“Save a life” is the phrase you most frequently hear when being asked to become a blood or bone marrow donor. While most times the idea of saving a person you’ll never meet is enough to prompt so many to give, when you find someone who has a personal story connecting a real person to […]
University Prep student Violet was crowned the 2017 Miss Central California’s Outstanding Teen! This pageant is part of the Miss America Program and promotes community service. Violet now moves on to compete in the Miss California’s Outstanding Teen pageant.
As part of her outstanding teen title she volunteers for the Ronald McDonald House, serves as Vice President of their Teen Council, works their special events and devotes time to their summer camp. In her free time she focuses on her passions for musical theater, acting in local films, learning sign language, honing her Coloratura Soprano singing voice, volunteering at church and taking ballet.
She is also represented by NYLO talent agency and has appeared in commercials and movies, several of which won local film festival awards. Violet shows no evidence of slowing down. She recently sang the National Anthem in front of 12,000 people at a Republic FC game, performed in a musical with the Roseville Theatre Arts Academy and is planning to perform at Disneyland in the fall with her theater troupe. To add to her already impressive resume Violet was featured as one of Style Magazine’s 20 Under 20 Teens in their April 2017 Folsom/El Dorado Hills issue.
Violet’s enrollment in Visions’ University Prep Academy has allowed her the flexibility to pursue her passions while taking honors courses and preparing for university. Her future plans include receiving her sign language interpreter certificate, graduating from high school and attending a Los Angeles area university to major in musical theater.
Congratulations Violet!
Visions student and writer, Shani was featured on Good Day Sacramento!
Watch the segment here!
Bethany Crouch spoke with them about our Find Your Voice writing class, Shani’s accomplishments and what we offer to our students as a school. Our students’ book, Voices of Thunder, is featured in the segment and is available for purchase on 916 Ink’s website.
Fun Facts
Shani and our South Sacramento writing class were featured on an episode of KVIE’s Rob on the Road. Rob interviewed local “heroes and helping hands” in Sacramento including 916 Ink’s founder Katie McCleary and Shani.
Shani also won third place in the Sacramento Poetry Center’s Teen Poetry Contest for her poem “Boys are Better in Books”. This poem, among other writings from our South Sacramento Find Your Voice class, are featured in Voices of Thunder. We encourage you to watch our students read their work on our YouTube channel.
What is the Find Your Voice Writing Class?
Our Find Your Voice writing class is a partnership between Visions In Education and 916 Ink. The program is designed to manifest a creative, but safe environment for teens in middle and high school to discover themselves as writers. Students have the opportunity to study and write fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction in the course. Each class culminates with the publication of a book.
Four of our Find Your Voice classes celebrated the release of their books last week. Students in our South Sacramento, Carmichael and Vacaville classes are now published authors. The Find Your Voice writing class is a partnership between Visions In Education and 916 Ink. This program is designed to manifest a creative, but safe environment […]
We’re excited to announce the winners of our video contest. Thank you to everyone that voted on YouTube and supported our talented finalists. We received an unprecedented 39 entries and 8,984 views on YouTube. To celebrate the great work of our winners and finalists we have a special message from our Executive Director Jody Graf. […]
We’re proud to use an online learning management system that helps meet the diverse needs of our Independent Study and University Prep students. Our mission is to prepare each student to succeed in a rapidly changing world so we make sure to leverage technology in our curriculum. This system has allowed us to provide students […]
On December 9, 78 Visions’ students in grades 2 through 12 participated in our annual spelling bee. These super spellers went through extensive rounds culminating in the final spell off. 19 students participated in the semifinalist round and 8th grader Ruhma U. was crowned the winner. She correctly spelled “predominant” and won round 22. Next […]
We’re excited to announce that three of our students won in their grade level! The contest asked students to write the biography of Quackals, their duck mascot. Each winner in their grade won $100 and their teacher and parent/guardian receive free car washes for a year. Congratulations to our winners: –Evelyn H., 7th grade- “The […]
The Visions student who inspired us last holiday season to consider the needs of those around us is hosting another food drive and calling on Visions staff and families to help him reach his ambitious goal. Last year, Cameron Dax had a goal of collecting 1,500 food items, and through the help of Visions In […]
In early 2014, Visions embarked on a project with Staples Business Advantage. The goal was to simplify and speed up our online curriculum ordering system to save time and money. Staples helped us revamp our online purchasing hub to streamline the process for orders and payments. This new technology has helped simplify the ordering process […]
