Haller Middle School student wins district poster contest
Naheed Arang, a seventh-grade student at Haller Middle School, recently won the Arlington School District’s 2008 Respect Program poster contest.
The school board had to choose from more than 100 submissions from kindergarten through high school students.
The winning poster will be used as the logo for the Respect Program, on T-shirts, promotional materials and the cover of the Arlington Public Schools Calendar.
The runner-up was McKenna Ford, a fifth-grade student at Eagle Creek Elementary School. Other finalists were McKenna Henderson, a fourth-grader from Presidents Elementary and Stephanie Joyce and Michaela Bonine, both fifth-graders at Eagle Creek.
“Respect” is a student-run program that began in 2004. Students focus on positively influencing their school and community by developing activities and events that educate and inspire others to prevent harassment, intimidation, bullying and racism.
Cascadia, UW-Bothell make national honor roll
The Corporation for National and Community Service named Cascadia Community College and the University of Washington’s Bothell campus to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth.
Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Honorees for the award were chosen based on a series of selection factors including: scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses.
St. Mary Magdalen School wins technology grant
St. Mary Magdalen School in south Everett has received a learning and technology grant for the fourth-grade and first grade from The Intermec Foundation.
Fourth-graders will receive 50 new individual whiteboards and materials.
The first grade will receive funds toward an interactive whiteboard.
The Intermec Foundation is a nonprofit foundation set up for requests from Intermec Corp. employees to give educational and community grants to other nonprofit organizations.
Aracelli Tharp, a cost accountant for Intermec, applied for the grant with the help of St. Mary Magdalen teachers Bill Catey and Maureen Buennagel.
Intermec is a large supply chain technology company that has its corporate headquarters in Everett.
Rotary names Everett students of the month for February
For February, Everett Rotary Students of the Month are Ray Naab from Everett High School; Olivia Condotta from Cascade High School and Shannon Hoban from Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy High School.
Each month, the Rotary Club recognizes outstanding students chosen by school counselors for achieving a significant scholastic record, combined with extra curricular participation in school and community events.
The three students were recognized at the Feb. 12 Rotary lunch meeting.
Mukilteo foundation awards grants for classroom learning
The Mukilteo Schools Foundation has awarded classroom grants to 12 Mukilteo educators from 11 different schools.
The grants, which are awarded each year using money raised by the foundation through corporate and individual donations, will pay for 10 different classroom projects that are intended to help improve student achievement.
Receiving grants are:
James McGinnis of Olympic View Middle School, to increase literacy among Russian and Ukrainian students with the purchase of native language books for the school library.
Michael Clark of Voyager Middle School, to buy software and materials that students will use to compose music.
Lyn Geronimi of Kamiak High School, to buy fabric and sewing supplies that students in the independent living class will use to make lap blankets for hospice patients as well as hats and blankets for newborns at Providence Everett Medical Center.
Luanne Matsumoto of Serene Lake Elementary School, Marla Gross of Columbia Elementary School and Jennifer Ross of Olivia Park Elementary School, to buy cultural videos, CDs, books, games and art that will be included in social studies baskets rotated among schools.
Jenelle Erickson of Fairmount Elementary School, to buy a software program that will be used by special-needs students to increase their literacy and participation in mainstream activities.
Gail Anderson of Kamiak High School and Peggy Nystrom of Mariner High School, to buy reading incentives and discounted books to be used in a monthlong reading event being organized through the Sno-Isle Library System.
Jennifer Mukai of Picnic Point Elementary School, to buy and distribute DVDs that will be used to promote kindergarten readiness for children who speak a foreign language.
Marcia Bridges of Odyssey Elementary School, to purchase a site license for the musical “The Pirates of Grammar,” which will be performed as a way to help students increase their knowledge of grammar and will be presented for the residents of a neighboring adult living facility.
Kelly Harvill of Challenger Elementary School, to buy sets of math material that parents can check out as a way to involve families in children’s development of early math concepts.
