Carlé's Odyssey of the Mind team has added two new members: Lisa Davis and Jeremy Burton. This completes their roster for their upcoming competition. The team took a trip to SF which went very well. They visited Japan town and learned about Japanese culture and samurai armor at the Asian Art

Museum. They walked the historical path of Buddha and students were amazed at the art.

Now, they are taking a trip to “Spontaneous Day.” This program help teens and coaches in problem solving. This event will be held on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 12:45 p.m. at Hidden Valley School in Santa Rosa. The team and Carle High School would like to thank Christine Petty and Kathleen Ortega for driving and really supporting the team and our school.

During Carlé's last WASC evaluation the school received the highest accreditation possible, six years. The six years are up and once again Carle will be evaluated through the WASC process. The state will visit the school to do an onsite evaluation this March. The WASC report (self study) is finished and on the way to the state as this article goes to press.

Carlé's whole staff helped put this together overseen and driven by our secretary Barbara Dye and principal Ed Zander. When this process is finished Carlé High will start work on what would be an unprecedented fourth Model School award. Presently Carlé High School is one of the few schools in the history of California to receive model school status three times in a row.

As we approach the end of the third grading period media students are helping to make 29 sustainability awards that were given out after the end of the second grade period. More sustainability awards will be given out to students who have sustained or bettered their high academic levels. The

more grading periods students sustain their high level of academics the more items they receive from our in house design class.

The class often sponsors in house contest and we have just finished and printed the designs of the 10 winners of our coaster contest.

We would like to recognize Stephani Conner whom we failed to acknowledge in our last article for doing a great job singing in our Christmas choir.

Finally, a big thank you goes out to Art Carson of Ingram Books, Lynn of Catfish Books and Tom Hardy for organizing the donation of ten copies of the book “Three Cups of Tea” to our school. The entire student body and staff is very grateful for the generous donation and will use them well.

Andrea McMullen is a student at Carlé High School in Lower Lake.