Panther Prowl

As busy as things get this time of year, it is also the time to celebrate and recognize many of our amazing student success stories leading up to next month's Senior Awards Night and ultimately, graduation. Our val/sals have been previously announced, the RCOE Academic Awards have been held, and other awards/banquets are still to come. Please help us in keeping our students focused on their academics to have a strong finish to the school year!

Respectfully,

Antonio Gonzalez, Ed.D.

Proud Principal

April 26, 2019

April 27th:

• AP Physics with Ms. Olson in L-5
  
• Automotive Technology with Mr. Mauger in our Auto Shop

May 4th:

• Biomedical with Mrs. Holtz in S-106

*PASS hours are from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm and the weekly schedule is subject to change based on teacher availability

At this year's annual RCOE Student Academic Awards on April 22nd, our Top 3 academic Panthers were recognized. From left to right below, Matthew Nguyen (salutatorian), Emily Silvis (salutatorian), and Mikayla McMillan (valedictorian) represented Corona High School. At this event, RCOE recognizes the top scholars from all high schools in Riverside County. All principals, superintendents, and select board members associated with each school were in attendance, including County Superintendent Dr. Judy White, to acknowledge and congratulate this amazing accomplishment. I am extremely proud of these three students and am happy to announce that all three will be attending UCLA in the fall. Congratulations, scholars!!!

Every year our district recognizes students from all 50 schools for their successes. Each comprehensive high school submitted nominees from five categories (see below) to be recognized at the Tribute Awards held at Norco High School on April 25th. This year's nominees represented Corona High School and I am impressed and extremely proud of each one!

• Mikayla McMillan, Academic Excellence (Female)
• Matthew Nguyen, Academic Excellence (Male)
• Jillian Celis, Outstanding Female Athlete
• Gaven Ramirez, Outstanding Male Athlete
• Karina Pineda, Outstanding Student

Every year the Circle City Kiwanis Club recognizes two students from each of our high schools at a student recognition luncheon held at Sizzler in Corona. We are given flexibility in selecting our student recipients. At Corona High School, we have decided to recognize students that have demonstrated resilient behaviors and continue to successfully move forward. This year's recipients are Jennifer Rojas and Jose Suarez. Jennifer is on Prom Court and in AVID, while Jose is part of our first 4-year cohort of our STEM Academy Health Careers Pathway. Both students have proven that drive and determination can overcome challenges outside our control. Congratulations to these two Panthers!

Below are our most recent students who have earned their recognition by various staff members for demonstrating RAWR behaviors. These are the four characteristics we work to develop and reinforce with our students. Congratulations to our students for being Respectful, Accountable, Well-connected, and Resilient!

Respectful

1. Mayra Flores
2. Robert Munoz
3. Roman Villasenor
4. Israel Uguarte
5. Stacey Salguero
6. Emily Servin
7. Gusten Rodriguez
8. Ella Rocco’
9. Uriel Valencia
10. David Nguyen

Accountable

1. Pablo Batalla
2. Gilbert Cerda
3. Joseph Settles
4. Cecillia Navarrate
5. Bianca Leon
6. Stephen Diax
7. Miriam Munoz
8. Issac Elnabbout
9. Ruth Solomon
10. David Gonzalez

Well-connected

1. Ricky Martinez
2. Daniel Palacios
3. Alexis Meza
4. John Villalobos
5. Rafael Leal
6. Eric Medina
7. Ethan Iglesias
8. Jessica Munoz
9. Victor Ceja
10. Leslie Flores

Resilient

1. Trenten Thorne
2. Candice Holden
3. Angel Olivo
4. Samantha Sanchez
5. Hazel Soriano
6. Kimberly Gonzalez
7. Pablo Quiroz Jr.
8. Edward Perez
9. Miah Lewis
10. Javion Brownridge

We are full into our testing season! Although our SBAC testing began on April 11, we are still working on make ups. If you know your junior has NOT tested, please have him/her see our assistant principal, Mr. Abbott, for the make up. All we can ask of our students is that they try their absolute best. Last year we experienced a growth in both ELA and math (the only high school in the district to do so) by 5% and 6%, respectively, and are expecting continued growth this year. It is our goal to be the highest performing high school in CNUSD! With this, I want to inform you of two potential benefits for our students (beyond our school/district accountability).

