Choreo’s Fusion Team
As part of a sister program, Fusion performed at Aliso Niguel High School’s “The Greatest Showman” dance concert at their campus theater on Dec. 7.
In the arrangement, Fusion and Aliso Niguel Dance Team have planned to perform at each other’s dance concerts.
Aliso Niguel Dance Team coach Ms. Ann Marie Desiano previously coached Choreo at TCHS until 1998 and reached out to Fusion to create the sister program.
Aliso Niguel Dance Team will be performing during the TCUSD Annual Dance concert on Feb. 1 at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, alongside Choreo, Auxilaries, Pep and more.
Choreo advisor Ms. Jenny Powell and choreographer Mr. Daniel Huynh chose nine members from Choreo to form this year’s Fusion team to participate in certain events and competitions.
The Fusion team has consecutively qualified for the Sharp International Las Vegas Nationals each year since 2012 and won the competition three times.
Lost and Found
To deal with the long standing pile of lost clothes and items in room 311, Activities Secretary Ms. Gayle Shaffer implemented a new lost and found system this year.
The new system uses colored hangers to signify three different rotations that change each week. Lost and found items start in a pile in room 311.
Once a week, Ms. Shaffer and teacher aide Senior Catherine Chuong put clothing on hangers outside the room for the first rotation on the left side of the rack.
For the second part of the rotation, the clothes move to the right onto different colored hangers. Ms. Shaffer and Chuong then add new clothes to the left. All students are allowed to take and keep the clothes that are on the last rotation, all the way to the right.
Special education teacher Mr. Balmore Pineda teaches students in his Mile to Mile Disabilities class to clean clothes that haven’t been claimed for 1-2 months. His students then donate the leftover clothes to donation centers, like Goodwill and the Salvation Army.
“This is about improving your community,” Mr. Pineda said. “Instead of clothes going into the trash, we can give them back to someone who needs it.”