Hello Spartans:

I hope you had a wonderful week!

This week, I attended the last Principal's Advisory Council meeting of the year!

Honestly, working with these outstanding leaders has been the highlight of my year, and I will miss seeing them regularly.

I want to thank Julian Mendez, Sean Murphy, and Claire Schwarzhoff for leading the group.

I also want to thank the following members for their contributions.

Nikhil Agarwal

Luciana Becerra

Gideon Burmeister

Siddham Chatterjee

Alexa Geist

Alyson Lu

Kamya Patwardhan

Deven Batra

Austin Bea

Anastasia Espinosa Grunina

Yash Maheshwari

Parth Agarwala

Alexa Castro

Ethan Louie

Samuel Ramirez

Fedor Razumov

Sasha Zinn

I look forward to working with the new group of students.

Congratulations to the 26-27 Principal's Tech Interns!

Rishi Jindal

Matias Corcoran

Manuel Diuk

Raya Aghazadeh

Eliana Tekie

Nathalie Zhang

Mihika Bobbarjung

Caroline Yu

Colby Liu

Emma Fei

Lucas Nam

Ilan Gerber

Myra Jain

Cinty Lin

Yash Maheshwari

Jayan Nair

Keshav Pillutla

Emma Teng

I am thrilled to work with our students, and I look forward to reporting their accomplishments.

I had the pleasure of seeing our students receive the prizes from the French Consul this week. I want to thank Clo Gre and Abby Dennison for their hard work and dedication. Below is a description of what the prize is and who won. Congratulations to our amazing students!

Le Grand Concours is sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) and this is how they awarded prizes in 2026:

Congratulations to all students! Thank you to the MVLA district for supporting us and allowing our students to participate. 

Gold medal winners:

Silver medal winners:

Bronze medal winners:

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Silver medal winners:

Bronze medal winners:

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Silver medal winners:

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Silver medal winners:

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We recently received a message from one of our neighbors reporting that a group of young people, whom they believed may have been MVHS students, entered their backyard and used their swimming pool while the family was away at work.

While we do not know whether the individuals involved were MVHS students, we want to take this opportunity to remind everyone about the importance of respecting our neighbors and their property. Entering someone’s private property without permission is serious and may be considered trespassing.

As we approach the end of the school year, we ask all students to continue making responsible choices, following school expectations, and showing respect for our surrounding community.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation and support.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Thank you,

Kip Glazer

Principal

On behalf of our students, staff, and community, the MVLA Foundation wants to thank our generous donors. 

Your donations supported MVHS by

Your donations make great things possible for our students, and we could not do it without you! MVLAfoundation.org

There is still time to honor a special teacher, counselor, or staff member with an MVLA Foundation Tribute gift. With your $100 donation, the Honoree will be recognized with a special note and certificate. You and the designated honoree will be listed in the MVLA High School Foundation's Annual Report. 

Friday, June 5-6 - Grad Night Party (immediately following Graduation) - Walk Up Registration will be available in the Large Gym.

As we share our final Kip’s Tips message, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to the amazing parents, students and staff we have had the pleasure of working with these past four years! Being part of such a dedicated group of parent volunteers has been a pleasure! We are going to miss MVHS and everyone who has made this journey so memorable!

President - Vinita Alwyn  as President, 

Executive Vice President - Aisha Rengan 

Vice President  of Community Engagement: Rhona Radcliff 

Vice President of Membership - Lesley Lint

*Deputy Membership: Valerie Duncker

Secretary: Kerstin Dibbets

Treasurer: Reena Agrawal as Treasurer

*Financial Secretary: Ankit Mehta

Financial Reviewer: Lisa Henry 

Parliamentarian: Jena Wise

*Pending approval at our September PTSA meeting

We are thrilled to announce our senior scholarship winners! This year, we received applications from 39 students—more than double the number from last year! The PTSA scholarship celebrates not only academic excellence but also recognizes the whole person, including character, experiences, contributions, and personal stories.

Arrianna Antunez

Isabella Awtry

Neev Bansal

Sierra Haik

Roger Herrera

Iman Kibboua

Jane Liou

Sydney Lojek

Nyaira Payne

Benjamin Pierson

Huge thanks to our top 15 pizza cart volunteers for their incredible dedication throughout the school year! Whether they were there reliably every week or stepped up to fill the gaps right when we needed them the most, their commitment ensured our students were served pizza for lunch. We could not run this program without your energy, flexibility and consistent support. Thank you for showing up for our school community week after week!

Kerstin Dibbets, Chryssa Sanders, Ryan Essenburg, Jenny Tseng, Claudine Sheridan, Shannon Wilkowski, Jason Hunt, Rupal Gupta, Janet Tran, Sueli Tissera, Amy Van Zandbergen, Kayo Rust, Robin McCreight, Larisa Frolova, Meg Kelly

Thank you, Rhonda Radcliff for leading the team!   

Are you interested in helping with the 2026 MVHS STEAM Week? We have a variety of volunteer opportunities available to fit different schedules and availability. If you would like to help, please fill out the Google Form to indicate your interest. Thank you for supporting STEAM Week and helping make this event a success for our students — we could not do it without our amazing parent volunteers! If you have any questions, please contact Gina Dunsmore at gina.dunsmore@mvla.net.

Monday, June 1 1 OPEN SHIFTS

Tuesday, June 2 - 3 OPEN SHIFTS

We would love to answer any questions you may have about the MVHS PTSA, volunteering, or any question in general that we can help find the answer for. Please feel free to reach out at any time! GO SPARTANS.

Tara Williamson (tara.williamson@gmail.com) and Cindy Zinn (cindyzinn@gmail.com)

MVHS PTSA Co-Presidents

As we approach the summer, we wanted to remind everyone that MVLA does not provide school-based mental health or crisis intervention services during school closures including the summer break. 

MVLA staff will not be available for support from June 5th, 2026, until August 10th, 2026. 

There are several non-school-related services available to students and families during school closures. Some of these resources help students to stay connected to their peers while others help to ensure that students are supported throughout the summer.

Please see this document for additional information and community resources that are available to all MVLA students and their families during summer break.

Free meals provided by MVWSD and Santa Clara County are available to everyone under the age of 18 throughout the summer. The summer meals program reaches children who need good nutrition when school is out of session. No questions. No IDs required. 

Location: Rengstorff Park

Dates: June 10 - July 31, 2026

Times: Weekdays from 11 am- 1pm

(No Meals June 19 and July 3)

Don’t wait until fall to start your college research and applications! You are invited to participate in workshops, 1:1 appointments, and application bootcamps over the summer. Learn more HERE!

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