Mountain Views News          Saturday, April 4, 2015

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EDUCATION & YOUTH

Mountain Views-News Saturday, April 4, 2015 

SCHOOL DIRECTORY

MONROVIA HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS TEAM 

ADVANCES TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Alverno High School

200 N. Michillinda Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-3463 Head of School: Ann M. Gillick 

E-mail address: agillick@alverno-hs.org

Arcadia High School

180 Campus Drive Arcadia, CA 91007

Phone: (626) 821-8370, Principal: Brent Forsee

bforsee@ausd.net

Arroyo Pacific Academy

41 W. Santa Clara St. Arcadia, Ca, 

(626) 294-0661 Principal: Phil Clarke

E-mail address: pclarke@arroyopacific.org

Barnhart School

240 W. Colorado Blvd Arcadia, Ca. 91007

(626) 446-5588 Head of School: Ethan Williamson

Kindergarten - 8th grade

website: www.barnhartschool.org

Bethany Christian School

93 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-3527 Principal: James Lugenbuehl

E-mail address: jml@bcslions.org

website: www. bcslions.org

Clairbourn School

8400 Huntington Drive

San Gabriel, CA 91775

Phone: 626-286-3108 ext. 172

FAX: 626-286-1528

E-mail: jhawes@clairbourn.org

Foothill Oaks Academy

822 Bradbourne Ave., Duarte, CA 91010

(626) 301-9809 

Co-Principals Nancy Lopez and Diane Kieffaber

info@foothilloaksacademy.org 

preschool@foothilloaksacademy.org

Frostig School

971 N. Altadena Drive Pasadena, CA 91107

(626) 791-1255

Head of School: Chris Schnieders, PhD

Email: Jackykn@frostig.org

The Gooden School

192 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-2410 Head of School: Patty Patano

website: www.goodenschool.org

High Point Academy

1720 Kinneloa Canyon Road Pasadena, Ca. 91107 

Headmaster John Higgins 626-798-8989

website: www.highpointacademy.org

LaSalle High School

3880 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. 

(626) 351-8951 website: www.lasallehs.org

Principal Bro. Christopher Brady, FSC

Monrovia High School

325 East Huntington Drive, Monrovia, CA 91016 

(626) 471-2800 Principal Darvin Jackson

Email: schools@monrovia.k12.ca.us

Odyssey Charter School

725 W. Altadena Dr. Altadena, Ca. 91001

(626) 229-0993 Head of School: Lauren O’Neill

website: www.odysseycharterschool.org

Pasadena High School

2925 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. 

