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MAY 17, 2013 COMMUNITY THEPRESS.NET | 17A
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students as our budget allows. Our ROP teachers have worked hard to build pro-grams that strive for excellence and con-nect students to possible career paths.”
Five students from Heritage High School in Brentwood were honored at last week’s ceremony held in Concord. Dallas Rose-Gebrosky, who plays on the varsity baseball team and is the senior class treasurer, was recognized for his commitment and dedication in the ROP fi re science classes. Rose-Gebrosky is a model student who always demonstrates a positive attitude and assists his peers when needed.
Heritage senior Jacob Olsen is also a leader. He has excelled in the ROP ro-botics engineering courses and plans to major in mechatronics at CSU Chico in the fall. He hopes to develop a career in designing robots to help people with ev-eryday tasks.
Stephanie Sanchez plans to use her ROP experience in video broadcasting to forge a career in fi lmmaking. As presi-dent of the Video Productions Club, she’s logged countless hours fi lming and editing. She also contributes to the Heri-tage Video Yearbook.
Sanchez’s counterpart Emily Bren-nan is editor-in-chief of the school paper and contributes to the print yearbook. Her ROP journalism class has developed her personal creative style that helped the Heritage yearbook staff design the school’s best yearbook yet, which was re-cently recognized by the Columbia Scho-
lastic Press Association.Lindsey DePaola plans to pursue a
career in law enforcement after success-fully completing the ROP law enforce-ment careers class. She has been on many ride-alongs with local law enforcement and assisted in missing child searches.
Liberty High students Anastasiya DeWolf and Maeghan McBee were also honored at the awards ceremony. DeWolf has excelled in her ROP Desktop Pub-lishing classes. She even seeks out pub-lication design assignments from other teachers. She creates documents that are far superior to what the teachers initially request. In college, she plans to major in business administration and minor in graphic design. McBee has her eyes trained on a career in forensic science. Her experiences in ROP classes included a visit to San Quentin State Prison and a workshop in which she practiced sepa-rating DNA bands. McBee plans to ma-jor in criminal justice.
Mickayla Elsberry of Freedom High School was honored for accom-plishments in the education and child development ROP course Careers With Children. She spent 15 weeks assisting a kindergarten teacher at Iron House Ele-mentary School. Elsberry’s standout mo-ment came when she used the language translator application on her cell phone to work with a student who doesn’t speak much English.
Six students from the Antioch Union
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DEPAOLACHAPMAN
CENTENOBRENNAN
see ROP page 26A
