is active in her community and has raised $3000 for Samoa Relief and coordinated a Benefit Concert for Haiti Relief.
She has five Siblings and 40 cousins that attend Edison.

Andrew Ngai, SUSD Early College

Andrew Ngai is a stellar member of the outstanding freshman class at SECA. He is a native Stocktonian and has one sibling, a younger brother named Allen. Andrew came to SECA from Hamilton Elementary School and has been a student leader from his very first day on campus, when he was chosen to be SECA’s representative for the Student Advisory Council to the SUSD Board. Though only a freshman, he immediately distinguished himself and honored the school by being elected as the Vice-President of that group.

Andrew’s interests range from music (saxophone, trumpet, and, most recently, guitar), to time on the computer, to playing basketball and football with his friends. However, as much as he loves these diversions, Andrew’s main priority is school, because a solid education is extremely crucial for his future plans. As he puts it, “I believe that the more education that you receive as a student, the better your future and your career will be.”

He is off to a great start in the pursuit of his goal. At SECA, Andrew has maintained a 4.25 GPA, while taking four Honors level core academic high school courses, including Algebra II, as well as two 3-unit college courses. In addition, he is a member of the SECA Academic Decathlon team and also participates in a Competitive Speech and Debate class. His future goals include matriculation to UC Berkeley, ultimately earning his Ph.D.

Yee Lao, Chavez High School

Yee is a Senior honors student involved in school leadership, national honor society, California Scholarship Federation and Polynesian club. She plans to attend UOP after graduating from CCHS.

Ger Chang, Weber Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology

Ger has been attending Weber since she was a freshman. She is currently a senior and carries a 3.5 GPA. While at Weber Ger has not only excelled academically but she has been very active on the campus as well. She belongs to leadership, is an avid participant in Skills where students compete in various areas of expertise (Ger’s happens to be photography); she has participated in the Christian Club, The Tip Top store and Virtual Enterprise. In Ger’s spare time she has been very active donating time to community service. Ger hopes to major in Psychology and is considering a 4 year college next year. She is in the process of completing her A-G requirements

Dalicio Washington, Jane Frederick Continuation School

Dalicio Washington is 18 years old and a senior at Jane Frederick Continuation High School. He will be graduating in May of 2010. Dalicio has participated in the school’s credit recovery program and currently carries a 3.0 grade point average. Dalicio has an excellent attendance record and is a member of the School Site Council.
After graduation, Dalicio is planning to join the Air Force.