Jennifer Ross of Olivia Park Elementary School, to buy yarn, needles and knitting books that students will use to learn practical math concepts and learn about the role of knitting in history while creating a blanket that will be donated to a charity.
The Mukilteo Schools Foundation was organized in 1992 to encourage and reward excellence, support innovation and creativity, and enhance community involvement and commitment to education.
Everett student wins scholarship for future educators
Kara Hope of Everett is among the 15 Western Washington University students to receive a Future Teachers conditional scholarship and loan worth up to $4,620 for the 2007-08 academic year from the Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board.
The scholarship program is designed to encourage outstanding students to become teachers. Students selected for the scholarship agree to teach in Washington state public schools two years for each year of funding received.
Three Snohomish grads place well at debate competition
Three former Snohomish High School students now on the Western Kentucky University debate team recently placed well at a contest on the U.S. Air Force Academy campus.
They are:
Sarah Spiker, a freshman, who was tournament champion in junior varsity parliamentary debate, placed second in junior varsity parliamentary debate speaking and was a quarter finalist in open Lincoln-Douglas debate.
Brandon Merrell finished seventh as an open Lincoln-Douglas debate speaker.
Todd Rainey finished seventh in extemporaneous speaking.
Snohomish names Panthers for second quarter
Snohomish High School Panthers of the second quarter were seniors Brad Perry and Ali Pellham, juniors Spencer Caraballo and Annie Laurie Eagle and sophomores Rylan Kautz and Catherine Jorgensen.
The students were nominated and selected by school staff.
Snohomish honors students for academic prowess
Snohomish High School recently named its students of the quarter for different academic subjects.
They are:
Agriculture: Kate Kennedy-Hubler
Art: Josiah Skalsky
Business and technology: Matt Harper
English (debate): Jessica Freitas
English (drama): Rainie Nelson
English: Brianna Leavens
English (journalism): Annie Stoller-Patterson
Family and consumer sciences: Stephanie Arellano
Marketing education: Chelsea Saunders
Mathematics: Brad Perry
Music (band): Heather Mullins
Music (choral): Madison McGinness
Physical education: Chris Goodman
Junior ROTC: Oliver Smith
Science (biology): Robyn Kalina
Science (physical): Chapman Strong
Social studies: Anna Chlebowski
Trade and industry: Nathan Warren
World language (Chinese): Alyssa Green
World language (French): Scott Vargo
World language (German): Laurel Jarchow
World language (Spanish): Bjorn Sunde
“Streusel” is the winning word for Harbour Pointe student
Harbour Pointe Middle School in Mukilteo recently had a spelling bee to determine who would represent the school at a regional spelling bee in Seattle in March.
Sarah Ma, an eighth-grader, won by spelling the word was “streusel” correctly in the final round.
Shrinivas Ramanath, also an eighth-grader, was the runner-up.
The regional champion will represent the area at the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
Two Stanwood students chosen as aerospace scholars
Two students from Stanwood High School are among 225 juniors from throughout the state who have been accepted into the first phase of Washington Aerospace Scholars, a distance-learning program with a NASA-designed curriculum that covers the history of space exploration.
Accepted into the program are Stanwood High School students Matthew Pelham and Brian Sundermeyer.
The performance of the students in phase one of the program will determine whether they are accepted into the second phase, which involves a six-day residency experience at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
Stanwood school assistant receives state recognition for her work
Longtime Stanwood Elementary School educational assistant Mary Wennerberg is the recipient of a Washington State Classified Employee Award for her outstanding contribution and commitment to education.
Wennerberg has many roles at Stanwood Elementary School.
She supervises the playground, assists in the library and classrooms and helps children to safely load and unload their school buses each day.
Wennerberg started volunteering at Stanwood Elementary in 1982 and was hired in 1984 and has touched the lives of many children and staff members throughout the years.
This award program, enacted by the 2007 Legislature, recognizes 36 recipients from across the state.
