Local students win writing awards
KTEH Channel 54 recently honored 28 kindergarten through third-grade winners of the third annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Awards Contest. Loma Prieta kindergartner Karen Vandraiss received second place for her story "Days of Rainbows," while Breanna Denicola, a first-grader at the same school, received an honorable mention. First-place winners at each grade level receive $500 savings bonds, with $200 bonds for second-place winners.
Fisher students are masters of knowledge
A team of 20 Fisher Middle School students participated April 16 in the 28th Knowledge Master open academic competition, a twice-yearly event in which students from middle, junior high and high schools throughout the United States and some foreign countries use computer programs to answer an array of 200 questions on a variety of subjects. The program scores and saves the students' answers, which the schools then forward to Knowledge Master headquarters. The Fisher team, coached by librarian Judy Wiley, earned second place in California for its age group and 40th in the nation. Along with co-captains Aviva Aron-Dine and Meg Wang, the team comprised Jennifer DeLeon, Stephanie Duchin, Cyndi Falk, Remy Goldberg, Etan Green, Kyla Jemison, Denise Li, Meagan Lillich, Elizabeth Loomer, Mark Lubeck, Karoon Monfared, Aaron Silberstein, Danny Solomon, Scherin Tang, Remy Timbrook, Cherie Williams, Valerie Wingfield and Albert Wu.
LGHS senior recognized
Along with five other Silicon Valley area high school students, Los Gatos High School senior Biren Kamdar will be honored at the American Academy of Achievement's 36th annual Salute to Excellence program May 20-22 in Baltimore, Md. Students are selected on the basis of academic and extracurricular achievement, community involvement, business potential, participation in the arts and high SAT scores. The 1997 class salutatorian, Kamdar has a 4.465 GPA, scored a cumulative 1450 on his SAT and is editor of the school newspaper, El Gato, and a recipient of the Young Leader of Tomorrow Award and the National Council of Teachers of English Award. He has volunteered more than 300 hours at Columbia Good Samaritan Hospital, tutors students in Spanish, physics and math, is a Little League umpire and bookkeeper and competes in high school cross-country and tennis matches. He plans to pursue a career in medicine.
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This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, May 7, 1997.
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