Spring View has cream of the...

Spring View has cream of the crop

Students at Spring View Middle School can thank their 12-year-old

classmate Ashley Rapose for the ice cream party that they’ll be

having on Friday morning.

Ashley was a winner in the “I Dream of Ice Cream” contest hosted

by the Web site KidsCom.com. The contest, designed to help children

get acquainted with each other and to help them make new friends,

looked for the student who could come up with the best party name and

reason for deserving it.

Ashley’s theme, Cream “O” Licious Ice Cream, and her assertion

that her school deserved the party to recognize all of the hard work

that teacher Jessica Clayton does, won ice cream for everyone. The

school will get enough ice cream, cones and toppings to feed as many

as 400 children.

The contest began on Sept. 16 and will run through Nov. 17. One

winner is chosen every week.

The Web site is designed for children between the ages of 8 and

15. Children can talk with each other in fully monitored chat rooms,

find pen pals online and receive a free e-mail newsletter.

Pegasus School takes Koala Bowl

The Pegasus School came out on top for the second year in a row at

the annual Koala Bowl, held at Cornelia Connelly High School in

Anaheim.

The academic trivia competition, which was held last week, brought

together five Orange County private schools.

The winning team members were, Samantha Wei, Jessica Brostek,

Ariel Knoebel, Brynne Quinlan, Jocelyn Reist and Alexandra

McLaughlin.

Golden West girls look at engineering

A group of female students from Golden West College attended

“Women Engineers at the Beach,” an educational conference for middle,

high school and community college students.

Nearly 500 female students attended the event at Cal State Long

Beach.

The goal of the conference, which was hosted by the school’s

College of Engineering, is to attract more women to engineering,

computer science and technology-related fields.

Those in attendance got to take part in workshops that covered a

wide variety of engineering professions, including aerospace, civil

transportation, biomedical and clinical engineering and construction

engineering management.

-- Jose Paul Corona