NBCA Sports Update
The Lady Warriors finished their 2012 basketball season in 3rd place (8-3) in regular season play and went on to beat the 1st place seat International in the championship game on March 3rd. Sayra Soriano was named this year’s MVP and the following athletes made All League: Heidi Morales, Grace Guay, Arody Soriano, Sarah Cornell and Hannah Landies. In addition, Coach Scott Morgan was selected as Coach of the Year.
The boys’ basketball team made the Playoffs after a 10-6 season that landed them in 4th place. They lost in overtime in the first round of playoffs by one basket. Four of the boys made All League this year: Misa Soriano, Jaylen Jones, Sam Le and Brandon Pham.
Amazing field trips provide opportunities for real-life learning and growth not found in the classroom!
NBCA Student Council just completed its annual student trip. The time includes team building and was a great time together to celebrate efforts to make this possible from their year long economics class in fundraising and cost analysis. This year the students enjoyed a trip to Santa Cruz.
Amazing field trips provide opportunities for real-life learning and growth not found in the classroom!
9th - 11th Grade Students of NBCA Joined Great America for their Math & Physics Day Mr. Molinari took high school students Friday, May 4th, to Great America. An assignment accompanied the day to complete for credit in classes that included for the following activities:
- Strawberry DNA extraction lab
- Buoyancy Challenge
- A scavenger hunt that included solving algebraic equations
- Students competed in a contest to protect an egg from cracking. Students needed to consider potential energy and air resistance when constructing their air craft.
- Experiencing acceleration first hand by riding roller coasters and calculating force (F=MXA)