What's Happening Around Campus

List of 16 news stories.

  • The Hill Project receives Design for Well-Being Award from the California AIA


    We are excited to share that The Hill Project received an award from the California AIA, under their 2023 Design for Well-Being Awards. You can read more about this recognition here. 
     
    College Prep’s simple shingled buildings and inviting landscape hold and shape our school, creating a unique learning environment.This new facility, in the heart of campus, has more than doubled classroom and student gathering spaces. Since its opening in January 2022, The Hill Project has transformed our school. The courtyard, surrounded by beautiful gardens, is a place for gatherings of all kinds, including Assembly. Nooks and crannies throughout are filled with students having lunch, mulling over a good book, meeting with advisory groups, and consulting with their teachers. The Hill Project will serve our students and teachers for generations to come.

  • Common Classroom


    Common Classroom is a weekly rotating set of engaging, ungraded learning opportunities. Teachers, students, and alumni lead activities, classes, and workshops across a range of ever-changing offerings that include art projects, political discussions, physical pursuits, and more. Students are encouraged to take and lead new classes throughout the year. The first week of 2023-24 offerings include:
    Animal
    Arc Browser: The Future of Computing
    Aux Battles
    College Prep Soccer Film Highlights
    Cuban Dominoes
    Extemporaneous-O-Rama
    Girls Varsity Tennis Media Day
    Healthcare 101: Personal Insurance
    Intro to Finance: Money, Markets, and More!
    Meditative Mandala
    Open Gym Volleyball
    Outdoor Yoga
    Rule the Turntables: Lear to DJ
    Tea and Sympathy
    What Happened in the World Track Championships?
    What’s the Deal with… True Indictments?
    World Games
    ‘Zine Club

  • 38th Summer Academy at College Prep


    This summer, Partners welcomed 60 Scholars representing 15 middle schools from Oakland and the East Bay, and celebrated this year’s theme of “Scholar Voices.” Through core classes in English, Math and Social-Emotional Learning, and electives such as Engineering, Coding in Python, Brazilian Dance, Debate, and Financial Literacy, our Scholars’ voices were amplified, their curiosity nurtured, and their grit strengthened. More about the Partners Program here.

  • North Coast Section Division II Champions!


    College Prep Boys Varsity Soccer team made School history this year when they ended their undefeated season as North Coast Section Division II Champions!

  • Congratulations Swimmers!

    Congratulations to our women’s relay swim team for placing 14th in the 400 Free Relay at the California Interscholastic Federation State Championships. The girls swim team placed 5th overall at North Coast Section, and are the Bay Area County League-East champions. The boys swim team also competed in NCS and finished second in BCL-East. Go Cougars!

  • Annual Dance Showcase: Essential Joy

    Students danced their hearts out in our annual Dance Showcase: Essential Joy. The performance was the culmination of our classes' explorations of many dance genres and the communities that created them, including Contemporary, Afro-Caribbean, Jazz, Congolese, and Hip Hop. Congratulations to all of our dancers, choreographers, and techs who made the show a success—the JOY was palpable!

  • STOak Hosts Screening of the Documentary, Alice Street

    Students in our Applied Studies course, Social Transformation—Oakland (STOak), hosted a screening of Alice Street, a documentary about the gentrification of Oakland, art as resistance, and activism. We were fortunate to be joined by community activist, artist, and poet Ayodele Nzinga, Chinatown community organizer Lailan Sandra Huen, and documentary film director, Spencer Wilkonson, for a Q&A panel. 

  • Connections, Pride, and Spirit Day (CPS Day)


    CPS Day is an annual celebration of community learning, unity, and progress towards equity and social justice. This highly anticipated day offers an opportunity for participants to delve deeply into a specific topic—this year’s theme was Income Inequality and Economic Justice.

  • Alumni Career Conversations: A Law Panel


    History teacher, Dan Song, and Alumni Director, Cindy Cesca Yoshiyama hosted Alumni Career Conversations: A Law Panel during a Common Classroom. Three alums, Aviva Gilbert '03, Chris Sun '04, and Sasha Filippova '03, talked about their journeys to become lawyers, their law specialties, as well as some of the cases they have handled. They also answered questions and offered students their advice for getting into the field.

  • Congratulations to our Cougars on their Fall 2022 Season!


    Boys soccer is North Coast Section D2 Champions and BCL-East League Champions. They finished the season undefeated with an 18-0-2 record.

    Boys Varsity Cross Country is the BCL-East league champion, placed third at NCS championship, and sixth in the CIF State Championship. Girls Varsity Cross Country is the BCL-East league champion, placed fourth at NCS Championship, and 17th in the CIF State Championship. 

    Girls Varsity Volleyball finished third in league. They seeded 8th in NCS play-offs and lost in the quarterfinals to the #1 seed.

    Girls Varsity Tennis are the BCL-East Co-Champions. They seeded 8th in NCS play-offs and lost in the quarterfinals to the #1 seed.  

  • Alumnae Women in STEM Career Panel


    Three alumnae joined us during a Common Classroom for our first Women in STEM career panel. Rekha Rao '82, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, Laurel Paxton '10, Lead Propulsion Engineer at Relativity Space, and Sarah Sachs '12, Engineering Manager, Machine Learning at Robinhood, talked about their work and some of the challenges they've faced as women working in their fields. They also provided helpful advice to the student audience. Big thanks to our alumnae and our moderator Eva Campodonico '95, College Prep Science Teacher, for leading the conversation!

  • STEMposium Applied Learning Summer Internships


    Over the summer, students in the STEMposium Applied Learning class participated in internships in labs at UCSF or UC Berkeley. Students gain hands-on experience in an array of STEM fields, learn how to read primary scientific literature, and acquire the analytical skills needed to work in a research team. Students work closely with their research mentor and routinely share their work with their STEMposium classmates throughout the summer. Current projects include Assessing Bias Pulse Oximetry and Skin Pigmentation.

  • Advanced Projects


    Seniors in our Advanced Projects classes show the work that they have been creating in a special exhibition at the end of the school year. The artists blew us away with their creativity, talent, and hard work.

  • Boys Varsity Volleyball NCS D4 Champions!


    Over 300 fans witnessed our Boys Varsity Volleyball team emerge victorious after a nail biting duel in our Baldwin Gymnasium. We are very proud of our team's tenacity and grit!

  • English Seminar visits the California Raptor Center


    Our English seminar for juniors and seniors, “Flying Home”, visits the California Raptor Center. In class, they've read The Peregrin, H is for Hawk, Bright Wings, and The Home Place. At the California Raptor Center, students visited the museum, heard from experts, and met many birds including owls, vultures, and hawks. As a special treat they got to meet the resident juvenile bald eagle!

  • Rob Bonta, CA Attorney General, on Campus


    In honor of AAPI Month, College Prep hosted California's Attorney General, Rob Bonta to hear him speak in a special Collective Common Classroom with a student moderated Q&A at the end.
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