The Rising Phoenix
Congratulations to the winners from the first annual CEC Hackathon!
Grades 6-8
- Be Hunger Free - Aaron Hernandez
- Womens Protection App - Sarai Finnie, Amelie Ramon, Melissa Baltazar
- Fight Together - Daniela Sanchez, Esmeralda Aguilar, Hailey Parra
Grades 9-12
- Mentally Friendly - Leeonti Hampton
- Psyche App - Paula Robles Hernandez
- Be Fit - Melanie Cortez Campos
Ms. Hwang, our Studio Art teacher, collaborated with Celebrity Substitute. She taught a lesson on scale and proportion. Crystal M. (Class of 2021) was surprised to see her teacher joined by Terry Crews. Mr. Crews also collaborated with Ms. Hwang on a lesson about perspective.
Compton Early College has earned the College Board AP® Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science Principles. Schools honored with the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award have expanded young women’s access to AP computer science courses.
Out of the 20,000 institutions that offer AP courses, 818 achieved this important result during the 2018-2019 school year. In 2019, CEC was one of 639 recognized in the category of AP Computer Science Principles.
Schools receiving the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award have achieved either 50% or higher female representation in either or both of the AP computer science courses, or the percentage of female computer science examinees meets or exceeds that of the school’s female population.
Inside California Education, a KVIE public television series that explores challenges, issues, and stories in public education, visited Compton Early College in 2019 and aired this report.
USC Annenberg Media posted a story on our juniors and seniors training to be pollworkers and conduct voter outreach ahead of the November 2018 elections.
We are proud of the 2020 Challenge winners! As part of the CUSD Computer Science Week, CEC middle and high school students competed against teams across the District. Phoenix students finished in the top three places for the Apple App Challenge and captured first place in the Minecraft Challenge. Congratulations Noemi, Esmeralda, Hailey, and Rebecca!
The 2020 Prom Challenge was a grant competition sponsored by When We All Vote, a national non-profit focused on increasing election turnout launched in 2018 by co-chairs including Michelle Obama, and MTV. 20 high schools from across the country will be recognized for their commitment to boosting voter registration in their communities. The work by CEC’s Girls Build LA club to pre-register our eligible student body will be highlighted at MTV’s Prom-athon which begins at 6:00pm Friday, May 22.
All of our high school teams were winners at the 2020 CUSD Math Field Day held on March 7. Congratulations to Mr. Rivera, Ms. Morkes, and our student competitors!
11th grade: Marleni A, Emily G, Juan G, and Daniel M
10th grade: Alexa G, Luis H, Jesus M, and Bruce N
9th grade: Alex C, Lydia P, and Noely R
- Valedictorian will attend the University of Southern California on a full-ride scholarship
- Salutatorian will attend University of California Los Angeles
- 14% of the graduating class was accepted to UCLA (national average is 5%)
- Posse Scholar Awardee will attend Northwestern University
A CEC team won the Congressional App Challenge for California's 44th District competition in both 2017 (featured in the video) and 2018 (more information available here). Congratulations to Tacorrie (Class of 2021), Cesar (Class of 2021), Marleni (Class of 2021), and Isamari (Class of 2021)!
