DAILY BULLETIN
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Wednesday
February 5, 2025
Today’s Uniform:
Class B
tomorrow’s UNIFORM:
Class A
MEAL MENU
II Mess: Deconstructed Pizza Pasta, Pepperoni, Sausage, Roasted Brussel Sprouts, Carrot, Garlic Bread
Seasonal Salad Bar / Dynamic Deli Bar
III Mess: Chinese New Year
Orange Chicken, Beef and Broccoli, Fried Rice, Vegetables Lo Mein, Pot Stickers, Spring Rolls Salad: Asian Mandarin Salad
I Mess: Banana Pancakes, Scrambled Eggs, Sausage Link, Skillet Potatoes, Juice, Milk, Infused Ice Water, Fresh Cut Fruit, Berries, Yogurt, Granola, Hand Fruit
WORDS TO THE WISE
PRESIDENT
“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.”
— Immanuel Kant
DEAN
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
— Oprah Winfrey
COMMANDANT
“Never be cruel. Never be cowardly. Hate is always foolish. Love is always wise. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind.”
— The Doctor
Teacher/Counselor
Study Hall and Office Hours
Ms. Stanton (Counseling 12pm-8pm)
Ms. Gielow (Study Hall)
Ms. Hess (Office Hours)
Mr. Huggins (Study Hall)
Mrs Jin (Office Hours)
Mrs. Maduro (Office Hours)
Mr. Zamora (Office Hours)
TODAY IN HISTORY
Southern Pacific Railroad completes New Orleans to California Route
The Southern Pacific Railroad completes its transcontinental “Sunset Route” from New Orleans to California, consolidating its dominance over rail traffic to the Pacific.
One of the most powerful railroad companies of the 19th century, the “Espee” (as the railroad was often called) originated in an ambitious plan conceived in 1870 by the “Big Four” western railroad barons: Collis P. Huntington, Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins. A year earlier, the Big Four’s western-based Central Pacific had linked up with the eastern-based Union Pacific in Utah, creating the first transcontinental American railway. With that finished, the “Big Four” began to look for ways to increase their control over West Coast shipping, and decided to focus their efforts on extending the California-based Southern Pacific southward.
UPDATES
Robotics
On Saturday 1 Feb 2025, our robotics Team Warrior competed for the first time in a regional robotics competition hosted by the 8th Brigade JROTC headquarters and executed by the JROTC cadre in San Diego. Our Team placed 3rd out of 24 teams and won the design award – the best robot design of the competition. Our team went to the competition with 5 members: Tyler Hansen – lead programmer and drive team coach, Nicolas Chestnut – hardware/builder, Arav Gupta – drive team scouter and notebook, Pratheek Ganta – notebook lead, and Cohen Lu – team captain and robot driver.
Every year, there is a new game for vex robotics. This year, it was to score donuts of the same color as your team onto “stakes” which the top most donut gives the most points. For the first 15 seconds of the match, the robot moves on its own without any human input. Whichever side gains the most points during this time period gets a bonus to their score. After this period, there is a minute and 45 seconds of driver control where the drivers would control the robot to move these mobile stakes to positive or negative corners which would add or subtract points on that mobile stake based on the color of the donut that is on the stake. During the last 30 seconds of this driver control period, robots can drive to the center of the field and extend to climb the ladder one step at a time.
The robotics competition itself consisted of qualification matches and elimination matches. In qualification matches, you are ranked based on how many wins you have and how many win points your robot scores during the matches. The higher you rank in qualification matches, the more priority you have on alliance selection as the matches are 2 teams vs 2 teams. When all the alliances are selected, they are put into a round robin system for the elimination matches. Our team sadly lost at the quarter finals as our robot got stuck.
Team Warrior had an amazing day of fun and met many other JROTC Cadets from many other states and cities.
Lunar New Year!
Dear ANA Community,
ANA will be celebrating the Lunar New Year as an all-school event! This special celebration is a wonderful opportunity for us to come together and honor the rich traditions of this important cultural holiday. Lunar New Year celebration will take place:
Today, February 5th, from 6:00pm -8:00 pm in front of Davis Hall
- 6:00 pm The Lunar New Year Celebration will begin in front of Davis Hall
- 6:00 – 6:10 Introduction and significance of this holiday, introduced by 4 cadets (names TBA)
- 6:10 – 7:00 We will all enjoy dinner together in the Mess Hall
- 7:00 – 8:00 All cadets will enter Davis Hall with their company and TAC officers for fun Games and Activities.
Talent Show!!
The Talent Show is coming soon!!! Tryouts will be on Tuesday, February 25, during tutorials.
Sign up using the QR code below!
Friday, Feb. 7th
1400-1700 Beach
1400-2200 Rec. Hall
1830-2130 Ice Skating
Saturday, Feb. 8th
0800-1700 Beach –
0800-2200 Rec. Hall – Continental Breakfast (0800-1030)
0900-1230 Free Surf Trip
1300-1530 Chess Tournament in the Rec. Hall
1800-2200 Movie Run
Sunday, Feb. 9th Super Bowl Sunday!
0800-1200 Beach
1200-1400 Flag Football on Duffield
0000-0000 Rec. Hall Closed
1430-2000 Super Bowl Party in the Rec. Hall
Food for the party
Panda Express –
Buffalo Wild Wings and more
As the Office of Admission gears up for Spring admissions, we’d like to remind you about our exciting Bring-a-Buddy program. A number of cadets have already taken advantage of this program to recommend their friends to the Academy. If you a refer a friend to Army and Navy Academy, you’ll receive a $1000 credit at the Bookstore when he successfully enrolls. That’s a lot of Takis!
Please contact the Office of Admission up the stairs from the Mess Hall if you have any questions about this program.
FRom the Mess Hall
Reminder: Pick up your trash! You must take your plates and silverware to the dish room window. DO NOT dump your plates and silverware into the trash.
From The Health Center
Flu season is here. Make sure that you wash your hands and cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze. Let’s stop the spread of germs.
SPORTS BLAST
All cadets, please remember to form up in front of Davis Hall for our mandatory accountability formation. Only head to your sports after you have been dismissed.
Basketball
