- September 26When Community Comes Together: Irvine Volunteers Tackle Hunger With Food Security Program
- September 22Portola High Plans To Enforce Attendance Policy For New School Year
- September 18Irvine Libraries Reopen Under City Management
- September 17On a Roll: City of Irvine Deploys Daxbots to Assess Public Facilities
- September 9Beach-Themed Back-to-School Tailgate Launches Bulldogs into New School Year
![While in the development of a variety of students’ passion projects, many have learned the importance of planning out each of the details. “[When starting a passion project,] just get a base idea,” said sophomore Ava Lily Sunga. “Think it out before you actually start, so you can prepare to actually go on the journey to making it a thing.”](https://portolapilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/passion-project-graphic-2-1200x927.png)
![Social studies teacher Virginia Nguyen uses her social media platform to promote her non-profit, Educate to Empower, as well as share her classroom values. “If you want to know who I am, how I navigate and live my life, my classroom teacher self, my nonprofit director self, my mom self, my friends self, my daughter self, [the account] is very much who I am,” Nguyen said. “When they look at the social media, I hope that authenticity comes through where students are like, ‘Oh, that's so Ms. Nguyen.’”
Photos Courtesy of Virgina Nguyen, Otto Lopez and Kearci Thompson.](https://portolapilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/@-1-1200x675.jpg)
