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Board Members

LaDonna Bond Robert Gravina

Jeff Mangum Christine Paik

Ron Little Kathleen Porter,

Executive Director

The 11th Annual Poway Unified School District Foun-

dation’s Partners in Education Golf Classic will be held

on Friday, May 11, 2018, at the award-winning

Maderas Golf Club. Join education, business and com-

munity leaders at this special event that will include

breakfast on the golf course, a post-golf reception,

and an awards and auction luncheon.

With your participation, as a player or sponsor, we

will reach our goal to raise $75,000. Proceeds raised

at the Golf Classic enable the PUSD Foundation to

support district-wide STEAM initiatives, College and

Career Readiness for all students, and rigor, relevance

and relationships in every classroom.

We hope you are able to take advantage of this occa-

sion to enjoy a day of golf and networking while sup-

porting students. Sponsorship information, as well as

registration for foursomes and individual players can

be found at pusdfoundation.org, or contact

Kelly Hamm at kehamm@powayusd.com.

PUSD Foundation

Partners in Education Golf Classic Friday, May 11, 2018 ~ 8am

The Hour of Code takes place each year during Com-

puter Science Education Week in December. Last

month, more than 90 Hewlett Packard employees

volunteered at six local school districts in San Diego

County, with the majority of employees volunteering

in the Poway Unified School District. Volunteers as-

sisted 1,070 students at fifteen PUSD schools, with a

focus on elementary and middle school students. HP

Rancho Bernardo site employees have always had a

strong interest in helping local students during the

Hour of Code. HP volunteers also assisted in creating

a code.org teacher account so that students can code

all year long.

The Hour of Code started as a one-hour introduction

to computer science, designed to demystify "code" to

show that anybody can learn the basics and to broad-

en participation in the field of computer science. Hour

of Code has since become a worldwide effort to cele-

brate computer science starting with 1-hour coding

activities.

Partners in Education

Update

Learning to Code

with

HP, Inc. Employees

PARTNERS IN THE CLASSROOM

Winter 2018

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Maderas Golf Club 17750 Old Coach Road,

Poway

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LEGACY ($20,000 and above)

Northrop Grumman Corporation SDG&E

VISIONARY ($10,000-$19,999)

Arey Jones Educational Solutions Healthy Dining Finder Barnhart-Reese Construction, Inc.

VALEDICTORIAN ($5,000-$9,999) Mission Federal Credit Union ZCode Magazines Friends & Family Community Con-nection Barney & Barney LLC Keller Williams Realty Aurora Behavioral Health Care Evolution Controls, Inc. Paul & Mary Ann Frank Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated ViaSat

SALUTATORIAN ($2,500-$4,999) GEICO BakerNowicki Design Studio Digital Networks Group, Inc. Artiano Shinoff Casio America The Benevity Community Impact Fund St. Gabriel Catholic Church; Society of St. Vincent de Paul Poway School Employees Association

time to practice during this informa-

tive and educational session.

A special thank you to all of the

panelists; Amy Austinson – Division

Director for Robert Hall Office Team,

Dana Stevens - Job Developer for

Education to Career Network,

Elsa Sanabria - Assistant Branch Man-

ager for Mission Federal Credit Un-

ion, Jane Kennington and Jolie Napier

-Vea - Human Resources Analysts for

PUSD. A special thanks to Cindy

Sandback from Mission Federal Cred-

it Union for providing refreshments.

Mission Federal Credit Union, Robert Half and Associates &

PUSD Personnel Partner at

Job Seekers Event

Over 30 PUSD Adult School

students attended the first Adult

School Job Seekers Network and

Learn event in December. Students

had a chance to meet and hear

from a panel composed of

employers and human resources

professionals to learn innovative

techniques on how to find a job in

today’s competitive market.

Students also had the opportunity

to learn how to network and had

Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab in San Die-

go provides students with a unique

STEM experience and exposure to

high-tech careers. In the Thinkabit

Lab, both students and educators

engage in hands-on engineering ac-

tivities that involve problem-solving,

creativity and collaboration. Thanks

to the generous funding provided by

the Bosch Community Foundation,

84 students from Black Mountain,

Twin Peaks, and Meadowbrook Mid-

dle Schools participated in the Think-

abit Lab experience last Fall.

The Bosch grant supports access to

STEM curriculum for underrepre-

sented populations, which includes

females and English language learn-

ers. During the visit, students also

learned about the World of Work,

The Internet of Things, and partici-

pated in their own engineering

design experiment to create an

invention. The session ended with

an opportunity for students to learn

how to code.

Middle School Students Explore at

Qualcomm

Thinkabit Lab

Job Readiness for All

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Join us at the PUSD Career Technical

Education (CTE) EXPO on Thursday,

April 26, from 5 to 7pm at PETCO

Headquarters in Rancho Bernardo.

This informative and interactive event

showcases products students have

created, and problems they have

solved. Parents, along with business

and community leaders will have a

chance to engage with students as

they demonstrate the skills they have

developed over the year.

