Clark Magnet

After hiking up a steep Ojai trail in 90-degree heat this October, a group of Clark Magnet High School Students came upon abandoned camps where illegal marijuana growers lived and cultivated plants grown with an excess of illegal chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This was all part of the plan. The student group, led by Clark teacher Dominque Evans-Bye, had compiled research on the harmful effects of marijuana grown illegally to compete in the nationwide Lexus Eco Challenge. As the students made their way to the camps, they hiked behind three armed officers who led the way by cutting through brush that blocked their path.

As Clark Magnet High School readied to open its doors in September 1998, Principal Doug Dall knew he would have to work efficiently to turn the experiment into something with staying power. “When the idea was broached to have Clark Magnet come online, there was a lot of doubt about whether it would succeed or not,” Dall said. “In fact, a lot of things we did from a design standpoint was to design it as a general comprehensive high school. The idea was, should it fail, to gerrymander the [high school]

Crescenta Valley and Clark Magnet high schools were named California Distinguished Schools this week, with Clark receiving special commendation for its career education. The two La Crescenta high schools, which also serve students from the west edge of La Cañada Flintridge, were among 194 schools given the award in its 20th year. Clark was one of just 12 schools in the state to receive the Exemplary Career Technical Education Program Award, which recognizes schools that provide real-world career education to students.

Crescenta Valley High School emerged victorious Monday in the Glendale Unified Scholastic Bowl, which pits some of the district's brightest high school students against one another in a game-show-style competition. “I think we all tried hard to do the best we could to succeed,” Crescenta Valley junior Tae Min Kim said as he posed for a victory photo with his teammates. Following the Crescenta Valley score of 79 points was Clark Magnet with 68 points, Hoover with 65 points and Glendale with 62 points.

Students in Clark Magnet High School's Dance Club put three months of hard work to the test Friday when they performed live in front of their peers during lunchtime in the school's outdoor amphitheater. Seven members of the school's dance club wore white and black outfits and danced to popular songs by recording artists Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Jennifer Lopez. "We made it all up," 15-year-old Nairi Issagholian said. "Dancing together unites us, kind of like we're a team."

LIGHTING OF THE MENORAH While most of the city is thinking about trees, wreaths and eggnog, Glendale's Chabad community is thinking about menorahs, dreidels and latkes. The third night of Hanukkah will be celebrated at 4:30 p.m. Sunday by lighting a giant menorah in front of the main inside entrance of JCPenney at the Glendale Galleria, 2148 Glendale Galleria. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO PERFORM Student musicians from Clark Magnet, Glendale and Hoover high schools will perform holiday shows for the community this week.

Last weekend Crescenta Valley and Clark Magnet high schools’ robots faced 58 other teams in the Los Angeles regional competition through FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition in Science and Technology). The teams had been engineering their robots since winter break and both felt ready for the challenge. Each year FIRST creates a game that combines engineering skill with creativity and imagination. This year the game was called “Lunacy” and was a type of basketball on wheels.

Anderson The following incidents were taken from police reports. Glendale Galleria: A 19-year-old Alhambra woman was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of stealing $43 in unspecified items from J.C. Penney. Glendale Galleria: A 31-year-old Glendale man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of stealing several items from Planet X, Baby Gap, Knuckleheads, and the Limited Too stores. Verdugo Boulevard and Harvard Street: Two Glendale High School students were arrested Monday on suspicion of fighting in public.

Gary Moskowitz SOUTHEAST GLENDALE -- Crescenta Valley High School will defend its scholastic title at the 2002 High School Scholastic Bowl later this month. Glendale Unified's High School Scholastic Bowl is an academic competition in math, science, history, language arts and fine arts. The competition will be at 7 p.m. Monday, March 18, in the Glendale High School auditorium, 1440 E. Broadway. KNBC-TV Channel 4 weatherman Fritz Coleman will quiz student teams from Crescenta Valley, Clark Magnet, Glendale and Hoover high schools.

Gary Moskowitz LA CRESCENTA -- Linda Kim is excited about finding the truth behind any problem or concern of her peers. Kim, 18, has taken that excitement and applied it to high school journalism as editor-in-chief of Clark Magnet High School's Clark Chronicle newspaper. Kim was one of 40 high school students honored Wednesday evening at the fifth annual Journalism Awards. The awards are given to Glendale students for outstanding work in their high school newspapers.

