Written By: chris on May 22, 2013 No Comment

Congratulations!  
The Grove Foundation is pleased to present scholarships to Everlyn Leon of El Cerrito High School, Angel Palacios of Kennedy High School, and Aahliya McElroy of DeAnza High School for performance, commitment and accomplishment in the Information Technology field of study through the ITA / TechFutures program. Each recipient has demonstrated his or her [...]

Written By: peggy on March 30, 2013 No Comment
KHS Looks Into Careers at Lawrence Berkeley Labs

Kennedy High ITA at Lawrence Berkeley Labs
Jon Bashor, one of our recognized board members at KHS, highlights ITA’s visit at Lawrence Berkeley Labs:
“As part of Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences’ ongoing outreach efforts with the Kennedy High School IT Academy in Richmond, 11 students and two teachers spent half the day March 20 learning about different [...]

Written By: peggy on March 15, 2013 No Comment
Pandora Job Shadow

Twenty students from Kennedy High IT Academy recently visited Pandora Radio located in Oakland, CA.  The students were given a tour of the Pandora Headquarters as well as job shadowed in several departments including Marketing & Engineering.  After the tour, the students attended various workshops which included a Genome demonstration, analyzing one of their favorite [...]

Written By: chris on February 15, 2013 No Comment

The Grove Foundation announced today a grant of $20,000 for scholarships to be awarded to outstanding TechFutures students pursuing careers in technical fields. The award will be divided amongst the three Techfutures locations (Kennedy, El Cerrito, DeAnza) with each high school having one winner. The awards will total $7,000 each and the recipients will be [...]

Written By: admin on February 13, 2013 No Comment

The IT Academy will host the Lunafest, a traveling film festival of award-winning short films by, for and about women. This season, the program of nine films – filled with stories of reflection, hope and humor – will travel to over 150 cities and screen in front of 20,000 people. Join students, teachers and community [...]