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National Clean Up Day

9/27/2021

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​“What would happen if everyone picked up at least one piece of litter?”
Age 6-9
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West California Academy of Art and Design Selected Award-winning Artworks

9/26/2021

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The Academy's students produce exceptional art for their age and it has achieved a reputation as “the children’s art school with most art contest winners.”
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2006-2007 PTA Reflections National 1st Place
Theme: My Favorite Place
Age: 7
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2008-2009 PTA Reflections National 1st Place
Theme: Wow!
Age: 13
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2012-2013 PTA Reflections California State 1st Place
Theme: The Magic of a Moment
Age: 11
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2014-2015 PTA Reflections California State 1st Place
Theme: The World Would Be a Better Place If…
Age: 8
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2019-2020 PTA Reflections California State 1st Place
Theme: Look Within
Age: 9
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2020-2021 PTA Reflections California State 2nd Place
Theme: I Matter Because…
Age: 10
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​1997 MetLife Drawing Contest National 1st Place with $2,500 Scholarship
Theme: Under the Sunshine
Age: 6
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​2001 MetLife Drawing Contest National 1st Place with $1,000 Scholarship
Theme: Horse Race
Age: 7
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​2007 National Chinese American Museum Drawing Contest 2nd Place
Theme: China Town
Age: 7
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Art enriches children's lives, develops children’s creativity, and prepares children for the future. The Academy’s instructors encourage students to participate in art contests.  Indeed, many students earning acceptance to top universities have art contest experiences. The message the educators here give students is that just as you strive for excellence in art, you must try your best in everything you do. 
2016 Doodle4Google California State 1st Place
Theme: What I See for the Future
Age: 7
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2020 Doodle4Google California State 1st Place
Theme: Sharing Is Caring
Age: 10
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2012 International PHE Drawing Contest 1st Place
Theme: Peace, Health, Environment
Age: 12
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2015-16 "US Kids" Magazine Cover Design Contest National 2nd Place
Theme: If I Had a Time Machine…
Age: 6
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​2019 My Dream House Art Contest 1st Place
Theme: My Dream House
Age: 11
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​2016 National “Toyota Dream Car” Art Contest Silver Prize
Theme: Toyota Dream Car
Age: 10
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​2019 National “Toyota Dream Car” Art Contest Semi-Finalist
Theme: Toyota Dream Car
Age:7
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2020 National “Toyota Dream Car” Art Contest Semi-Finalist
Theme: Toyota Dream Car
Age: 10
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​2021 EDI Children’s Drawing Contest 1st Place
Theme: Our City’s Guardian
Age: 13
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2015 LA Web Drawing Contest 1st Place
Theme: Hands of Nature
Age: 15
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2019 LA Web Drawing Contest 1st Place
Theme: My Imagination
Age: 9
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Winning contest can give students a great sense of accomplishment and confidence. Most importantly, students learn a lot by just participating contests. They learn to work under pressure and time, and putting their best effort (extra details and best craftsmanship, and patience) in order to make one of the kind of art work: It is a lot of work. 
​2017 Paint the Future Drawing Contest 1st Place
Theme: Castle on Sea Turtle’s Back
Age: 11
 
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2019 Paint the Future Drawing Contest 1st Place
Theme: Water System in the Future
Age: 11
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2019 Paint the Future Drawing Contest 1st Place
Theme: My Water Park in the Future
Age: 9
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​2019 Paint the Future Drawing Contest 1st Place
Theme: Water Recycling Class in the Future
Age: 9

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​2010 Space Foundation International Art Contest 3rd Place
Theme: Where Will Your Spaceship Take You? 
Age: 6
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​2019 Art-Tech Poster Contest 1st Place
Theme: Innovative Technologies for Sustainability
Age: 14
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​Being creative and being able to learn are lifelong skills and can be used in everyday situations.  
2016 Health Fair Drawing Contest 27th Congressional  Award
Theme: My Dream of Peace 
Age: 13
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2016 Health Fair Drawing Contest LA County 1st District Award
Theme: Sand Glass of Nature
Age: 16
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2017 Health Fair Drawing Contest Rosemead Mayor Award
Theme: Protect the Environment
Age: 14
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2018 Health Fair Drawing Contest Senator Award
Theme: Protect the Environment
Age: 10
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2018 Health Fair Drawing Contest 22nd Senate District Award
Theme: Protect the Environment
Age: 17
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2020 Illustrations of Chinese Cultural Stories Drawing Contest 1st Place
Theme: Butterfly Lovers
Age:  14
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For almost 30 years, West California Academy of Art and Design has been transforming students into confident, creative artists and designers who have gone on to have successful careers in their chosen field. ​
2021 WeiChuan Mother’s Day Drawing Contest 3rd Place
Theme: My Dear Mom
Age: 10
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2021 WeiChuan Mother’s Day Drawing Contest Excellence Award
Theme: My Dear Mom
Age: 6
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2021 Ranch Market Mother’s Day Drawing Contest Grand Prize
Theme: Happy Mother’s Day
Age: 10
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2015 Solute to Nobel Peace Laureates
Theme: Peace
Age: 5-13 Group Project
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West California Academy of Art and Design 100-Student Group Artworks are collected by 2015 Art Exhibition for Nobel Peace Laureates Summit.
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The Academy continues to adapt the program and curriculum to offer new ways to have meaningful interactions with students to create innovating ways of thinking through the Arts and build self-expression, research and exploration. ​
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WCAAD Students Won Top Awards at the 2020 Health Fair Drawing Contest

