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Quiz Kids (San Francisco)
''Bay Area Quiz Kids'' is an academic quiz public-access television show for San Francisco Bay Area high schools. From the start in 1999 it has been hosted by Brad Friedman, the Drama Director at San Mateo High School. Originally developed as ''Peninsula Quiz Kids'' by Bob Marks and Liz La Porte of Peninsula TV Cable 26 (Pen-TV) in 1999, the show began airing on KRON-4 in San Francisco as ''Bay Area Quiz Kids''. The show is now a production of TV Game Brains, headed by Executive Producer Marc Balcer. Throughout its run, the show has been sponsored by the San Mateo Credit Union. Other sponsors have included Kaiser Permanente, SamTrans, the San Francisco Chronicle, AT&T, Oracle, Fisher Investments, and Wells Fargo Bank. Format (until Season 11) ''Quiz Kids'' is played by two teams of three players each. The player in the center position is the team captain and is responsible for giving the team's answer on all non-toss-up questions. In early years the format varied somewhat fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Show
A game show is a genre of broadcast viewing entertainment (radio, television, internet, stage or other) where contestants compete for a reward. These programs can either be participatory or Let's Play, demonstrative and are typically directed by a game show host, host, sharing the rules of the program as well as commentating and narrating where necessary. The history of game shows dates back to the invention of television as a medium. On most game shows, contestants either have to answer questions or solve puzzles, typically to win either money or prizes. Game shows often reward players with prizes such as cash, trips and goods and services provided by the show's sponsor. History 1930s–1950s Game shows began to appear on radio and television in the late 1930s. The first television game show, ''Spelling Bee (game show), Spelling Bee'', as well as the first radio game show, ''Information Please'', were both broadcast in 1938; the first major success in the game show genre was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freemasonry
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. Modern Freemasonry broadly consists of two main recognition groups: * Regular Freemasonry insists that a volume of scripture be open in a working lodge, that every member profess belief in a Supreme Being, that no women be admitted, and that the discussion of religion and politics be banned. * Continental Freemasonry consists of the jurisdictions that have removed some, or all, of these restrictions. The basic, local organisational unit of Freemasonry is the Lodge. These private Lodges are usually supervised at the regional level (usually coterminous with a state, province, or national border) by a Grand Lodge or Grand Orient. There is no international, worldwide Grand Lodge that supervises all of Freemasonry; each Grand Lod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mission San Jose High School
Mission San Jose High School (MSJHS or MSJ) is a four-year co-educational public high school founded in 1964. It is located in the Mission San Jose district of Fremont, California, United States. It is one of five comprehensive high schools in the Fremont Unified School District. Mission San Jose High School is the third largest high school in Fremont. Academics In 2022, ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked Mission San Jose High as the 94th best high school in the United States. The school was ranked 8th in California, with an Advanced Placement participation rate of 89%. The school was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 1987, 1996, and 2008. Students Demographics As of the 2021-2022 school year, 91.1% of the students were Asian American, 4.3% were European American, 2.5% were Hispanic and 0.3% were African American. According to California School Dashboard, in 2017 MSJHS had 3.8% socioeconomically disadvantaged students and 3.1% English Learners out of its total p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mills High School
Mills High School is a public high school in Millbrae, California, one of seven in the San Mateo Union High School District. Mills was established in 1958. Mills High School has been named a California Distinguished School three times (1988, 1996, 2009). Academics In 2012, Mills was granted a six-year accreditation through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Mills has Advanced Placement course offerings. In 2015 it was ranked the 225th best public high school in the country by ''Newsweek''. In 2013 it was ranked 519th nationally by '' U.S. News & World Report''. Statistics Demographics 2017-2018 * 1,220 students: 617 Male (50.6%), 603 Female (49.4%) Approximately 22.3% of the students at Mills are served by the free or reduced-price lunch program. Standardized testing Athletics Mills has a wide array of sports throughout the school year. In the fall, the sports are: Girls' Tennis, Girls' Golf, Water Polo, Cross Country, Football, and Volleyball. Winter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menlo-Atherton High School
Menlo-Atherton High School (known as M-A to locals) is a four-year public charter secondary school located in Atherton, California. Menlo-Atherton is part of the Sequoia Union High School District. School Profile Menlo-Atherton has been named one of the top secondary schools in the nation by the as part of its National School Recognition Program. It was selected as a California Distinguished School by the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menlo School
Menlo School, also referred to as Menlo, is a private college preparatory school in Atherton, California, United States, across the street from Menlo Park. Menlo comprises a middle school, grades 6–8, with approximately 230 students, and a high school, grades 9–12, with about 570 students. The two schools share a campus but operate as semi-autonomous units with select overlapping administration, such as the Head of School. Menlo was established in 1915, and in 1927 added a junior college that became Menlo College. The college was formally separated from Menlo School in 1994, but they continued to share a single dining hall until 2017, when Menlo built a cafeteria. Menlo School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and is a member of the National and California Associations of Independent Schools. History Menlo School was founded in 1915 as the William Warren School, an all-male military school with an inaugural enrollment of 13 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillsdale High School (San Mateo, California)
