Santa Fe Navy ROTC team wins awards
Santa Fe High School’s Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps team earned first place and a myriad of accolades at the 2025 NM JROTC 4A/5A State Championship Competition on March 29.
The accolades won by the Santa Fe team are:
* 1st, 2nd, 3rd Drill Down/Knockout (Jericho Anderson, Thomas Lopez, Jaiden Carrillo)
* 3rd Unarmed Duo (Bianca Gonzalez, Yarelin Vicente)
* 1st, 3rd Individual Prone Position (Zackary Clark, Leslie Lopez)
* 1st, 3rd Individual Kneeling Position (Tahlya Valdez, Samara Elling)
* 2nd Individual Standing Position (Jacqueline Esparza)
* 2nd, 5th Overall Individual Sporter (Jacqueline Esparza, Leslie Lopez)
* 1st Place Sporter Team
* 2nd Armed Regulation
* 3rd Armed Exhibition
* 2nd Unarmed Regulation
* 3rd Unarmed Exhibition
* 2nd Female Color Guard
* 1st Male Color Guard
* 1st Uniform Personnel Inspection
* Top Commander Armed Regulation (James Bowker-Fullem)
* Top Commander Female Color Guard (Bianca Gonzalez)
* Top Commander Male Color Guard (Jericho Anderson)
“Our cadets competed in a variety of events — including Marksmanship, Armed and Unarmed Drill, Color Guard, Physical Fitness, and Uniform Personnel Inspection—facing some of the toughest teams in the state,” instructor Patricia Schipp said in a statement. “After countless hours of training throughout the year, including practices over Spring Break, our hard work truly paid off.”
St. John’s to host seminar on Lincoln reading
St. John’s College is inviting the public to apply to a $250 literary seminar on May 3 at the college’s Santa Fe campus, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca.
The seminar, to take place both at the Santa Fe and Annapolis campuses, will offer 16 attendees a continental breakfast and will revolve around the reading of Abraham Lincoln’s “Lyceum Address.” After the reading, the discussion will continue over a lunch which will include seminar faculty, community leaders and the college president.
“In 1838, Lincoln was a practicing lawyer and a Whig representative in the Illinois state legislature. As a young man, Lincoln had concerns about the rise of Jacksonian politics, with the Founding generation fading away and a new generation rising. For Lincoln, this generational change represented a dangerous moment for America—a time when ambitious politicians might be tempted to operate outside of the boundaries of the law to secure their own prominence,” according to the college’s website.
Visit sjc.edu/day-classics to learn more.
Los Alamos schools to host student support information night
Los Alamos Public Schools is inviting parents and guardians of students to an MLSS & SAT Information Night on from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on April 16 in the Los Alamos High School Speech Theater, 1300 Diamond Drive, Los Alamos.
The event will give parents and guardians an idea of the school’s mulitlayered system of supports and the student assistance team process for students with emotional, academic and behavioral needs, according to a news release.
Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfe4jP67TH9Vqd8cSAaXG1RSNx7hiH5GlNaQqB4jzhURU_bGw/viewform.
Reading Quest to offer free summer tutoring
The literacy nonprofit Reading Quest will offer free summer tutoring in June and July for students currently in grades K-8.
The one-on-one tutoring will use the “Science of Reading” methodology to aid struggling readers.
Those interested are asked to email readingquestcenter@gmail.com.
SFCC summer, fall registration to open in April
Santa Fe Community College will open its summer 2025 registration on Tuesday. Summer Continuing Education registration opens on Monday.
Fall 2025 registration will begin April 15.
Visit sfcc.edu/get-started/apply-and-register/ to learn more.