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MONROVIA SCHOOLS PREPARING STUDENTS FOR LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL
COMPLIMENTARY COPY VOLUME 20, NO. 36
BY PAM FITZPATRICK
Old Town Report I have to begin this column remembering those we lost 15 years ago on 9/11 by sharing that the San Gabriel Valley Musical Artists have organized a Patriot Day Concert to be performed on Sunday, Sept. 11, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church at Foothill and Myrtle, just SEE PAGE 12
Monrovia High School has become very involved with the FIRST program hosting three competitions each year.
- Photo by Terry Miller
(This is the second of a two-part series regarding specialized programs in the Monrovia Unified School District. Last week, the focus was on the elementary schools. This week, we will examine the middle schools and Monrovia High School.)
BY SUSAN MOTANDER The specialized programs in the Monrovia Unified School District have one major goal in mind according to the Superintendent, Dr. Katherine Thorossian: preparing students for the future. In the elementary schools, this means ensuring students have the
basic skills necessary to facilitate learning. In the middle schools and at the high school there are even more innovative programs designed to help students ready themselves for their own futures. The robotics at both Santa Fe and Clifton Middle School has become very popular with many students. In fact, the Clifton
Middle School team applied for and was the only Southern California team accepted to an international competition in Shanghai last school year. “They came out 14th out of the 49 teams that competed,” Principal Jennifer Gates bragged recently. “Most of the teams competing were high school teams, not middle school. We even
led at one point in the competition,” she added. Clifton was also fortunate in that it won the “Fab School Lab” competition sponsored by Northrop Grumman that resulted in a $100,000 grant for a new lab at the school. Gates said that Clifton is currently finalizing plans for the new lab construction. She said that after visiting schools
throughout Southern California over the summer, the planning committee decided to focus the use of the money on curriculum and supplies rather than the facility. “We are giving our lab a facelift rather than a complete renovation,” she said. “We felt it was important SEE PAGE 13
Monrovia City Council Continues Preservation Efforts BY SUSAN MOTANDER Almost two years ago, the Monrovia City Council enacted two moratoria in an effort to stop the spread of overly large homes that are incompatible with the neighborhood and to preSEE PAGE 12