Schools Applause

Scholastic Art Award winners: The Arts Council of Snohomish County recently presented its Scholastic Art Awards of 2007. A ceremony is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Feb. 5 at the Historic Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave. Art will also be on display 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Feb. 6-8 and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 9. Snohomish County winners are:

American Vision Best of Show Recipients

Cascade High School: Jeffrey Anzures

Harbour Pointe Middle School: Shelly Shin

Marysville-Pilchuck High School: Erika Blankenship, Brittany Steinbacher, Jarin Troxel

Gold Key Recipients

Alderwood Middle School: Christopher Hubbard, Nikki Lopez

Cascade High School: Jeffrey Anzures (3), Alyssa Casillas, William Cavner, Jorden Degaetano, Elvira Lukinova, Matt McCorkle, Isabelle Moczygemba, Brian Moore, Kaitlin Morgan, Ilona Palamarchuk, Kasia Rozanski (2)

Everett High School: Anna Bly, Katy Onyszko

Explorer Middle School: Tram Nguyen

Gateway Middle School: Ryan Means

Harbour Pointe Middle School: Stewart Long, Amanda Ong

Henry M. Jackson High School: Nicole Debevec, Rebecca Leffel, Garett Ochs, Priti Patel, Emily Young

Kamiak High School: Sharon Cho, Annalise Fowler, Michelle Gengnagel, Min Jung Ryu, Shelly Shin

Lake Stevens High School: Stephanie Fulsom

Mariner High School: Mateo Guevara

Marysville-Pilchuck High School: Ben Hager, Renae Hubbard (2), Sunita Kaur

Port Susan Middle School: Whitney Hensel, Savannah Westfall

Snohomish High School: Grant Bennett, Kayla Carbary, Stefan Cummings, Liz Faussett, Amanda Grage (3), Brent Hayes, Brooke Jensen, Maddie Lacy, Micah Lee, Valerie Massie, Kristina Palmateer, Josiah Skalsky

Stanwood High School: Rachel Bradford, Missy Brinks, Tara Bryant, Heather Carlson (2), K.C. Cleek, Allison Curtis, Tara Fagan, Reanne Lee, Colleen Meas (2), Noah Simshauser

The Ranch Center for Arts &Craft: Samantha Lewis (2), Chelsea Thompson

Valley View Middle School: Victoria Davenport, Emma Scoringe

Voyager Middle School: April Cornelson, Lacy Finerty, Holly Nelson-Allen, Brendon Seaver

Silver Key Recipients

Alderwood Middle School: Sarah Moravec

Arlington High School: Angela Carey, Brandi Desautel, Liya Peskovaya, Yuliya Tsymbalyuk, Nicholas Wittrock

Cascade High School: Jeffrey Anzures (2), Alina Danci, Lydia Fasske, Paul Fast, Karoline Hall, Melby Hampton, Collin Hanks, Jessica Leighton (2), Kaitlin Morgan, Abigail Nastan, Meghan Rasmussen, Ludmila Vdodik, Janelle White, Lia Woolf

Eisenhower Middle School: Jessica Wilkinson

Everett High School: Emily Elliott, Geoff French, Johnny Kuehn, Katy Onyszko

Explorer Middle School: Tram Nguyen, Sorren Richards

Harbour Pointe Middle School: Jenna Lee, Amanda Ong

Henry M. Jackson High School: Nathan Calacat, Joshua Gillis, Tiffany Litz, Emily Young

Kamiak High School: Viktoriya Alexsandruk, Raquel Calson, Bailey Jones, Da-won Kim (2), Shawna Myers, Jill Smith, Brittany Wilde (2), Lily Wong

Lake Stevens High School: Stephanie Fulsom

Marysville Arts &Technology High School: Shawn Bjorback, Alexandra McDonald

Marysville-Pilchuck High School: Jake Berg, Laura Cariaso (2), Thomas Furry, Sarah Goldizen (2), Bethany Hayes, Terin Holland, Erica Hylback, Mariya Kochubey (2), Crystal Mollett, Kristin Ripley, Krissa Robinson, Brody Stewart, Sarah Tomas

