DVCx – Our TED style event – Friday, November 13^th

Our 9^th grade students will be putting on a DVCx event (TED style talks and presentations) on Friday, November 13^th during school.  This great event is open to all parents and community members – come check out students’ performances!

DVCx – Inspiring Talks and Demonstrations
Friday, November 13^th
Del Aire Gym
Session 1 / 11:00 – 12:10
Session 2 / 1:05 – 2:15
More details coming soon . . .

Thanksgiving/Winter Break Job Opportunity

Want to earn money and contribute to our capitalist machine? Old Navy is looking for seasonal help (Black Friday), and would love to recruit some of our students for part-time (paid work).  There will be an information meeting in Mr. Barclay’s classroom Monday, November 2nd at lunch

Exhibition – November 19^th

Exhibition will take place on Thursday, November 19^th. Students will be showing off their project work from this semester, including non-profit companies, persuasive speeches, video games, murder mysteries and more!  As is the case each semester, all students are expected to present at exhibition and attend the full event in professional attire.

Thank You!

Thank you to Kim Young for organizing and everyone for showing up to Family Dinner a couple weeks ago – we raised some nice money for college field trips this year, which will be happening in January and February!

This announcement was a great reminder for me that the Week 11 announcement was never posted, quite sorry about that, always feel free to yell at me anytime for my oversights via email or in person. – Nathan

Family Dinner Tomorrow!

Los Angeles Performing and Visual Arts College Fair

If you are interested in pursuing performing or visual arts in college, you can attend this fair at UCLA:

Saturday, October 24, 2015, 1:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
University of California, Los Angeles, Ackerman Union, Grand Ballroom
308 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90024

http://www.nacacnet.org/college-fairs/PVA-College-Fairs/Pages/Los-Angeles.aspx

Spirit Week – Next Week!

• Monday: Pajama Day
• Tuesday: Toons Day (Cartoons and Super Heroes)
• Wednesday: Twins Day
• Thursday: Decades (#TBT)
• Friday: Halloween Costumes

We expect great things from everyone, but especially on Halloween for costume day!

SSC Notes

We held our first School Site Council Meeting on Tuesday. Here are unofficial minutes and notes from the meeting, if you are interested: Minutes – DVC SSC – October 2015

Next week is a bit shorter for students – Friday 10/23 students have no school.

Come out and meet some other DVC parents and students at our Family Dinner next Thursday and Roundtable Pizza (4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance, CA 90504) – come anytime between 5:30 and 9pm and DVC receives 15% of all orders!

Happy Monday everyone.  All 10^th and 11^th grade students will be taking the PSAT this Wednesday. Both tests are great practice for the SAT, which students will want to take second semester of their junior year, or very early in their senior year. While some colleges are starting to look at students’ overall profile and weigh standardized tests slightly less than before they remain a huge factor in college admissions, especially for the CSU and UC systems.  You can see the UC and CSU GPA/standardized test entrance standards below. The UC system’s admissions process is more complex, but courses taken, GPA and SAT/ACT (either is fine) scores are still the most important factors.

• UC Eligibility Index: http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/freshman/california-residents/
• CSU Matrix: https://secure.csumentor.edu/planning/high_school/cal_residents.asp

If you haven’t paid the $15 test fee we are charged by the College Board, please pay online: http://davincischools.org/collegepsat.shtml, in person with Jackie, or contact Nathan if you are unable to pay the fee.

Here is our weekly calendar – coffee with Nathan is tomorrow morning and Family Dinner is happening next week:

Go Blue! -Nathan

Riordan Saturday Business Institute (SBI)

Applications for the Riordan SBI are due this coming Monday, October 12^th.  If you are interested in learning about business and college from college grades and MBA candidates, as well as enter the feeder program for Riordan Scholars, make sure you complete your application and submit it to the DVC office.  If you are applying make sure that you can make all of the program days (listed below the application link):

Due date: October 12^th

Riordan Saturday Business Institute – Application 2015

Program Dates (all programs run in the morning, starting at 9am or 10am and running until 12pm or 1pm)

• Saturday, November 14^th
• Saturday, January 23^rd
• Saturday, February 20^th
• Saturday, March 19^th

Back by popular demand, DVC family dinner!

Come join and meet other DVC families and students at a very informal dinner at Round Table Pizza in two weeks, Thursday, October 22^nd: