WHS GATE*
*Gifted and Talented Education
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GATE Meetings
Monthly GATE Student Meeting:
How students are reminded: students receive an email reminder before the meeting to their @learn.conejousd.net account
Purpose: This meeting gives GATE students an opportunity to collaborate, communicate and connect ideas with their peers via playing games and working on personal enrichment projects. This meeting is conducted by GATE students that have been elected by their peers.
Monthly GATE StudentMeeting dates 2022-2023 School year:
09/21/2022 -- puzzle
10/19/2022 -- puzzles and games
11/9/2022 -- puzzles and games
12/14/2022 -- elections for leadership positions
01/11/2023 -- CS50x 2022 puzzle #1 "Harry Potter and The Off-By-One Error"
02/07/2023 JPL field trip with TOHS & NPHS
02/08/2023 Monthly GATE Student Meeting:"#1 Harry Potter and the Off By One Error"
03/03/2023 GATE Mock Trial Meeting
03/07/2023 GATE Mock Trial Meeting
03/08/2023 GATE "#1 Harry Potter and the Off By One Error"
03/14/2023 GATE Mock Trial Meeting
03/21/2023 GATE Mock Trial Meeting
03/28/2023 GATE Mock Trial Meeting
04/04/2023 GATE Mock Trial Meeting
04/04/2023 GATE Mock Trial Event at TOHS PAC, 4pm
04/05/2023 Monthly GATE Student Meeting
AP Testing May 1-12, 2023
05/24/2023 last meeting of the school year & election for next year's officers
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Student Meeting dates 2021-2022 School year:
Agenda 09/22/2021:
Welcome meeting with Mrs. Stefanie Caswell from CVUSD District Office
Board Game play
Agenda 10/13/2021:
10/20/2021: GATE Book Club, lunch, 61H
11/10/2021: GATE Student Meeting, lunch, Mrs. Preston's new classroom, 31H -- rescheduled
11/17/2021: GATE Student Meeting, lunch, 31H -- Click Here for Agenda & Links to Activities
12/01/2021: GATE Book Club, lunch, 31H
12/08/2021: GATE Student Meeting, lunch, 31H -- Meeting Notes 12/08/2021
01/26/2022: GATE Student Meeting, lunch, 31H -- to pre-order your lunch, go to the Cafeteria and place your order between 6:00am and 10:30 am and you may pick up your lunch in room 31H before the meeting (this courtesy is extended for students who will stay during the entire meeting).-- Meeting Notes 01/26/2022
02/09/2022: GATE Student Meeting, lunch, 31H
02/23/2022: GATE Student Meeting, lunch, 31H
03/09/2022: GATE Student Meeting, lunch, 31H
03/23/2022: GATE Student Meeting, lunch, 31H
04/06/2022: GATE Student Meeting, lunch, 31H
04/27/2022: GATE Student Meeting, lunch, 31H
05/11/2022: GATE Student Meeting, lunch, 31H
05/25/2022: GATE Student Meeting, lunch, 31H
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Meeting dates from 2020/21 school year
11/04/2020: click here for slide presentation
12/09/2020: click here for agenda
01/06/2021 (01/13/2021 is period 5 final exam day) click here for meeting presentation
02/10/2021: click here for Romeo & Juliette Escape Room Activity
03/10/2021: click here for Meeting Agenda
03/17/2021: GATE Book Club Meeting @10:50 (same Zoom link as monthly meeting)
03/31/2021: GATE Book Club Meeting
04/14/2021: click here for April GATE Meeting Agenda
05/12/2021: no meeting due to school testing
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GATE Book Club
The Book Club is available to GATE students upon request. Please speak with Mrs. Preston if you are interested in being in this subset of the GATE Student meetings.
Here are the titles students have chosen to read 2021/2022
The Night Circus https://www.amazon.com/Night-Circus-Erin-Morgenstern/dp/0307744434
The Count of Monte Cristo
Steve Jobs biography: https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537
WHS GATE Team:
Steven Barnes, Assistant Principal: sbarnes@conejousd.org
Vanessa West, GATE Parent DAC Representative
Annual GATE Parent Meeting:
Back to School Night, Wednesday, Sept 14, 2022, 8:20pm
CLICK HERE FOR THE SLIDE SHOW PRESENTATION