Wennerberg will receive a certificate and a $1,000 check at an awards ceremony April 4 in the Senate Chambers in Olympia.
“Mary embodies commitment and humility. She does her job for one reason: the children,” said Stanwood Elementary Principal Victor Hanzeli.
Snohomish resident wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Northwestern University senior Amber North of Snohomish has been awarded a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue graduate studies at Cambridge University in England.
North will study philosophy with full funding for a year of post-graduate study.
She will join fellow Gates Scholars studying a variety of subjects: arts, science, humanities, social science, technology and medicine.
Last year, North was selected as one of 20 Beinecke scholars nationally to pursue her work in graduate school.
In addition to her research in philosophy of mind and science, in her junior year she conducted research in Vietnam on a Freeman Asia Fellowship. She examined how the country’s history was being rewritten to marginalize youths in a work entitled “The Scholarship of Vietnameseness.”
North also is a singer and songwriter with two albums and has performed throughout the United States and abroad. She plans to continue her music in Cambridge and London.
In the summer of 2007, North was named one of Glamour Magazine’s Top Ten College Women and was honored for her music and her academics. She plans to pursue a doctorate and become a professor of philosophy.
The Gates Cambridge Scholarships, established by the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation in 2001, provides funding for a second bachelor’s degree or graduate study at the University of Cambridge.
Everett resident earns degree at University of Wyoming
Marjorie Bovey of Everett has earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wyoming at the end of the 2007 fall semester.
Marysville-Pilchuck grad joins international honor society
Ally Avery, a Marysville-Pilchuck High School class of 2005 graduate, has accepted membership in Golden Key International Honor Society and was honored during a recent induction ceremony at Western Washington University.
Lynnwood students who made UW dean’s list for fall semester
Students from Lynnwood who made the University of Washington dean’s list for fall semester includes Lisa Akiyama, Elizabeth Armstrong, Erik Bear, Daniel Bernstein, Markus Bjornerem, Christopher Black, Trevor Bosaw, Keshia Caldart, Donald Chan, Mabel Chan, Jean Chua, Nhuchi Dao, Brandon Dilbeck, Grant Domer, Christopher Fong, Jenny Fowler, Dana Francisco, Daniel Castillo III Francisco, Kelley Govan, Corina Graebner, Nhu-Chi Thuc Ha, Millicent Haase, Lisa Hanchinamani, Jennifer Hegland, Erin Higgins, Mathew Hill, Shane Horan, Melissa Horton, Fosheng Hsu, Helena Huang, Thomas Hudson, Gregory Huff, Wendy Wen-Hsin Hung, Oleksandr Y Ignatenko, Colleen Johnson, Alyson Jones, Kenny Karyadi, John Ye-Won Kim, Emilie Kimball, Yoshito Kosai, Ewelina Kosciow, Nai Hua Ku, Lisa Chi Kwan Kwok, Robyn Laing, Phong Thanh Lam, Nathaniel Larsen, Timothy Larson, Theresa Lau, Benjamin Lee, Danielle Lowe-Angelo, Kristina Malijan, Eric Mar, Tetsuya McCuddin, Angela McLeod, Clint Monken, Erika Monroe, Amina Najam, Monica Nelson, Kathleen Hien-Anh Nguyen, Vung Ngoc Nguyen, Wysteria Oliver, Anna Park, Eojin Park, Juil Park, Lisa Thu Thanh Phan, Amanda Phillips, Christine Plourde, Brandon Proctor, Howard Ramsdell, Maren Roberts, Marcus Roque, Karla Sand, Chelsey Schaplow, Arthur Shore, Kristina Smith, Harkirat Sohi, Brian Song, Andrew Southworth, Kali Stanger, Andree Susanto, Liane Tjok, Yessica Tjok, Keith Tribou, Christopher Vaaga, Debra Ann Wong, Artem Yaschenko, Colleen Yee, Monica Zillen.
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