A couple of additional items on this month’s agendas: San Fernando will welcome a new member, CSUN student Leslie Aguirre, and the Gateway Cities, South Bay, and Westside Central Service Councils will recognize outgoing members. An I-105 ExpressLanes update will also be shared at the Gateway Cities and South Bay meetings. Last, but not least, the South Bay will also hear an update on the Centinela Grade Separation. -- The Source Metro

Wentworth, who is planning on attending CSU Northridge in the fall to play softball and study criminology, had a full slate of AP classes, including calculus, government and politics, and art studio. She finished her senior year with a GPA of 4.6 and a cumulative GPA of 4.33. -- Daily Democrat

Johnny had a passion for film, theatre and the arts. He attended LA City College, El Camino Cal State Northridge and the USC film school. -- Palisadian-Post

What is virtual reality’s benefit in the education experience for nursing students? Today, we share a submitted healthcare simulation article from Today’s article, by guest author Laurie Gelardi, DNP, CCNS, CPNP, NNP, Assistant Professor at California State University of Northridge, looks to question and answer “what is virtual reality’s benefit in the education experience for nursing students”, and “can we do better in training nurses, replacing live clinical experiences with VR to improve skills for nursing education future”? -- Healthy Simulation

Opened 19 years ago on the west side of the San Fernando Valley, the K-8 school is the outgrowth of an effort at nearby California State University-Northridge to find better ways of supporting children with disabilities. The program was started to find early interventions for preschoolers, but as the kids grew, their families wanted a school where they could enroll their children with special needs, their typically developing children, their gifted students or their children who fit more than one of those descriptions. -- LA School Report

Greg Hiscott is the Principal Engineering Technician at the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California. Greg has been with the MWD for 18 years, having started his career as a video game programmer and later as a LAN/WAN network architect at Caltech. He holds a BS/CS from California State University, Northridge; an MBA from the University of Redlands; and studied ICS intrusion prevention and participated in Red/Blue team exercises at Idaho National Labs (INL). -- Odessa American

Opened 19 years ago on the west side of the San Fernando Valley, the K-8 school is the outgrowth of an effort at nearby California State University-Northridge to find better ways of supporting children with disabilities. The program was started to find early interventions for preschoolers, but as the kids grew, their families wanted a school where they could enroll their children with special needs, their typically developing children, their gifted students or their children who fit more than one of those descriptions. -- The 74