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Announcing – CMS-PTO Board for the 2021-22 School Year

We’re excited to announce the CMS-PTO Board for the 2021-22 school year:
  • President – Cindy Klaje
  • Secretary – May Bakken
  • Treasurer – Ronda Gieryn
  • Fundraising Lead – Abha Nulkar
  • Direct Donations Lead – Susan Gao
  • Small Events Lead – Shruti Dixit
  • Communications and Marketing Lead – Raka Agrawal
  • Large Events Lead – Thushitha Deepak

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Join us for a CMS-PTO Professional Speaker Series: “Artist who Inspire” | Monday, March 29 @6:30pm

Topic: CMS-PTO Professional Speaker Series:  “Artists who Inspire”

Time: Monday, Mar 29, 2021 @6:30pm

Meeting ID: 875 7170 4187
Passcode: CMS2021
Be inspired by professionals  who built a career using their creative passion. Meet our guest speakers Jillian Simpson, Illustrator & Graphics Designer and  Graphics Software Engineer, Samantha Raj who will share their story on how they built a career doing what they love.
Jillian Simpson is a talented and passionate marketing professional at Next Stage Design + Build. She has designed creative projects for BRB Panic Attack. Wait till she shares her humble beginnings working on  weekends operating rides at a children’s amusement park!
Samantha Raj is currently a Software Engineer at Apple.  Prior to her time at Apple, she spent 5.5 years at Pixar Animation Studios where she worked as a Simulation Technical Director on the films Brave, Monsters University, Toy Story of Terror, Inside Out, and The Good Dinosaur.  Her work focused on the clothing and hair animation of several characters in the aforementioned movies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CMS-PTO Student Professional Speaker Series: “Art and Activism – Thinking Through Photographs” | Monday, March 22 @ 6:30pm -7:30pm

Join us for CMS-PTO Student Professional Speaker Series:
“Art and Activism – Thinking Through Photographs”
Come listen to activist and photographer Ashima Yadava and be inspired!

Monday, March 22 @ 6:30pm -7:30pm
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 836 1440 6267
Passcode: CMS2021

With the camera as her conduit, Ashima believes in art as a means to social activism and reform. Her work is rooted in documentary practice with a keen focus on issues of gender equality, race, and social justice; like If Hands Could Speak, which deals with domestic violence in the South Asian community in the Bay Area. Ashima Yadava is a Director’s Fellow from the International Center of Photography, New York.

Portraits of Survival: COVID and Community Strength Through an Artist’s Eyes

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CMS-PTO Parent Talk: “Constructive Conversations” – Speaker: Elisabeth Stitt @ Thursday, March 4 @6pm

Sick of kids’ back talk and constant negotiations? Learn how to teach your teens to communicate constructively and find win-win solutions.
Today’s tweens and teens are master wheedlers. They’ll push and push and push until they get their own way. In the end, that doesn’t serve them. Or you. They get a warped sense of their own importance in the family, and you feel resentful because you have lost your parental authority. Now you can go from combative to collaborative. Learn communication techniques you can both model and teach to your kids, so that your exchanges invite more cooperation and mutual interest in creating a happy, harmonious home.

Join Zoom Meeting | Time: Mar 4, 2021 06:00 PM PST

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89182947813?pwd=SThkaE1Odk9TQjljNTRZV1JTTTBqQT09

Meeting ID: 891 8294 7813
Passcode: CMS

Speaker: Elisabeth Stitt

https://www.elisabethstitt.com/