On March 27, a Women In Stem and Engineering seminar featured three women who have had or currently have careers in various STEM fields. These women included Danielle Tan, a technical scientist in translational biology for BioMarin; Roxanne Croze, a scientist II at 4D Molecular Therapeutics; and Adrienne Buell Beccera, a former strategy data analytics leader at Facebook and a
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On October 22, 2018, the Elementary School Size Committee held its first meeting to assess the situation regarding the district’s elementary school sizes. Due to the decrease of enrollment in elementary schools in the past five years, the committee has goals to determine “if the District’s elementary school sizes are ‘ideal’ fiscally and educationally”, according to Superintendent Jim Hogeboom. Members
Read moreIn an email newsletter sent to parents on December 11, Superintendent Jim Hogeboom declared that students are on the brink of a mental health crisis. Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in America and the second leading cause of death for American teenagers. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the 2016 suicide rate for people aged
Read moreOn July 22, 2018, sophomore Izagani Aquino secured a bronze medal victory in the Popular Music History category of Germany’s International History Olympiad. Representing Team California, Aquino competed against more than 250 students from across the world in the Olympiad, which was held in Berlin and took place over the course of nine days. “It was insane,” Aquino said. “You’re
Read moreThe NUSD Board of Education voted 4-3 to delay IT and classroom upgrades at a board meeting on October 2. A motion by Trustee Greg Mack was passed by a vote of 4-3 to approve $4.4 million in air conditioning improvements at Lynwood, Loma Verde and Olive elementary schools. The motion also authorized $8.4 million in improvements tothe baseball, softball
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There are posters on every wall of the room and collages composed of color photos of girls in bright dresses and red stage-lipstick and boys in suits with slicked back hair. These posters are from the 89 plays that drama teacher Linda Kislingbury has directed in her almost 19 years at San Marin. Kislingbury will retire at the end of
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This holiday season, Hollywood visited Novato. The Devonshire Christmas house competed for the best Christmas display and will be shown on national television. The Rombeiro family has been decorating for 27 years, and this will be their last. The Rombeiros are one of the selected finalists on
Read moreThe Restorative Justice Program, a program helping students resolve on-campus conflicts, undergoes a change in oversight Novato Unified School District acquired oversight of the Restorative Justice program at Novato middle and high schools as control was shifted from the YMCA to NUSD. NUSD accepted responsibility for the program, adding it to their grant proposal. The district hired Restorative Justice Specialists
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By: Amanda Oppegard At the end of the 2019-2020 school year, the 600 building portables will be removed from school campus due to the extra space that the new STEM building will provide. Science teachers that currently occupy the 200 building will move into the STEM building and the teachers currentlysituated in the portables will be relocated to the older
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On September 10, San Marin and NUSD officials broke earth on the new stadium lights project. Construction of the stadium lights and public address system project began in September and is expected to be completed in November. The project was approved in May 2017 by the NUSD Board of Education following years of lobbying from San Marin students and staff.
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