A dozen IUSD seniors have been announced in the first wave of National Merit Scholarship recipients for 2012, with half coming from Northwood High School. The 12 local students were among a select group of 1,000 U.S.

A second-year University High School teacher has been awarded an Ocean Science Leadership Award by Quiksilver, USC and other sponsors of the annual QuikSCience Challenge.

They came. They saw. They expertly demonstrated their lawyering skills.

A Creekside High School student’s artwork is on display at a local intersection after the teen was named one of eight winners in a countywide contest to design anti-smoking posters.

For the second straight year, Irvine High School’s student newspaper has taken top honors at the Orange County Journalism Education Association Write-Offs.

We met up with Kevin Chung mid-lesson at Bonita Canyon Elementary School, and he politely offered to shake our hand another time -- when it wasn’t covered with a goopy blend of water and cornstarch.

In case you missed it, the Orange County Register published its latest rundown of the county’s best school districts over the weekend, and Irvine once again found itself at the top of the list.

The Orange County Register posted a couple of stories on its website this week involving IUSD’s high schools. Samantha Schaefer reports that Woodbridge High School’s award-winning percussion ensemble, currently ranked No.