School Winners
Published 8:22 pm Sunday, May 31, 2015
Mock Trial competition
Two dozen students from Immaculate Conception-Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Mary Magdalen schools competed in the annual Middle School Mock Trial Championship, held May 15 at the Snohomish County Courthouse in Everett.
The event was hosted by the Archbishop Murphy High School mock trial team. Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Linda Krese presided over two trials in her courtroom. AMHS mock trial coaches Roger Brodniak and Susan Bolles served as the jury.
The 2015 Middle School Championship case involved a fictitious assault and battery and destruction of personal property case against lobster fisherman Charlie Spencer, accused of striking a fellow fisherman and sinking their fishing boat on purpose.
Students receiving special recognition included Samson Irish-Lodge as Best Witness and Jenna Tran as Best Attorney, both from St. Mary Magdalen. Both students receive $1,000 scholarships from Archbishop Murphy High School.
Honorable mentions went to Immaculate Conception-Our Lady students Mary Grossenbacher, Veronica Oberst, Miracle Osuoha, Harrison Lindgren and Quentin Simmons, and St. Mary students Colin Guy, Tabitha Johnson and Gabrielle Koch.
Madrona cellist to perform at Carnegie
Adrian Smith, an eighth-grader at Madrona K-8 School in Edmonds, has been selected for the 2015 Middle School Honors Performance Series, June 24-28 at Carnegie Hall in New York City. He will perform as a cellist with the Honors Junior Orchestra.
Adrian started on cello in fourth grade. In sixth grade, he joined Cascade Youth Symphony Orchestras and has moved up each year and currently plays with Cascade’s Junior Orchestra.
Phi Kappa Phi honor
Bailey Ingalls of Snohomish was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Ingalls was initiated at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
AAUW recognizes juniors for STEM
The American Association of University Women, Everett branch, recently honored 12 high school junior girls with Certificates of Excellence for their achievements in math, science and technology: Jemimah McAleer (math), Julia Loewen (science) and Anh Nguyen (technology) from Cascade High School; Caitlin Meuret (math), Emily Ness (science) and Ifeoma Osuoha (technology) from Everett High School; Casey Wilson (math), Kiara Houck (science) and Lydia Kim (technology) from Henry M. Jackson High School; and Sydney Bates (math), Bryttanie Peek (science) and Cierra Amond-Visaya (technology) from Sequoia High School.
Granite Falls honors excellence
The Granite Falls School District on May 20 presented its last Success in Education award winners for the 2014-15 school year.
Student winners were Hailey Murphy, Tyler Arp, Maia Whitley and Josef Kohout (high school); Sierra Tossberg-Nash, Morgan Maier and Elsa Mastrude (middle school); Ryan Baron and Molly Amundsen (Mountain Way Elementary); and Maddi Morehouse and Kiana Marchman-Ronne (Monte Cristo Elementary).
Staff winners were Larry Lawlis (classified at the high school) and Patti Skurski (certificated at Mountain Way Elementary).
Snohomish teen to have poem published
Alexander Peterson of Snohomish has had his poem in the National High School Poetry Contest accepted for publication. The poem, “The Creek and I,” will appear in the summer edition of the American High School Poets “Of Faith and Inspiration” anthology. Peterson attends Cedar Park Christian School’s Mountlake Terrace campus.
Arlington finishes third in lip dub
Shorecrest High School was the winner of the third annual Wesco Lip Dub Competition held May 11 at Arlington High School.
Second place went to Sedro-Woolley and third to Arlington. Jackson and Shorewood high schools also scored well. Other schools participating included the smaller student bodies of Lakewood and La Conner.
The lip dub competition involves students lip synching to songs that are dubbed into a video that is filmed in one long continuous take around their school.
The lip dubs are judged on video, audio and editing quality, school spirit, the quality of lip synch and originality and creativity. Find links to their videos with the “School Winners” article at cmg-northwest2.go-vip.net/heraldnet.
Doner named Cadet of Distinction
Trever Doner of Snohomish was named a “Cadet of Distinction” at the Army and Navy Academy, a private nonprofit military academy for grades 7-12 in San Diego County. The title is given to students who have achieved the highest citizenship grade attainable and zero demerits for the fifth grading period.
Fulbright Scholar
Ashleen O’Brien, a 2011 graduate of Edmonds-Woodway High School, has been named a Fulbright Scholar. O’Brien is set to graduate from Bates College this spring with a double major in environmental studies and politics. She will spend the 2015-16 school year as a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Mexico.
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