Features
Competitions
BayTech-Oakland has developed an award-winning culture in a very short time. BayTech-Oakland students are encouraged to participate every competition that is parallel with the school mission and educational programs. The following table includes a comprehensive list of awards received from participated competitions:
Table 1
Year |
Competition |
Rank/Award |
2007 |
2nd |
|
2007 |
4 Winners |
|
2007 |
3rd |
|
2006 |
Best Use of Construction Material |
|
2006 |
Oratorical Fest Speech Competition-Bay Area |
11 Awards |
2006 |
Bay Area Essay Contest |
1st |
2006 |
11th |
|
2006 |
Track and Field City Finals, 800 Meters |
1st |
2006 |
Middle School National Science Bowl State Finals |
8th |
2006 |
53rd Bay Area Science Fair |
8 Finalists |
2006 |
MESA State Finals |
Finalist |
2006 |
American Match Competition-8 |
2nd |
2006 |
City of Oakland Community Service Award, Lake Merrit Cleaning Project |
Award Winner |
2005 |
SimCity Future Design Northern California Finals |
Best Construction, |
2005 |
TOSHIBA Explarovision Contest |
Finalist |
2005 |
1 Finalist |
|
2005 |
Finalist |
|
2005 |
Finalist |
|
2007 |
Oratorical Fest Speech Contest |
2nd and 13th |
Organizational Accomplishments
- Summer Math and Science Camp, Lake Tahoe-2005
- Summer Math and Science Camp, Lake Tahoe-2006
- Oakland Science Fair, Oakland ,CA -2006
- Bay Area Science and Technology Fair, Oakland, CA-2006
- MathMatters 5TH Grade Math Contest, Oakland,CA-2006
- MathMatters 6TH and 7TH Grade Math Contest, Oakland,CA-2006
Field Trips
- Annual Monterey Bay Aquarium- BayTech-Oakland 7TH Grade Life Science Students
- Annual Chabot Space Science Center- BayTech-Oakland 6TH Grade Earth Science Students
- Annual UC Berkeley Campus- BayTech-Oakland All Students
- Annual LBNL Field Trip- BayTech-Oakland All Students
- Universal Studios Trip- BayTech-Oakland Honor Roll Students
- Annual Great America Trip- BayTech-Oakland MESA Team Members
- Marine World- BayTech-Oakland All Students
- Annual SF Exploratorium- BayTech-Oakland All Students
- Jelly Belly Factory Visit- BayTech-Oakland All Students
- SF Zoo Field day- BayTech-Oakland 6TH Graders
- Annual Public Library Visits- BayTech-Oakland 6TH - 7TH Graders
- SF City Trips- BayTech-Oakland 7TH Graders
- Annual San Jose Tech Museum Trip BayTech-Oakland 8TH Graders
- Annual BayTech-Oakland School Europe Trip BayTech-Oakland 6-8TH Graders
- Annual San Diego Sea World Trip BayTech-Oakland 6-8TH Grade Students
Parent Club Activities
- Parent Club meetings
- 10 hour mandatory parent volunteer commitments
- After School clubs
- Bi-monthly Potluck Dinners
- Home Visits
- Parenting Classes
- Garage Sales/Yard Sales
- Parent Club Newsletters
- Career Day
- Picnics/Field Days
- Parent-teacher conferences
- Back to school nights
- Clean up services
- BayTech-Oakland School Sleep Over/Movie Night Events
Financial Milestones Achieved
BayTech-Oakland has achieved a long list of financial milestones that guarantees sustenance of the plethora of extracurricular programs that contribute significantly to the current academic success and quality.
- $450,000 start-up grant that provided BayTech-Oakland for the first year of operation in which extra start-up costs overburden most new schools.
- Starting as early as the first year of operation, BayTech-Oakland established major infrastructures such as state of the art computer and science labs, school network, multi purpose room, phone system, and other equipment needed for various school clubs such as Lego Robot Design, SimCity Future Design, Math Counts.
- BayTech-Oakland has achieved an ADA of 96% with growing academic success shown by the standard test results. BayTech-Oakland’s financial planning does not compromise the academic success. Low student/teacher ratio (18) is one of the key contributors of this success. BayTech-Oakland has focused on bringing extra resources to maintain its program designed to serve economically disadvantaged student population.
- BayTech-Oakland has applied for various federal and state grants to support the current programs and future growth. BayTech-Oakland’s search for further funds is a continuous effort to serve our students better. Until today, BayTech-Oakland has secured a total of approximately $730,000 extra funding since the start-up grant. BayTech-Oakland has already received $200,000 of these funds. The list of extra funding is shown in the following table:
Table 2 BayTech-Oakland's extra funding list up to date (2007).
Extra Founding |
Amount |
Status |
Received |
38K |
Granted |
Received |
|
Facility Incentive Grant |
330K |
Granted |
Received Partially |
Prop49-ASES |
150K |
Granted |
Secured |
Nell Soto Parent Visit G |
15K |
|
Secured |
Ed-Tech K-12 Technology Grant |
50K |
|
Secured |
HPSG |
150K |
Granted |
Received Partially |
PCSG Start up Grant |
450K |
Granted |
Received in full |
Business/Individual Contribution |
340K |
Granted |
Received in full |
Total |
1,523K |
|
|
- To diversify the financial resources, BayTech-Oakland has also established a network of business and individual donors who has contributed a total of $340,000 up to date. These contributions consist of equipment donations, cash donations, and employee matching funds.
- BayTech-Oakland has been working with local contributors providing short term low or zero interest loans from a diverse pool of sources to overcome cash flow problems caused by the delay between state funds and increasing enrollment numbers. BayTech-Oakland’s strong community connections resulted that countless individuals and businesses in the community supported BayTech-Oakland in the past by giving zero line of credit as an example may seen in one of the support letters. On the other hand, the need for soft revenue sources continuously decreased, and they are not critical to solvency at present.