Monroe High School: Mikailah Clayton, Phoebe Garcia, Clayton Morehouse, Kingsley Morse, Payton Newell, Robert Wells (2), Justin York

Port Susan Middle School: Clayton Jacks, Danika Mogensen, Sami Taylor

Snohomish High School: Brenna Anderst, Kayla Carbary, Mara Dillinger, Alicia Fliger (2), Elizabeth Karvonen, Sean McCulloch, Mia McCurdy, Kristina Palmateer, Annie Stoller Patterson, Will Thomsen, Ashleen Williams

Stanwood High School: Nicki Bear, Heather Carlson, K.C. Cleek, Myken Dahlen, Sydney Fisher, Danielle Fullwiler, Gabe Herigstad (2), Kaitlin Hettinger, Chelsy Hugo (3), Sarahann Jackson, Tamara Jansen, Emily Marriott (2), James McGraw, Margo Nelson, Daniel Reed, Rianan Sansaver, Amber Sutton, Tiffeny Visten (2)

Stanwood Middle School: Morganne Lagarde, Taylor Morris, Amy Ross

Stillagaumish Valley School: James Johnson

The Ranch Center for Arts &Craft: Moriah Biggs, Samantha Lewis, Ben Milne, Elizabeth Shiner, Zachary Skolrud, Hillary Skolrud

Voyager Middle School: April Cornelson, Max Kirkach, Michael Mujadin, Katherine Nguyen, Liliya Verlan

Dean’s List: Students on college and university Dean’s Lists include:

Deborah Zylstra, Arlington, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.

Cadet Daniel Joseph Walters, Snohomish, The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C.

Jason Flamiatos, Lynnwood, and Katherine Brown, Gold Bar, University of Portland, Portland, Ore.

President’s List: Students on President’s Lists at colleges or universities include:

Erin Clarkson, Mukilteo, is on the President’s List at Cottey College in Nevada, Mo.

Shannon McCall, Mukilteo, Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa.

Scholarships: Students who recently received scholarships include:

Courtney Frankhouser, Everett, received a $500 Strings Scholarship from Western Washington University, Bellingham.

Daylene Mills, Granite Falls, $500 President’s Scholarship, Western Washington University, Bellingham.

Audubon awards teachers: The Pilchuck Audubon Society has awarded eight teachers from five elementary schools in Snohomish County its Classroom Conservation Award. The award comes with $250 to pay for materials or activities related to their classroom projects. The winners and their projects:

Matthew Chaplick, Cedarhome Elementary School, Stanwood: Fifth-graders will plant shrubs and trees along streams in order to preserve salmon habitat, sample and classify microinvertebrates in the stream to determine the health of the stream, and plant eggs they have harvested and fertilized into local creeks.

Anne Hayward, Frank Wagner Elementary School, Monroe: Money will pay for nonfiction books about owls. Second-graders also will study owl pellets to see what owls eat and where they find their food.

Wanda Hill, Penny Creek Elementary School, Everett: Fourth-graders will create a kid-friendly movie to educate the student body about what is OK to recycle and what is not.

Kristina Kee, Penny Creek Elementary School, Everett: Fifth-graders will head out of the classroom to learn about intertidal life, tide pools, beach erosion, marine organisms and beach etiquette.

Amy Kelley, Cedarhome Elementary School, Stanwood: Fifth-graders will work at a fish hatchery, later planting the salmon eggs, working to see the salmon hatch and then keeping them alive.

Janice Northrup, Penny Creek Elementary School, Everett: Fourth- and fifth-graders will research and study the native plants found by the Lewis and Clark expedition. The students will create a courtyard display of these native plants including their significance to the community today.

Megan Ovenell, Stanwood Elementary School: Fifth-graders will study plant growth, including the important role of vegetation in maintaining adequate riparian zones.

David Richardson, Seattle Hill Elementary School, Everett: Money will pay for 50 pounds of sterilized gravel, water conditioning chemicals and test kits for monitoring salmon reared by his sixth-graders in the library.

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