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Art Show Features Work of San Mateo High School Students and Staff

San Mateo High School students and teachers from the art certificate program, art classes and creative writing classes have been working for months on a special art show - the "Honey Bee."

"Honey Bee," is presented by the Zoetic Tapestry Project and is open to the public March 13 - May 8:

Link to register will be posted soon.

Visit www.smuhsd.org/summer to learn more about:

At its February 24 meeting, the Board of Trustees approved a new map which will divide the District into five voting areas allowing voters in the District to elect one trustee living in the same designated trustee area they do. This is known as by-trustee area elections. 

Voters can learn more by visiting our website. 

Mills High School Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) Chapter was well represented with Region 5 Officers at the Spring Leadership Meeting.

In December, a team from BHS Architecture won Best Design Concept in the Construction Industry Education Foundation's CREATE program.

BHS student teams worked on designs for new buildings to house Career Technical Education (CTE) programs on the BHS campus for this year's competition. The Child Development team (pictured above from left) - Zane Allred, Ingi Helgason, Raymond Frank and Chris Galli - won Best Design Concept in the Virtual Competition for their whimsical design for an earth sheltered building for a Child Development CTE program.

Read the press release for more information about the CREATE program competition.

Mills student Ian Chu received Honorable Mention for his design "To the Future" in the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco's Design Ideas Collective in Fall 2021.

What are ways parents can set healthy boundaries and support their kids to use technology in a post-pandemic world? Join Common Sense Media and Kaiser Permanente Redwood City as we discuss how you can have open conversations with your kids about the benefits and challenges of technology in our lives. Come with questions and leave with simple tips you can use immediately with your kids.

This presentation is sponsored by the Digital Well-Being Task Force, Sequoia Union High School District, Sequoia Healthcare District, Peninsula Health Care District, and The Parent Venture.

Contact Charlene Margot, MA, Co-Founder and CEO, The Parent Venture (The Parent Education Series), at cmargot@parentventure.org

The Domini Hoskins Black History Month exhibit in Redwood City has been extended through March 31.

The exhibit is also presenting a series of panel discussions that will take place at 890 Jefferson Avenue in Redwood City. More information and updates can be found on the Domini Hoskins Black History Museum and Learning Center's page on Facebook.

The Ensemble for These Times recently announced their free in-person and live streamed concert - Dark Universe/ Mysterious Spaces - with six commissioned world premieres by Vivian Fung, David Garner, Andrew Harlan, Seo Yoon Soyoona Kim, Stephanie Neumann, and Nicholas Denton Protsack.

The world premiers will be performed by:

To see a complete list of current vacancies - permanent and substitute, visit www.smuhsd.org/careers.