9/19/2021

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WCAAD students took active part in the 2020 Rosemead Fitness Day and Health Fair Children’s Drawing Contest, a contest celebrating the importance of creativity and healthy lifestyle expressed through art. The 2020 contest provided three themes - “Healthy Living,” “Protect the Environment” and “Water-in-Motion” for contestants to choose.


5 WCAAD Students Won the 22nd Senate District Award.
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Emily Zhuo, 17, Protect Environment
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Irene Xue, 13, Protect Environment
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Aden Li, 10, Water-in-Motion
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Kate Xiao, 7, Water-in-Motion
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Evan Wang, 5, Water-in-Motion
4 WCAAD students won the 49th Assembly District Award.
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Christian Liao, 16, Protect Environment
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Avril Deng, 9, Protect Environment
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Kate Zhang, 7, Healthy Living
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Muxuan Zhang, 4, Protect Environment
Besides, 5 WCAAD students won the Treasurer Fiona Ma CPA Award.
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Lawrence Zhao, 10, Healthy Living
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Lucas Zhao, 7, Protect Environment
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Owen Xiao, 5, Healthy Living
The artworks of Irene Xue and Muxuan Zhang also won the Treasurer Fiona Ma CPA Award.


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Saving the Earth is not just for grow-ups. Kids are also taking an active part in it. WCAAD instructors see their responsibility to cultivate children’s environment-protection concept through art teaching and learning process. They believe that introducing environment protection education into schools is crucial for the next generation, and instructors have the responsibility to help students develop the habit of healthy lifestyle at a young age.
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Congratulations to Derek Jiang on acceptance to UCLA in Computer Science

9/18/2021

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2021 UCLA computer Science admittee Derek Jiang, is a WCAAD student who has extraordinary abilities and sensibilities that make him remarkable.
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In his time here studying at WCAAD, he has adapted very quickly pursuing his creative visions to reality. His work is compounded with research, craft and excellent drafting skills. 
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Derek’s work demonstrates a variety of work in design, fine art, and innovation.

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Derek always does more than what he is asked to do and believes in being as professional, as possible.  His SAT 1550, 1600 PSAT perfect score and 5 Ap’s showcases his involvement and commitment to handle stress and pressure yet, deliver quality work.  Holding a 4.63 GPA, Derek busy schedule lent to create DEREK JIANG TUTORING- motivational tutoring opportunities for others. Derek tutored classmates for the AP Computer Science Test, which uses Java and supported 6 people for a total of 9 hours on concepts such as inheritance and syntax.  Honors and awards are as follows:


  • Passed USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) Silver in January 2019 
  • Took American Math Competition (AMC) 10, scored a 126 and qualified for American Invitational Math Exam (AIME) (2019) 
  • Took AMC 12, scored 102.5 and qualified for AIME (2020) 
  • Scored a 5 on the AIME (2020) 
  • Represented school three times in Westmont (local math competition), 1st (2018), 2nd (2019), 1st (2020) 

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Aside from art, extracurricular activities include: Boy Scout Troop 501 Eagle Scout patrol and quarter master. He has worked to earn $1600.00 in eagle scout projects. As a Spartan Vanguard Officer, he has represented his school in various math competitions and interned in La Canada HS tech council. He collaborated with La Canada High School administration to streamline implementation of technology in the classroom, such as Google Classroom, remote learning software, and online communication platforms- streamlining for school.