• First, students may qualify for a potential grade bump in ELA and/or math, depending on their passing score (it varies for AP courses). Although the grade bump won't take effect until next school year when we receive the official results, it will reflect on this year's grades/GPA. Essentially, a D can become a C, a C becomes a B, and a B becomes and A. Please reach out to your student's ELA/math teacher for further clarification.
  
• Second, students can potentially demonstrate that they are ready for college-level ELA and math courses. Our state has eliminated remedial ELA and math classes at the college level (community and university) and instead will require students to concurrently enroll in an additional support class if they have not demonstrated they are "college ready."

The bottom line is that these tests can have a personal impact on our students and we want them all to take this seriously. Please ensure that your child gets plenty of rest the night before his/her test date and and nutritious breakfast. Should you have any questions about this or any other school-related issue, feel free to reach out to our front office.

Please refer to the flyer below for more information about our online registration process. Should you have additional questions, feel free to reach out to our registrar's office: 951-736-3315. Parents can also visit our registrar's office between 7:30 am and 2:00 pm if you need assistance with or access to a computer. As of April 22nd, 45.74% of our students have completed the online registration process. To avoid any potential delays in your student starting with us on the first day of school, please complete your registration as soon as possible.

Our STEM Academy will be hosting our first 4-year cohort banquet on April 26th. Students will be recognized for heir academic success, as, well as being part of our first graduating cohort! Pictures will follow in the next Panther Prowl.

• Students in our HCP Medical Anatomy class learned the basics of electrocardiogramas (EKG) and used leads to trace their own heart's electrical events. A major component of this pathway is to provide students with hands-on learning experiences where they can immediately apply what they are learning. Upon graduation, they will be ready to either enter the workforce or continue their education at a post-secondary institution or college.
• In our Sports Medicine class, students learned about Cupping Therapy and Tecnica Gavilán, which is a system of manual therapy. This is one of our capstone courses where students get to apply what they've learned over their four years in HCP.

On April 26th, Norco College hosted some CNUSD schools, including Corona High School, for a friendly VEX Robotics Competition. Norco College is working on developing their Robotics courses that would ultimately articulate with our coursework here.

Please contact Mr. Johnson (ktjohnson@cnusd.k12.ca.us) for more information about our Aerospace Engineering Pathway.

• Well it has been another busy month for AVID at Corona High! On March 27th we held our third annual ABC day (AVID Builds Community Day)! We had fun participating in team building activities, Jennie Berrera was our student speaker (she got to deliver her speech in preparation for her AVID RIMS debut at UCR next month), and we also had multiple AVID alumni come and give various presentations on college life as well as careers after college.
  
• On Wed April 10th and April 17th, AVID seniors interviewed incoming 8th graders for our AVID program. It was a great opportunity to explain how AVID works in high school and the advantages provided, in addition to learning more about our future AVID students. We were also able to provide information about the AVID STEM summer bridge program that CHS is offering for our third year!
• We are excited to announce that John Villalobos was selected as a Questbridge College Prep Scholar! He was one of 3,123 students selected from a large pool of over 10,800 high school juniors nationwide that were evaluated on academic excellence, personal qualities, and financial need. As a college prep scholar he will participate in the National College Match, through which he could receive a full four-year scholarship to any Ivy League school. Join us in wishing him the best of luck on this journey!
  
• Eduardo Santana and Daisy Rosendo will be attending the 42nd Annual Youth Citizenship Seminar at Pepperdine University in Malibu. Only 250 students were accepted to attend this prestigious week-long residential seminar focused on service & leadership. Congratulations on this wonderful opportunity to grow as leaders!
  
