Students from Antelope Valley Adventist School's gymnastics clinic recently performed for parents in their annual Home Show. The school has run a gymnastics clinic for the past four years, and it has proven to be very popular.

"As a former assistant coach and a team member in both academy and college, I direct the program," said Principal James Smith, "but the first week in March other coaches come to help." Phil Hudema, prinicipal of Conejo Adventist Elementary School and a former gymnastics coach; Ken Gotmer, former gymnastics member both in college and academy and now assistant coach at Conejo and Newbury Park Academy, assisted.

Karyn NeSmith, a freshman at Southern Adventist University, came to work with the girls without pay for the training week and the week of the Home Show. "When we started this program, we had 50 students in our entire school," said Smith. "Four years later, we have 90 students. Some families have moved to the Antelope Valley to have their students be part of this educational fun."

"Participating in gymnastics has made my granddaughter very confident," noted Barbara Pekarek, AVAS fifth and sixth grade teacher, adding that granddaughter Rolanda Martinez "feels successful about what she can do as a second-grader."

This year, 60 students were involved and almost 300 people attended the Home Show.