• Assembly Member Marc Levine and the Sonoma County Office of Education
invites you to a Common Core Town Hall Thursday February 27th 6:30pm-8pm at Elsie Allen High School.
This is a free community event open to the public. Speakers from the state and local level will be on hand to help members of the community understand
the impacts of Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
• Piner Students, Family, and Friends showing their school spirit at the Piner/Analy SCL playoff game.
• Piner's Environmental Club planted this plum tree a year ago during last year's Earth Week on Arbor Day. Check out the beautiful blossoms this year.
• Piner Wrestlers heading to NCS.
• Check out the latest HSB Blog.
• Mrs. Grove and the Boys Basketball Team.
• Piner Soccer Player, Marco Barragan, signs with UC Davis.
• Congratulations to all of the Piner Players who made Press Democrat All-Empire.
• Piner's Boys Varsity Basketball Team hosts Elsie Allen in an SCL Playoff Game on Tuesday February 18th at 7pm. Wear your maroon and gold and watch an exciting game.
Ticket prices: $8 General Admission, $5 Seniors (65+) and Students, $3 Students with valid ID. Military ID and valid ASB FREE!!!
• Piner Teacher, Mike Erickson, named California League of High School (CLHS) Educator of the Year for Piner High School.
Mr. Erickson was recognized at a California League of High Schools event on January 24th at the Villa Chanticleer in Healdsburg. He was nominated by his peers
and was among nine educators who were honored that evening.
• Piner's Debate Team competed at a match at Lowell High School in San Francisco on Saturday February 1st.
• S.T.E.M. Cafe - Thursday, February 6th 7pm in the new Science Center.
Students, Teachers, Scientists and Community Members are invited to a night of information and dialogue. The topic is "Concussions:
Dangers, Long term effects, Assessments, Treatments, and Prevention. Our guest speaker is Ty Affleck, M.D., Doctor of Sports Medicine
and Community Leader in Concussion Awareness. We would like to thank Raley's for providing refreshments.
• Piner's Andy Campbell ties for 4th place in the Annual Martin Luther King Oratorical Contest.
• Sonoma County Poetry Out Loud competition will be held on February 2nd from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Glaser Center,
547 Mendocino Ave. The contest will feature top scoring students from Analy, Cloverdale, Creekside, El Molino, Elsie Allen, Maria Carrillo, Montgomery,
Piner, Rancho Cotate, Roseland University Prep, Santa Rosa and Sonoma Academy high schools. The winner will advance to the state competition. The
competition pits students against each other as they perform oral interpretations of poems. Poetry Out Loud is a national recitation program initiated
by the National Endowment for the Arts.
• Cash for College! FAFSA is Free Application for Financial Student Aid.
If you are or have a Senior who is planning to attend college in the 2014-2015 school year...mark you calendars for January 27th at 6:30-8:30pm in the
Piner High School Library. There will be free help for all students who are filling out their FAFSA applications. There will also be a chance to fill
out the California Dream Application. Don't miss this chance to make your life easier!
• Spring Sports Clearance Information posted on the
Athletics page. Concussion screening (Baseball/Softball) Jan 25th 9am-11am and Feb 1 9am-11am. Feb 8th 8am-1pm = Spring Sports Clearance Day (ALL SPORTS).
• Piner Alumni
and Cross Country star, Luis Luna, continues to find success in college, has ultimate goal of competing in the Olympics.
• Members of the Piner Cross Country team volunteered at the annual New Year's Day Resolution Run.
Volunteering at the New Year's Day race has become a tradition for the Piner High School cross country team. This year, about 25 current and former Piner runners and coaches in gold and maroon helped with the Empire Runners Club 5k run at Montgomery Village.
Photo credit to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
• Winter Concert with Piner High School and Comstock Middle School
• On December 10th 2013 Piner Teacher Kurt Kruger (left) and Principal Sally Bimrose received the Top Real Estate
Project Award for the new Piner High School Science & Technology Center from the NB Business Journal.
• Learn more about current STEM (Science Technology Engineering and
Math) activities at Piner.
• Piner ASB's 14th Annual Season of Giving Toy Drive benefiting Monroe Elementary school was a success!
• North Bay Business Journal
of Sonoma, Marin and Napa Counties names Piner's Science & Technology Center the Top Real Estate Project in 2013 in the category of K-12 Education.
• New S.T.E.M. Cafe announced. December 3rd at 6pm in the Science & Technology Center. The speaker is Immunologist Dr. Lin.
The topic is Vaccines and the Inner Workings of the Immune System.
• Congratulations to Piner's Efren Reyes for winning the individual Division 4 title and qualifying for the CIF State Cross Country Championships in Fresno!
