Ryan Lu, who attended the Stanford Jazz Camp last summer awarded 3rd prize in the
Inland Empire Piano Festival February 7, 2010
 

The Parent-Teacher-Association sponsors annually a program called “The Reflection Program”. Every year there is a different theme and the kids are encouraged to impress this theme in various categories. In the 2009/10 school year the theme was: “Beauty is…”. The different categories being: visual arts, literature, musical composition, video, choreography, and photography. From these categories a judge in school announces the winner (award of excellence), and second place (award of merit) in four different age groups. The primary division reaches from Kindergarten to second grade, the intermediate division from 3rd to 5th grades, the middle/junior division from 6th to 8th grades, and the senior division is for the high school participants. All entries that win the school competition move on to the next level, the school district Riverside county level. After judging there, the winners (award of excellence) in the different categories proceed to the 23rd district level (about 260 schools). Winners of this level move further to the State competition. The “Award of Excellence” winners from the State level (approx. 63,000 entries) move on to the National competition.

Viola’s musical composition, “Sunrise”, made it to the State level where she got an award of participation.