School Winners
Published 5:00 pm Friday, June 12, 2009
Edmonds foundation gives art scholarships
Every year, the Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation provides visual-arts scholarships to students living within the boundaries of the Edmonds School District as well as students in the Visual Arts program of Edmonds Community College.
For 2009-10, $23,250 was awarded to 28 students.
The students are Kathryn Thomas, Stephany Dentry, Amanda Cook, Anastasia Economou, Christopher Seto, Kathleen Childs, Raezel Ann Flores Arca, Sara Portesan, Sabrina Deigert,
Dylan O’Neil, Ling Chun, Carolyn Buss, Carla Rosebrook, Thuyvi Nguyen, Guillermo Zapata, Ka Ming Yeung, Aehdan McLean, Jaclynne Forsyth,
Natane Eklund, Carolyn Votaw, Sandra Kilian, King Yin Cheung, Junko Sato, Douglas Bosley, Gaelyn Woltz, Amy Brewer, Emma Streicher and Lissa Witcher.
Cascade student wins exchange scholarship
Cascade High School student Megan Kelly has been awarded the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholarship.
Megan of Edmonds has been awarded the scholarship for the 2009-10 academic year and will join a group of 50 American high school students sponsored by ASSE International Student Exchange Programs.
She will live with a host family and attend high school in Germany for one academic year.
When Megan leaves for Germany, a group of German scholarship students will arrive to live with American host families while attending high school in the U.S.
Peace Action group names essay winners
The Edmonds-based Snohomish County Peace Action group has announced the winner of the 14th annual Linda Jewell Memorial Essay Contest for middle schools in the Edmonds School District.
Three first-place winners each received $50 and a certificate. Six second-place winners each received $25 and a certificate.
Winners from College Place Middle School are: first place, Yasmeen Busse, and second place, Andrew Mahoney-Fernandez and Asha Rose.
Winners from Madrona K-8 School are: first place Eston McKeague and Chetachinyere Okereke, and second place, Alana Erkan, Carson Lipscomb, Emma Lynch, and Marissa Mason.
An honorable mention went to Eric Henthorn at Meadowdale Middle School.
Students wrote a letter to President Barack Obama telling him what his three priorities should be.
The contest was started by Linda Jewell, who was a teacher assistant and College Place Middle School. She died in 1999.
Everett woman earns 2nd master’s degree
Lindsay R. Medema of Everett has received her master’s degrees in public health with a concentration in maternal and child health, which follows a masters in social work with a concentration in health in 2008.
Both degrees came from the University of California, Berkeley.
Cascade grad gets master’s in fine art
Seth Papac, Cascade High School graduate in the class of 1999, has earned his master of fine art degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, Mich.
Papacccc received the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship award.
His work is displayed as several museums including Cranbrook Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Craft, and the Tacoma Art Museum, and is currently showcased at Facere Jewelry Art Gallery and at Sienna Gallery in Lenox, Mass.
Everett man earns research honor
Everett resident Alex Wertheimer, a member of the class of 2010 at Occidental College in Los Angeles, is one of about 100 students at the college who have been selected to live and work on campus this summer pursuing independent research projects.
Wertheimer is working with Dr. Kerry Thompson, a professor of biology, conducting research to study cognitive performance following transplantation in a model of temporal lobe epilepsy.
Such an opportunity is rarely extended to undergraduates, as most students do not participate in research at this level until graduate school.
Christina Harper: 425-339-3491. harper@heraldnet.com.