• On Friday April 19th, we were able to have a Fun Friday! Seniors were able to offer advice to the freshmen while building connections and enjoying the opportunity to play Jenga, Connect 4, and frisbee golf. Juniors were also able to relieve some of the stress from SAT and SBAC testing!
  

On April 25th our Madrigals traveled to Gabrielino High School to compete in the 2019 Southern California Vocal Association Choral Festival. I am proud to report that we performed extremely well and earned a Superior rating! Great job to Mrs. Eden and our Mads!

On April 25th we hosted our annual solo concert where our singers had the opportunity to perform their solos, many for the first time ever! Way to go, to our Panthers!

Is your student interested in being a part of amazing shows and productions next year at Corona High School? Whether a senior or freshman, actor or technician, there is a spot for everyone in the Theatre Department. Anyone interested in being placed in Intermediate or Advanced Theatre next year may sign up for an audition time either with Ms. Horn in R-102 or at this link: https://forms.gle/w4kS5jtYMuST5oVv9. Please encourage your performer or technician to take advantage of this amazing opportunity!

• NJROTC will host our annual Military Ball on May 17th. This event will include awards, senior departure farewells, a change of command ceremony, dinner, and dancing. Invites will be sent out in the next few weeks and we look forward to a spectacular evening with parents, guests, and cadets!

• During the month of May, NJROTC will conduct many honors with our Color Guard detail. Our team will perform at the Civic Center in Corona on May 2nd, our Military Ball on the 17th, Corona High School Senior Awards Night the 20th, Veterans Day Celebration on 22nd, and Graduation on June 4th. If interested in having our honor guard perform at your enxt event, please contact 1st Sgt. Zinn (zinnje@gmail.com). It is always an honor and privilege to supporting our community

• NJROTC has many activities over the summer! This year we will be sending cadets to Leadership Academy held at Camp Pendleton and Sail Academy held at Coronado Island in San Diego. Cadets who have been chosen qualified through a competitive and rigorous process where they will attend these summer programs and learn, perform, and test their skills to bring back next year for the purpose of advancing leadership and disciplines for our program.

Prom is upon us! It will be held at the Old Ranch Country Club in Seal Beach on Saturday, April 27th. Congratulations and good luck to our 2019 Prom Court!

Queen Court

• Kaley Attaman
• Mariah Cortez
• Samantha Maestro
• Jennifer Rojas
• Jocelyn Torres

King Court

• Justin Dunn
• Nick Guerrero
• Yazan Nuri
• Cris Ruiz
• Justin Zamora

On April 19th, Link Crew hosted our Annual Corona Games. The event is a series of competitions between 7 teams made up of freshmen. Each team has a teacher advisor and Link Crew leaders as coaches. Some of the activities include tug of war, balloon pop, and the popular tricycle NASCAR races around the principal's quad. The winning team gets to hoist the Corona Cup (our version of the Stanley Cup) and the teacher gets to display the Cup in his/her classroom all year until the next Games. This year's competition was the closest ever and only 2 points separated the winner from second place. This year's winners were the Black Team led by Mr. Guzman! He will hold on the the Corona Cup until next year's contest. Great job by Mr. Brady and Link Crew, and congratulations to the Black Team!

• Green Team led by Mrs. Pike-Green
• Purple Team led by 1st. Sgt. Zinn
• Blue Team led by Mr. Sanders
• Yellow Team led by Ms. Horn
• Orange Team led by Ms. Gomez
• Red Team led by Mrs. Maffucci
• Black Team led by Mr. Guzman

If your student is interested in being a part of one of our Leadership classes (Unity, Link Crew, ASB, Renaissance, our Pep Squad) next school year, have him/her stop by Leadership Row to pick up an application.

• Unity: Ms. Scamara in I-3
• Link Crew: Mr. Brady in H-6
• ASB: Mrs. Stivers in I-2 or Student Store
• Renaissance: Mrs. Gressley in H-5
• Pep Squad: Mrs. Maffucci in H-7
  

Parents of seniors, please pay attention to the Senior Activities flyer below. We often get questions about these activities and this flyer serves as a reference.

