Anacapa School Students Plan ‘Space’ Mission
High school to launch high altitude balloon experiment into near space
May 12, 2011 — Santa Barbara, Calif.
While NASA may be winding down its Space Shuttle program, Anacapa School is starting up its own space program in Downtown Santa Barbara. Four Anacapa School students plan to spend a weekend releasing Anacapa’s Amateur High Altitude Balloon 1 (AAHAB-1) high into the skies above the Central Coast to touch the edges of space and return home safely.
The project is the … Read more
Presidio Garden Interns Show Off Their Knowledge
Alyssa and Ila were busy leading local third grade elementary students through learning stations at the Santa Barbara Presidio. The Anacapa students’ knowledge (and patience) was impressive. See more photos on Facebook.… Read more
Digital Voyage Class Recognized by SBWater.org
Students in Anacapa’s digital media class Digital Voyage have been working hard this semester on a number of projects. Their efforts paid off in April when the Santa Barbara County Water Agency recognized their film “Conservation Animation” with third place and a $500 prize in the Water Awareness High School Video Contest. Each year SBWater.org holds a competition for area students to create a TV public service announcement encouraging residents to conserve water. A dozen or more public and … Read more
Friday PM Activity: Surrey Riding
After a long week and Synthesis Unit presentations, Anacapa students took off to the beach for an afternoon of surrey riding. There was some excitement with water balloons and some drivers were better than others, but all had fun and lots of laughs.
Students Earned Awards at SB Fair and Expo!
Anacapa students cleaned up with awards galore this week at the Santa Barbara Fair and Expo! We earned five Best of Show awards in two-dimensional and three-dimensional art entries, as well as lots of first- and second-place ribbons for work from ceramics, World of Art, studio and literature classes, and photography and Russian Doll painting clubs. The work will be at Earl Warren Showgrounds through Sunday, May 1, and it can also be seen May 23 at The Anacapa campus … Read more
March Special
After a very successful auction on Sunday, students and teachers took the day off, so the tent could be removed and the campus cleaned up after the big event. This year we went “whale watching” on the Condor Express, which sped us up the coast on a beautiful morning. We saw a large pod of bottlenose dolphins near Santa Barbara and three Gray Whales farther out to sea up the Gaviota Coastline. After returning to Sea Landing, we walked to … Read more
Week of March 7-11
A few photos from the week include the SB Trails Class posing with their heads on the Chumash Mortar Rock along the Stevens Creek Trail (above), American Society class visits Congresswoman Lois Capps’ field office near our campus, oral presentations in history class, a marine science biodiversity game with the lower school, an SB Trails hike on Thursday to Forebush Flats (where we will camp overnight in the spring), and a Friday Activities school hike from Tuckers Grove up the … Read more
Anacapa School Math Tutors Reach out to Montecito Union Students
Anacapa School’s collaboration with Montecito Union School is now going into our 22nd year! Anacapa provides cabin leaders for MUS’s environmental science camp, which takes place every year during the first week after spring break. Anacapa cabin leaders are in charge of looking after a cabin of boys or girls. They participate in all of the hikes and activities and do whatever needs to be done to help the students have a safe and memorable camp experience. This year our … Read more
Tangerine Falls Hike
SB Trails “rock hops” to Tangerine Falls! On a beautiful February 3rd day, SB Trails took the challenging off trail route to Tangerine Falls off the West Fork of the Cold Springs Trail. Everyone worked together to safely reach our goal. Way to go, Anacapa!
See more photos from the hike on our Facebook page.… Read more
Trip to Marine Science Institute at UCSB
On December 10, 2010, Anacapa took an all school field trip UCSB’s Marine Science Institute. Students were grouped according to grade levels and rotated through four different activities, including a science lab on water taught by REEF director, Scott Simon, who also demonstrated the amazing “Magic Earth Ball” that brings the oceans alive in all kinds of different scenarios. Students were led by upper division aquatic biology students and toured the pumping facilities for the saltwater systems, the lagoon, and … Read more
Islanders Play Besant Hill in Soccer
Here is a report written by some of the students on our soccer team:
What we saw on Thursday afternoon was a team that is the result of more than three years of hard work. It is the continuous blend between experienced players and younger teammates with a clear vision for the future, and where every player takes part in the whole team. During the past couple of days, culminating on Thursday afternoon, the Anacapa School prepared for the passionate … Read more
Elective Classes “Come Together” for Beatles Tribute
On January 7th and 8th, the Anacapa students presented “Come Together- A Tribute to the Beatles” at Center Stage Theater. Students from the Digital Voyage, Ensemble Music and Performing Arts classes joined together to create a multi-media production showing the musical voyage of the Beatles accompanied by video depicting the years 1960-1970.
Students performed over 20 Beatles songs from “She Loves You” to “Let it Be.” Audience members were brought to tears by video depicting those turbulent years, and also … Read more
Last Day of Semester
Our senior class and their class advisor, Gordon Sichi, had a great Class Fun Activity sailing on Friday, January 14. Levi Maaia, our former sailing instructor and now our extraordinary digital media teacher, Connor Proctor (2011) and Gordon were the captains. Since many of the seniors had taken the Anacapa sailing class as younger students, the sailing skills on the boats were excellent. We had good wind for about 30 minutes, and then the wind died. Two of the boats … Read more
Family Math Fair
“Fun” and “math” are not always found in the same place at the same time, but that is just what happened once again at Anacapa’s 17th annual Family Math Fair when our 7th through 12th grade students, parents, and friends worked to solve 12 different math problems in an hour and a half. The problems ranged from estimating the total number of candies in three differently shaped glass vases to complicated calculus, so there were challenges and success possibilities … Read more
JSA Fall State 2010
We sent our largest delegation yet to the Junior Statesmen convention in Los Angeles. Twenty-seven students, plus Gordon and Levi spent the weekend at the L.A. Airport Marriott.
Anacapa’s Douglas Throop shined during his rapid-fire debate on the death penalty in one of Fall State’s best debates. Both Douglas and his opponent from Dos Pueblos H.S. were well prepared with arguments from both sides as they spared in a new “speed chess” style back and forth debate.
Anacapa senior Connor … Read more
Anacapa Cabin Leaders Reunite with Peabody
Our Anacapa Cabin Leaders were invited to a pizza lunch on November 5 to be reunited with their Peabody School 6th grade friends. See more on Facebook…… Read more