Arts Council issues awards to student photographers
The Arts Council of Snohomish County received more than 100 entries for its 2007 Black &White Photography Contest, sponsored by King Size Imaging. The contest was open to all Snohomish County high school students. Photographs were judged in two categories: traditional analog prints and digital-output prints. Three local well-known photographers served as judges: James Charvet, Wendy A. Fagan and Robert Moon. Winning artwork will be on display in the Arts Council’s gallery store through May 19.
Grand Prize
Joe Fincalero, “Criminal Mischief,” Snohomish High School senior
Traditional Print Category
First Place: Josh Fairbanks, “Roll in the Hay,” Snohomish High School senior
Second Place: Danielle Catudio, “Untitled,” Snohomish High School senior
Honorable Mention: Genessa Caya, “Kandie love,” Snohomish High School junior
Honorable Mention: Ashleen Williams, “Daniel Joseph,” Snohomish High School senior
Digital Print Category
First Place: Jelena Lucic, “Careless,” Lake Stevens High School senior
Second Place: Kendra Hedges, “Forgotten,” Lake Stevens High School junior
Third Place: Jennifer Bluhm, “Stand Up!” Cascade High School junior
Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Anzures, “Ink Me,” Cascade High School senior
Honorable Mention: Brynn Eden, “Street Musicians,” Cascade High School junior
Honorable Mention: Stephanie Hansen, “Spring Time,” Henry M. Jackson High School sophomore
Honorable Mention: Julianne Hezlep, Untitled, Lake Stevens High School senior
Honorable Mention: Tiffany Litz, “Maui Palm,” Henry M. Jackson High School senior
Honorable Mention: Brian Moore, “River,” Cascade High School senior
Honorable Mention: James Oonlamom, “The romantic scene,” Cascade High School junior
Honorable Mention: Danielle Peterson, “Cherry Blossom,” Henry M. Jackson High School senior
Honorable Mention: Danielle Peterson, “Roam,” Henry M. Jackson High School senior
Honorable Mention: Ashlee Marie Reed, “Devil Denim,” Lynnwood High School senior
Honorable Mention: Lucas Ziegler, “Nature’s Power,” Arlington High School junior
Lake Stevens leadership group receives $1,000
Lake Stevens High School’s Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) chapter recently won a 2007 Take Charge America: FCCLA National High School Financial Fitness Award. The school will receive $1,000 at the national leadership meeting in July in Anaheim, Calif. Financial Fitness is a peer education program that helps young people develop good personal finance habits. The chapter’s project – called “Money, Money, Money: With Financial Fitness You’ll Get It” – included several components, including a lesson plan on identity theft that was given to teachers. FCCLA members also worked with students in younger grades and raised awareness with a booth outside Qwest Field in Seattle. The project was coordinated by Derek Hahn.
Sarah Church headed for PhD program in bioscience
Sarah Church, a 1998 graduate of Everett High School, has been accepted into the Oregon Health and Sciences University PhD program in molecular and cellular bioscience. She received a bachelor’s degree in biology with honors from Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., and her master’s degree from New York University. She worked at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York.
Provost’s List
Kristyl Drew, Everett, was named to the Provost’s List at Chapman University, Orange County, Calif.
Archbishop Murphy art
Kat Gengler won first place and the People’s Choice Award in Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy High School’s juried art show last month for her charcoal depiction of “Christ.” Second place went to Kelsey Stoeser for a landscape oil painting. Two students tied for third place: Joel Hummel for a Native American-inspired mask and Kendra Pierce for a carved ceramic plate.
UW-Bothell DEC team members finish second
The University of Washington-Bothell Delta Epsilon Chi team saw three second-place finishes at the recent Delta Epsilon Chi (DEC) International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Fla. Michael Stearns and Rob Stevens earned a second-place team finish for international marketing case study. Nathan Peterson finished second in the ESPN-sponsored National Management Institute – and was offered a job. April Kauffman also competed and finished in the top 10 in the Hospitality Business Simulation.
