around the circle
Sophomore Career Day In early March, the sophomore class participated in Career Day, an annual event in which each student visited a site pertaining to her interests to learn about professions she might pursue in the future. Students visited Google, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, the Stanford School of Medicine, the University California Santa Cruz (for astrophysics), a federal court, the University California San Francisco School of Medicine and Hospital, the Mercury News, and Oracle. At these sites students spent the day shadowing employees and got a hands-on career experience. They came back excited and inspired to pursue a wide variety of careers!
“Innogators” Participate in Stanford Hack Day
Medieval History and Art Intersect An interdisciplinary unit combining history and art complemented seventh-grade students’ study of Medieval Europe. Under the guidance of Eugenie Paick and Mary Hurlbut the girls each made a historiated initial, or a fancy, decorated letter which contains a picture. Using the first letter of their first name, the girls designed an initial to reflect their personalities, hobbies, interests, and dreams. The girls let their imaginations run wild and created some beautiful art!
In January, the Castilleja Technovation Challenge Team, the Innogators, participated in Hack Day at Stanford. The Technovation Challenge is a program in which high school girls learn how to write a mobile app, develop an actual app that solves a problem that they identify in their local community, and then compete for funding to bring it to market. Hack Day is the first activity in the program, where local teams gather together to learn how to use Android App Inventor, a programming tool. In the next stage of the season, which runs from January through April, the team will complete an online curriculum, design and prototype their app, write a business plan, and create a video pitch for investors which they’ll present at a regional competition. Regional winners will continue on to the Technovation World Pitch event in May. Go Innogators!
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