<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://cbs5.com/students/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>CBS 5  - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports</title><link>http://cbs5.com/students</link><description><![CDATA[CBS 5  - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:03:28 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Students Rising Above: About Us]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/students/students.rising.above.2.456969.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/students/students.rising.above.2.456969.html</link><description><![CDATA[Students Rising Above (SRA) is a CBS 5 and CBS5.com series of news stories, web features, and public service announcements, profiling low-income, at-risk Bay Area high school seniors who are overcoming tremendous obstacles.<br /><br />Wendy Tokuda has been reporting these stories for more than 10 years, and brought the project here to CBS5 in 2007.<br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://static.cbslocal.com/Themes/CBS/_resources/img/images_image_281093753.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /> <a href="https://payments.auctionpay.com/ver3/?id=w020742" target="blank">Make A Tax Deductible Donation</a><br /><img alt="" src="http://static.cbslocal.com/Themes/CBS/_resources/img/images_image_281093753.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /> <a href="http://studentsrisingabove.org/" target="blank">Find Out More About The SRA Organization</a>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:11:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Foster Care To Yale And Law School]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/students/Lily.Dorman.Colby.2.1521419.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/students/Lily.Dorman.Colby.2.1521419.html</link><description><![CDATA[Lily Dorman-Colby grew up a ward of the court, and knows all the statistics about foster children - less than half of them finish high school. Only 1% of the ones who do go to college finish. Dorman-Colby has defied all those statistics and has a 3.56 GPA at Yale College. Now, she's been accepted to Boalt Law School.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:58:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gabriella Trujillo: Memories of Living in a Garage]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/students/Gabriella.Trujillo.Eastside.2.1463541.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/students/Gabriella.Trujillo.Eastside.2.1463541.html</link><description><![CDATA[Gabby Trujillo began life moving in and about East Palo Alto, from a garage to a storage shed, to a rented room. But that was nothing compared to what happened in high school, when her mom got cancer.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:30:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tanesha Walker: Growing Up With Grandma]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/students/Tanesha.Walker.Students.2.1453918.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/students/Tanesha.Walker.Students.2.1453918.html</link><description><![CDATA[<span>Shiny gold trophies fill an entire shelf, in the front room of Tanesha Walker's home, not far from the West Oakland BART station. Most of them are debate trophies, but there is even a small one from a spelling bee in grade school. Her grandmother displays them all, along with photos of all her four grandchildren, whom she's raised.</span>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:12:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[East Oakland Student Makes Headlines]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/students/Dalvin.Butler.SRA.2.1424814.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/students/Dalvin.Butler.SRA.2.1424814.html</link><description><![CDATA[Dalvin Butler says it is amazing he is alive, given his childhood. His father  was murdered, and he was abandoned by his mother, but Dalvin is now at Georgetown University and loving it. 
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:49:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tanea Lunsford On The Children Of Prisoners]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/students/Tanea.Lunsford.SRA.2.1422269.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/students/Tanea.Lunsford.SRA.2.1422269.html</link><description><![CDATA[Tanea Lunsford grew up in a home full of secrets about prison, mental illness, and abandonment, until her writing set her free. 
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:48:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Students Rising Above: Watch Us On TV]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/students/students.rising.above.2.602660.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/students/students.rising.above.2.602660.html</link><description><![CDATA[<span>These are the new airdates for Students Rising Above on CBS 5 Eyewitness News: <br />
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]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:59:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christine Soto: The Iraq War Comes Home]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/students/SRA.Students.Rising.2.1161982.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/students/SRA.Students.Rising.2.1161982.html</link><description><![CDATA[Christine Soto has dealt with many unexpected twists in her life. She has lived away from home since she was 16, determined to remove herself from her mother's crystal meth addiction and father's alcohol abuse. She married her husband Joshua, who served in Iraq until his building was hit with a missile. Now, she has two children and is marketing her product, the Bathing Buddies Shower Sling. 
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:19:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zachary Tabb: Dispatches From Uganda]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/students/SRA.Students.Rising.2.1159765.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/students/SRA.Students.Rising.2.1159765.html</link><description><![CDATA[Zachary Tabb has spent one year in Uganda as a Peace Corps volunteer. He has been working to teach the villagers health education. A big problem in Uganda is malaria, which Zac deals with by using a mosquito net and getting antimalarial shots. He also helps to distribute these nets to villages. Zac will spend one more year in Uganda as a volunteer. 
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:12:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brittney Hamilton: College Prep in West Oakland]]></title><guid>http://cbs5.com/students/Brittney.Hamilton.SRA.2.1149826.html</guid><link>http://cbs5.com/students/Brittney.Hamilton.SRA.2.1149826.html</link><description><![CDATA[Brittney Hamilton says that cheerleading has saved her life. Faced with violence and living in a city with an extreme high school dropout rate, she was able to overcome the odds and go on to college. Her mother and family are ecstatic. She will attend Chico State University in the fall, 2009. 
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