Oak Harbor, Kamiak students win at DECA
Local winners at DECA’s 61st annual International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Fla.:
Brittany Loveng, Oak Harbor High School, second place in the Sports and Entertainment Event;
Arianna O’Dell, Oak Harbor High School, third place in the Food Marketing Associate Level Event;
Nashua Mohamed and Brittany Iwata, Kamiak High School, top 10 finalists in the Advertising Campaign Event.
ROTC Armed Drill team second in Walla Walla
The Snohomish High School Marine Corps Junior ROTC recently competed in the Tri-State Regional Championship in Walla Walla. Cadets from Washington, Idaho and Oregon competed. Snohomish High’s Armed Drill team, under the command of Cadet 2nd Lt. Geoffrey Smelser, placed second overall.
Top local chess finishers
The following local students finished in the top 25 for their divisions at the 2007 Washington State Elementary Chess Championships held April 21 at the Clark County Fairgrounds in Ridgefield:
Jason Zhu, Lockwood Elementary School in Bothell, finished 17th in the third-grade division.
Brandon Li, Sunset Elementary School in Everett, finished 19th in the third-grade division.
Trevor Marcus, Evergreen Academy in Bothell, finished 20th in the fourth-grade division.
Kirill Filimonov, Lockwood Elementary School in Bothell, finished 20th in the kindergarten division.
Craig Colegrove, Heritage Christian School in Bothell, finished 25th in the sixth-grade division.
John Zhang, Terrace Park Elementary School in Mountlake Terrace, finished 25th in the fifth-grade division.
Welliver to play piccolo at state Honors Recital
Sarah Welliver, a Marysville-Pilchuck High School junior, has won the Washington State Music Teachers Association’s District I competition, which involved students from Seattle to Lynden. Sarah will now get to play a Vivaldi concerto in G Major on her piccolo at the state Honors Recital at the June conference in Pullman. Welliver has played flute for six years and piccolo for three years. She plays in the school’s wind ensemble and is the marching band’s assistant drum major.
Northshore schools improve WASL scores
Schools in the Northshore School District recently received 41 awards from the state Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction for improving student achievement in reading, writing and math on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning. Three schools received awards for boosting passing rates in all three subjects: Bothell High School, Inglemoor High School and the Secondary Academy for Success. In all, district schools received 19 awards for writing improvements, 12 for reading and 10 for math. Schools that draw Snohomish County students that received awards in one or two subjects included Canyon Creek Elementary, Crystal Springs Elementary, Kokanee Elementary, Lockwood Elementary, Shelton View Elementary, Westhill Elementary, Canyon Park Junior High, Skyview Junior High, Woodinville High and the Home School Networks.
Math teacher heads to MIT
Mark Hinckley, a math teacher at Henry M. Jackson High School in Mill Creek, won a scholarship to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Science and Engineering Program for Teachers, to be held June 24-29 on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass.
The SEPT program each year selects about 50 elementary and secondary teachers to show the latest developments in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, technology and engineering, with the goal of improving their instruction and sparking an interest in math and science among their students. The MIT Alumni Club of Puget Sound scholarship will cover Hinckley’s travel and the $750 program fee, which includes lodging and meals. Hinkley teaches geometry, calculus and Advanced Placement calculus.
County music association awards scholarships
Student musicians in sixth through 12th grades recently competed in the Snohomish County Music Teachers Association’s annual scholarship contest. Scholarships are given in memory of Everett music teacher Anna Rollins Johnson and have been awarded since 1971. Winners are:
Keyboard, sixth grade: first place, Sarah Hall and Kristin Porisch; second place, Ransom Cutshall and Ann Magnus.
Keyboard, seventh grade: first place, Leizl Fernando and Stephanie Lam; second place, Lauren Farris and Jeanette Ojala.
Keyboard, eighth grade: first place, Anna Freedman and Joshua Lim; second place, Christopher Chalaka and Katrina Overgaard.
Keyboard, ninth grade: first place, Eric McElroy and Karen Snare; second place, Nora Gunning and Rodric Pence.
