LOWER LAKE, Calif. – Our first grading period, which was six weeks long, ended on Sept. 21.

Students who made it to gold level include Zachary Ashley, Johnny Caldwell, Hunter Chadwick, Stephanie Cuevas, Maya Dittemore, TaNari Dukes, Eric Espinoza, Damon Fieldon, Marisa Gavazza, Malachi Gonzales, Desiree Krebs, Manny Lopez, Oscar Neuman, Katie Roath, Gabrielle Rozelski, Ana Solorio, Madison Winter and Howard Womack.

This means that all students named are moving at a quicker pace than your traditional high school setting.

On a regular schedule, in order to gain gold level status you must have at least 90 percent attendance and earn at least 15 credits.

Going along with this, Zachary Ashley, Christjen Cassells, Hunter Chadwick, Stephanie Cuevas, Eric Espinoza, Malachi Gonzales, Ian Heuton, David Jones, Emanual Lopez, Jordan Manriquez, Maria Pizano, Pawnum Redhawk, Katie Roath, Jett Royval, Gabrielle Rozelski, Jose Salud, Brian Sanchez, Alize Sandoval, Ana Solorio, Kelsey Stephens and Howard Womack. All accomplished a perfect attendance at no less than 100 percent for the grading period.

In addition, another congratulation to Carlos Martinez for winning the CHILY raffle.

We had two activities for collaboration days so far. Our first activity was a transition into how our collaboration days would look like. We had basketball, study hall and cup pong.

Our second collaboration activity was more eventful and included a relay race and a guessing game.

All advisory classes competed against each other. Our winner for the guessing game was Lance Christensen’s advisory, and Christensen and Alan Siegel’s advisories were tied for the relay race competition.

We look forward to having more fun activities in the future. We would like to give a shout out to Gage Thayer for running the relay event.

One of our school events that we have coming up includes student Madison Winter’s play. After Madison wrote the play called “Bamboozled” she held auditions and we now have the official cast.

The cast list is as follows: Howard Womack, Nico Castillos, Maya Dittemore, Caiden Harvey, Adrian Carpenter, Sami Strowbridge, Carlos Martinez, Maya Overstreet, Yoshiko Velasquez and Brian Sanchez.

In addition we would like to applaud Jose Salud, Dezirae Short and Damon Fieldon for their outstanding work ethic and all achieved student of the week.

Lexi Fredericks praised Damon F. on his behavior, stating, “He is always encouraging his peers positively in and out of class and is always completing all of his work to the best of his ability.”

Alan Siegel complimented Dezirae S., saying, “She is an absolutely phenomenal student, she is always focused and doing her work. She is very sweet and a model student.”

Last but not least, Angie Siegel said of Jose S., “He is always doing the right thing everyday, completes his work, and is always respectful.”

Congratulations and thank you to all students listed for your hard work and determination.

Crystal Quezadas and Maya Dittemore are students at Carlé Continuation High School.