School Winners

Students share fire safety skills

Firefighters from the Everett Fire Department in November visited Lowell Elementary School for Fire Safety Day. Students learned about smoke detectors, fire escape plans and getting out of their homes safely in emergencies. Students went outside to the “smoke trailer” where firefighters showed them how to stay low in smoke to escape safely from a burning building.

Students then created posters to teach others what they learned about fire safety. The top three posters are now being displayed in the community.

Firefighters judged the posters for content and creativity. Third-grader Lily Brebner won first place, and fourth-graders Anisah Barrientes and Tom Hong were runners-up. Classes that saw all students bring back completed evacuation plans from home were treated to ice cream by the Everett Firefighters Association.

WMEA All-State students

Outstanding music students from across Washington have received top honors by being selected to participate in the annual Washington Music Educators Association All-State and Junior All-State bands, choirs and orchestra. Performances will take place during a gala conference, Feb. 10-14 in Yakima. Students had to audition. In all, 1,600 students were selected from more than 4,300 who auditioned.

Arlington High School: Kaliana Allen, Josh Basher, Zeke Basher, Julia Cameron

Cascade High School: Josie Allen; Ericka Anderson; Mike Klemz; Justin Moser; Brandon Nguyen; Marin Polk; Katerina Freedman; Mi-Rae Kapelak

Edmonds-Woodway High School: Benson Pennington; Kyle Gaul; Rimmy Le; Eric Schultz; Mason Fagan; Andrew Kim; Jonathan Mah; Juliana Bushnell; Helen Nguyen; Dana Wenzel

Everett High School: Elijah Bergevin; Jace Wiggins

Glacier Peak High School: Thomas Bernardi; Corban Epp; Samantha Epp; Andrew Forman; Kurt Herrmann; Danny Kim; Gabrielle Kim; Rachel Reyes; Lane Wilkinson

Granite Falls High School: John Cassel

Jackson High School: Alex Banning; Lauryn Nielsen; Monica Weber; Marguerite Ainsworth; Anna Golebiewski; Sierra Harmon; Connor Konen; Ethan Lee; Maggie McBride; Emma Sewell; Christine Shull; Manasvini Tanikella

Kamiak High School: Kristina Kim; Peter Kim; Michael Li; Andrew Shin; Yokesh Jayakumar; Kevin Pessoa; Antonio Castelli; Johnny Jeong; Angela Lee; Clark Biard

Lake Stevens High School: Kevin West

Lynnwood High School: Shintaro Taneda

Mariner High School: George Angelos; Jacob Albrecht; Jadivah Hawkins; Joshua Thompson

Marysville Pilchuck High School: Abigal Allen; Jessica Hamilton; Logan Plant; Ashley Seed

Meadowdale High School: Mikaela Jones; Jacob Volz; Michael Hagen; Brent Johnson; Fay Mitchell; Julianna Siegrist; Megan Hall

Monroe High School: Kyle Olsen; Justin Taylor; Quinn Vicars

Mountlake Terrace High School: Kaylee McGovern; Molly Taylor; Shelby Greif

Snohomish High School: Costa Angelos; Bryce Rail; Nelson Wyatt

Alderwood Middle School: Andrew Vinther

Brier Terrace Middle School: Micah Cortezzo; Nahum Cortezzo; Ian Sjoholm

Centennial Middle School: Margaret Berner; Kevin DeFord; Audrey Marrs; Elizabeth McLain

Evergreen Middle School: Davis Eubanks; Anna Wheeler; Ganna Ivanova; Charlotte Stober

Explorer Middle School: Peter Hwang; Ethan Kim; Margaret Schroeder

Gateway Middle School: Chaelin Hong; Katie Rood; Lindsay Nims; Haley Tabor

Harbour Pointe Middle School: Robyn Jin

Heatherwood Middle School: Hoon Chang; Sabrina Gim; Ethan Thong; Jesse Wham

Hidden River Middle School: Gage Nagy

Madrona School: Jared Perez

Stanwood Middle School: Valerie Nyman; Kristina Vasilchenko

Tenth Street School: Alayna Anderson; Morgan Reed

Totem Middle School: Moranda Durbin

Valley View Middle School: Laura Weaver; Galin Hebert

Marshall Elementary School: Nolan Crumrine; Hayden Harbrige

Stanwood Elementary School: Lily Carter; Hailey Clay; Daphne Deese-Carner; Hazel Johnson

Student programmers take 2nd

A team from a college-level Advanced Placement computer science class at Henry M. Jackson High School placed second in the novice category at the Puget Sound Computer Science Teachers Association’s Computer Programming Competition, held Dec. 12 at Microsoft. Teams had to code 12 programming problems in three hours. The winning team members were John Watkins, Ambika Moore and Nikolas Antoun.

Sky Valley back from Model UN

Sky Valley Education Center won an award for Best Delegation in the Small Delegation category at the Pacific Model United Nations, held Nov. 21-22 in Seattle. Students also received individual recognition: Jeremy Ash, Connor Cheney, Samantha Hastings, Matthew Martin, River O’Connor, Natalie Parry, Frances Scott-Weis and Olivia Stratton.

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