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January 26, 2006
Home-Schooled Sensation |
Julie Boiko selected as semi-finalist in Intel science competition
By Lorraine Gabbert
Staff Writer
It isn’t every 17-year-old who is selected as a semi-finalist in Intel’s Science Talent Search, a research-based project competition for high school seniors, but then Julie Boiko isn’t just any teenager.
“Just getting this far is thrilling,” she says. Only 300 of 1500 students become semi-finalists. On January 11, Intel named its contest semi-finalists on their Web site at noon, but first they called to notify each student’s high school principal. As Julie is home-schooled, they called her mother, Denise. “At 11:15 am, my mom came running, shouting, Read more...
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| Almaden Library and Community Center grand opening set for mid May
Ambitious $17.5 million project described in detail at public forum
By Sheila Sanchez
Staff Writer
After more than two years of waiting, Almaden Valley residents will soon get a chance to walk through the doors of the new Almaden Branch Library and Community Center.
Those behind the $17.5-million project, aided with photographs and a slide presentation, took a small group of Almaden residents on a quick orientation tour of the ambitious facility during Read more...
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