Chandler Beat

Members of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church are donating more than 1,000 pounds of food to the Chandler CARE Center this week, the largest donation of the year, said Susan Horan, the center’s director. The rice and beans will arrive Tuesday and will be rebagged by volunteers and disbursed. Horan estimates 175 families will benefit from the donation. “What’s significant is even in these hard economic times, a church is doing a ‘Christmas in July,’” Horan said. “They realize people need help with food throughout the year.” The center is located at San Marcos Elementary School, 451 W Frye Road.

Dee Dee Walker, a seventh-grade student at Santan Junior High, won fourth place in the Chandler Public Library poetry contest. She was the youngest applicant, and her poem will be printed in an anthology of poetry.

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The kindergarten classes at Chandler’s Weinberg Elementary are celebrating Mother’s Day. Some classes are asking moms and dads to come and eat with their child during lunch time. Lunch will be followed with a special ice cream snack and time to play on the playground. Other classes have invited the moms to come in and spend time in the classroom for an hour. The activities will include listening to the children sing a few songs, creating a ladybug cookie, and making a ladybug frame, which will be complete when a picture of the mom and child is added. We hope all of the mothers enjoy their special time at our school.

This news came into the Tribune today: On April 4th, Willis Junior High CATS (Chandler Unified School District’s gifted program) students competed in the State Competition for National History Day at Fountain Hills. National History Day is a contest to inspire students to revive history and use critical thinking skills to analyze primary and secondary sources. This years theme is The Individual - Actions and Legacies. Only two entries per category for each state are allowed to compete at nationals. The students have been working on this project since August.
Those chosen to represent Arizona at the national contest in Washington D.C. from Willis are: John Wang, 8th grade (First place individual exhibit) and Cali Cappuccio, 7th grade (second place individual exhibit).
Group exhibits are 7th graders Elijah Olivas and Jeremy Duffy (first place) and 8th graders Ali Muller and Mary Nguyen (second place). For documentaries, Corey Nelson - 8th grade (first place Individual documentary) and for 7th grade Sean Graham and Bryce Royball (first place group documentary) and Adithya Nott and Oliver Dorr (second place group documentary). Shandel Roberts teaches language arts and social studies to the 7th graders and Katie Dial teaches Language Arts and Social Studies to the 8th graders.

This is a tremendous academic accomplishment for these students.
Congratulations!!

The Chandler High School spirit line took home the first place trophy in varsity show cheer at the Arizona State Cheerleading Tournament on March 7th for the second year in a row.

This news came into the Tribune today:

Thirteen of Chandler Unified’s Basha High School students competed in the 60th annual American Mathematics Contest (AMC) 12 and six students participated in the 10th annual American Mathematics Contest (AMC) 10. The contest is given at participating schools internationally. Students who score in the top three on the AMC 12 are used to rank the school both regionally and nationally.   

Basha senior Thomas Nall, who earned the AMC12  top score, and Joe Schneider, who earned the top AMC 10 score, were joined by Manasas Kalluri, Jayce Pangilinan, Joyce Zhang and Sudhanshu Ambadipudi, who also earned recognition as achieving the “top three scores”  in their given contest.