Parker students placed first in San Diego in levels 2,3,5 and national results are as follows:

Level 2

• Gold medal (1 place) - Jonathan Lemberg
• Silver medal (2,3 places )- Grace Barrett
• Braxton Bell
• Carlos Ezquerro
• Mary Tobin
• Hadley De Bello
• Nicole Magbanua
• Emily Prudon
• Bronze medal (4-10places) Trevor Appel
• John Carruthers
• Alexander Nicita
• Victoria Ralston
• Sonia Aceves
• Myla Andrews
• Benjamin Sachrison

Level 3

• Silver medal (2 place) Justin Washabaugh
• Bronze medal (4 pl. Fernando Guinto
• 8 pl) Peter Grey
• Jona Plevin
• Erik Riis
• Emma Sheean

Level 4

• Bronze medal (4 pl. Olivia Ghosh
• 5pl. Carolina martinez
• 6pl. Aliza Adler
• Roxane Roncarolo de Vries

Level 5

• Silver medal (3pl) Raphael Cantor
• Anne Sager
• Alexandra Smallwood
• Bronze medal (5pl Christine Buckley
• 6pl Solia Yaley
• 7pl Noah Gamboa

Seniors

• Friday, May 24
• 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
• In the ASB Room

Grades 6 - 11

• Monday, June 10 - Wednesday, June 12
• 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
• In the ASB Room 

Creating Your Online Quote

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2. SELECT YOUR BOOKS OR ENTER ISBNS
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Selling Back Your Textbooks (PDF)

EZ Drop Information Poster (PDF) 

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Parker's Arts Extravaganza, Spring Arts Nights 2013, will take place Monday, May 20 and Tuesday, May 21. TWO consecutive evenings of Visual & Performing Arts.

Visual Arts displays open at 5:00pm in the James Alan Rose Art Gallery as well as in neighboring art studios; the Performing Arts program also begins at 5:00pm in J. Crivello Hall and in the Amelita Galli-Curci Performing Arts Center. For directions and maps, click here.

Plan to bring your family and friends to see and experience this spectacular event. Food and beverages will be provided.

Parker W.A.R. Lords Robotics team member Remi Mooney '15 says, "It was such an honor to be one of the four hundred teams going to World Championships. There are several thousand teams that compete to get to this level. This was the first year the Francis Parker W.A.R. Lords made it the Championships, out of the six years it has been running."

After packing and shipping the majority of their workshop, the team flew to St. Louis for the big competition. Hundreds of teams, from locations including Israel, Canada, and South America, flooded the area surrounding the setting of the competition.

More images from the event can be found here.

Mooney reflected on the experience, "Although we did not make it to the elimination rounds, we did very well. Thank you so much to our generous mentors, sponsors, and parents for all of their help. FIRST team 2485 cannot wait until next season! In the meantime, we will prepare for Battle at the Border that we host at the Upper School campus in October and continue to inspire the younger Francis Parker engineers in the making."

From April 25 – 28, forty-three Francis Parker students joined more than 1000 students from throughout California to compete at the State History Day competition in Sacramento. Parker's team is happy to announce that seven Parker students won first place in their divisions. These students will compete at National History Day at the University of Maryland in June.

Many thanks to all who reviewed their projects, provided expert interviews, and accommodated them in numerous ways! See photos from the event here.

State Champions

Senior group documentary:

Braxton Bell, Alex Devereaux, Jonathan Lemberg, Adam Linssen, Mary Tobin

All Eyes on Tet: The Power of the Media to Fuel Change

Senior group exhibit:

Olivia Ghosh, Soren Hansen

No More Wars, No More Walls, A United World: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

SPECIAL AWARD: Outstanding Senior Entry from San Diego County

Jessica Bocinski: individual exhibit

Change Through a Lens: Dorothea Lange's Photography

State Finalists

We also congratulate the following students, whose projects won their preliminary heat and advanced to state finals:

Aviva Waldman: junior historical paper

Russia’s Bloody Sunday: Turning Monarchy into Marxism

Peter Bullard, William Southworth: junior group website

Antietam: The Bloody Battle that Altered American History

Sarah Ogle: senior historical paper

Hubble Space Telescope: Bringing the Universe into Focus

Anoushka Bose: senior Individual website

Preserving American Antiquities: A Turning Point in the Progressive Era

Zak Brownlie: senior individual documentary

Japan’s Economic Democratization: Turning Point from Martial Power to Economic Power

Isaac Gray, Ben Sachrison, M. Connor Smith: group website

The Iranian Revolution: Turning Point in the New Middle East

Kate Lemberg, Katherine Owens, Arielle Swedback, Audrey Yang: group website

Tearing Down the Divide: How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Facilitated a New World Order

Seven Middle School students are attending the California State History Day competition on April 26 in Sacramento Eleanor Hansen '19, Adam Nussbaum '19, Amanda Wasserman '19, Aviva Waldman '18, Peter Bullard '17, Andrew Schmid '17, William Southworth '17 are exhibiting their year-long research projects at the event.

The State History Day competition spurs thorough student research on a historical topic of their choice. The students' conclusions on their topic is presented in final projects that are evaluated by historians and educators. Learn more about the event here. 

Informational workshops will also be held. Admission is free. The Fair is open from 9:00am-12:00pm and 6:00pm-8:30pm.

Register at www.gotomyncf.com or learn more at www.nationalcollegefairs.org.

This Thursday, April 25 through Saturday, April 27, the Francis Parker Robotics Team, the W.A.R. Lords, are competing at the international championships event in St. Louis. This is the first year the robotics team has qualified to compete for the world championship title after winning this year's Inland Empire Regional and being named finalists at the San Diego Regional.

Team member Marty Kausas '14 writes, "We are happy that after our sixth year of of being a robotics team we are already competing with many of the best teams in the world! Wish us luck!"

To see the team compete, check out the NASA livestream of the event (look for the "Watch Now" button on the right of the page). Note: the livestream will not be working until matches actually start. Consult the schedule below.

The exact times of the matches have yet been set but the team will be playing between the following times:

• Thusday 1PM - 6PM
• Friday 9:30AM - 12PM and 1PM - 6:15PM
• Saturday 8:15AM - 10:30AM

Summary of the game the robot must play: 

Promotional video of the robot: