Accomplishments

The hardworking crew built a 20x20’ Gaga Pit, an octagonal dodgeball-like arena at the 200+-acre campground. • Youth Ministry Core Team members created regularlyscheduled inspiring Character

Assembly virtual programs for the entire student body.

EXTRACURRICULARS

• Twelve students completed prestigious summer internships at well-known organizations throughout the L.A. area. The ambitious students—10 rising seniors and two recent graduates— worked under the mentorship of engineers, architects, scientists and entrepreneurs to gain practical experience in professional and STEM fields. • Three Bosco Tech 2020 graduates, Aaron De Castro,

George Flores and Raphael

Napinas, were selected to serve as mentors in the

Boeing Company’s prestigious

Summer High School

Internship Program. Having completed Boeing internships in 2019, they guided younger interns, including seven Tech, through the seven-week program. • Diego Alvarez (MSET '21) was selected to attend the

Leadership in Music program hosted and sponsored by the Pacific Crest Youth

Arts Organization, Latino

Community Network, and City

National Bank. • Ryan Zettlemoyer (MSET '21) completed his Boeing summer internship on an extra high note! He and his internship cohort won first place for best presentation of a solution to a real-world problem. Their winning project, completed while working virtually, was a system to repair satellites using a soft robotic arm, complete with pneumatic actuators. • In-person athletics, clubs, and academic support programs resumed in a safe, socially distanced format and a hybrid learning cohort program offered both on-campus, in-person instruction as well as virtual learning for those opting not to be on campus. • Varsity eSports team member

Yiluo Huang (CSEE ’23), ranked #2 in the CA State standings (10.0 Overall KDA, 458.80 Gold Per Minute) for his incredible gaming skills, while

Aston Wu ('24) reached #4 in the CA State standings (8.80

Overall KDA, 462.62 Gold

Per Minute). • The Tech’s varsity basketball team earned the top spot as undefeated Camino Real league champions for 2021. • ACE senior Nathanael

DeBerry has signed to play lacrosse at the collegiate level.

This fall, he will play for the

Adrian College Bulldogs. • The Tech's varsity volleyball team earned the league championship title and competed in the CIF-Southern

Section playoffs. • In Track & Field, Tech sophomore Christian Perez (ACE '23) was named the

Camino Real League Champ in the Boys 800 category.

SCHOOL, TEACHERS, ALUMNI

• Diversity Professional, an interactive national publication complemented with strategic offline engagements that focus on business, career and lifestyle, featured Tech students who created more than 1,500 face shields for health care professionals. In a second issue, the publication spotlighted the Tech’s unique college-prep, STEM-based curriculum. • The Tournament of Roses recognized Mr. Daniel

Almanza, director of the

Tech's award-winning music program, in their "Honoring

Essential Workers – Hero of the Day" program. • Mr. Claude LeBlanc (MT ‘78),

Tech Theology instructor and alumnus, wrote and shared two online faith resources. He offered free of charge "The

LeBlanc Psalms," music for all of the responsorial psalms in the three-year Catholic liturgical cycle, and “Journey with Jesus,” a reflection journal for the four gospels. • This year, Engineers Day went completely virtual, with students hearing from

Techmen currently working at

IRS Demo, InstillBio, SpaceX,

NASA’s Jet Propulsion

Laboratory, Universal Studios, and Northrop Grumman. • Tech alumnus Dr. Peter

Velázquez (DE ‘92), Director of Analytical Development at

Instil Bio, provided the keynote address to graduates of the class of 2021. • The Tech’s alumni program launched a new networking platform,

BoscoTechAlumni.com, creating a venue for graduates to connect, expand their professional network and give back, acting as mentors to graduating seniors. • An article on space exploration by Mrs. Shannon McConnell,

Tech trustee and alumnus parent, was featured in

“Spacewatch Asia Pacific.” Mrs.

McConnell is an Education and Outreach Specialist at the

Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

2020-2021 STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

AWARDS, HONORS, AND FUN!

Honor, Hustle, Humility

COACH KEVIN HOLT

HONOR, HUSTLE, & HUMILITY

Honor, hustle, humility--the Tech’s pioneer lacrosse coach, Mr. Kevin Holt, drove home the ‘H3’ tenets as he advised and encouraged the team for six years. Players even wear H3 stickers on the back of their helmets to remind them of what is really important.

Honor: we honor our Creator, our opponents, and ourselves by playing this game; hustle: we always hustle--when we practice, when we play, when we study, when we work, when our parents ask us to do something; humility: we are always humble, when we win, when we lose, with our teammates, our opponents, our parents and, most importantly, our Creator. The team will remember the lesson long after Coach Holt retired this past fall.

Leading the school’s club team since 2015, and with 16 years of coaching history, Coach Holt instilled in the athletes the noble precepts of lacrosse’s Native American originators to honor the Creator who gave the game to us, to honor one’s opponents, and to grow as a person through united goals.

“My greatest hope is that I was able to instill a lifelong love of lacrosse and its values,” Coach Holt said. “My dream is to hear that they’re still involved in the sport by coaching, playing, having children that play, or even just remaining fans of the game and helping to ‘grow the game.’”

“Under Coach Holt’s guidance, the program flourished and has always been competitive in the Pacific Lacrosse League,” said Athletic Director Vincent Nolasco. “As a testament to his program, Coach helped prepare Techmen to compete at the college level. More importantly, he lived out the Salesian charism as he created an oratory for his athletes and treated all with loving kindness.” To date, seven past Tech team members have successfully gone on to play at the college level.

Now living on a farm in Sebastopol with Mandy, his wife of 33 years, Coach Holt reminisced, “There are so many good memories. It has been my honor to coach for six seasons at an institution filled with such amazing young men. We had a challenging season or two, but never once did our athletes give up. They practiced and played with dedication.”

“And the Bosco parents are absolutely the best! They never stopped supporting our team and its goals and I always knew they were there for me. Every year, before our practices began, I held a parent meeting and I guaranteed that even though most of them had never seen (or even heard of) lacrosse, they’d end up loving the game…and I was right!”

Godspeed and thank you, Coach Holt!