2014
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December
Happy Holidays!
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Candy Grams for Children's Hospital
Read MoreThe Community Action Team hand-delivers the candy grams they sold earlier in the week. Proceeds will go to buy holiday presents for teenagers who are patients at Children's Hospital. -
Art and Chamber Music
Please join us for a night of casual sophistication filled with dynamic art and great music! Friday December, 5 in the Buttner Auditorium at 7:00 pm.Read More -
November
PrepTalk with Emily Heller '03
Emily Heller '03, interviewed by Dean Chabon, has the entire school laughing as she tells hilarious stories about how she moved from competing on the CPS Debate Team, to taking stand-up classes at UC Santa Cruz, to working alongside some of the most interesting and "weirdest" people in Hollywood.Read More -
Fall Music Concert
Read MorePlease join us for our fall music concert Friday, November 21 and Saturday, November 22 in the Buttner Auditorium at 7:30pm. -
Connections, Pride, and Spirit Day a Success!
Connections, Pride, and Spirit (CPS) Day is an opportunity for our community to learn through workshops, performances, and play. The unique and varied offerings were unified around the theme: Stories of Inspiration.Read More -
French III and Theater of the Absurd
Read MoreFrench III students work with professional actor and choreographer Emma Jaster on excerpts from playwright Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano, an absurdist play with a powerful social and political message. -
Pt. Reyes Weekend Outing
Eighteen students of all grade levels head to the Pt. Reyes hostel for the weekend, in the first of College Prep's newly launched outings program.Read More -
October
Columbian Exchange Field Trip
Sophomores in Atlantic Worlds History embark on a field trip with the goal of connecting the history of the Columbian Exchange to the ongoing “real-world” issues that affect our lives in the Bay Area. They focused on three main themes: ecological impacts, food systems, and health.Read More -
Spirit Week!
Last week was Spirit Week at College Prep. Each day featured a different dress-up theme as well as dodgeball, bubble soccer, a school-wide game of Family Feud, and a raucous Spirit Rally. It was an incredibly festive and celebratory time on campus. While words don't adequately do justice to the warm feeling that Spirit Week evokes, the pictures below do a pretty good job of capturing Prep's spirit!Read More -
Tales of the Weaver
Reserve your seats for the upcoming production of Tales of the Weaver. Two folktales, one from Japan and another from India, each with an astonishing and magical act of weaving at the heart of the story, will take the stage in our next venture. Follow the thread...Read More -
Spirit Week!
Spirit is a pretty big deal at College Prep. Our Dean of Students, Mr. Chabon, signs all his email with the catchphrase “With Spirit, Dean Chabon.” Come to any College Prep sports game on a Friday afternoon, and boy, will you feel the spirit. We have a committee of students dedicated to making sure College Prep’s spirit is as celebrated as it is prevalent.Read More
It’s not often that our campus gets the formal chance to display our class pride and our happiness to be in one another’s company. This past week, however, gave one and all that very opportunity. Each day of College Prep’s own Spirit Week had a unique set of dress-ups and activities ranging from lively games of dodge ball to a CPS version of the game show Family Feud. On Friday, the culmination of the week, each class decorated part of the campus the night before and then cheered on their class in a giant rally with music, hilarious feats of coordination and athleticism, and an abundance of spirit.
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Math in the Courtyard
The Math II students work outside in the courtyard where they use rope and chalk to make large-scale versions of some of the compass/straightedge constructions of geometry: equilateral triangle, parallel line, circle inscribed in a circle and triangle, circumscribing a triangle, and others. The larger scale requires the students to work together in the planning, trouble-shooting, and the actual construction. Read More -
Japanese Tea Ceremony
Ms. Wood teaches her Japanese III students the art of the Japanese tea ceremony. The class prepared and presented the powdered green tea, and enjoyed beautifully wrapped confections.Read More -
I Scream You Scream
We all Scream for Ice Cream! Sophomores know how to cool off with an ice cream social in the music courtyard.Read More -
La Bohème
The College Prep community enjoys an all-school performance featuring a 45-minute version of the beautiful, sometimes poignant, sometimes funny opera, La Bohème by Puccini.Read More -
September
Clubs Fair
Students check out the more than 50 clubs and interest groups they can join at clubs fair. Traditional offerings sit alongside some that you might find only at College Prep.Read More
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Monsters Among Us!
Students discuss Bram Stoker's Dracula, as part of their semester-long seminar Literary Monsters. They examine the imaginative function of these monsters. What do they illustrate about — gasp! — ourselves and our deepest fears?Read More -
Newton's Second Law in the Parking Lot
The freshman physics students learn that the real meaning of mass is an object's resistance to changing velocity—the larger its mass, the less it will accelerate for a given push.Read More -
Do You "Arduino?"
Students in the A.P. Computer Science class use Arduinos to explore programming concepts. They use pliers, wire-cutters, and wire-strippers to make circuits on breadboards and program pushbutton switches which control LEDs of different colors.Read More -
Dynamic Master Dance Class
Spencer Jones, dance captain for the tour of WICKED for the past eight years, energized the advanced and intermediate dance students, leading them in the choreography from the Broadway musical. To read a letter from Spencer to the College Prep dancers, please click here.Read More -
PrepTalk featuring Dr. Rachel Morello-Frosch
In our first PrepTalk of the year, the campus community gathered to hear Dr. Rachel Morello-Frosch speak with AP Environmental Science teacher Eric Estrin about her cutting edge research on the double jeopardy faced by communities of color.Read More -
Book Buzz
Lively discussions echo across campus during this year’s annual back-to-school tradition: Book Buzz. Faculty, staff, and students gather to discuss their selection of one of the 42 books suggested as summer reading pleasure.Read More -
August
First week of school!
Happy to see familiar faces, and welcome new students!Read More -
January
Reflecting on Finals
Read MoreToday I had the greatest final exam of my life. I’m not kidding.The end of the semester is always a strange experience for me. It marks another eighth of my high school career completed. For us seniors, it marks our initiation into second-semester-seniorhood. First semester finishes up with a week of studying and a week of testing. There are many things about final exams that I don’t love: the stressed students, the busy teachers, the frustration of forgetting a detail I know I knew, the crowded library and the chilly weather. It’s altogether hectic. But at the same time, I’m always exuberantly proud of the amazing quantity of knowledge I’ve gained in the previous five months. (I’m a nerd. Maybe you can tell?) We have collectively and collaboratively achieved so much in one semester. I can’t help but look back at it all every once in a while. I look back and smile.
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mens conscia recti
a mind aware of what is right