Saturday, June 6, 2015

2015 Graduate heads to Google Summer Institute

Excerpts from SBISD School Zone:

On Monday, June 1, Cassandra Ung graduated magna cum laude with her 2015 WAIS class at Don Coleman Coliseum. Next month, she heads to Boston for a prized appointment to the Google Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI), which will be held July 12-August 1.

Cassandra’s travel and board is fully paid to Cambridge, Mass., the location of top schools like Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Google students attend learning sessions that include several computer languages, as well as programming fundamentals. Students may even design or develop their own applications.

She credits the IB program at WAIS and the district charter high school’s small size and close student-teacher interaction with her own success as a top student.

Her interests include volunteer work in schools in Cambodia, where her parents grew up. She has traveled to the Southeast Asian nation and volunteered at Don Bosco High School in Phnom Penh, the capital city.

Read the full article, She's a Google Summer Intern, on the SBISD School Zone.

Learn more about Google's Computer Sciecne Summer Institute.

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

WAIS Graduation Commencement of 2015



Westchester students and staff celebrated the commencement of the graduation ceremonies for the Class of 2015, the 13th graduating class since WAIS opened in the fall of 2000. The ~130 graduates of the class of 2015 received more than a million in scholarships. In the fall, graduates will start a new chapter in their lives, with more than 90% continuing to higher education, and the rest directly entering the workforce or serving in the military.  
This years graduates include a notable number of students attending Texas A&M, University of Texas, University of Houston, several of the branch locations each offer, and the US Marines. Other students will pursue further credentials with the Air Force, Cornell, Notre Dame, CalPoly, as well as many other schools. 
See Special Speakers at the WAIS Graduation of 2015
See Photos from the WAIS Graduation of 2015



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