WVUSD: 2016/2017 Year-End Results
• WVUSD Science Olympiad teams shined during the regional contest in February 2017.
Division A teams from C.J. Morris and Quail Summit Elementary Schools won gold medals;
Castle Rock and Vejar Elementary Schools took home silver medals. Division B teams
from Chaparral, Suzanne, and South Pointe Middle Schools, along with Division C teams
from Diamond Bar and Walnut High Schools, qualified for advancement to the state
tournament.
• Chaparral Middle School’s Odyssey of the Mind team won their division during the Los
Angeles Regional Odyssey of the Mind competition on February 27. Students took the
1 st place award in the Balsa Build event and their top marks qualified the team for the state
competition.
• Walnut High School Freshmen won the Novice News Sweepstake and yearbook editors
won the Yearbook Sweepstakes award during the annual high school regional “Write-Off”
competition on March 4. Walnut High School placed 2 nd in Super Sweepstakes this year.
Diamond Bar High School students won the overall Newspaper Sweepstakes award and
finished 3 rd in the Super Sweepstakes. Also, the Diamond Bar High School’s two
yearbook teams won the Top 10 in both yearbook categories.
• Suzanne Middle School Math teacher Amy Erickson was among 34 teachers from around
the country selected as winners of the 2016 Edyth May Sliffe Award for Distinguished
Mathematics Teaching in Middle and High School.
• Castle Rock Elementary School teachers were featured in the KNBC “Life Connected”
broadcast in April 2017. This giving group meets after school each week to knit beanies for
cancer patients at the University of California (UC) Irvine Medical Center.
• C.J. Morris Elementary School 3 rd graders Nyla Rivera and Kailyn Park wrote a friendship
book for students with autism. Teacher Shayleen Ojeda will publish the “Everyone Has
a Right” book and donate funds to WVUSD special needs classes.
• Suzanne Middle School students donated 2,123 pounds of shoes for people in need
during the Challengers for Change campaign. The recycling drive netted $955 to sponsor
a child through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
• Every WVUSD elementary and middle school joined the Great Kindness Challenge in
January 2017. Schools hosted events and encouraged students to complete 25 simple acts
of kindness.
• Chaparral Middle School 8 th graders raised $533 for the World Tots L.A., a daycare
temporarily shut down due to recent vandalism.
• Westhoff Elementary School celebrated Read Across America with a book drive to benefit
the Maryvale Orphanage in Rosemead. In total, students collected over 250 titles!
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