Clark Magnet High School teacher Dominique Evans-Bye is one of 11 teachers across the country - and the only one in California - to win a coveted environmental award that honors her innovative and hands-on approach to teaching science. An instructor at Clark since 2000, Evans-Bye this week won the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators for her focus on environmental research and her students' sustainability projects. One of those projects took place last October when she led a group of students up steep hills near Ojai to see camps that used to house illegal marijuana growing operations.

Billionaire Richard Branson may have been celebrating the next step in his quest to make commercial space flights viable this week, but students at Clark Magnet High School also have been busy at work analyzing their own near-space flight. The students launched a high-altitude balloon that reached 85,000 feet over the Angeles National Forest Sunday to collect photos and video from near-space. "Launching a high-altitude balloon is about 99% the same as going to space, and it's as close as you can get without a very expensive, massive rocket," said Clark teacher David Black, who oversaw the launch.

If you are the parent of a current high school student, you will spend about $250,000 to raise that child to the age of 18, give or take a few thousand depending on family resources, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. With prom season imminent, it might be time to increase the budget. The average American family will shell out $1,139 for the big dance in 2013, a 5% increase compared to last year, according to a survey released Wednesday by Visa Inc. If that strikes you as an eye-popping sum, hopefully you don't live in New York or Connecticut.

A group of Clark Magnet students learned firsthand Wednesday which U.S. presidents worked best with the CIA over the years and what it's like to take part in various intelligence roles. Admiral Bobby Inman, former deputy director of the CIA, spoke with students in the school's Geopolitics Club, which is known for snagging interviews with military/political figures via Skype. In February, Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, who was in charge of training the Iraqi military between 2003 and 2004, spoke with club members, and last year they interviewed Brig.

A retired senior Army official on Wednesday told a group of Glendale Unified students that the U.S.-backed military invasion of Iraq developed into a “full-scale insurgency” and warned that the effort in Afghanistan threatens “to keep soaking up our national treasure.” The comments by retired Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton came via teleconference with the Geopolitics Club at Clark Magnet High School - from the perspective of a man who was in charge...

After hiking up a steep Ojai trail in 90-degree heat this October, a group of Clark Magnet High School Students came upon abandoned camps where illegal marijuana growers lived and cultivated plants grown with an excess of illegal chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This was all part of the plan. The student group, led by Clark teacher Dominque Evans-Bye, had compiled research on the harmful effects of marijuana grown illegally to compete in the nationwide Lexus Eco Challenge. As the students made their way to the camps, they hiked behind three armed officers who led the way by cutting through brush that blocked their path.

Clark Magnet High School was named a national Blue Ribbon school for the second time, Glendale Unified officials announced Monday. The award recognizes private and public schools that make significant academic progress on federal benchmarks. Clark Magnet is among just 24 Blue Ribbon schools named in California and 307 in the nation. “I'm just amazed by it,” said Principal Doug Dall. “When you think about how hard it is to do this…it confirms what the district has done with professional development - the fact that our teachers work so hard.” Of 1,100 students at Clark, 52% are low-income and 85% primarily speak a language other than English.

Many of Clark Magnet High School's graduating class of 254 seniors were overcome with emotion Thursday evening, minutes before the ceremony began. “I'll cry if I talk,” said 18-year-old Argine Terteryan. She was standing with her friend, graduating senior Elin Mardirosian, as they recounted their final year in high school and the events that stood out for them - a senior class trip to Catalina Island, prom and a senior class barbecue. Both students plan on attending Glendale Community College in the fall.

Crescenta Valley High School emerged victorious Monday in the Glendale Unified Scholastic Bowl, which pits some of the district's brightest high school students against one another in a game-show-style competition. “I think we all tried hard to do the best we could to succeed,” Crescenta Valley junior Tae Min Kim said as he posed for a victory photo with his teammates. Following the Crescenta Valley score of 79 points was Clark Magnet with 68 points, Hoover with 65 points and Glendale with 62 points.

As Clark Magnet High School readied to open its doors in September 1998, Principal Doug Dall knew he would have to work efficiently to turn the experiment into something with staying power. “When the idea was broached to have Clark Magnet come online, there was a lot of doubt about whether it would succeed or not,” Dall said. “In fact, a lot of things we did from a design standpoint was to design it as a general comprehensive high school. The idea was, should it fail, to gerrymander the [high school]