Education Briefs
Interact Club wins awards
The Interact Club at Los Gatos High School won first place in the "school project" category for its Teacher Appreciation Day Luncheon, which the club will hold on California's 20th annual Day of the Teacher on May 8. The school competed against more than 60 schools in its Interact District.
LGHS was rewarded at the annual Interact spring banquet, which took place at Doubletree Hotel San Jose on April 18.
The LGHS club also won second place for its "area project," Caroling for Cans, which it participated in with six other local schools.
Senior Kirsten Johnson was presented with a plaque at the banquet for being Los Gatos High's "Interactor of the Year."
Student bound for Oxford
Los Gatos resident Timothy C. Gunatilaka, a 1996 graduate of Hillbrook School and 2000 graduate of Bellarmine College Preparatory School, is one of 15 University of Pennsylvania sophomores who has been chosen to spend his junior year at Oxford. The university recently honored Gunatilaka as one of the best writers for his school's student newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian 34th Street Magazine. Gunatilaka, an English and economics major and National Merit Scholar, will intern at a Philadelphia publishing company this summer before he leaves for Oxford in October.
Musicians make elite orchestra
Four Los Gatos High School musicians--Audrey Harrison, Thomas Helleboid, Hamody Hindi and Dan Zimardi--performed in the All-State Wind Orchestra Concert, held at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo on April 21. The orchestra consisted of 84 high school musicians from around California.
Harrison and Zimardi, both juniors, played the flute and bassoon, respectively. The concert also featured Helleboid, a senior, on the clarinet and Hindi, also a senior, on the tuba.
Hindi and Zimardi earned spots as first chairs.
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