Every year, over 6,000 PUSD middle

and high school students enroll in CTE

courses. These courses range from

MASTER ($1,250-$2,499)

Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo

Clever Promotions Christen Realty Group

Cooperative Strategies, LLC Cubic Corporation

Poway Federation of Teachers Aetna

Transplant Management Group LLC Johnson Consulting Engineers, Inc.

San Diego Blood Bank Home Advisor

SCHOLAR

($500-$1,249) YourCause, LLC Trustee -Union Bank

Kathleen Porter Cymer

Atlas Transfer & Storage Co. California Coast Credit Union

Crescent Design, Inc. Maderas Golf Club

Price Philanthropies Foundation Rancho Bernardo Rotary Club Foundation

Sarah Boltwala-Mesina Tech Flow, Inc. Thomas Barnes

Box Appliance Services Brainy Learning Center

Climatec LLC RollinSD

Ted Buchan & Company, LLC Evolution Learning

Ace Tutoring College Planning Source

College Zone Hammer Prep Inc.

Huntington Learning Center Prep 4 College Now, Inc.

The HEFAR Group University of San Diego Test Preparation

Yorkshire Wealth Management Peachjar, Inc.

Qualcomm Charitable Foundation Extron Electronics

George Cooke, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

Joan and John Rogers LPL Financial Foundation

Neal Trust

Career Technical Education

Northrop Grumman participates in

Tarde de Familia at

Meadowbrook Middle School

Additionally, the event consisted of a project-based activity led by engineering students from the University of San Diego. Over 75 participants attended this in-formative evening, which includ-ed childcare and dinner.

A special thank you to guest speakers, Saul Molina from the University of California- San Diego, Thomas Montero from the U.S. Defense Security Service, and San-dra Aldrete, Carlos Cardona, and Delta Esparza from Northrop Grumman.

PUSD Career Technical Education hosted its second annual CTE Tarde de Familia (CTE Family Night) at Meadowbrook Middle School. The evening provided Spanish speaking students and their families an over-view of the Information & Communi-cation Technology Career Pathway. Guest speakers shared their family history and personal journey to pur-sue a career in Information Commu-nication Technology, and the panel-ists discussed their professional ex-perience in this industry.

Computer Science to Construction

Technology and from Agriculture

to Animation. CTE classes provide

students with the skills needed to

succeed in furthering their educa-

tion and career goals. Among last

year’s CTE students, 95% went on

to further education, and 63% of

those are pursuing studies related

to their CTE high school course

work. With recent grant money,

PUSD has been able to expand and

improve the number of relevant

and rigorous CTE courses offered to

high school students.

Second Annual

CTE EXPO Thursday, April 26, 2018

5 to 7pm

PETCO Headquarters in

Rancho Bernardo

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Partners in Education

To learn more about the Partners in Education program, please contact

Dolores Canizales at 858.668.4028 or acanizales@powayusd.com

HONOR ROLL

($250-$499)

Poway Rotary Foundation

Lisa Chappell Avanza Education

Bellus Academy Catalyst Prep, LLC

E3 Consulting Elite Prep Rancho Bernardo

Kaplan Test Prep The Princeton Review

Tutor Doctor of San Diego County Tutoring Club

Waddell & Reed General Atomics Sciences Education

Foundation Joseph Salvatore

Marc Roland Novus Technology Integration, Inc.

California Tax Data Melavel Robertson

Aztec Software Becky and Don Aukland

Best in Class Education Center Career Cruising

Community Alliance for Healthy Minds Cora and Ken Bagley

CrossFit Sun Edgenuity Inc.

Moser Orthodontics Paul Rosenstein

SmartWatt Soltek Pacific

Sony Electronics Inc. The Church of Rancho Bernardo

West Coast Mortgage

Workforce Development

The Poway Chamber of Commerce Education Committee, in collabora-

tion with Poway Unified School District, Miramar Community College and

Palomar Community College, has surveyed close to 100 businesses in

Poway and San Diego to determine what skills gaps, if any, exist in the

business community. Based on the survey results, the Committee is now

in the process of developing a workforce development program, with a

focus on providing students with internships, business mentors and

speakers, job shadowing opportunities, company tours, and externships

for teachers during the summer. In addition, the committee will produce

a video, which will highlight current business partnerships, in an effort to

increase the number of work-based learning internships for high school

and college students. For more information about the Poway Chamber

of Commerce Education Committee, visit www.poway.com

As part of the Project Lead the Way Program (PLTW) program, 40 Oak Val-

ley Middle School female students attended a Women in Engineering Day

at Lockheed Martin Day in November. Speakers and panelists spoke to

students about their specific job, and why they decided to pursue an engi-

neering career. They also discussed different types of jobs available at

Lockheed Martin. Students took a virtual tour of Mars and participated in

hands-on engineering activities led by Lockheed engineers. The day con-

cluded with a robotics demonstration by Poway High School Robotics

Team Spyder.

Business Leaders and

Educators

Partner to Provide

Students with Real

Work Experiences

Women in

Engineering Day

at Lockheed Martin