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CV High School students became award-winning inventors when their team's gadget won third place at last Friday's Invention Challenge at the JPL campus. The challenge was to build a machine that uses three types of energy to light a wooden match in less than 21 seconds.Crescenta Valley High School inventors took home a third place win from JPL's Invention Challenge. JPLer Paul MacNeal started the Invention Challenge eight years ago. The competition is open to JPL employees and contractors, their family members and students from local middle and high schools.

Two teachers and a Crescenta Valley High School senior said to have the spirit and emotion of an entire country were recognized Monday with what many students consider to be the school's most prestigious commendation. Out of an initial field of 76 students, an all-student selection committee chose China Sajadian as this year's recipient of the Falcon Award for Excellence. In an unprecedented move, the 36-student committee bestowed Teacher of the Year honors to two instructors, Sam Levering and Paulette Lee. Sajadian's volunteer work, leadership, commitment and character-not to mention her 4.04 grade point average-propelled her above four other highly qualified finalists and earned her the $1,000 top prize.

by Mary O'Keefe Crescenta Valley Sheriff's Station deputies detained a Crescenta Valley High School student Wednesday after high school administrators discovered the student brought prescription morphine to the school. According to CVHS administrators, the student had been distributing the drug for about two days when they and deputies questioned the student, whose name is being withheld of because he is a minor. Co-principals Linda Evans and Mike Livingston were attending a principals' meeting when they were called Wednesday about the incident by school employees.

Crescenta Valley High School Theatre Outreach Program performed several play scenes Tuesday and Wednesday at the MacDonald Auditorium. The program paired CVHS drama students with elementary students from around the CV area., all supervised by Leslie Boyce and Brent Beerman, director of the school's drama department. For several months, students would meet Saturday mornings at the high school and learn about theatre and acting. They were honed their memorization skills, became comfortable with public speaking and were trained in basic acting techniques.

Crescenta Valley High School is welcoming two new assistant principals to their staff. Christopher Coulter has been in his new assistant principal position for about two weeks. "It is an excellent school. I am very impressed with the students and staff that I have met so far," said Coulter. An assistant principal at Half Moon Bay High School before taking the CVHS job, Coulter has had expirence with the duty requirements of the position. Primarily, the assistant principal handles discipline.

Last Friday, the Comedy Sportz teams from Crescenta Valley High School and La Cañada High School held their first match of the year at the LCHS Auditorium. The team from LCHS emerged victorious. Comedy Sportz is a league of exceptionally funny students who make up exceptionally funny things to say off the top of their heads at a moment's notice drawing from suggestions from the audience. Comedy Sportz matches resemble the television show, "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" Now there are 21 teams worldwide ?

A series of informational meetings on scholarships and financial aid will take place at Crescenta Valley High School for students and parents. Guest speaker David Levy, director of financial aid at Caltech, will discuss several programs available for seniors to assist them in meeting the cost of education after high school. The first of these meetings, "What is Available in Financial Aid?" is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 1, in the CVHS cafeteria at 7 p.m. The second meeting, "Completing the Financial Aid Application," will take place Wednesday, Jan. 12, in the CVHS cafeteria at 7 p.m. Levy will review, line by line, the process of completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

Mary O?Keefe Crescenta Valley High School is mourning the loss of a former student who died over the weekend. Benjamin “Vince” Velasquez, 16, had attended CVHS until October. He had since been attending Daly High School in Glendale. According to Los Angeles Sheriff’s Detective Dan McElderry, shortly after 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, paramedics responded to a residence in La Crescenta, with one patient in full cardiac arrest.

If you think scientists and engineers are quiet people who sit behind desks, where the most exercise they get is from pushing their thick-rimmed glasses up the bridge of their noses, think again. Enter the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Robotics Competition at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood. This is more like a professional wrestling event than an extreme science fair. Loud rock music blares from everywhere and a very enthusiastic DJ-like announcer jumps into the ring, or playing field, announcing the teams.

