U-House Pride

Our very independent students who have against all obstacles successfully have created a Speech and Debate team that has proudly attained charter status. Charter status is the highest school membership honor in the National Forensic Leagues. Achieving this honor earns our program a place among the best programs in the nation. Our program has demonstrated excellence in attaining new members and degrees. Our students are to be commended.

A team of our very own mathletes competed and performed very well at the state level of the MathCounts competition. A big congratulations to the team: Jonathan Luo, Samuel Lee, Sage Iwamoto, and Bryan Pyo. And also a special congratulations to an amazing LACES senior, Ellen Kulinsky, who coached the team.

The high school regional Science Bowl competition took place this past weekend at LADWP. We had 2 teams in the 42 team competition. Our "A" team, with a 5 and 1 round robin record made it to the play-offs (best 16 teams), and eventually finished in the top 8 bracket. Our "B" team finished with a 3 and 3 record in the round robin. North Hollywood won the regional.

We had two teams compete in the Los Angeles Regional Science Bowl competition at CSULA. 18 teams total competed. Our B team finished in the top 6, and our A team won, so the team has been invited to D.C. again.

The LACES robotics team "Go Unicorns!" participated in the first qualifying round of the First Lego League in Thousand Oaks on November 23rd. Out of 21 teams participating, our team won second place in the Robot Design, and we are one of the six teams moving to the next round, which will take place on December 13th, at La Canada High School. The team has worked very hard, and we are delighted with their success.

The Commission on Human Relations, Diversity and Equity will honor LACES for our outstanding effort to support human relations concerns in our school community:

It's my pleasure to announce that Albert Kim, graduating senior, was awarded $110,624 in CCAP (Careers through Culinary Arts Program) scholarships. He's going off to Johnson and Wales in the Fall.

Congratulations to 12th grader, Nia Seamster, who won a district culinary competition this semester and has earned a prestigious paid internship with the Border Grille in Santa Monica.

Last Thursday at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, our LACES students advanced to the Semi-Final round, beating out teams from 12 other Los Angeles County schools. And our very own Ryan Longmuir made it to the finals. performing to a packed house at the Ebell Theater on Saturday night.