SAN JOAQUIN CREEKSIDE PTSA

Hope this finds you well! In this edition, you will find information for the following:

1. Game Night

2. Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week Update

3. Senior Scholarship Winners

4. Outstanding Teacher Award

5. Honorary Service Award Winners

6. 2022-2023 San Joaquin Creekside PTSA Executive Board Elect

Read on for more information!

GAME NIGHT

Join us for a virtual Fun & Games Event!

Friday, May 20th

6:30-8:00 pm

CLICK HERE to RSVP today!

Thank You To all who supported Teacher/Staff Appreciation Week. We love our San Joaquin and Creekside staff!

Thank you to Kat Lee for the lovely decorations and PTSA for the daily goody bags with a cute message!

A big Thank You to The Blessed Braid for their generous donation for our Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week breakfast!

A big Thank You to Steve Knollmiller and the Irvine Kiwanis Club for their generous donation with stocking the staff refrigerator with refreshments!

IUCPTA SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS!

Congratulations to all the Senior Scholarship Winners!

From left to right

University High : Aryan Saha (Mom accepted for him)

Woodbridge High : Ezra Han

*San Joaquin High School : Julie Sakamoto*

Portola High School : Sabreen Alam

Northwood High : Aditi Streenivas

*Creekside High School Uali Kospanov*

IUCPTA EVP Dawn Mortazavi

Not pictured : Director Dr. Rebecca Roberts

*Shoutout to Julie and Uali - San Joaquin Creekside PTSA is proud of you!*

OUTSTANDING TEACHER AWARD

Congratulations Ms. Chung!

Irvine Unified Council of PTAs Outstanding Teacher Award presented to San Joaquin IVA teacher Donbi Chung.

Pictured below:

IUCPTA DEI Chair Chauncy Higgins

Director San Joaquin Creekside Dr. Rebecca Roberts

San Joaquin IVA teacher Donbi Chung

IUCPTA Secretary Tracey Rinard.

YAY Ms. Chung!!

HONORARY SERVICE AWARD WINNERS

Congratulations to the Honorary Service Award Winners! They were presented their award at the Spirit of Community event hosted by IPSF and IUCPTA.

Pictured below from left to right:

Very Special Person Award, Hardip Passamanti

Outstanding Teacher Award, Donbi Chung

Honorary Service Award, Alli Novosel

Life Achievement Award, Connie Stone

Continuing Service Award, Mimi Chen

Golden Oak Award, Jim Leung

Superintendent Terry Walker

A big Congratulations to our PTSA President, Connie Stone, for being awarded the National PTA's Life Achievement Award!!!

2022-2023 SJC PTSA EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECT

President - Connie Stone

Secretary - Angelica Gercek

Executive Vice President - Open

VP Membership - Open

VP Program - Open
VP Fundraising - Open

Treasurer - Open

Financial Secretary - Open
Historian - Open
Auditor - Open

Congratulations to our newly elected 2022-2023 Executive Board!

If you're interested in serving on the Executive Board next year, please email Connie at conmstone@gmail.com.

AMAZONSMILE - NEW!

We are registered with AmazonSmile! Do you shop on Amazon? If so, you can earn $ for our PTSA. Here's how:

1. Click here to direct you to our AmazonSmile Page

2. Click on the "Start Shopping" button

3. Shop as usual

4. For mobile devices: activate AmazonSmile in the Amazon Shopping app on your iOS or Android phone within the Settings or Programs & Features menu.

• Same products, same prices, same services as the Amazon you know.

• Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases.

Would you like to change your current charity to San Joaquin Creekside PTSA? Simply visit smile.amazon.com/change, or tap "AmazonSmile" within the Settings menu in the Amazon Shopping app on your phone and select "Change your charity". Your AmazonSmile purchases made after changing your charity will count towards your newly selected charity.

Are you new to Amazon? No problem! When first visiting AmazonSmile, customers are prompted to select a charitable organization. In order to browse or shop at AmazonSmile, customers must first select a charitable organization. Please choose San Joaquin Creekside PTSA.

The PTSA was proud to have students represent Creekside High School and San Joaquin High School respectively for the annual Irvine Unified Council Student Advocacy Program. This PTA program selects students from each of our 7 high schools to learn about educational issues culminating in a day trip to Sacramento to visit legislators and discuss the students concerns around education. Kru and Sathvik traveled to our capital on Wednesday, March 16th They are pictured here with Superintendent Terry Walker, IUSD School Board Trustee Lauren Brooks, and San Joaquin Creekside PTSA President Connie Stone.

Congratulations to all of our students who submitted entries for our 2021-2022 Reflections Program!

Our theme this year was: "I Will Change the World by...."

Student's entries were awarded Honorable Mention, Award of Merit or the highest PTSA award: The Award of Excellence.

The following four student's entries were awarded the Award of Excellence:

-Monica Pal won the Award of Excellence for her Photography entry entitled "The Power of the Sun"

-Neil Pal won the Award of Excellence for his Literature entry entitled "Our Words Can Change the World"

-Caroline Robbins won the Award of Excellence for her Literature entry entitled "The City of Selection"

-Jaehee Jeung won the Award of Excellence for his Visual Arts entry entitled "A Ray of Hope"

These entries were forwarded on to the Irvine Unified Council of PTA's Reflections judges but were not awarded at that level. All of our participants will be receiving their certificates via mail and our Award of Excellence entries will also receive an In and Out Burger Gift Certificate from a generous PTSA donor.

Membership and Donations - Your support is crucial to our success. Please consider joining our PSTA. Your voice makes a difference by being an advocate for all our students. Your membership and donations help PTA fund amazing student programs like Reflections, Red Ribbon Week, Fall Festival, Teacher Appreciation Week, and more!

Members enjoy many benefits including Membership Perks and voting rights at our meetings. Our Membership Goal is 100 members for the year. We encourage everyone to become a member (parents, grandparents, any family members, friends and neighbors just to name a few). Donations of any amount are always welcome.

Membership - $20.00

Student Membership - $7.00

Company Match Program - Check with your company/employer to find out if they match donations.

To join the SJC PTSA and/or make a donation, please visit our TOTEM link: https://jointotem.com/ca/irvine/san-joaquin-creekside-ptsa or scan our QR code below by opening the camera on your phone and point it at the QR code below. Anyone is welcome to join: parents, staff, students, grandparents, community supporters!

Meetings will be held via Zoom, dates and times subject to change.