The Diocese of Oakland Science Fair at Saint Joseph Notre Dame high School is sending 30 middle school students on to the next level of competition at the San Francisco Bay Area Science Fair.
Netbooks, the smaller, sleeker cousins of the laptop computer, have arrived on campus at Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School as part of a pilot program for two groups of students to try out the new technology before it's rolled out for the entire school.
Senior Sarah Su is being recognized as the first high school poet laureate in Alameda. She will be honored Jan. 16 at Alameda Museum, where she will give a reading of her work.