LA CRESCENTA WOMAN'S CLUB INSTALLS OFFICERS La Crescenta Woman's Club celebrated the year's end with the installation of new officers for the club's 2007-08 year. The incoming officers and directors are President Rita Even ; First Vice President Vickie Guagliardo and Sally Benson ; Second Vice Presidents Carol Benedetti and Ellie Pipe s ; Third Vice President Dea McCrory ; Recording Secretary Florence Virgallito ; Corresponding Secretary Jean Bates ; Treasurer Danette Erickson ; Bulletin Chairwoman Sharon Benoit ; House Chairwoman Carol Huntwork ; Philanthropy Genny Bundick ; Program Chairwoman Pat Wichert and Press Chairwoman Gloria Lee . The club gave college scholarships to three students from Crescenta Valley High School and to one student from Clark Magnet School.

When Crescenta Valley High School seniors walk across the stage to accept their diplomas in June, it will mark the first time the school's students will attend graduation ceremonies on their own campus. This year's ceremony comes 50 years after the school handed out its first diplomas in 1963, three years after the school was established in 1960. "What we have here is a truly historic event," said Katherine Fundukian Thorossian, asst. supt. of Glendale Unified. From 1963 to 2011, Crescenta Valley seniors were graduated at Stengel Field, a park several miles from the school, where the baseball bleachers could accommodate as many family and friends as seniors wanted to invite to the ceremony.

La Crescenta resident Christina Padilla, 19, often dreamed of a major platform for her artwork, but her audience was largely confined to family members, teachers and classmates. Now, a piece by the 2011 Crescenta Valley High School graduate, installed on the facade of the Bob Hope Airport on Dec. 1., is being viewed by hundreds of thousands of travelers coming through the Burbank transportation hub during the holiday season. “It still doesn't feel real,” Padilla said Monday.

Community members appear divided about the possible elimination of Crescenta Valley High School's open lunch, with some characterizing any change as an unnecessary punishment and others ripping district officials for not moving quickly enough to stem the student-related problems identified in a recent report. Glendale Unified officials announced last week that they were reviewing the open-lunch policy after drawing a connection between it and ongoing disciplinary problems, absences and student tardiness.

PFAR awards scholarships High school graduates throughout the foothill area and the San Gabriel Valley were given a financial boost toward their college tuition when the Pasadena-Foothills Association of REALTORS awarded nine students with $1,000 scholarships. Among the nine were Crescenta Valley High School student Ga Lim “Monica” Lee ; La Cañada High School graduate Lauren Gokey ; and Matt McCallister of Verdugo Hills High School. Plans for the nine include pursuing careers in law enforcement, family and human development, education, business management, medicine and art. The difficult task of choosing just nine winners from 66 applicants fell to PFAR’s Scholarship Committee Chair Lynnell Woodward, Thomas Atamian, John Hickey, Carla Jamison and Deborah Maxson.

The green tarps are on the move again at Crescenta Valley High School as repairs on building 7000 are completed and construction crews begin work on building 1000. The repairs are due to poor construction during a $41 million remodeling project that had been completed in 2002. Buildings 1000, 5000, 6000 and 7000 were scheduled for repairs after several areas were found to have leaks during heavy rains. The leaks caused damage to walls, which created a breeding ground for mold. A diagnostic-type review of the work found windows with gaps between the frames and the structures, and cracking in the plaster walls.

Dressed in their finest, last Saturday night over 700 Crescenta Valley High School seniors and their dates climbed into limos, “party buses” and their own cars to arrive at Long Beach in time to board a luxury Hornblower yacht for their senior prom. The seniors were greeted by teachers and school administrators but for some the most welcoming thing they saw were the huge food tables stretched out on the first and second floor of the yacht. The students danced the night away and when they got too warm, they ascended to the top floor and enjoyed the Long Beach skyline as they cruised the harbor.

The Crescenta Valley community came out in force to support over 100 athletes as they ran relays and sprinted down the track at Crescenta Valley High School on May 9 at the first annual CV CAN (Crescenta Valley is Committed to Athletic Needs) Special Olympics track and field meet. The event began with the parade of athletes, then Pledge of Allegiance led by young athlete Michael Lazo, with the help from CVHS JROTC’s color guard. The ARC Handbell Choir from North Hollywood performed the National Anthem flawlessly.

CVHS drama, dance performing The Crescenta Valley High School drama department is presenting Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning play “Our Town” in the school’s Underground Theatre at 2900 Community Ave. Tickets are available at the door, $7 for adults, $5 for students. Performance dates are March 20 and 21, 26 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. and March 27 at 4 p.m. The high school’s advanced dance department is presenting “Forever on the Dance Floor,” a performance that showcases a variety of dance styles including jive, hip-hop, lyrical and more.