Hillsdale High School is a public co-educational high school in San Mateo, California, serving grades 9–12 as part of the San Mateo Union High School District. Hillsdale generally serves the residents of San Mateo and Foster City. The main feeder schools to Hillsdale are Abbott, Bayside, Borel, and Bowditch Middle Schools of the San Mateo-Foster City School District. History When it opened in 1955, Hillsdale High School was awarded the School Design Award from the American Institute of Architects. It served as the prototype for Bay Area high schools, with indoor/outdoor passages, landscaped courtyards, and skylights in classrooms. The design is credited to John Lyon Reid. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, teachers Greg Jouriles and Sue Bedford developed and implemented an integrated humanities curriculum, scheduling social studies and English classes back-to-back. The extended periods were first rolled out to first-year honors students in 1989, followed by a parallel program i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harker School
The Harker School is a private, non-profit school located in San Jose, California. Founded in 1893 as Manzanita Hall, Harker now has three campuses: Bucknall, Union, and Saratoga, named after the streets on which they lie. About The Bucknall campus houses the Lower School (kindergarten through grade 5), the Union campus houses the Middle School (grades 6-8), and the Saratoga campus houses the Upper School (grades 9 through 12). Harker School's tuition is significantly higher than most comparable private schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Area. Many of the 35+ after-school programs have historically been included in the tuition. History The Harker School was founded as three distinct schools, which merged in 1972 to form Harker Academy and in 1993, Harker School. Manzanita Hall and Palo Alto Military Academy In 1891, founding Stanford University president David Starr Jordan influenced Frank Cramer to open the Palo Alto Preparatory School for Boys. The school was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunn High School
Henry M. Gunn Senior High School is one of two public high schools in Palo Alto, California, the other being Palo Alto High School. Established in , Gunn High School was named after Henry Martin Gunn, who served as the Palo Alto superintendent from 1950 to 1961. In 1964, the Palo Alto Unified School District announced that it would name the district's third high school after him. The Class of 1966 was the first class to graduate from Gunn High School. 1,993 students attended the school in the 2019–2020 school year. In 1992, the school was honored as a California Distinguished School. History The land under Gunn High School was purchased by the school district from Stanford University for $358,641 (), under the condition that it could not be sold to another entity. Gunn High School opened in August 1964 with an initial enrollment of 600 students, comprising 300 sophomores and 300 juniors. It was named after Henry Gunn, the superintendent of the Palo Alto Unified School Distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crystal Springs Uplands School
Crystal Springs Uplands School is an independent, coeducational, college prep day school in Hillsborough, California, United States. Founded in 1952, the school includes grades 6–12, with approximately 220 students in the middle school and 320 students in the upper school. In late 2007, ''The Wall Street Journal'' identified Crystal Springs Uplands School as one of the world's top 50 schools for its success in preparing students to enter top American universities. History Uplands Mansion The main building of the CSUS campus is the Uplands Mansion, originally built as a private residence by Templeton Crocker, scion of railroad baron Charles F. Crocker. Crocker hired architect Willis Polk to design the home in the style of a neo-classical Renaissance palazzo. Construction of the home took six years to complete (1911–1917) at a cost of $1.6 million ($ in dollars). It featured 39 rooms including 12 bedrooms, and 12 baths. The mansion's interior has European fixtures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concord High School (Concord, California)
Concord High School is a 9-12 public high school in Concord, California, United States,.Information taken from thConcord High School website Accessed July 21, 2008. It is one of the six high schools in the Mount Diablo Unified School District. Concord High School was constructed in 1966 and currently provides in permanent structure, including about 70 classrooms, a library, and other structures. As of 2014, the current principal is Rianne Pfaltzgraff. Athletics Fall *Cross country *Football *Golf (girls) *Marching band *Tennis (girls) *Volleyball (girls) *Water polo *Auxiliaries *Cheerleading Winter *Basketball *Soccer *Winter percussion *Winterguard *Wrestling Spring *Baseball *Bowling *Golf (boys) *Softball *Swimming *Tennis (boys) *Track & field *Volleyball (boys) *Auxiliaries (training clinics) Field of Dreams The vision of the Field of Dreams Project is to renovate existing, build new, and maintain facilities that will benefit all indoor and outdoor athletic programs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlmont High School
Carlmont High School is a public high school in Belmont, California, United States serving grades 9–12 as part of the Sequoia Union High School District. Carlmont is a California Distinguished School. Carlmont was founded in 1952 as "a school within a school" at Sequoia High School, with four hundred fifty freshman and sophomore students. Name Its name derives from the campus straddling the two adjacent cities of San Carlos and Belmont (thus the portmanteau of San Carlos + Belmont). Because this hilly area is referred to as "the highlands", the school team was named "The Scots", and the mascot is a kilted Scottish highland warrior, named Carl Monty. The Carlmont campus was built on at a cost of about $2.5 million. Carlmont students come from Belmont, San Carlos, Redwood City, Redwood Shores, and East Palo Alto. ''Dangerous Minds'' The novel '' My Posse Don't Do Homework'' by LouAnne Johnson and subsequent movie adaptation ''Dangerous Minds'' were based upon he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
