San Dieguito Union High School District

Jason Berend just had an incredible Work-Based Learning Experience with his students from Welding, Metals and Architectural Engineering! 

Here's what Mr. Berend shared about his recent visit to Dexcom:

"Wow, what an incredible field trip!  We walked through every part of manufacturing, design labs and so much more. Students definitely have a very good idea of what medical manufacturing looks like. Pictures were forbidden except the boardroom because of the high security of their products.  Dexcom is the only company in the world that makes continuous glucose monitoring systems.  They make 40K a day and have grown by 30% the last several years.  Students ate a catered lunch and listened to seven company leaders talk about how they ended up at Dexcom and what they like about it.  They all mentioned how good it felt to work for a company that helps many people.  They mentioned that they take interns after 1 year of college."

Below are pictures from one of the rotations where students had to put on 'clean room gear.'

In the Culinary Arts Program - Congratulations San Dieguito Academy, taking 1st place in the Master Chef Competition! 

SDA's Culinary students took first place a few weeks ago in annual Master Chef Culinary Competition at the Culinary Institute in Mission Valley.  Eight high schools competed in the blazing one hour competition where teams of four were required to create a dish featuring a protein, vegetable, starch, sauce, and an edible garnish.  SDA won first place after defending their winning dish to the judges, including celebrity judge, Lauren Lawless, from Master Chef Season 8.

In our Film Video Production Pathway. . .Congratulations CCA! 

Torrey Pines High School sponsors Christmas Cruise Carshow and Toy Drive!  

 TPHS Auto Tech program and student run Street Masters Car Club organized it's 3rd annual Car Show.  

Canyon Crest Academy's Principles of Engineering participated in a class-wide project integration task where students investigated a unit on "Simple Machines." 

Each team was asked to create a SMET (Simple Machine Energy Transfer) unit which had to incorporate several simple machines (levers, pulleys, gears, ramps, etc), and transfer a marble from the input to the output then pass the marble to another team in the class. 

This group of students were able to get the marble to traverse all the machines with no human interaction several times- a feat never done before in this program!