Everett girl on to national Bee
Laura Woods of Everett took first place in the Association of Christian Schools International Regional Spelling Bee on Feb. 26. Laura is an eighth-grader at Cedar Park Christian School’s Mill Creek campus. She will be competing in the ACSI National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. on April 30.
Hi-Q championship round is Tuesday
The area’s top Hi-Q teams meet Tuesday, March 8, for the championship round. Top seed Monroe High School will host Lake Stevens and Henry M. Jackson. The public is welcome to watch. The match starts at 9:20 a.m. Visitors should check in at the main office and might want to call ahead to ensure space is available. MHS is at 17001 Tester Road.
Hi-Q matches started in January with nine Snohomish County high school teams. In the “Jeopardy”-like competition, teams field questions from 13 categories, from art history and Shakespeare to physics and mathematics. Their peers cheer them on in all-school assemblies.
Whoever wins Tuesday’s championship round will go on to a national championship April 13.
Monroe teen a winner in space art contest
Sky Valley Education Center senior Haley Amenn earned third place in the annual Space Foundation International Student Art Contest, winning in the age 17-18 category for her piece titled “Spaceman Tom,” which she drew separately by hand and then compiled in Photoshop. The piece is of an astronaut doing a spacewalk.
“His spacesuit is designed after the one that Ed White wore during his spacewalk,” Amenn said. White was the first American to “walk” in space in 1965.
Amenn was one of 25 winners from among more than 3,883 global entries representing 40 countries, including 38 U.S. states. She plans to study at Gage Academy of Art this fall, then transfer to college in pursuit of a career in art direction.
Prodigies for Peace winners
The Snohomish County NAACP announced the winners of its 2016 Martin Luther King Prodigies for Peace Essay and Art Contest.
Essay winners were Gwenavere Bundy of Whittier Elementary and Abigail Ellis of Mill Creek Elementary for the grades 3-5 division. Emelia Persell of Park Place Middle School won for grades 6-8. Sofia Ayala of Kamiak won in the high school division.
Second- and third-place winners were Cameron Wing, Erick Baranchuk, Henry Nguyen, Kaysha Ekaputra, Maimuna Sisawo, Natasha White and Jacob Sawyer.
Art winners were Vivian Chen of Mill Creek Elementary, Fatou Manneh of Eisenhower Middle, and Cindy Xu of Kamiak High School.
Second- and third-place winners were Brooklyn Doughty, Gwen Bundy, Taryn Gordan, Ashley Morrison, Fatou Manneh and Abigail Madsen.
Rotary honors students
The Stanwood-Camano Island Rotary recently named its Students of the Quarter: Emma Bartlett and Shintaro Wilcox from Stanwood Middle School; Belle Rose and Conner Jacobsen from Stanwood Elementary School; and Orin Osburn and Ana Marriott from Utsalady Elementary School.
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