School Winners
Published 9:12 pm Sunday, September 27, 2015
Canoe journey unique part of EdCC learning
Edmonds Community College students, faculty and staff took part in the 2015 tribal canoe journey from the Samish nation in Anacortes to the Muckleshoot Tribe via Golden Gardens in Seattle, July 31 to Aug. 7.
This was the fifth year that EdCC participated in a tribal canoe journey. Although the entire journey was 100 miles, many people completed portions of the journey.
“I learned much about canoe culture and the people around me, and it was such an engaging experience,” student Megan McDermott said.
Thirty students participated through two school programs. The Learn and Serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) school partners with local tribes to offer intensive service-learning experiences for students in field-based courses in human ecology and archaeology, while the Center for Service-Learning helps engage students from across campus in service-learning activities that serve local tribes and the greater community.
“Rather than sitting in a classroom I am replicating ways of learning before we had the modern educational institutions. It is not just one person teaching the class — it was a community that raised the children,” said Tom Murphy, anthropology department chair and instructor.
EdCC students interested in a canoe journey should sign up for spring 2016 quarter’s “ANTH 201: Human Ecology” for the paddle to Nisqually.
Forest View girl a race ambassador
Grace Walsh, a fifth-grader at Forest View Elementary School, was selected as one of three ambassadors for the 2016 Beat the Bridge to Beat Diabetes fundraiser, set for May 15 in Seattle. The event benefits New York-based JDRF, a leading group aimed at curing type 1 diabetes.
Grace was diagnosed type 1 diabetes when she was in first grade.
Michelle Walsh is Grace’s mom and a teacher at Gateway Middle School. “Many staff members from Gateway and students from Forest View join us” for the Beat the Bridge event each year, she said. “It will be especially exciting this year now that Grace is an ambassador. Needless to say, she is very excited and we are so proud of her.”
Floral student awarded scholarship
Angelique LeBlanc, a graduate of Monroe High School, was awarded the 2015 Monroe Garden Club horticulture scholarship for $1,000. LeBlanc is studying at Portland Floral Design School.
Funding for the annual scholarship comes from the club’s plant sale, held each May. To learn more about the Monroe Garden Club, call Jeannette Susor at 360-863-6160.
Edmonds marketing teacher is state’s best
Edmonds-Woodway High School’s Susie Roberts was selected as Washington State Marketing Educator of the Year at the recent CTE conference in Yakima. Roberts will be officially recognized on stage at the DECA Fall Leadership Conference, set for Oct. 25-27 in Seattle, which is expected to see attendance of over 3,000 students, teachers and business leaders from the state.
AEDs added at Edmonds-area high schools
Local groups joined Sept. 18 to launch the installation of 27 automated external defibrillators in the Edmonds School District, starting with Meadowdale High School.
The date and location were meaningful.
The Heart of Edmonds School District &Community Heart Safe Project was created in memory of Meadowdale student Matthew Truax who suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and died while running the track in PE class in 2013. He was five days shy of his 17th birthday.
The community group was joined by the Mill-Creek based Nick of Time Foundation and Redmond-based Physio-Control Inc. in the AED project.
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