Los Altos High School’s Future Business Leaders of America members recently competed at the State Leadership Conference in Santa Clara, posting a strong performance despite tough competition.

The Los Altos team performed well in events ranging from individual test-taking to team case studies and presentations.

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Egan Junior High School Garden Club students enjoy the harvest from the school’s garden. The Living Classroom Program uses gardens to teach hands-on lessons at schools in the Los Altos School District.

Each Los Altos School District campus boasts an edible and native habitat garden tucked into its playground spaces for the Living Classroom Program, which features hands-on science, math and social studies lessons for students in grades K-8.

The program has scheduled a fundraiser 9 a.m. to noon Sunday at the Living Classroom Neighborhood Community Garden Market at the Hodge Family Chicken Ranch, adjacent to Egan Junior High School at 100 W. Portola Ave. in Los Altos. The event will feature baby chicks, face paintings, worm bins, seeds to take home and plant and more.

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Robotics team members, from left, Barrett Greaves, Jack Marquez, Robbie Kalb, Timmy Beckmann, Harrison Tang and Hannah Athey celebrate their victory.

The Green MacHHHHine robotics team, with members from Mountain View High School, won the Excellence Award for its division at the VEX Robotics High School World Championships last month at the Anaheim Convention Center.

The team finished seventh in the qualifying rounds, allowing them to advance to the quarterfinals. Nearly 700 teams, including middle schools and colleges, from 24 countries participated. The 420 high school teams were divided into five divisions.

The Loyola School K-Kids Club, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Los Altos, will attempt to set a club record during its eighth annual “Share Old Spectacles” drive. The students have set a goal of collecting 1,500 pairs of eyeglasses.

The K-Kids Club, comprising second- through sixth-graders, has collected more than 9,000 pairs of glasses in eight years with the help of the public and local storeowners who offered space for donation boxes.

Foothill College debuts its STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Summer Camps in June and July for incoming high school juniors and seniors.

The camps focus on serving female and other underrepresented students, demographic groups whose increased participation is important to expanding the STEM workforce.