CLIPCO News

We are pleased to announce CLIPCO's new website!  Over the summer, we had a team of CLIP alumni designing and developing our new site!  The CLIPCOders team, led by college freshman Jasper Edbrooke, include Evan Cleve, and Alex Minooka, all students who graduated from CLIP in 2014. Visit the site often for updates, announcements and special features, such as spotlights on students, teachers and parents.  The new design is mobile-friendly, and will have all your news and updates for CLIP! We interviewed Jasper to find out more about the strategy and design behind the new website: Who are you? I am Jasper Edbrooke, and I am currently a freshman at De Anza College. I graduated CLIP with the CLIP class of 2014. How did you and your team get together? I got the team together by asking some other CLIP alumni from my year that I knew had experience or were interested in web development/computers. The original crew included about...

Dear CLIP Families, On behalf of CLIPCO, I want to welcome you to the new school year. And to our kinder parents and new families, a special welcome to you!  My name is Sylvia Leong, and I am the new CLIPCO president for 2017-18.  This is my ninth year in CLIP - my older child just graduated from the CLIP program, and my younger child is starting her 7th grade year at Miller.  I remember when our son got into CLIP, we felt like we literally won the lottery! Our family has had an amazing journey through CLIP, and it's my hope that you will have a great experience as well. As you begin this new school year, I want to share personally with you two things that have helped me and my family make the most of our time in CLIP. 1) Don't do it alone.  Being a part of a bilingual program is both an opportunity and a challenge. Our students receive more education, and more is expected of them.  It requires additional time and effort for the student and the fami...

Nearly 500 guests and over 80 volunteers came together June 2, 2017 to celebrate our 5th graders promoting to middle school and our 8th graders graduating from the CLIP program! It was a wonderful time with entertaining performances.  The 5th graders brought us songs and dancing with Youth Manual 青春修煉手冊 and Flying with A Carefree Heart 放心去飛. Our 8th graders reminded us of the lasting power of friendship and hope with songs Friends 朋友 and Tomorrow Will be a Brighter Day 明天會更好.   We were honored to have Stacy McAfee, interim Superintendent of the Cupertino Union School District, attend our celebration.  We also want to thank CUSD board member Liang Chao, also a fellow CLIP parent, who gave our graduates an encouraging charge as they move to the next step in their academic career. We closed our ceremony with a bittersweet goodbye to Principal Steve Burrell, as he moves on to an new role at Union School District.  We thank him for his 26 years of service a...