WORD WISE

Elks Lodge Flag Essay Contest: Three sixth graders placed first in local contests.

Creative Communications Fall 2006 Poetry Contest: Poems of twenty four sixth grade students, nine seventh grade students, and twenty eighth grade students were published in Celebrate! Young Poets Speak Out.

Creative Communications Spring 2007 Essay Contest:  Essays of fourteen seventh grade students and twelve eighth grade students were published.

Creative Communications Spring 2007 Poetry Contest:  Poems of fourteen sixth grade students and 1 seventh grade student were published in Celebrate!  Young Poets Speak Out.

California Writers’ Club Annual Young Writers Competition:  Eighth grader, first-place essay; eighth grader, third-place short story; sixth grader, second-place poetry; seventh grader, third-place poetry; eighth grader, first-place poetry.

MATH MINDS

American Mathematics Contest:  The School received the School Merit Roll Certificate, awarded when the sum of the top three students’ scores are in the top 2-5% nationwide at the 8th grade level; two eighth grade students earned the Distinguished Honor Roll Certificate for scoring in the top 1% nationwide; two eighth grade students and one seventh grade student earned the Honor Roll Certificate for scoring in the top 2-5% nationwide; one eighth grade student was the recipient of the Young Student Certificate of Achievement for scoring 90% or better nationwide at the 8th grade level; one eighth grade student was the recipient of the Young Student Certificate of Achievement for scoring 90% or better nationwide at the 10th grade level.
 

SCIENCE SCHOLARS

National Science League Teams:  One eighth grade student received the top score in the nation; eighth grade team finished 1st out of 650 schools; seventh grade team finished 3rd out of 480 schools; sixth grade team finished 4th out of 579 schools.

Sandia Lab’s Bay Area Science Bowl:  Eighth grade team one finished 3rd out of 20 schools; seventh/eighth grade team two finished 10th out of 20 schools.

FUTURE STATESMEN

San Ramon Valley Unified School District 32nd Annual Speech Contest:  One sixth grade student finished in second place; one eighth grade student finished in second place.

ATHLETIC PROWESS

Dorris-Eaton girls’ 8th grade volleyball team finished first in the league.

Dorris-Eaton girls’ 6th grade volleyball team finished second in the league.

Dorris-Eaton girls’ 7th grade basketball team finished second in the league.

Dorris-Eaton boys’ 8th grade basketball team finished second in the league.

The difference is education.