Five students from the Alameda High School (AHS) Poetry Club competed in the Unified Poetry Slam preliminary round in San Francisco on April 21. The poetry slam was hosted by Youth Speaks, a leading presenter of spoken word performance, education, and youth development programs.

The Encinal High School (EHS) Drama Club will perform Legally Blonde: the Musical on May 6, 7, 13 and 14 at the EHS gymnasium.

The fourth-grade class at Love Elementary School will be holding a book reading/signing event at Books Inc. for the book they published as a class on Thursday, May 19.

The Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) LGBTQ+ Roundtable is now accepting submissions for their annual Everyone Belongs Here Poster and Poetry Contest.

Encinal High School (EHS) English teacher Joshua Linville and two of his students Isa Anderson and Gabby Benaquista attended the Spring National High School Journalism Convention from April 7 to 9 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles.

The Bonta California Progress Foundation (BCPF) invites high school seniors, entering college students or current first-year college students to apply for a 2022-2023 BCPF scholarship.

Alameda resident Grace Zang gave a presentation at the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 2022 annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. on April 5.

Lincoln Middle School (LMS)students created an art display showcase as part of their Youth Activist Project.

About 240 students from Eldorado Middle School in Concord visited Alameda Point to observe harbor seals on March 22. The school participates in an educational program sponsored by the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito called Ocean Ambassadors.

Members of the Lincoln Middle School (LMS) Music Boosters Club, a non-profit parent organization supporting the LMS music program, started a change.org petition to prevent a second pay cut to LMS’ music director’s salary.