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“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.”

--John M. Richardson, Jr. (1938- ), Professor of International Development at American University

Congratulations to Coach Steven Mercado and Chaffey High School's Academic Decathlon Teams for winning their second straight San Bernardino County Academic Decathlon Championship announced at the San Bernardino Academic Decathlon Banquet held at the National Orange Show Event Center on Thursday, February 11. Chaffey Black won the Varsity Division with Redlands, Chino Valley, and Rancho Cucamonga High School's finishing second, third, and fourth respectively.  Chaffey Orange won the Junior Varsity Division with a score that would have ranked fourth in the Varsity Division.  Arroyo Valley and Rancho Cucamonga High Schools came second and third. This year's Black team had some big shoes to fill as last year's team won the county for the first time in the school's history and went on to finish 9th in the California state finals. Go Tigers!

Mr. Mercado published this summary of the 2010 County competition results.  Also, here is Mr. Mercado's summary after last year's County competition.

Chaffey will join Redlands High School and Chino Hills High School at the California State Academic Decathlon Championship in Sacramento, California on March 12-15, 2010.  This is the first year that our county has sent more than one representative to the state finals.

The picture above was taken on January 30, 2010 after the Speech, Interview and Essay competitions at Arroyo Vista High School in San Bernardino.  Click on the image for a larger view.

In Memorium

Michael Dickson, c/o 2000, passed away on Friday, June 26, 2009.  Michael was gifted AP/Honors student at Chaffey High School who excelled in mathematics and science.  He was a leader in our school's astronomy club and helped spearhead an outreach by our students to Vina Danks Middle School in 1999.  Michael always brought curiosity, keen intellect, a quick wit and joy of learning to his AP Calculus and Astronomy classes, earning a score of 4 on the College Board's AP Calculus Exam. 

Michael was involved in Academic Decathlon while at Chaffey.  He distinguished himself as one of the great varsity students in Chaffey AcaDec history--playing a crucial part in the team's 3rd Place finish in 2000, the highest placing the team had reached since 1988.  His family opened up their home several times to host team practices and they were extremely supportive of Michael, and the Academic Decathlon team.
 

Michael also participated on the boys tennis team while at Chaffey.

Michael went on to graduate from Cal Poly Pomona in 2005 earning his bachelor's degree in Physics.  His studies continued at Cal State Northridge where he was pursuing his master's degree. Read Michael's obituary in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.  It was a privilege to have taught and known Michael.  Michael, you will be missed.

Michael is seated second from right in this 1999 photo of the Astronomy Club.

Cool Events

If your club, class, or organization has an upcoming event that you would like publicized here, send Mr. James an email with information and any images you wish included.  Make sure that your images are not copyrighted. If they are not, you need to obtain permission from the copyright holder before I can post it.

In addition to the schedule listed above, I assist head coach Mr. Steven Mercado and Chaffey High School's Academic Decathlon Team as they prepare for the 2010 San Bernardino County competitions in January and February. My principal area of involvement is  mathematics. I also advise the Chaffey Astronomical Society (Chaffey's Astronomy club) and I support Chaffey's Christian Club and Science Club.

My classes meet in room 114 of the Math-Science Building. 

19 years of teaching lead me to offer this application of the spirit of Ecclesiastes 12:12 --  "Beyond this my son be forewarned: the calling of many meetings is endless, and excessive devotion to them wearies everyone."