GRAD NITE is May 30th and will be here before you know it! Tickets are $135 with ASB and $145 without. Don’t let your senior miss out on a fun-filled and memorable evening! This year's venue will be Magic Mountain and ticket prices includes FOOD and...A SEASON PASS! What a deal!

Spring Sports

• Baseball: On Tuesday, April 23rd our Panthers travelled to 2nd place Norco High School for the chance to clinch the Big VIII title for the third consecutive year. After a tough close game, we came out on top with a 6-5 victory to claim the title! As official Big VIII champs, we will be hosting a 1st Round CIF Playoff game sometime next week against a soon-to-be-announced opponent. We wrapped up our regular season play at home as we hosted Norco and came out victorious with a score of 8-6. Congratulations the 2019 Big VIII League Champions!
• Baseball Misc: We would like to give a huge shout out to Mr. Kenny Pfitzer (parent of senior, Mersadies) for giving our bullpen cart a big league upgrade through Zero to 60 Designs (https://www.zeroto60designs.com)! They added a hydraulic bed, a new bumping sound system, and a few other bells and whistles (see pictures below). THANK YOU!
  

• Track: Our Panthers competed at league finals on April 25th and 8 of our athletes qualified for CIF prelims! Our league is extremely competitive and in order to advance to CIF, competitors have to place top 3 in their respective event. We have 3 league champs, 3 that made 2nd Team All-League, and 3 that are 3rd Team All-League. CIF prelims will be held at Trabuco Hills High School on May 4th. Congratulations to our athletes!

  League Champions

  Ryan Martin - Triple Jump

  Egbe Ndip-Agbor - 200 m

  Israel Echeverria - 800 m

  2nd Team All-League

  Elisa Huerta -mile and 2 mile

  Egbe Ndip-Agbor -400 m

  Jasmine Lucatero - 800m

  3rd Team All-League

  Kennedy Peppers - 100m

  Nick Gutierrez - Pole Vault
  

  Melinda Doerr- Pole Vault

• Track Misc: We have three Life Skills athletes that participated in track this year. Bryan, Diego, and Jasmine want to thank their teammates and coaches, Coach Porter and Coach Sonja, for helping them become better athletes while participating with their peers.
• Boys Golf: Our golfers have qualified for the Big VIII League Tournament at Indian Hills Golf Course on Tuesday, April 30th. A special shout out to our seniors Sagar Nadasia and Gavin Bray enjoying our last league match together at Goose Creek Golf Course.
• Swim: The swimmers below competed in the Big VIII league finals on April 25th at RCC. We had a lot of our swimmers set personal records. Luke Wolfe, Bradley Manzo, David Quezada, and Drew Heaston qualified in the 200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay, and 200 Freestyle Relay for CIF. Drew was the league runner up in the 200 IM and the league champion in the 100 butterfly today at league. These boys will all compete next Friday at CIF finals! Way to go, Panthers!
  

  Bradley Manzo

  Elliot Sesma

  Cameron Rowan

  Hailey Cruz

  Bridget Nelson

  Andrew Heaston

  Ahlee Kisswani

  Aiden Ancheta

  Lindsey Habegger

  David Quesada

  Luke Wolfe

  Jaden Johnson

  Angel Garcia

  Samantha Strini

  Ben Bonnema

Given our history, Corona High School is very fortunate to have multiple generations that can call themselves Panthers. At many parent events I often ask for a show of hands of those that have graduated from Corona and sure enough, there are always several hands that go up. Well, if you are one of our graduates of the Class of 1979, your 40th reunion is coming up! Please see the flyer below for more details.

