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This page-turning powerhouse read 130 books in 2025.
Amalia Salas
AVID founder, Mary Catherine Swanson, taught this subject to students at Clairemont High School in San Diego before starting AVID.
English
Eric Yuan is a former Cisco engineer and executive that left the telecom giant to found this speedy meeting company in 2011. The company released its first version of their eponymous software two years later and had a "breakout year" in 2020.
Zoom
This world traveler has been to 20 countries—and has lived and worked in three of them.
Chris Perry
With an annual budget of over $300 million and over 95,000 enrolled students, this state is home to one of the U.S.'s largest community college systems, the Lone Star College System.
Texas
This teammate has lived out the ultimate teen-pop dream—starring in a commercial with the Jonas Brothers.
Andrea Curtade-Campos
During this year, the first Summer Institute was introduced at the University of San Diego with 258 attendees.
1989
A dude named Chip Morningstar received the first JSON message, a format derived from this core programming language repped by the "JS".
Java Script
This team daredevil spent their youth in skateboarding competitions—an extreme-sport résumé before most people had a driver’s license.
Corey Turner
This Italian educator gave her surname to a method of child education that emphasizes self-directed activity, hands-on learning, and collaborative play.
Montessori
This Tech Services daredevil who used to ride into competition—literally—by competing in rodeos.
Ashley
In 1991, Mary Catherine Swanson received this award for Achievement in Education, the only public school teacher ever to be awarded this honor.
Dana Award for Pioneering Achievement in Education
This word is often abbreviated as Fn on a keyboard.
Function
This Tech Services teammate once spent more than 25 years as a public speaker—often for large audiences.
Jeff Harris
In the 1870s in St. Louis, Susan Blow founded the first public learning place for little kids in America under this German-influenced name.
Kindergarten
This yogi-in-residence practices yoga in their free time and is planning to pursue a 200-hour yoga teacher certification.
Marc Lembowski
This fellow education company co-sponsored the first-ever AVID National Conference in 2003.
The College Board
This Google product's low price point proved popular with teachers as a 2018 estimate indicated that over 60% of classroom mobile devices in the U.S. were this item.
Chromebook
This tech services team member got married in a drive-thru church… and can proudly add, “and it lasted”
Claudie Massicotte
Derived from Latin meaning “the course of a race,” which term is used to refer to the subjects studied in a school or college.
Curriculum
This left-brain/right-brain Tech Services member started as a painting Art major before switching to a degree in economics.
Jeff Popp
This many students were in Mary Catherine Swanson's first ever AVID elective class in 1980.
32
This author of both popular science and science fiction laid out his “Three Rules Of Robotics” in 1942, explaining how robots could protect humans and themselves, which influenced later real world robot makers. He expounded on these rules in many short stories, including his “I, Robot” collection.
Isaac Asimov
This real-life romantic met their spouse while volunteering at the hospital down the street from their college campus.
Sing Li
This building on the continent of Africa held 40,000 to 400,000 papyrus scrolls and was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion that was dedicated to the nine Muses.
The Great Library of Alexandria