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Around The Glen
Willow Glen Winners
Buzz Off--Watch out, McDonalds, here comes Mackenzie. After winning the best of fair award at the Santa Clara County Science and Engineering Fair for her project, "Would You Like Flies With That?" Willow Glen eighth grader Mackenzie Davenport is flying down to Los Angeles. She won an all-expense paid trip to the California State Science Fair, May 24 and 25, after presenting her project on bacteria found at local fast food chain.
Turn, Turn, Turn--People can change, and these students are living proof. The fourth-annual San Jose Unified Turn-Around Scholarships award luncheon was held on May 12, and eight Willow Glen students walked away with $1,000 scholarships each: Bernice Aguilera and Matt Garcia from Lincoln High; Yadira Solis, Erica Higgins, Danielle Larson and Teresa Berry from Broadway High; Gloria Mendoza from Gunderson High; and Evan Lassiter, a second-time scholarship winner from West Valley College. Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Willow Glen Sunrisers and San Jose Unified Education Foundation, turn-around scholarships are awarded to at-risk high school seniors who have turned their lives around, graduated from high school and gone on to attend college or other accredited training programs.
Know a Willow Glen winner? E-mail The Resident at wgr@svcn.com
Tamien accredited
Families of the 130 kids who attend Tamien Child Care Center have always felt there was something special about their center. Now, the Willow Glen child care facility has the stamp of approval to prove it. Tamien Child Care Center was recently granted accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children--a prestigious recognition achieved by only 7 percent of early childhood programs nationwide.
"When the center was designed, we were designed with those guidelines, we always had them, it's just a sign of approval," says Mary Ostrowski, director of the three-and-a-half-year-old center.
Programs seeking NAEYC accreditation undergo an intensive self-study, collecting information from parents, teachers, administrators and classroom observations. Then, they undergo an on-site visit, conducted by early childhood professionals trained by NAEYC to validate the self-study results.
The center, located at the Tamien Light Rail Station, 1197 Lick Ave., also includes a dry-cleaning service, hair salon, catered lunches and a family portrait studio. Once a month the child care facility is open until 10 p.m.
"We're known for being a center that strives to create community," Ostrowski says.
-- Jessica Lyons
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Willow Glen, California Since 1992
