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Summer School Schedule-June 22 -July 24, 2009
Period 1: 7:35 - 9:57a.m. Nutrition: 9:57 - 10:07 Period 2: 10:14 - 12:35 p.m
Fourteen-Carat Futures -
By Katie Hickox, QUEST English Teacher
Gold Robe Students: Front Row (left to right): Truong Tran, Alicia Wariner, Sarah Lacombe, Min-Minh-Ho, Sarah Lacombe Back Row: Scott Egan, Daniel Shultz, Tamara Hashimoto, Michael Diaz
The nine students adorned in gold at Millikan High School’s graduation ceremonies have 14-carat futures in addition to 4.0 averages maintained for four years. They hail from area middle schools including Cubberley, Stanford, Marshall, and Saint Barnabas Parish. Their recipe for success: passion and perseverance.
Allow us to introduce Millikan’s gold robe team. Michael Diaz is a National Merit Scholar who was accepted to Harvard University. He expects to attend Stanford University with $58,150 in scholarships to date. Michael is also National Merit Hispanic Scholar who won congressional recognition for his community work, which includes the Good Neighbor Award for efforts in the fifth district of Long Beach.
Scott Egan earned the impressive combination of UC Regents and UC Chancellors scholarships to UC Berkeley, netting him about $20,000 annually. He was a National Merit Scholar qualifier. Accepted at the University of California, Los Angeles, Tamara Hashimoto chose California State Long Beach because the campus offered a competitive engineering program and a full ride through the President’s Scholars Program. Her favorite teachers were on the QUEST English team.
“I have seen a big improvement in my writing and it is all thanks to their help,” said Tamara. Minh-Minh Ho and Sarah Lacombe also won the prestigious President’s Scholars scholarship to CSULB. It is noteworthy to point out that Millikan’s “gold ladies” will be majoring in fields dominated by men. Tamara and Sarah Lacombe chose civil engineering; Minh-Minh, chemistry; Sarah Lopez, bioengineering; and Alicia Wariner, chemical engineering. Sarah Lacombe said, “If I am qualified and enjoy what I’m doing, it doesn’t matter that I’m going into a field composed of mostly men.”
Accepted to the University of California, Berkeley, Sarah Lopez has received congressional recognition for her volunteer work with young children. She plans to attend UC Santa Cruz, with a total of $30,500 in scholarships to date, including a UC Regents award. Sarah is juggling an internship at the Orange County Register with her part-time job working with young children at the Alpert Jewish Community Center’s after school program.
“I think success is a product of passion,” said Sarah, who scored into the College Board’s National Hispanic Recognition Program, along with Michael Diaz. “If you just go after success, you’re going to be really unhappy.”
Truong Tran, a member of Millikan’s Global Technology Academy, plans to attend UCI and is the only non-QUEST gold robe candidate. Like Minh-Minh Ho, his favorite course is AP Biology. His eclectic volunteer interests include coaching sports at Saint Barnabas Parish, his former middle school, and working at a science lab at UCLA.
Daniel Shultz plans on attending CSULB, where he competed in Math Day with other students from throughout California. Daniel and Alicia Wariner are among five gold robes who stated that one of their favorite courses at Millikan was AP Calculus.
“It’s finally a math course which addresses complex elements of the real world,” Daniel said. Alicia expects to attend Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York with $31,500 in scholarships. She is a graduate of Stanford Middle School under Don Keller, who is now a Millikan co-principal.
Congratulations to Millikan’s gold robe candidates! Your teachers are proud of you.
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