Keyboard, 10th grade: first place, Hjejin Kim and Stephanie Kwon; second place, Laura Everett and Rose Halcomb.
Keyboard, 11th grade: first place, Andrew Romanick; second place, Melissa Ho and Ashley Marshall.
Keyboard, 12th grade: first place, Matthew Palumbo; second place, Dania McKenzie and Gabriel Thompson.
Non-keyboard, eighth and ninth grades: first place, Becca Holtgeerts, flautist; second place, Daniel Skubi, baritone.
Non-keyboard, 10th through 12th grades: first place, Colleen McElroy, flautist; second place, Chelsea Crabtree, soprano.
Droz to play in National Wind Ensemble
Kamiak High School junior Adrianna Droz recently was named a Young Artist Award winner by the International Trumpet Guild. Adrianna this month will be playing alongside mostly college students in the National Wind Ensemble at prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York City. She’ll celebrate her 17th birthday while on the trip.
Adrianna plays in her school’s marching band, concert band and jazz ensemble. In addition, she also is a shortstop and catcher for the school softball team and a select team from King County. Adrianna is the daughter of Eric and Shelley Droz of Edmonds.
Saratoga helps clean up
Students, parents and staff with Saratoga School, a parent partnership program in the Stanwood-Camano School District that enrolls more than 50 students in kindergarten to 10th grade, recently helped with the community’s Operation Clean Sweep. The volunteers helped spruce up streets, common areas and parks by pulling weeds, planting flowers, picking up garbage and the like.
Columbia College grads
Columbia College plans its 13th commencement for May 19, honoring 54 graduates. Among them:
Arlington: Heather Greenfield; Michal Miles; Rebecca Miller; Susan Rader; Alta D. Thomas; Kenneth Thomas; Ena D. Williams (MBA); Karisa Viall
Camano Island: Victoria Hidde; John F. Olson (MBA)
Everett: Thelma L. Dugger; Christine Farmer (MBA); Thomas Miller; Michelle Pacheco; Delmar Ramirez Jr.; Jessica Tapscott; Tracy M. Welch; Michael Wood
Granite Falls: Jonathan Wells
Lake Stevens: Lori Epperson
Lynnwood: Donald A. Bongmba (MBA)
Marysville: Roger Brinkmann; Robert M. Dennis II (MBA); Vicki L. Emery; Rick Fogel; Scott Goedelmann (MBA); Charlene Harding; Devynn Hicks; Robin Kennedy; Karen Landry; Tamara Longdon; Henry McKenzie; Natasha Moser; Daryl Swearson; Kyung Yun; Shawneen Zackuse; Warren Zosa
Mill Creek: Paul Pew
Snohomish: Jessica German; Stephen Ragland (MBA)
Stanwood: Charmaine Brayton; Edward Erlandson; Elizabeth Erlandson; Kristin Erlandson
National Merit scholars
Three more Snohomish County high school seniors have been named National Merit Scholarship winners.
As National Merit $2,500 scholarship winners, they were judged based on several factors, including academic record, difficulty level of subjects studied and grades earned, scores from two standardized tests; contributions and leadership in school and community activities, an essay describing interests and goals and the recommendation by a high school official.
Winners were Rachel Bhak from Henry M. Jackson High School; McKenna Milici of Kamiak High School; and Jordan Reichelt of Snohomish High School.
Teachers honored for science emphasis
The National Science Teachers Association and Toyota have awarded Sara Kaleo, a teacher from Oak Heights Elementary School in Lynnwood, and Gail Gretencourt, a teacher from the private Harbour Pointe Primary School in Mukilteo, each with a $2,500 Toyota grant.
Kaleo and Gretencourt received the award for excellence and innovation displayed in their innovative science programs.
Kaleo’s project, “Native Americans: A Study of Geography,” will allow students to study the geography of the 48 continental states through the eyes of American Indians. Gretencourt’s project, “Habitats are Alive!” focuses on integrating science in every aspect of the student day.
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