Be sure to follow our counseling department via their Twitter account @CoronaHScounsel for the latest counseling updates. You can also stay current with text updates by signing up for your appropriate grade level:

9th grade text "81010" with the message "@corona2022"

10th grade text "81010" with the message "@corona2021"

11th grade text "81010" with the message "@corona2020"

12th grade text "81010" with the message "@corona2019"

Mrs. Ferrara: aferrara@cnusd.k12.ca.us

Dr. Hernandez: schernandez@cnusd.k12.ca.us

Mr. Haggins: anthony.haggins@cnusd.k12.ca.us

Mrs. Martin: mmcgoniglemartin@cnusd.k12.ca.us

Mrs. Santos: msantos@cnusd.k12.ca.us

Dr. Schneider: aschneider@cnusd.k12.ca.us

Ms. Babin, (ababin@cnusd.k12.ca.us)

Ms. Tran, Intervention Counselor (sharaya.tran@cnusd.k12.ca.us)

Mark your calendars now for our first-ever districtwide College and Career Fair to be held at Santiago High School on October 16, 2019. This will be a collaborative effort of all high schools in CNUSD to promote college and career preparedness.

PTSA is looking for parents interested in serving on next year's PTSA Board. If this is of interest to you, you may reach out to Jackie Tilton (rballgirl@gmail.com) or Cathy Zamora (zpartyof5@yahoo.com). Thank you for your consideration in serving at Corona High School!

ALSO, please join us on May 20th at 5:00 pm in the library for our PTSA Association meeting. Although it is late in the year, come out and find out how you can get more involved next year in supporting Corona High School!

We will be observing Chid Abuse Prevention Month throughout April. The sad news around our CNUSD student, Noah, has touched our entire community and our hearts go out to Noah and those close to him and his family.

Below you will find links to all Panther Prowl editions for the 2018-19 school year.

• April 19, 2019: https://www.smore.com/dmjwb
• April 12, 2019: https://www.smore.com/jv16c
• March 29, 2019: https://www.smore.com/hb5tq
  
• March 22, 2019: https://www.smore.com/a278z
• March 15, 2019: https://www.smore.com/pbgjy
  
• March 8, 2019: https://www.smore.com/s2cmh
• March 1, 2019: https://www.smore.com/3kuve
  
• February 22, 2019: https://www.smore.com/e1frk
  
• February 15, 2019: https://www.smore.com/3n9cz
• February 8, 2019: https://www.smore.com/86efx
  
• February 1, 2019: https://www.smore.com/70zm2
  
• January 25, 2019: https://www.smore.com/jp029
  
• January 18, 2019: https://www.smore.com/p3vbs
• December 14, 2018: https://www.smore.com/69cxg
• December 7, 2018: https://www.smore.com/pgsd8
• November 30, 2018: https://www.smore.com/g8rnk
• November 16, 2018: https://www.smore.com/tkcpj
• November 9, 2018: https://www.smore.com/scey4
• November 2, 2018: https://www.smore.com/k7ajp
• October 26, 2018: https://www.smore.com/vapu2
• October 19, 2018: https://www.smore.com/6nksc
• October 12, 2018: https://www.smore.com/c6gtu
• October 5, 2018: https://www.smore.com/8hs3u
• September 21, 2018: https://www.smore.com/39m8t
• September 14, 2018: https://www.smore.com/nmv62
  
• September 7, 2018: https://www.smore.com/d1fh0
  
• August 31, 2018: https://www.smore.com/hqx2e
  
• August 24: https://www.smore.com/t6n8r

Antonio Gonzalez, Ed.D., Principal (aggonzalez@cnusd.k12.ca.us)

John Abbott, AP (john.abbott@cnusd.k12.ca.us)

Jeyan Danesh, AP (jeyan.danesh@cnusd.k12.ca.us)

Deena Rodriguez, AP (deena.rodriguez@cnusd.k12.ca.us)

Charlotte Vega, AP (cvega@cnusd.k12.ca.us)

Jeff Stevens, AP Athletics (jeffrey.stevens@cnusd.k12.ca.us)

Julie Stivers, AP Activities (jstivers@cnusd.k12.ca.us)

Email: aggonzalez@cnusd.k12.ca.us
Website: https://coronahs.cnusd.k12.ca.us
Location: 1150 W 10th St, Corona, CA, United States
Phone: 951-736-3211
Facebook: facebook.com/coronahigh
Twitter: @CoronaPrincipal