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What's New at DCP? DCP's Community Engagement and Literacy (CEL) Project DCP's First Graduation-Class of 2004 Tejas Bafna's Artwork Selected for the 2004 Downtown Doors Program Co-Founder and Executive Director, Jennifer Andaluz, Receives YWCA's 2004 TWIN Award DCP Seniors Help Launch the "Free Downtown WiFi" Event in San Jose 2004 Junior Class California College Trip National Education Policy Advisors Network Conference in San Jose DCP Senior, Mike Flores, Recognized as a National Hispanic Scholar DCP 2003 College Trips-Southern California, Northern California, and the East Coast Opening Students' Eyes to Racism-Culture Clash at the SJ Repertory Theatre
On June 19, 2004, DCP graduated its first class of students to four-year universities. 100% of the Class of 2004 were accepted to four-year universities; 98% of them are currently enrolled! They are blazing a trail for their siblings, neighbors, and cousins to follow. Our graduates will remember DCP as a place where their hope for college success became a reality.
The follow is a list of the colleges that the Class of 2004 are attending.
The judging committee consisted of five individuals: a representative from the San Jose Museum of Art, a SJSU art professor, a SJSU art student and two Board members of the San Jose Downtown Foundation. The art pieces were judged based on the following criteria: 1) The artwork should complement and enhance the site environment. 2) It should be dynamic enough to have people stop and look. 3) It should have aesthetic quality. 4) The content should be appropriate for all ages and respectful to all communities. 5) The content cannot be political, commercial, religious or controversial. 6) Since the art is placed on doors, it can be an advantage to have a door or entrance theme. 7)As some of the artwork will be installed close together, it is important that the pieces be complementary to one another. Tejas will be honored on May 20th at a Downtown reception. At the reception he received a $150 gift certificate for art supplies as well as a $50 gift certificate for dinner at P.F. Chang's Restaurant in downtown. Tejas's railroad art piece will be displayed on a three-panel door on the First Street side of the Fairmont Hotel for one year.
Women and Industry 2004 Honorees List 20th Annual Tribute to Women and Industry Awards Press Release
The "Free Downtown WiFi" project is the result of collaboration of the San Jose Office of Economic Development and the San Jose Redevelopment Agency with the San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau, San Jose-based Global Netoptex Inc., and Cisco Systems.
"Free Downtown WiFi" Press Release
On March 8, 2004, a charter bus and 2 large vans with 54 juniors headed out from DCP on the second annual Junior Class California College Trip. On the 5-day college tour, students went as far north as Chico and as far south as Los Angeles to visit 19 college campuses. The vans or bus went to 8 campuses of the California State University system, 2 UC campuses, and 9 private colleges of varying sizes and selectivity. Each student also ate twice in a college cafeteria, visited the Getty Museum, spent a night or two in dorm-style rooms at a hostel, listened to a college professor lecture, and heard from outreach counselors and panels of college students.
The EPAN (Education Policy Advisors Network) was established last year by San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales to share best practices from cities and develop ideas about how mayors can become a greater force for educational improvement in urban America. On February 26th and 27th, mayoral education policy advisors from 26 cities across the country (San Jose, San Francisco, Lansing, St. Petersburg, Kansas City, St. Louis, Louisville, Las Vegas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Portland, Cleveland, Charlotte, Seattle, Columbus, Nashville, Providence, and other cities) convened in San José to discuss education policy issues. The EPAN Conference is a collaboration between the National League of Cities and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. DCP, identified as a model high school, was asked by the City of San Jose to
host the EPAN Conference on February 27th. The event began with a presentation
from Executive Director Jennifer Andaluz describing the growth, development, and
challenges facing the first charter high school in San Jose, a Q&A session,
interactive tour of the school, and a news briefing with Mayor Ron Gonzales
followed.
The National Hispanic Recognition Program, initiated in 1983, provides national recognition of the exceptional academic achievements of Hispanic high school seniors, and identifies them for post-secondary institutions. Students enter the program by taking the PSAT/NMSQT as high school juniors and by identifying themselves as Hispanic.
Besides the college tours, DCP students attended a Mexican film festival at Pomona, a presentation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis at UCLA, and visited Hollywood, Venice Beach, and the Getty Museum. They had a chance to see the rich variety of opportunities that are now just over a year away. In April 2003, another group of 18 students will visit colleges in Northern California, including UC Santa Cruz, CSU Monterey Bay, St. Mary’s, Holy Names, the University of San Francisco, Sonoma State, Chico State, UC Davis, and the University of the Pacific. They will hear from admissions personnel, minority outreach representatives, students, and tour guides. In addition, they will take a San Francisco Bay cruise and visit Alcatraz, see a student theater production, eat on campus, do a little bowling, and tour the state Capitol. On October 4, 2003, 16 of DCP’s top-performing seniors traveled to the east coast to tour colleges. “I’m excited to go on the trip to see new cultures and the birthplace of democracy. We’re going to see what we’ve been studying in AP History; it’s not just theoretical anymore. And we’re going to get to visit colleges we normally wouldn’t have gotten to see,” exclaimed Robert Flores in anticipation for the trip. Students traveled to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. and toured over 12 colleges. Of the 12 schools visited, Columbia, Wesleyan, Connecticut College and Mount Holyoke were their chosen favorites. Besides the highlights of having visited Times Square and the National Mall, one of our students, while sitting in on a college-level Calculus class, answered a question that stumped her college-aged peers.
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Tejas Bafna's railroad
art piece is one out of the nine art pieces that were selected for the 2004
Downtown Doors Program sponsored by the San Jose Downtown Association. Fifty-nine pieces were submitted for this competition
and only nine were selected. 
DCP's Co-Founder and Executive Director, Jennifer Andaluz, is
one of the fifty outstanding executive women from Silicon Valley
who will be honored by the YWCA in Santa Clara Valley, May 4, 2004 at the 20th Annual Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Awards Program at the San Jose Fairmont. The YWCA in Santa Clara Valley’s TWIN Awards Program honors not only women who demonstrate excellence in executive-level positions, but also the companies that employ these
women. The participants represent a cross-section of companies in the Valley including technology, defense, communications, publishing, construction and healthcare, among others. 
Michael
Flores, a senior at Downtown College Prep, has been recognized as a Scholar
in the 2003-2004 National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP). Michael
was one of about 124,000 Hispanic students who took the 2002 Preliminary
Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
Michael was one of the 3300 top scoring Hispanic juniors who took the test and
who also had at least a 3.0 GPA. 
