A team of future scientists from Woodbridge High School recently finished third in the highly competitive, 24-team Regional Science Bowl held at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Dozens of IUSD students have earned honors for all sorts of creative projects in the 24th annual Astounding Inventions contest, which was held this past Saturday at Irvine Valley College’s Hart Gymnasium.

For the second straight year, all five of IUSD’s traditional middle schools placed among The Orange County Register’s top 10 in its annual breakdown of the county's best middle schools. In fact, this year, they all made the top six.

The top three campuses in the Orange County Register’s annual breakdown of high-performing elementary schools are in the Irvine Unified School District, and scores of other IUSD sites were recognized by the newspaper with gold, silver or bronz

Our left-brain friends in the district have reminded us that there are a couple of major science events coming up.

University High School’s Mark Cunningham has been named Athletic Director of the Year by the California Interscholastic Federation’s Southern Section.

Three decades ago, the world was introduced to a yellow, pie-shaped anti-hero who snacked on dots and evaded ghosts (unless those ghosts were blue, in which case they could be eaten). Pretty soon, arcades everywhere were infected by Pac-Man fever.

A University High School sophomore has been selected to perform in a choir of musical all-stars at the venerable Carnegie Hall in Manhattan.

Approximately 16,000 of the nation’s best and brightest high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the pursuit of scholarships through the National Merit Scholarship Corp. – and 83 of them attend schools right here in Irvine.