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Guadalupe Melgarejo places 1st in Botany at V...

Guadalupe Melgarejo places 1st in Botany at VC Science Fair April 19, 2013 | Every year, Hueneme High School (HHS) organizes a science fair to showcase individual or team scientific projects that were conducted by students throughout the entire school year and where local scientists, engineers, community leaders, and parents volunteer to judge the...
 

ACE Charter students design solar-powered pod...

ACE Charter students design solar-powered pod to bring relief to disaster victims February 15, 2013 | Students at ACE Charter High School in Camarillo were recently named semifinalists in the Samsung “Solve For Tomorrow” 2013 Education Contest. The students earned a prize package worth nearly $2,000. The contest called for students to submit a class project that...
 

Students create mock power company, creating ...

Students create mock power company, creating detailed plans to create solar energy for their homes August 24, 2012 | Instead of soaking up the sun’s rays during summer vacation, a group of high school students in Oxnard learned to collect solar energy to provide power for homes or other buildings. The SunPower Solar Science Academy offered a program to students...
 

ACHS Students Participating in CSUCI Summer L...

ACHS Students Participating in CSUCI Summer Lab Research Experience Opportunity July 17, 2012 | Students will take a hands on approach to learning the latest molecular biological and biochemical concepts and methods. Students will create mutant DNA, learn to purify mutant protein from bacteria, and see the effects of their mutations. College-level mentors will...
 

Camarillo climate camp brings NASA to town

Camarillo climate camp brings NASA to town June 26, 2012 | Students got a hands-on climate lesson at a new NASA-funded summer camp where youths and teachers learn together.The camp was the second part of a seven-day workshop that began with the teachers learning new techniques for instructing students last week. CSU...
 

Hueneme students receive unique summer school...

Hueneme students receive unique summer school opportunity June 25, 2012 | Julie Bursek pointed to a PowerPoint slide describing the sooty shearwater, a sea bird that makes a 10,000-mile trek from Chile, along the Pacific Coast, through the Channel Islands and sometimes across to Asia. “It travels on air currents sometimes...
 

Pacific's Chemistry Club hosts 4th graders

Pacific’s Chemistry Club hosts 4th graders June 12, 2012 | Thanks to a very generous grant from the American Chemical Society, Pacifica High School was able to host a science day for 104 Brekke students in the fourth grade. The students were here for about 4 hours and rotated through...
 

Three Rio Mesa students qualify for next roun...

Three Rio Mesa students qualify for next round of National Chemistry Olympiad April 12, 2012 | Geno Arthur, Samantha Pinsak, and Christal Greenlaw have qualified for the next round of the National Chemistry Olympiad. and are invited to take the National Exam at Westmont College on Saturday, April 21. Only 900- 1,000 students in the entire...
 

Spartan teachers donate their Saturday to Sci...

Spartan teachers donate their Saturday to Science February 27, 2012 | Saturday, February 25, three teachers from Rio Mesa High School, Corene Duarte, Lorraine Wood-Newberry, and Rano Sidhu travelled to UCLA on their own time, to attend a California Nano Science Institute workshop on the uses of Nanowires and conductive...
 

Professionals Judge HHS Science Fair

Professionals Judge HHS Science Fair February 2, 2012 | February 2, 2012 – Local professionals came to Hueneme High School to judge Science Fair projects. 20 science judges from the local science community, Oxnard College, retired teachers, and the navy bases judging 47 projects in 8 categories....
 

Pacifica and NASA

Pacifica and NASA November 4, 2011 | Students in Ms. Diane Winter’s chemistry class at Pacifica High School in Oxnard, California conducted one Filtration: No Dirt, No Germs experiment before participating in a live webinar. During the webcast, ACS and NASA scientists at Johnson Space Center performed...