This years Science Olympiad team consisted of 15 members who competed in 20 different events at UCI February 14. Tesoro team placed 15th overall out of 28 teams in Orange County. The students had a great time and look forward to competing in next years competition. Visit the Tesoro Science Olympiad page for more information.

Sustainability Garden

Science Department Home

Tesoro High School Science Teachers

Busenkell, Bill		Science Department Chair
Cadiz, Robin		Teacher
Chambers, Jenny		Teacher
Cogan, Steve		Science Teacher
Danner, Steven		Teacher
Leiva, Megan		Science Teacher
McKinley, Michelle	(949) 234-5310	Science Teacher
O'Malley, Shannon		Teacher
Ritscher, Nathaniel		Science Teacher
Tubbs, Tony		Teacher
Williamson, Jacob		Teacher
Yu, Annie		Teacher

Tesoro's Science Teachers

See our new SUSTAINABILITY GARDEN PLANS!

Click HERE to view the plans.

A huge THANK YOU goes out to The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano for their generous 2-year grant and membership in the highly successful Grow Your Own! program.

Check out an overhead view of the Outdoor Science Classrooms!

Click HERE

Plant Identification Resources

Click HERE to see a list of the 47 types of plants in our CA Native Plant Garden. Included is a map, showing their locations.

Thank you Tree of Life Nursery for all of your help with the CA Native Plant Garden!

Click HERE to see colored photos of some of the most common native and non-native plants you will find as you walk around the outskirts of Tesoro HS. There is also a checklist to indicate the plants you see and a dichotomous key to many of Orange County's common plants.

Bobcat kitten

This text will be replaced

Tesoro Wildlife Camera Link

Click HERE for video archives.

Click HERE to LIKE us on our Tesoro HS Wildlife Cameras Facebook page.

Click HERE to see an article and slide show about our cameras in The OC Register.

Click HERE to see Close-Up Photos from our gardens.

CA Native Plant Garden

Nature Trail

Titan Alumni in Scientific America

Former Outstanding Tesoro Science Alumni published in Scientific America

Austin Hay, pictured above, is senior in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and will graduate this May with a BS in Environmental Engineering. Austin is an alumnus of the Guam and Palau 2011 expedition, and will accompany the 2012 course as a volunteer assistant. In Fall 2012, Austin will be pursuing a PhD in Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. Click this link to view the article.

1 Tesoro Creek Road, Las Flores, CA 92688
(949) 234-5310 Phone | (949) 766-3370 Fax

Capistrano Unified School District
33122 Valle Road, San Juan Capistrano, California 92675
(949) 234-9200 Phone | (949) 493-8729 Fax

AN UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO STUDENT SUCCESS

RSS Feeds

Non-Discrimination Statement

The Capistrano Unified School District prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying in all district activities, programs, and employment based upon actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, ethnicity, color, religion, ancestry, nationality, national origin, ethnic group identification, sex, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability or on the basis of a person’s association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. Reference: AR 1312.3, BP 1312.3 and BP 5183.

Rich Montgomery, Executive Director, Human Resource Services/Compliance
33122 Valle Road, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
(949) 234-9200

Website Disclaimer

ATTENTION: The Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) does not assume any responsibility or liability for the content that may be present within external Websites linked to and from this site that are operated or created by or for organizations outside of the CUSD. The linking to or from this site does not imply on the part of the CUSD or any of its schools any guarantee of quality, assumption of liability or endorsement of the organizations maintaining external Websites. Those organizations are solely responsible for the operation of their Website and quality of the content including advertisements, links, media, images and text that they may deem appropriate.