(626) 396-5880 Principal: Gilbert Barraza

website: http://phs.pusd.us

St. Rita Catholic School

322 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

Principal Joan Harabedian (626) 355-9028 

website: www.st-rita.org

Sierra Madre Elementary School

141 W. Highland Ave, Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-1428 Principal: Esther Salinas

E-mail address: salinas.esther@pusd.us

Sierra Madre Middle School 

160 N. Canon Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 836-2947 Principal: Garrett Newsom

E-mail address: newsom.garrett@pusd.us

Walden School

74 S San Gabriel Blvd

Pasadena, CA 91107 (626) 792-6166 

www.waldenschool.net

Weizmann Day School

1434 N. Altadena Dr. Pasadena, Ca. 91107

(626) 797-0204

Lisa Feldman: Head of School

Wilson Middle School

300 S. Madre St. Pasadena, Ca. 91107

(626) 449-7390 Principal: Ruth Esseln

E-mail address: resseln@pusd.us

Pasadena Unified School District

351 S. Hudson Ave., Pasadena, Ca. 91109

(626) 396-3600 Website: www.pusd@pusd.us

rcadia Unified School District

234 Campus Dr., Arcadia, Ca. 91007

(626) 821-8300 Website: www.ausd.net

Monrovia Unified School District

325 E. Huntington Dr., Monrovia, Ca. 91016

(626) 471-2000 Website: www.monroviaschools.net

Duarte Unified School District

1620 Huntington Dr., Duarte, Ca. 91010

(626)599-5000 Website: www.duarte.k12.ca.us


The ten Monrovia High School students of the “Kings and Queens” 
robotics team and their purple robot “Sir Lancelot” qualified 
to advance to the 2015 FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics World 
Championships for a second year in a row as a result of their excellent 
performance at the West Super-Regional Robotics Tournament held 
in Oakland this past weekend. The three-day tournament brought 
together the 72 top teams who were winners of state and regional 
competitions from 13 western states. The Monrovia team is one 
of four qualifiers from the Los Angeles area who will be among 
the 128 top teams from around the world to compete at the World 
Championships which will be held at the historic Union Station in 
St. Louis April 22-25. Only 35 U.S. teams who competed in last year’s 
World Championship have earned the right to come back again this 
year.

 The Kings and Queens team, four seniors, one sophomore and 
five freshmen, designed and built their own 18 by 18 inch robot 
from t-slot channel, Plexiglas, and formed aluminum to compete 
in the annual FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) robotics competition. 
The Kings and Queens are well known in the FTC community for 
their driving skill, unique robot designs, their signature costumes of 
purple velvet gold-embroidered renaissance dresses and gold tiaras 
for the girls and fur-trimmed black velvet jerkins with purple capes 
and gold crowns for the boys, and their supporter’s cheer of Huzzah! 
every time they score points. 

On the Marquee: Notes from the Sierra MadrePlayhouse


EINSTEIN AND 
RELATIVITY

By Artistic Director, Christian Lebano

If you think this essay will in anyway explain Einstein’s Theory 
of Relativity boy will you be disappointed – what I mean is 
relativity in the sense of relationship and connection! When 
I sold the Board of the Playhouse on launching our Field Trip 
series it was for a few reasons: my belief that young people 
need to experience quality theater if we are to have any hope 
of engaging them as adults, that to fulfill my vision of making 
SMP a leading artistic venue in the San Gabriel Valley we 
had to include an educational component to our work, and 
that reaching out to local schools was a great way to build 
relationships in the community and with families who might 
not know our work. I think we’ve succeeded at all three.

Einstein is a Dummy with its talented casts (we double-cast 
every role so that we’ll always have a full cast available for 
each show) and a truly spectacular use of projections – the 
first in our history - has built on the success we had last year 
with Battledrum. By the time we close we’ll have performed 
19 days of school matinees for 14 different schools and over 
1400 students. Many of the schools which attended this year 
were new to our program and some were from out of our 
district – Los Angeles, South Pasadena and Monrovia schools 
all attended for the first time – getting the word out wide of 
what we are offering here at the Playhouse. Special thanks to 
Frank Zgonc, a new SMP Board member, for finding a grant 
which allowed Monrovia students to come to the show. If 
anyone knows of other sources of funding for local schools, 
please let me know, next year we hope to expand our Field 
Trip Series to all the surrounding School Districts, but public 
schools rarely have the discretionary funds that allow them to 
make these kind of field trips.

In addition to the school matinees, Einstein has performed 
Sunday matinees at 2:30 for general audiences. I must admit 
that I’m disappointed that these haven’t sold as well as I’d 
hoped. As a parent of a 9 year old (who has seen the show 5 
times) I know that there are limited options locally for theater appropriate for kids. I thought that with only one opportunity each week 
that the show would sell really well to local families. If anyone has any ideas for why this hasn’t been so, please let me know. And if you 
have been meaning to attend, but just haven’t gotten around to it yet – you have a four more chances: this Sunday, Easter, at 2:30; we’ve 
added two evening shows, Friday & Saturday, April 10 and 11 at 8:00; and a final Sunday matinee on April 12 at 2:30. I hope that we’ll 
see you at one of these shows.

I don’t yet have the rights, so I can’t yet tell you what show we are planning for next year, but it has BIG name recognition and will be 
directed by someone everyone in town knows. Stay tuned for that announcement.

As always we do all this for you – our 
SMP family – whose support and loyalty 
mean so much to us and for whom we 
hope we bring pleasure and joy and 
moving experiences in the theater. 
Please let me know how you think we are 
doing. Reach me at ArtisticDirector@
SierraMadrePlayhouse.org