Los Banos Junior High School Leadership Class of 2012

Back Row Left – to –Right:  Itzel Quintero, Kellen Haug, Gurlynn Gill, Erik Hernandez, Sammy Perez
Front Row Left – To – Right: Elizabeth Guzman, Julisa Ornales, Nayeli Gonzalez, Jimmy Georgiou

President: Elizabeth Guzman
Los Banos Junior High School is going to make this year incredible for our MESA program. Our school has been doing great on fundraisers. We sell brownies and cookies during school hours, and boy, do those get sold out fast. Brownies and cookies are not the only things that get sold in our school. We also sell ice cream after school when the days are hot, and you cannot stand the heat, so students come and buy ice cream. One of our advisors, Mr. Wilson, sells sodas and water when he has tutoring after school. When those soda cans, and water bottles are empty we recycle them to get money. We also have other teachers that help us recycle. Teachers have their own recycling box and when they are full, students are sent to their classes to pick them up.

Our MESA school is very dedicated to this program. We make sure we complete everything on time. We have meetings once or twice a week usually on Wednesdays at break. We share ideas on fundraising, upcoming events, and future plans for our program, especially on how to improve our MESA program. Every two weeks we send out newsletters to students and parents informing them on current events, upcoming events, and important dates to attend. As you can see, we are making good progress and we are focused on making our MESA program better.

Secretary: Sammy Perez
We have done some pretty cool things in MESA this year such as, the MESA Orientation Night, and learned about the OnlineU. We have also worked on some fun enrichment activities such as the Glider, Paper Bridge, and Windmill. We will soon work on the Paper Car.


Treasurer: Jimmy Georgiou
In our Junior High, we are doing a lot of things, besides just MESA, like the 1st Priority club, which is held during both lunches. The club is about Christianity and to follow the rules God gave us.  I’m in the club myself and I think it is really fun.  Also, we’re having some band marches coming up in Santa Cruz, Merced, and many more places, so don’t miss out on our tiger pride!  We have also had a campus clean up competition just recently and 1st lunch won.  The prize was an early release from their class before 1st lunch.  Although, they said it was the last campus clean up competition, I think they will change their minds and make another campus clean up competition. Lastly, we are having our regular free after school tutoring, so don’t miss out!

We are also doing a lot of things in MESA as well. Such as fieldtrips that are coming up, like the Student Leadership Retreat that on September 24th, the 1st Saturday Academy on October 22, and the deadline to sign up for that is, October 3rd, if all the spaces are still open by then. 

Photographer: Nayeli Gonzalez
Los Banos Junior High School’s MESA has been doing great! We started the year strong with fundraisers, preparing for the Solo Math Competition, 600 Club and the MESA Club! The Leadership Team sells ice cream, cookies, and brownies during and afterschool. Our fundraisers are to fund scholarships for the Catalina Island Trips, and College Road Trip.
We are preparing for the Solo Math Competition and doing the 600 Club. The preparation for the Solo Math Competition is every Friday from 3:10 to 4:30. The MESA program at LBJHS has volunteer tutors to help us prepare! This year we began to do the 600 Club where the students prepare for the CST’s every Friday, during the same time as the preparation for the Solo Math Competition.

We have about 20 students in the MESA Club. They have meetings on Mondays during break and Friday’s afterschool in Mrs. Salcido’s classroom. I have been helping Mrs. Salcido with the meetings and to recruit new students! In Mrs. Salcido classroom we do enrichments and compete. I hope LBJHS does awesome this year!

3rd Period Representative: Shyanne Vargas
This week at LBJHS we are working on keeping our school clean. MESA is also working on recycling to save the environment and to also raise money for our MESA program. In each MESA teacher's class there is a bin for recycling.  Last time that we recycled everything that we had collected we made $35.68. The Leadership class that is run by Mrs. Smith collects the bottles every so often and turns them in to Mr. Wilson.