Please stop by the Powell Art Gallery sometime in the next two weeks for Sequoia's Mid-semester Art Show.  The show will feature Drawing, Painting, Art I, Ceramics, Digital Photography, and IB Art Years I and II.  It is the first group show for all visual arts students.  Come see students' diversity of artistic expression on display.

 

Don't ignore your inner artist! It's time to start working on your Reflections project for this year's Reflections theme, Look Within; tema, Mira Dentro.

All entries w ill be recognized for their artistic achievement--participation itself is a meaningful contribution to the Sequoia community!  First-place finishers in each category enter the district competition.  District winners move on to the state level, and winners there ultimately compete at the national level.

Four sophomores on the Sequoia Debate Team started their season at the CFL Super Debate at Milpitas High School on Sunday.  The teams competed in the parliamentary format, where two teams of two debaters face off on a topic announced only twenty minutes before the debate starts.  Students debated topics ranging from property taxes to foreign military aid to encryption of Internet messaging.  The first team of Isabelle Simon and Marta Olson, and the second of Alyssa Sawyer and Julian Ward, competed against debaters from Gunn, Monta Vista, Evergreen Valley, Nueva, Los Altos, and Lynbrook high schools.

The Sequoia Debate Team has tripled in size this year, growing to over thirty students who practice each Friday after school, developing their public speaking skills, learning about argumentation strategy, and broadening their understanding of current events.  The team's two coaches are Stanford undergrads and award-winning national debaters with years of experience coaching and captaining debate teams.