Hope Tech Bike to Bay Bike to Bay Saturday, 5/22/2010 10am-2pm   Enjoy a family bike ride to the Palo Alto Baylands Preserve and support Hope Technology's main fundraiser for this school year. Course starts at the HTS parking lot, follows the Renzel Trail to Shoreline Park, and returns to the HTS parking lot. Loop includes three hydration tents with fun incentives to keep going and a shuttle van for course transportation as needed. All ages and ability level are welcome and encouraged to bike, scooter, rollerblade or walk!   Click here to register online. Click here to register via printed form, and Click here for printable pledge form $20 registration per entrant includes T-shirt, hot dog, participation medal and incentive prizes.    Date:               Saturday, May 22, 2010   Time:                       10am to 2pm                                 9 am Check-in begins                                 10 am -- Event Starts!   Registration Cost:  $20.00 per person, check payable to HTS. Includes T-shirt, hot dog, Medal Ceremony and great incentive prizes.   Participants collect pledges for Hope Technology School, www.hopetech.org.   Pledge revenues are to be turned in to school or mailed in by Friday, May 28, 2010.   In addition to registration fee, a family sponsorship is available for $50, and will be acknowledged on the back of the logo T-shirts.   This is a family-friendly event; all ages and ability level are welcome and encouraged to bike, scooter, rollerblade or walk their miles to support the school!  (Baylands does not allow dogs on the trail.)

	Hope Technology School Book Fair 2010 March 28-April 2, 2010    HTS is partnering up with Banana Seeds Books & Media for a week-long, book filled event on March 28th -- April 2nd.  Be sure to mark your calendar with these fun upcoming events you'll hate to miss!   Sunday, March 28, 2-4 pm -- BOOK FAIR KICK-OFF is taking place in the BACC main auditorium. Come enjoy treats, find out who the bookmark contest winners are and browse the wonderful, hand-picked selection of books.  This book fair event is open to all HTS families and our community. Monday, March 29 -- Friday, April 2 -- HTS students will have an opportunity to shop the book fair as a class during school hours.  Feel free to come and join your child at their class shopping time and help them purchase their books. Monday, March 29, 7-8pm -- BEDTIME STORY:  All pre-K through 5th grade children are invited to a special bedtime story event. Wear your favorite PJ's, and come on down to the BACC main auditorium for story time and yummy desserts. Thursday, April 1, 7-9pm -- MOVIE NIGHT:  All middle school age children are invited to watch a movie on the big screen, complete with popcorn! Friday, April 2, 2:30-3:30pm -- AFTER SCHOOL SNACK:  Leaving town for Spring Break?  Make one last stop into the book fair and stock up on some great reads to pass the time in the car or on the airplane. Grab an after school snack while you're shopping!   Spread the word to your family and friends and encourage them to come out to the book fair or fill out the attached Gift of Literacy Gift Certificate for your favorite student or classroom.  Banana Seeds donates to HTS 25% of the proceeds from all book purchases during Book Fair week!

	Hope Technology School HoeDown It was a BIG success...thank you to all our sponsors and donors and thank you especially to our Publicity Chair, Stacy Drumm! She got the word out effectively - we sold over 5000 tickets!  We brought in over $30K to help our school. Thank YOU!  Checkout Hoedown photos via Facebook! Donors & Sponsors- we are VERY grateful for YOUR support: Please thank our donors when you see them! We could not do this without their support.       Alana's café - Redwood City Alice @ 97.3 Radio - Sarah & Vinnie Morning Show Amici's East Coast Pizzeria Amy Doss Anderson Honda of Palo Alto Asian Art  Museum - San Francisco  Associated Learning Language Specialists (ALLS) Bay Area Discovery Museum Beach Blanket Babylon Bear Valley Mountain Resort Beatrice Ponterio Berkeley Repertory Theatre Bill and Jeannette Del Chiaro Birdcage Press Blue & Gold Fleet Bob Moss Broadway by the Bay Byington Vineyard & Winery, Los Gatos California Shakespeare Theater California's Great America Campo di Bocce of Los Gatos Cartoon Art Museum - San Francisco Chabot Space and Science Center Charles M. Schulz Museum Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose Christine Jones City Pub Redwood City Classic Kids Photography  - Burlingame Cottage Gardens in Miniature Counter Burger, The Coyote Point Museum Cupcakes - Nicole Wetzel Dance Connection Palo Alto Dave and Buster's of Milpitas Dave and Kimi Traver Decathlon Club Delgado Photography - San Jose Diane Tackaberry diPietro Todd Salon Disneyland  Resort Dragon Productions Theatre Company, Palo Alto Edmond's Plaza Florist Family of Nancy Wong Family Vision, San Carlos Fifth Avenue Fitness Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Fish Market, The Foothill College Celebrity Forum Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley at East Palo Alto Frances Albrecht Gail Ewell Garden Court Hotel, Palo Alto Genesis Photography, Mountain View Gerald & Susan Freschi  Gilroy Gardens Theme Park Gina Kiyuna GoKart Racer Gold Star Gymnastics - Mountain View Gymboree Hairpin Turns Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, San Jose Hearst Castle Helen Murphy Henry Jay Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos Ice Center @ San Mateo or Cupertino Ice Oasis Redwood City In-N-Out Burgers® Innovative Therapy Services Jim and Roz Mattox John and Cecilia Coyne Jones 2 Athletics Julie Freschi Julie Lieberman Neale Jump Sky High - Santa Clara kathy Moore Kim Murray Krames Family Laser Quest, Mountain View Lawrence Hall of Science Leaf and Petal, Palo Alto Leela Bledsoe Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Walnut Creek Malibu Grand Prix Mark and Stacy Drumm Marriott Hotel  - San Mateo Mary Andersen Mel Photo Mel's Drive-in Michele and Jeff Bronstein Michelle Garcia Winner Mike and Patricia Amodeo Motamed Family Mountain View Center For The Performing Arts Museum of Craft & Folk Art My Gym , Palo Alto Mystery Spot, The New Age Skincare - Foster City Oakland A's Community Fund Oil Stop, Inc. Peninsula Ballet Theatre Peninsula Tutoring Pier 39 San Francisco Pizza My Heart Planet Granite Prime Time Athletic Club - Burlingame Principal John Taliaferro Providence Chiropractic Center Reading Clinic, The Red & White Fleet - San Francisco Rich and Stephanie Garratt Robert Hu Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium, San Jose Sam's Chowder House - Half Moon Bay San Francisco 49ers San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA San Francisco Zoo San Jose Sharks Sandi Trembley  Sandra Burke Sarah & Vinnie Morning Show on Alice @ 97.3 Savannah Chanelle Vineyard, Saratoga Scott's Seafood Palo Alto Sea Horse Ranch & Friendly Acres Shakespeare Santa Cruz Spinnaker Sailing School, Redwood City Sprinkles Cupcakes - Palo Alto Stanford University Athletic Department Talking Playhouse Tech Museum of Innovation, The TheatreWorks, Palo Alto Theodore H. Mock Photography Trancas Steakhouse- Napa United Studios of Self Defense - Foster City Velocity Sports Performance - San Carlos Victor and Aimee Castillo Victoria Moos Warner Brothers Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf, The West Valley Light Opera Association, Los Gatos Winchester Mystery House San Jose Winter Lodge - Palo Alto YMCA - San Mateo Zack and Becky Mariscal                                 And all of the classes at the HTS who prepared beautiful artwork for auction!