Efren, scorched the Division 4 competition with a 14-second victory, finishing in 15:39.
From the Press Democrat article:
"Reyes went out front quickly but stayed close to the pack for a mile before turning on the jets. By the time he started Mile 3 on the three-mile course,
he had a 50-yard lead on the next guy."
The Varsity Boys Team finished 3rd at NCS Championship.
• Piner captures first football playoff win in 10 years! On the road and shut-out/held scoreless in the 1st half,
Piner roars back to score 43 in the 2nd half to win by a final score of 43-29.
Video highlights
• Piner's Geospatial Technology Pathway and HSB participated in the Bay Area Science Festival @ the Sonoma County Fairgrounds
on 10/26 that was attended by over 10K people.
• Piner's Technology Assistant, Barbara Ryan, (center, in pink) retires after 16 years at Piner. Congratulations!
• Piner Tennis Coach, Ed Weber, named SCL Tennis Coach of the Year. Congratulations! In the top photo, Mr. Weber
is presented with an award from his tennis team.
• Piner's Vicky Nguyen is the Santa Rosa City School's High School Student of the Month for November 2013.
• Piner High School's "Every 15 Minutes" Programn video from this past April 2013 is available for viewing.
• The Fall Play, Neil Simon's "Rumors", runs November 13-16 7pm in the Performing Arts Center. Be advised there
is mature language used in the play and so it may not be appropriate for younger children. A hilarious comedy about 4 couples meeting to celebrate
an anniversary who are confronted with gunshots, gossip, rumor and innuendo in a delightful comedic farce. Admission is $5 Students and Senior
Citizens and $7 Adults.
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• Piner Varsity Boys and Girls Cross Country Teams are 2013 SCL Champions!
• Piner's Vicky Nguyen is the Santa Rosa City School's High School Student of the Month for November 2013.
• Join Piner High and Comstock Middle School for a Winter Concert on December 11 at 7pm in the Performing Arts Center. Admission is $5.
• Piner's Latino Club participated in Dia De Los Muertos celebration at Old Courthouse Square.
• Have a safe and fun Halloween! PHS Jack-o-lantern courtesy of Piner Parent, Kristy.
• Piner High School invites you to check out 21st Century Learning
• Garden to Plate Dinner was held on Saturday, Oct. 26th. It was a celebration of the harvest and included a
delicious dinner cooked by our award winning Piner Culinary students and speakers John Ash, Mei Ibach and Jennifer Una.
• ASB held its first ever "Walk for Change" on Saturday, October 26. This family-friendly
event included fun games, face painting, a cake walk, and more. Proceeds were donated to the American Cancer Society.
• Fall Beautification Day sponsored by PTSA. Thank you to our Piner PTSA Student Rep, Environmental Club,
Culinary, and everyone else who came to help out.
• Piner ASB at the Making Connections Conference on 9/23 with Mike Smith.
• Prospector Pete and Penny at the Piner vs Analy Varsity Football game.
• Check out our latest Student Testimonial on what makes Piner High School a great place to go to school.
• Piner Boosters donated $12,000 to Piner Athletics
for the 2012-2013 school year. We want to thank all of the parents and families for their support!
• Piner High School has a new Vision Statement: "Piner High School will be a dynamic
educational community filled with compassionate individuals prepared to engage the 21st century. We will promote inquiry, collaboration,
creativity, perseverance, and rigor in order to foster civic involvement and personal success."
• Press Democrat's Extra Credit Blog "Piner High Senior: Gov. shutdown is scary".
• Piner Senior, Paloma Romero, featured in Press Democrat's Teen Life. Photo copyright the Press Democrat.
• Piner's Science Department presented the first STEM Cafe. Attendees heard a lecture by Julie Mangada, a Buck Institute research scientist, learned about stem cells, enjoyed refreshments, and participated in an activity about stem cells after the lecture.
• Fall 2013 Spirit Week - Fashion Disasters
• Check out the bounty being grown in the Piner Garden
• Piner High School posts 2nd largest API score gain in Sonoma County. "Nearly three out of four schools in Sonoma County saw their state academic score drop this year. Piner bucked the trend, posting a 36-point gain in its API score. Only the single-grade Sixth Grade Academy in Petaluma made a larger gain." (quote and photo credit Press Democrat). In the photo, Mary Nguyen (left) and Karla Lopez work on a lab project.
• 2013 Press Democrat Football Preview.
• 2013-2014 Welcome letter from Superintendent Shiels.
• Piner Educators Dante DePaola (4th from left) and Sarah Walls (4th from the right) named Educators of the Year from Piner High School.
