For Students

• NEW SAT Prep Course Sessions: June 1 – 5, 2009, Capuchino HS Library

  SAT Prep Course registration and details.

• Digital Filmmaking for Teens: Art of Video: June 1 - 5, 9a -4p
  

  Students will engage in a full week of digital video production to include: scripting stories, photography and shooting footage with cameras, acting and directing, mixing music and sound effects, designing visual effects and motion graphics. Students will create and edit a short film and produce a DVD using Adobe Creative Suite and Final Cut Pro.

  A similar course offered at a local university is priced at $995!

  The Filmmaking workshop is Monday through Friday, June 1st to June 5th, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. - Cost is $120.
  Students must attend all five days. (This is mandatory!)
  Space is limited to 28 SMUHSD GATE students.
  Deadline for Registration is Thursday April 24th, 2009.

  Register NOW! Download the attached flyer and registration form.

  Send or drop off a completed San Mateo Union High School District Parent
  Consent Form and check payable to SMUHSD GATE Program to: GATE-Film, 650 N.
  Delaware Street , San Mateo , CA 94401 .
  E-mail confirmations will be sent after Thursday, 4/24/09

School specific GATE events can be viewed on the Gate Parents Group on SchoolLoop.

Here's what's been happening recently at the schools:

Aragon High School
Trip to China Town with a docent led tour of historical buildings, and a tour of the Historical Society Museum on March 12th.

Burlingame High School
Burlingame GATE participated on a tour of the Stanford Athletic Department. Associate Athletic Director Darrin Nelson led a tour of the facilities and instructed the students on the organizational and financial operations Athletic Department.

We will go to see the play Crime and Punishment at the Berkeley Repertory Theater on March 28. The novel by Dostoevsky is currently being read in AP English.

A touring group of Chinese Acrobats will perform at BHS on April 3. The group offers a performance and discussion on Chinese culture, customs, and school life.

Capuchino High School
Cap will be taking 20 students to see "Grease" starring Taylor Hicks on March 25th.

Hillsdale High School
"The Kite Runner" at the San Jose Repertory Theater on April 1st.

Mills High School
We attended the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco on Thursday March 5. We explored the Academy and attended the Morrison Planetarium and a 3D Bug film. There were 29 students and two chaperones.

Mills will host a Middle Eastern Dance class with a famous Bay Area teacher on April 16.

San Mateo High School
SMHS had over 100 GATE students and over 300 total members of the SMHS community participate in day of dance instruction on March 6th. The students learned how the salsa, tango and other dances integrate with Spanish culture. This cultural experience was presented through the World Languages Department

SMHS is planning a trip to explore the murals of San Francisco's Mission District on Friday, April 24th.