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Education Briefs
Environment center receives grant
The Foothill-De Anza Community College District has received a $2 million grant from the Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation to help fund a $12 million, 34,000-square-foot environmental studies center to be built at De Anza College. The energy-efficient and climate-responsive building will be named the Kirsch Center for Environmental Studies.
The Kirsch Center will be next to the school's 1.5-acre environmental studies area, which houses 12 habitats found exclusively in California. The environmental studies area is used as a lab for De Anza students and is a popular field-trip destination for school children.
Steve Kirsch recently founded Propel Software, which focuses on the infrastructure of the ecommerce market. He is also the founder and chairman of Infoseek Corporation, a search engine. In the past, Kirsch's foundation supported the twin colleges by contributing to Foothill's Center for Innovation and by sponsoring Stephen Hawking's lectures at De Anza.
FUHSD takes awards at state contest
For the second year in a row, the Homestead High School Future Business Leaders of America team in May captured the coveted FBLA California State Championship. Fremont Union High School District had four schools in the top ten with HHS placing first;
Lynbrook High School, fourth; Cupertino High School, eighth; and Monta Vista High School, tenth. Thirty one of the students qualified to compete at the National FBLA Conference in Long Beach this July. Cupertino High School junior Pavan Tripathi also was elected the new FBLA Bay Section President for the 2000-2001 school year.
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