The Winning team included senior Jodie Antonio and junior Carlo Amaro
November 17, 2015
SLHS Business Academy Sweeps SAP Hackathon
The San Leandro High School Academy of Business and Finance had students on both winning teams at the NFTE /SAP Innovators Hack-A-Thon held on Saturday, November 5.
The Hack-A-Thon attracted over 65 kids from 6 local high schools attend, along with 35 mentors, most from SAP). The kids were split into teams of 3-4 and assigned a mentor.
Each team was then asked to develop a mobile application in the areas of Sports (preventing sports injuries) or Health (reducing student stress or improving student nutrition).
The winning team created an application to provide healthier lunch choices to high school students, which was created for cafeterias across the US to help shorten lines at high school cafeterias, students pre-ordering their healthy meals, lowering overhead and allowing pre-orders/ pre-pays to be fulfilled more quickly. SLHS students Carlo Amaro (Jr.) and Jodie Antonio (Sr.) were part of the winning team.
The second place team designed an App called "Paused" which allows a person to pause certain distracting apps that keep us from being productive.  As a time management tool, it would help us pause the use of social media, allowing a student to focus on homework or other work related tasks. Another use would be to stop drivers from distraction while they are driving. Members of this team were SLHS junior Minh Nguyen and sophomore Alvaro Rodriguez.
SAP has been involved with NFTE for the past 4 years, sponsoring hack-a-thons, tech challenges and design thinking sessions. SAP has partnered with NFTE, because they share a common goal, which is to provide low-income kids the opportunity to participate and excel in the digital economy, particularly in Silicon Valley.
Secondary School Redesign Update
At a recent School Redesign community meeting parents asked that there be another community forum to present the recommended changes before taking it to the full board. That meeting will be held on Monday, December 14th from 6-8pm at the San Leandro Senior Community Center, located at 13909 E. 14th Street, San Leandro, CA 94578.
The SLUSD is also developing a Community Survey for the Secondary School Redesign which will be available sometime this week at www.sanleandro.k12.ca.us. Informational materials will be included with the survey. A teleparent call will go to parents once the survey is available.
Parents are also invited to attend the school board’s Secondary Redesign work session on December 15th.
If you would like to read a recap of the first community meeting click here.
Common Core Informational Sessions
The San Leandro Unified School District is hosting a series of Common Core Information sessions for parents and community members to better understand Common Core and to aid parents in helping their kids be more successful in school. Sessions will be held at Jefferson Elementary School, 14300 Bancroft Avenue from 6:15pm to 8pm. Childcare and translation services will be available.
English/Language Arts Thursday, November 19
Math Thursday, December 10
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Eat Out For Education- Every Wednesday
 Join us November 18, at one of the six participating restaurants to benefit the Madison Elementary School PTA. Each week, 20% of your meal purchase (dine-in or take out) will be donated back to one of the schools in the San Leandro Unified School District.
You can download your coupon here.
You can view the menus by visiting sledfund.org.
Eat Out for Education is a fundraising campaign to increase resources for our schools while bringing together the community and stimulating the San Leandro economy! SLED's Eat Out for Education campaign encourages individuals and families to designate Wednesday as a night to dine together at a San Leandro restaurant in order to benefit public schools within the San Leandro Unified School District.
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