New Tech alums aid Sri Lankan villages: Volunteers dodge fire to build schools

Thursday, June 14, 2007
By LOUISA HUFSTADER, Register Correspondent
In 2004, Nick Batter and Cory Hoover took their diplomas from Napa’s New Technology High School and headed for college. It might have been a typical year of freshman fun, until the devastating December tsunami struck South Asia. Read more…

New Tech grads face new world

Friday, June 08, 2007
By DAVID RYAN, Register Staff Writer
Jovan Arias chose to attend New Technology High School because he knew it would look better on his college application. He found out there was a reason for that. Read more…

New Tech Accepters design T-shirts for change

Saturday, June 02, 2007
By JENNIFER HUFFMAN, Register Business Writer
If enthusiasm could sell shirts, these young entrepreneurs would make a mint. Read more…

Bravissimo for La Strada

Saturday, May 26, 2007
Dear editor, The creative juices were flowing over the weekend at Copia’s south parking lot as hundreds of people gathered together in support of Napa’s cutting-edge and multi-dimensional New Technology High School. Read more…

New Tech student, 15, and Vets Home resident, 88, make a connection

Monday, May 14, 2007
By NATALIE HOFFMAN, Register Staff Writer
Nurses at the Veterans Home of California at Yountville call 88-year-old resident Marie Lumos "a pistol," and it's easy to see why. Read more…

Powered up to power down: New Tech teens tackle energy use on campus

Wednesday, May 09, 2007
By LOUISA HUFSTADER, Special to the Register
At New Technology High School in Napa, computers outnumber pencils. Across the ceilings and down the walls of nearly every room in the alternative school on Yount Street, purple conduits carry thick bundles of cable connecting seven hulking servers to more than 420 computers campus-wide. Read more…

Green start-up at New Tech

Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Dear editor, Gandhi once said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” As young leaders, it is the job of our generation to create change and shift our realities.

Environmental issues such as global climate change, extinction, overpopulation and waste removal are all harsh realities our world is facing, yet many teenagers and people in general are unaware. Read more…

Teen says we must unite

Monday, May 07, 2007
Dear editor, I write this letter on May 1, 2007, at 10:52 p.m. One of the many sleepless nights I have spent looking blankly at the ceiling while contemplating where this earth and this human race will be in my lifetime. As John Loomis, I am a 16-year-old boy who attends New Technology High School. I am employed at Raley's Grocery Store and achieve sufficient grades to attend college. Read more…

Giving these teens a chance: Scholarships give bright future to kids with dark pasts

Sunday, May 06, 2007
By NATALIE HOFFMAN, Register Staff Writer
Like many Napa Valley teens, Natasha Chapman, 18, plans to attend college. Read more…