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The Hi-Q championship match is set for 9:50 a.m. Tuesday at Archbishop Murphy High School, the contest’s defending champion, which will challenge Arlington and Monroe for this year’s title.
Hi-Q challenges students with 16 rounds of questions in 13 academic categories. Matches are held during school days to showcase academic excellence. The former Scott Paper Co. brought the program to the Everett region in 1976.
The winning team at Tuesday’s match will compete against Hi-Q teams from Alabama, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in an online national championship in April.
Guests are welcome at Hi-Q contests, but should call the school, at 425-379-6363, to ensure space is available.
Peace poster an international finalist
Port Gardner Parent Partnership student Sophia Nunn was an international finalist in an annual Lions Club International Peace Poster competition. Sophia took top honors locally, in the Seattle-Everett Lions District, and in the Lions Multidistrict Level contest (Washington, Northern Idaho and British Columbia).
Her poster design incorporated a rose, dove and world flags.
“This is the first time anyone from Everett has made it this far in the process and is a great tribute to Sophia’s artistic gifts as well as her insights regarding the theme,” said Jim McNally, a Lions Club member.
Brighton kids clean up
A group of sixth-grade students from Brighton School, a private school in Lynnwood, picked up litter and pulled weeds along Hall Creek near Lake Ballinger. The kids were recognized by the Mountlake Terrace City Council at its March 2 meeting.
Student Clara Guyot worked with the city’s Recreation and Parks Department on the volunteer project. The project helped the school’s Destination Imagination team meet competition requirements, and also helped the city stay in compliance with the Hall Creek Culvert Removal Project.
Olympic View sixth-grader heading to D.C.
Jackson Cole, a sixth-grader at Olympic View Middle School, was one of 150 children nationwide accepted as a JDRF Children’s Congress delegate.
JDRF funds type 1 diabetes research. The 2015 Children’s Congress is set for July 13-15 in Washington D.C. The Congress is held every two years. Children with type 1 diabetes meet with lawmakers to advocate for research funding and to raise awareness.
For kids, type 1 diabetes means a lack of freedom to participate freely in normal activities, like playing and eating, Jackson wrote in his application to be a delegate.
“I try to never let diabetes hold me back from what I want to do but diabetes makes things harder for me and I want freedom from it,” Jackson wrote. “Every birthday or every time I throw money into a fountain or someone asks me what my dream or wish is, I always so the same thing… I wish I didn’t have diabetes. I wish, I wish, I didn’t have diabetes.”
Lakewood music groups perform in California
The Lakewood High School Cougar band and jazz choir, Swingbeat, recently returned from a weekend trip to Disneyland, where they performed.
Swingbeat had just been rated “Outstanding,” the highest rating, at the March 5 DeMiero Jazz Festival.
Teens’ kindness challenge
Arlington High School and Post and Haller middle school students participated in Challenge Day in February.
The international program aims to prevent bullying. Students spent time getting to know each other better and find out how to support each other.
At the high school, the activities included an exercise called “crossing the line.” Students crossed a taped line when a statement, such as “If you’ve ever been bullied or teased by someone in this room,” applied to them. At Post Middle School, students wrote up a sign saying “Free Hugs.”
Mock Trial teams advance to state
Two Archbishop Murphy High School Mock Trial teams will compete at the state level after winning second (varsity) and third place (junior varsity) at a Snohomish County district match-up in February.
The state meet is et for March 27-29 in Olympia and features the top 20 Mock Trial teams from across Washington.
Faul honored by Rotary club
Darin Faul, band director at Mountlake Terrace High School, was the February Rotary Club of Alderwood Terrace Educator of the Month. Faul, the school’s band director since 1997, has been instrumental in leading the school’s jazz and instrumental Music programs to regional and national prominence, Principal Greg Schwab said. “Students learn at very high levels in his classes,” Schwab said, in nominating Darin for the award.
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