Each school chooses two teachers that exemplify great teaching. Honorees attended the Chamber of Commerce's 28th Annual "Excellence in Education Awards" award breakfast at the Flamingo Hotel.
• Piner Class of 2013 Graduate, Yessica Moran, featured in the Press Democrat's July 28th Teen Life.
• Piner's Kevin To is the SCL Tennis Player of the Year and Piner Teacher, Kurt Kruger, is Co-Coach of the Year.
• Piner Teacher, Dante DePaolo, teaching at Maker Camp Comstock Middle School.
• Check out Piner's Health Science & Biotechnology (HSB) blog
• Piner Biotech students are working at SSU for a two week internship. They are designing the lab protocols for our genetics unit for Year 1 HSB. This involves finding genetic markers to test for GMO's in common foods.
The Piner HS/SSU Summer Internship Crew (left to right) is Sera Matasau, Victoria Trier, Anissa Garcia, Chris Campbell, Ryan Williamson, Christian Barnard, Raya Zopolos, Tommy Nguyen.
• Class of 2013 Piner Graduate, Yessica Moran, is the 2013 Career Technical Education Student of the Year by the Sonoma County Office of Education. Yessica will be acknowledged at the June 27th SCOE meeting.
2012-2013 School Year
• Piner's Connor Celeri goes to the State Track Meet on Friday May 31st
• Piner High School's Maker Program profiled on "Makerspace"
• Piner High School Senior Awards Night. Congratulations to all of our students!
• Piner Spring Outdoor Concert and Art Show
• Piner Science Students tour local company, Medtronic for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Awareness Day.
• Piner Senior, Allison Lopez (bottom right), named 2013 All-Empire Large-School Girls Scholar Athlete. Winners received a $500 college scholarship to recognize their achievements. Photo courtesy of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
• Listen out for radio ads about two of Piner's awesome programs, Early College Magnet Program & Geospatial. They are scheduled to air from 5/13-5/26 on KSXY Y100.9FM and KXTS EXITOS (Spanish language).
• Ms. Spearman's AP Lang Class of 2013 carries on the tradition. Dancing to "A Little Party Never Hurt Nobody" (sic),
Ms. Spearman's AP Language and Composition class, 46 strong, took the College Board Advanced Placement test today (May 10, 2013).
It is a Piner High School tradition for the class to design a t-shirt to wear on the big test day. This year's theme was inspired by the
Hollywood release of 'The Great Gatsby', which Ms. Spearman's students went to see. Wearing shirts emblazoned with "Party Like Gatsby," "AP Language,"
and "PHS '14" the students marched into the quad and danced to music from the new soundtrack before entering the testing room. This tradition of shirts,
marching, and dancing has inspired many students who might not consider taking a college-level course to test the waters and see if they can swim. In
2004 the AP Language roster was in the 30s. The class now regularly supports two sections topping off at 50. In 2004, 13 students passed the exam.
27 passed last year's exam! Currently, 81 students have signed up to take the course in 2013-2014. Perhaps a little AP never hurt nobody!
• Piner Senior-Faculty Basketball Game 2013
• Piner PHAST Club (Piner High Astronomy, Science, and Technology), Space Science, and GIS student overnight field trip to the Robert Ferguson Observatory at Sugarloaf. Students spent time observing the moon.
• Parent Meeting regarding summer plans for students with Guess Speaker Efren Carrillo on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 from 6 PM to 8 PM at Cook Middle School at 2480 Sebastopol Rd. in Santa Rosa.
• Piner's Matt Mulligan (bottom left) selected as one of the Community Youth Service Award winners. Click on the link for the complete list of nominees including Piner students: Holley Maasen, Bryan Lococo, Yessica Moran, Malika Lewis, Allison Lopez, and Ian Carpenter.
• Check out the latest Piner Makers class blog.
• Piner Assistant Principal, Tim Zalunardo, participates in Restorative Justice video which was presented to the Santa Rosa City School Board.
• Piner's Environmental Club plants a plum tree in our organic garden in honor of Earth Day.
• Piner students received a free novel in celebration of World Book Night April 23, 2013.
• Glass and Steel. Art and Science. Piner's new Science Center takes shape.
• Hands-on learning at Maker Faire for kids. Griffin Vorhaus, 5, right, prepares to shoot off the rocket he made with the help of Piner High School's Cristian Avalos, 17, second from right, while Rick Vorhaus and Gabriel Grover, 9, left, watch during the Sonoma County Maker Kids Mini Maker Faire on Saturday at the Sonoma Country Day School.
• Piner PTSA sponsored a Spring Beautification. Thank you to our Environmental and Key Clubs for helping out.
• Piner High School Administration Building Dedication for former Vice-Principal, Bob Zeni.
