Get ready to kick off the new school year!

AVID Channel Islands’ AVID-3 students, along with teachers Mr. John Grennan and Mr. Ramiro Mares, visited UC Santa Barbara on Tuesday as part of their college exploration unit. Students and a counselor from UCSB’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) made it a fun and informative day. The visit included a campus tour, a UCSB student panel, lunch in the University Center, and a walk through the dorms and down to the beach. Thanks to Ms. Griselda Sanchez of EAOP for helping make the day happen. Picture 1: It’s always nice to see CIHS graduates on our tours. This is Janson Villanueva,

Open House Open House at the Islands was terrific, our families enjoyed the showcases, talking to staff, food, and entertainment. CI is truly a community coming together for our students and each other. Great Job everyone!! Huge thanks to our Open House committee, ASB and all who made this event a success. Special Olympics Successful Basketball games of the Season for our Special Olympics Basketball Team! Thank you to everyone who came out to support our students we couldn’t do it without you! Kudos to coach Kevin Henry and his team for some great games! MESA This past Saturday, 23 of our MESA students attended

Academic Decathlon Overall, our A team earned 32,647.4 compared to last year’s score of  31,065.2. They also ranked 12 out 30 overall.  In our division, we ranked 5th out of 11, but were only 3,439.6 below the first place team in our division (last year we were 4117.1 below our divisions 1st place team).  ANOTHER amazing thing to note is that our A team took THIRD place in one of the 10 events, Interviews. They beat out ALL the schools in every division to take 3rd. This is the first time that we have placed in the top 3 in any event.    In total, we walked away with 29 medals. We