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Derek has experience working on hardware for FRC robots, including the pneumatic systems, and making aluminum parts resulting in FRC worlds in 2019 (in Houston, an international competition), placing 28th out of around 50 teams. In his Cyber security club as a team programmer, Derek developed an application to help protect students and teachers against phishing attacks. He helped create presentation to inform students and teachers about how to better protect their personal information and electronic communication from online threats.
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Derek is an advocate of promoting technology and innovation as part of the Hack Club, advocating interest in programming with younger students, providing workshops and intro to basics such as HTML. He has recruited students to the Engineering club FRC team 2429.
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Other contributions include: FTC GOLDEN GEARS TEAM 9881 LA CANADA, CA Programmer ​(August 2019- April 2020 working on programming for FTC robot: Developed image recognition using vuforia and robot autonomous movement, implementing and tuning control algorithms such as the PIDs for the robot’s mecanum drive. Programmed for FTC team 9881 in 2020 using Java and Android studio.
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Art and Design produced here demonstrated the same research and investment. These successes only show a small window into this talented student that will be a true asset for UCLA and the world of tomorrow.
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(By Omar Gallegos, WCAAD Vice Principal and Director of Education)
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West California Academy of Art and Design Students Won Congressional Awards

9/17/2021

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WCAAD students won top awards in the 2020 Rosemead Fitness Day and Health Fair Children’s Drawing Contest with themes of “Healthy Living,” “Protect the Environment” and “Water-in-Motion”.


7 WCAAD Students Won the 27th Congressional Award.
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Alex Liao, 16 years old, Protect Environment
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Shunshun Xie, 13 years old, Protect Environment
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Nathan Liu, 9 years old, Protect Environment
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Bill Wang, 7 years old, Healthy Living
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Leland Shi, 7 years old, Protect Environment
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Eason Xue, 6 years old, Water-in-Motion
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Harry Zhang, 6 years old, Protect Environment
5 WCAAD students won the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, 1st District Award.
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Celine Li, 9 years old, Protect Environment
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Chloe Shyu, 9 years old, Water-in-Motion
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Dangdang Xie, 7 years old, Protect Environment
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Joey Zheng, 6 years old, Protect Environment
Eason Xue’s art work also won the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, 1st District Award.
Besides, 2 WCAAD students won the Rosemead Chamber of Commerce Award.
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Alice Zhou, 13 years old, Protect Environment
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Michelle Zhang, 4 years old, Healthy Living
All the winning artworks were produced by students during the time when they were taking WCAAD online art classes. WCAAD instructors believe that cultivating children’s environment-protection concept is very important, and instructors have the responsibility to help students develop the habit of environment protection through art learning process.
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Congratulations to Derek Jiang on acceptance to UCLA in Computer Science

9/10/2021

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​2021 UCLA computer Science admittee Derek Jiang, is a WCAAD student who has extraordinary abilities and sensibilities that make him remarkable. 
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​In his time here studying at WCAAD, he has adapted very quickly pursuing his creative visions to reality. His work is compounded with research, craft and excellent drafting skills. 
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​Derek’s work demonstrates a variety of work in design, fine art, and innovation. 
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​Derek always does more than what he is asked to do and believes in being as professional, as possible.  His SAT 1550, 1600 PSAT perfect score and 5 Ap’s showcases his involvement and commitment to handle stress and pressure yet, deliver quality work.  Holding a 4.63 GPA, Derek busy schedule lent to create DEREK JIANG TUTORING- motivational tutoring opportunities for others. Derek tutored classmates for the AP Computer Science Test, which uses Java and supported 6 people for a total of 9 hours on concepts such as inheritance and syntax.  Honors and awards are as follows:
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​Aside from art, extracurricular activities include: Boy Scout Troop 501 Eagle Scout patrol and quarter master. He has worked to earn $1600.00 in eagle scout projects. As a Spartan Vanguard Officer, he has represented his school in various math competitions and interned in La Canada HS tech council. He collaborated with La Canada High School administration to streamline implementation of technology in the classroom, such as Google Classroom, remote learning software, and online communication platforms- streamlining for school. 
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​​Derek has experience working on hardware for FRC robots, including the pneumatic systems, and making aluminum parts resulting in FRC worlds in 2019 (in Houston, an international competition), placing 28th out of around 50 teams. In his Cyber security club as a team programmer, Derek developed an application to help protect students and teachers against phishing attacks. He helped create presentation to inform students and teachers about how to better protect their personal information and electronic communication from online threats. 
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​Derek is an advocate of promoting technology and innovation as part of the Hack Club, advocating interest in programming with younger students, providing workshops and intro to basics such as HTML. He has recruited students to the Engineering club FRC team 2429.
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​Other contributions include: FTC GOLDEN GEARS TEAM 9881 LA CANADA, CA Programmer ​(August 2019- April 2020 working on programming for FTC robot: Developed image recognition using vuforia and robot autonomous movement, implementing and tuning control algorithms such as the PIDs for the robot’s mecanum drive. Programmed for FTC team 9881 in 2020 using Java and Android studio.
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​Art and Design produced here demonstrated the same research and investment. These successes only show a small window into this talented student that will be a true asset for UCLA and the world of tomorrow.
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​(By Omar Gallegos, WCAAD Vice Principal and Director of Education)
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