School life: Winners
Published 9:00 pm Monday, April 30, 2007
Students of the month for Lake Stevens schools
Here are the students of the month for March in the Lake Stevens School District.
Lake Stevens High School
Kayla Bostwick and Asalemo Crawford, ninth grade; Ivanca Olanu and Colby McCormick, 10th grade; Kayla Bollen and Kyle Alford, 11th grade; and Mary Pennington and Erich Schuler, 12th grade.
Lake Stevens Middle School
Kara Franson and Jonathan Franco, sixth grade; Anlya Folsom and Sa Vang, seventh grade; and Carmelita Crawford and Zach Kilburn, eighth grade.
North Lake Middle School
Emma Fritzler and Luis Mata, sixth grade; Brianna Lidke and Mackenzie Simon, seventh grade; and Brooke Dalgleish and Kiki Lisoskie, eighth grade.
Two advance to nationals
Two Sno-Isle Tech Skills Center students were gold medal winners at a state SkillsUSA skills contest in Tacoma in April.
Both will represent Washington in the national SkillsUSA competition in Kansas City June 28.
Mark Adams, a senior at Snohomish High School, won the gold in the diesel mechanics competition. His Sno-Isle teacher is Brent Delfel, who won the statewide diesel mechanics gold medal in 1989 and 1990.
Brian Harbeck, a junior from Snohomish High School, won a gold medal in precision machining and fellow junior Andrew Priest of Lakewood High School won the bronze. Their Sno-Isle teacher is Tom Clemans.
A dozen Superintendent Scholar finalists named
Twelve graduating seniors within the Everett School District were recently named as finalists for the 25th Annual Superintendent’s Scholar Award.
The exemplary scholars, along with their most inspirational district staff person, will be recognized at the annual Superintendent’s Scholar Awards program on May 24 at the Everett Country Club. Award winners will also be announced.
Student finalists and their selections for most inspirational staff are:
Cascade High School
Katherine Shepherd honors teacher Amy Crum.
Catherine Manhardt honors teacher Kari Averill.
Angela Null honors teacher Yvonne Gladsjo.
Chelsea Ongaro honors teacher Jim Johnson.
Everett High School
Phillip Bui honors teacher Ann Stewart.
Jasdeep Sardhu honors teacher Cynthia McIntyre.
Cindy Tian honors teacher Cynthia McIntyre.
Mikayla Whitley honors teacher John Bittinger.
Henry M. Jackson High School
Nicole Lee honors teacher Jennifer Chambers.
Christine Luu honors teacher Judy Baker.
Lukas McKinley honors teacher Susan Wood.
Hunter Spencer honors teacher Tal Anderson.
Students had to be in the top 5 percent of their graduating class or have scored in the top 5 percent of seniors on the SAT. Counselors at each high school selected finalists, who were then interviewed by a committee designated by the Everett Public Schools Foundation.
UW-Bothell DEC team competes in Orlando, Fla.
Members of the University of Washington Bothell’s Delta Epsilon Chi team recently returned from the International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Fla.
The eight-member team was helped by a dinner and silent auction fundraiser, where donors contributed more than $4,000 to the club, which is the college division of DECA, an international marketing and management organization.
Leftover funds will help pay for other club activities, including an Adopt-A-Road project, speakers and future competitive events.
Here are the UW Bothell students who competed with the DEC team and their events
Amaryah Curnutt: Marketing Management (first at state)
April Kauffman: Hospitality Management (first at state)
Michael Stearns and Rob Stevens: International Marketing (team event, second at state)
Rainer Oviir and Nate Peterson: Sports and Entertainment Marketing (team event, second at state)
Chris Le: Apparel and Accessories Management (second at state)
Alan Li: Entrepreneurship (second at state)
Founding faculty given first Cascadia College award
Cascadia Community College founding faculty members David Ortiz and Debora Pontillo are the first recipients of the Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Service Award, which will be given annually by the Cascadia Community College Foundation.
They will receive plaques as well as $1,000 grants to be used next year for professional development.
Ortiz and Pontillo helped found the college that opened in 2000. Ortiz teaches speech communications. Pontillo teaches art and ethnic studies.
The ETLS award is the result of a 2005 agreement between the college and the faculty association to provide annual recognition for faculty who make exceptional contributions to Cascadia’s mission and vision.
Athletic director honored
Doug Kloke, of Cascade High School, was awarded the Athletic Director’s Service Award by the Washington Secondary School Athletic Administrators Association.
The annual service award recognizes athletic directors who have made a significant contribution to school, league, regional or state athletics in any one year.
Kloke recently helped the Western High School Athletic Conference (WesCo) form new policies to promote sportsmanship.
Three local seniors among National Merit winners
Three students from Snohomish County were named recently National Merit Scholarship winners.
They are Kathleen Ewing of Bothell High School, Corinne Walters of Henry M. Jackson High School and Brendan Smith of Monroe, who attends the Bear Creek School in Redmond.
They were among the first of four rounds of National Merit winners to be announced.
To qualify, each took a qualifying test last year. Winners are judged to have the strongest combination of academic skills and achievements, extracurricular accomplishments and potential for success in rigorous college studies.
Hawkeye, staff win awards
The Hawkeye, the Mountlake Terrace High School’s student-run newspaper, recently won a first place from the American Scholastic Press Association, receiving a score of 920 out of 1,000.
It also won the First Amendment Free Award, co-sponsored by the Journalism Education Association, National Scholastic Press Association, Quill &Scroll Society and Columbia Scholastic Press Association. The award was given to just five schools for supporting First Amendment rights of high school students.
Individual staff members recognized for journalism skills were photo and graphics editor Ji Mun, outstanding overall photography and superior in advertising; news editor Sharon McClintock, honorable mention news writing; Kendra O’Halloran, excellent in news magazine layout; technology editor Corina Cheever, honorable mention in copy editing and headline writing; and sports editor Jordan Gisler, honorable mention in sports writing.
Dean’s List
Students on college and university Dean’s Lists include:
Kirsten Terry, Everett, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine; Matthew Brady, Everett, Seattle University, Seattle; Tamara Wright, Arlington, Eastern Washington University, Cheney.
Meadowdale students’ art on display in Edmonds
Fourteen students from Meadowdale High School in Lynnwood have artwork on display as part of a Young Artists exhibit at the Edmonds Arts Commission’s Frances Anderson Center, 700 Main St., Edmonds. The exhibit continues through June 18. The artists are students in Amanda Wood’s printmaking and advanced art classes and Jill Van Berkom’s photography classes.
The student artists are: Dionis Agustin, Ben Ambrey, Maggie Beeson, Rachel Fenney, Ellen Forslund, Andrea Gilbertson, Alleshia Goulder, Deanna Guffey, Paige Heinen, Jonathan Honari, Amalia Huffman, Jamie Martin,Carrie Ramos and Carolyn Votaw. Carrie Ramos and Carolyn Votaw.
Canyon Park Junior High science teacher wins award
Northshore science teacher Sheila Guard was selected as one of 30 outstanding science teachers in the nation by Amgen, a California-based biotechnology company.
Guard, who teaches at Canyon Park Junior High School in Bothell, recently led her school’s science team to qualify for the National Science Olympiad for the second year in a row.
The Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence recognizes teachers who have demonstrated an outstanding ability to inspire their students and produce results in science education.
Guard and her school will receive an unrestricted cash award of $5,000; a restricted $5,000 cash grant to the school for the expansion or enhancement of a school science program, science resources or the professional development of the school’s science teachers; and recognition at an awards banquet.