• Schools Plus of Santa Rosa presents Piner High School with a check for $20,000 for art and sports.
• Piner Students participated in the Every 15 Minutes Drinking and Driving Awareness Program
• Piner Art Teacher and Artist, Nick Mancillas, featured in Sunday's Press Democrat. Mr. Mancillas' current show, “Cardboard Currency,” is on display at the Capital One 360 Cafe Gallery in San Francisco through April 22.
• Piner "Mathletes" participate in annual Math Steeplechase. In the event teams compete with schools all over Sonoma County using math to solve puzzles. Piner's Will Tran received 1st place and Tommy Nguyen 2nd place for the Jr/Sr division. Nicole Gregorio got 2nd place for the Fresh/Soph division.
• Piner's Ryder Schalich featured on the Press Democrat Teen Face article
• Piner's 2013 Talent Show. Photos here.
• Piner HOSA students attended the State Conference. Yessica Moran (second from right) received a $500 Kaiser scholarship. Students attended seminars, participated in courtesy corps and Ms. Barcelon judged 2 events. One of our Forensic teams made it to the second round (Kristine Soy and Holley Maasen).
• Piner High School students on the Migrant Ed Debate Team: Eric Chavez, Omar Lopez and Dalia Alvarado
won 1st place at the regional competition and will be going on to compete at the State competition. Karla Cuin won 2nd place for prepared
speech and 1st place for surprise speech. Edith Meza took third place for prepared and surprised speech.
• Congratulations to Piner Sophomores Guadalupe Escutia-Jacobo, Mariela Martinez, Danile Rojas, and Monserrat Salas for being awarded a scholarship from the prestigious Summer Search project, a national leadership development program! They will receive 2 life-changing summers traveling, plus year-round mentoring and college and financial aid advising.
• The March/April Piner Early College Magnet Program newsletter is now available
• Piner High School students help open younger eyes to science during Piner Science Day
• Piner Senior, Brennen Urutia, organizes a work day in the Piner Garden.
• Piner gets a new wind turbine.
• Piner's Marylyn Duong profiled in the Press Democrat's Teen Face section.
• Piner's new Observatory dome arrives! The 4,000-square-foot facility will house the observatory, a planetarium and computer lab. It will be headquarters for the school’s award-winning Geospatial Technology Pathway but will be open to science, math and other classes that need high-tech presentation space. Principal Sally Bimrose said construction should be completed in June and classes will be held in the building next fall.
• Piner High School celebrates Asian culture.
• John Bribiescas, and Schools Plus representatives present the 2013 Schools Plus allocation of $160,000 to SRCS Board Member, Donna Jeye and SRCS High School Principals at the start of the William Barclay Memorial Choral Scholarship Concert on Friday, February 22, 2013 at the Green Music Center. Piner Principal, Sally Bimrose, is 5th from the left.
• Piner High School Choral students perform at SSU Weill Hall.
• Video showing how Piner's wood oven was created.
• Lexi Palm selected for CA Girls State. Girls State is a program to develop leadership skills in young women. One girl is chosen from each school to participate in a summer retreat.
• Aidan Carpenter wins the Piner Poetry Out Loud competition and moves on to the City wide competition.
• Piner High School's Debate Club participates in its first Tournament in San Francisco.
• The latest Piner Maker Program blog is up. Check out how the students designed and made their own gliders.
• Grace High School student, Amelia Ketzer-Dean, is Santa Rosa City School's Student of the Month for January 2013
• Piner Juniors, Lexi Palm, Marylyn Duong, and Destiny Martin, accepted to be a part of the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights' Junior Commission
• Piner Junior, Marylyn Duong, to attend the February 2013 Young Women's Political Leadership Program in Los Angeles put on by Running Start, a group dedicated to helping young women become involved in politics. She received an all expenses paid trip via a scholarship from Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
• Piner Counselor, Barry Sullivan, honored as Piner's CLHS Educator of the Year
• Farewell to Piner Secretary Kayelean Killen. Kayelean is moving on to the District Office.
• Piner's new Science Center starts to take shape.
• Piner Classrooms get into the holiday spirit.
• Piner Teacher & Staff Flash Mob
• Piner's "Team Organic Garden" build a new garden fence. Piner's Culinary students provided an awesome lunch with burritos, salsa, pie and lemonade.
• Mr. Castro's Spanish Speakers Class celebrate "Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) at Old Courthouse Square on November 1st
• Piner's Front Office gets into the Halloween spirit
• Piner Cross Country Boys Team showing a little patriotism
• Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey holds Q&A with Piner Seniors
(photo credit the Press Democrat)
• Star Rico named Homecoming Queen
• Piner PTSA's Fall Beautification Day
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