Troy High

2200 E. Dorothy Lane

Fullerton 92831-3034

(714) 870-3600

* Enrollment: 2,119

* Established: 1964

* Team name: Warriors

* Principal: Chuck Maruca

* Student president: Marlon Layugan

* Valedictorian: Cara Bautista, Qin Ding, Jessica Duan and Niraj Mehta

* Famous alumni: Social Distortion’s Mike Ness and the late Dennis Danell

* Winning moments: First place National Science Olympiad; among top three county schools in Advanced Placement test scoring; Department of Energy Science Bowl award; boys’ and girls’ basketball playoffs; girls’ soccer playoffs; girls’ cross-country championships; football playoffs; girls’ tennis playoffs

* In the works: Tech magnet program in computer science, mathematics and science

* Graduation: 2:30 p.m. June 15 at Fullerton High stadium

SENIOR STANDOUT

Qin Ding of Placentia

* Achievements: Valedictorian; earned a 4.77 weighted grade-point average; received regional, state and national Science Olympiad medals; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute medal for math and science; Orange County Speech League certificate; named National Merit scholar; Advanced Placement scholar; Stanford University president’s scholar; Seal bearer; National Honor Society; International Baccalaureate full-diploma candidate; California Scholarship Federation; newspaper staff member; senior intern at Cal State Fullerton’s Electron Scattering Laboratory; speaks Mandarin, Shanghainese dialect and some Spanish

* Connections: Member of the Interact club; enjoys “observing the night sky with my telescope”; sketching cartoons (especially Disney characters); reading Chinese novels and science books (“ ‘A Hundred Thousand “Whys” ’ piqued my curiosity in astronomy”); playing the violin; volunteered for the Fullerton Public Library’s Children’s Reading Program; tutored Chinese 101 students and recorded lab tapes for Fullerton College

* Ambitions: Attend Harvard or Stanford University, major in science or business; pursue a career “in which I can collaborate with colleagues overseas, especially in China, where I grew up”

* Family: Father is Yanwei Ding; mother is Meijuan Dong

* Claim to fame: “My teachers in fifth and sixth grades called my best friend and me their ‘dancing petunias’ ”

THE SENIOR CLASS: 470