State Scholar: Snohomish High School senior Bryanna Plog has been named a Washington Scholar by the Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board. She will be honored at a legislative luncheon in Olympia May 10.

CDC picks science teacher: Snohomish High School science teacher Tami Caraballo has been selected to be a science ambassador for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Caraballo was selected from numerous applicants from across the country.

Aspiring writer: Snohomish High School junior Caitlin Parker-Arnett has been accepted to the competitive writing program, the Kenyon Review Young Writers’ Workshop, which also is fully covering the $2,100 fee for the two-week program.

Teacher elected: Totem Falls Elementary School teacher Su Hickenbottom was elected the elementary school representative on the Board of the National Council for Social Studies.

Nice save: Two Machias Elementary School students were honored for a “save” by the Risk Watch program. Third-grader Grayson Pope and fourth-grader Khoa Nguyen were honored by Lake Stevens Fire Marshal Robert Marshall with certificates and logo wrist watches for reporting a gun they found on their playground in September.

Problem solvers: Snohomish students recently returned from the Future Problem Solvers state tournament in Warm Beach. The international competition will be held June 1-4 in Fort Collins, Colo. The following Snohomish students placed in the top third at state: Seattle Hill Elementary School: First place in junior division, qualified for internationals. Team members were Tori Davenport, Cara Prange, Alison Gertler and India Smith. Emerson Elementary School: Drake Remlinger placed first in individuals, junior division, qualified for internationals. Dutch Hill Elementary School: Second place in junior division. Team members were Lauren Johnson, McGill Chisholm, Nathan Proffit and Shelby Mills. Valley View Middle School: Allie Ingalls placed first in individuals and qualified for internationals.

Kudos: Archbishop Murphy High School students raised $6,400 for Catholic Relief Services as part of their annual Operation Rice Bowl fundraiser leading up to Easter.

Fritsch honors: Archbishop Murphy High School student Ben Fritsch was selected to receive the Mayor’s Youth Achievement Award. Fritsch also has been offered admission to the University of Notre Dame, a first in his school’s history.

Bee-autiful: David Poortinga, an eighth-grader at Everett Christian School, finished seventh out of 100 students in the 2006 Washington National Geographic Bee.

Great gymnast: Anna Epps, a student at Archbishop Murphy High School, recently competed in Boise, Idaho, at the Junior Olympic Regional Championships, which includes all the gymnasts who qualify to compete in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii. Anna finished sixth in the all-around and second on the balance beam. Anna qualified for the regional team and will be competing at the USA Gymnastics Junior Olympic National Championships in Oklahoma City, Okla., at the end of April. She will compete against the best level 10 gymnasts in the nation.

PUD award winners: The Snohomish County PUD recognized 16 local students in its 2006 essay and art competitions, which tested students’ understanding of water and electricity issues.

Winners of the “Real World Problems” essay contest were: Matt Wood, 10th grade, Marysville-Pilchuck High School; Roger Ledbetter, 10th grade, Stillaguamish Valley High School in Arlington; Lindsey Kehoe, 10th grade, Arlington High School; Britney Collver, 10th grade, Arlington High School.

Winners of the art competition were: Benjamin Hamlin, first grade, Bothell homeschooler; Laila Vik, third grade, Penny Creek Elementary School (Everett); Desmond Thorpe, third grade, English Crossing Elementary School (Stanwood); Destiny Mae Peden, fourth grade, Darrington Elementary School; Emily Roetcisoender, fourth grade, Bothell homeschooler; Nolan Ernotte, fifth grade, Fairmount Elementary School (Mukilteo); Nikolas Lambert, fifth grade, Fairmount Elementary School (Mukilteo); Quinlan Sweeney, fifth grade, Crystal Springs Elementary School (Bothell); Eric Coleman, sixth grade, Stanwood homeschooler; Chelsey Hugo, 11th grade, Stanwood High School; Brody Lund, 11th grade, Stanwood High School; Jayna Olson, 12th grade, Stanwood High School

UW Dean’s List: Students on the winter quarter dean’s list at the University of Washington in Seattle include:

Arlington: Allison Acker, Laura Dryden Baird, Nicholas Boyce, Andrew Bry, Matthew Bry, Jessica Chase, Holly J. Gemmer, Kristina Yang Hanson, Sarah Holt, Nigel Kilmer, Kayla Lowber, Ashlee Malkuch, Nga Thi Nguyen, Shannon O’Hara, Joshua Van Dyk.

Bothell: Jesse Anarde, Debra Anderson, Kellen Andrilenas, Katie Andrus, Danielle Arango, Annajo Badgley, Genevieve Baker, Mina Barahimi, Mitra Barahimi, Michelle Bartlett, Colin Bayer, Sara Bear, Brittany Beck, Heather Bellin, Alicia Benish, Kalisa Beyer, Megan Bjorklund, Adrian Bonar, Kristin Bott, Courtney Briones, Erica Brooke, Christina Bruner, Courtney Burnett, Amy Chang, Donald Chen, Aaron Clarke, Lyndsay Crowley, Chris Cunningham, Erika Davis, Katherine Davis, Steven Demlow, Casey Jonathan Dilloway, Hallie Dilloway, Jennifer Dines, Nicholas Dorsey, Nicole Eggers, Leslie Engel, Jie Feng, Elizabeth Fenton, Sara Fergusson, Erica Fermon, Gregory Fix, Haley Franzwa, Heather French, Adelle George, Rishelle Gifford, Stefan Gillette, Eric Gilman, Lars Gilmour, Brad Goring, Eric Gratz, Jennifer Carter Gray, Phillip Guan, Ashley Harris, Brandon Hawkins, Kimberly Helenius, Courtney Helton, Sara Hidano-Cardinelli, Ryne Hill, Steven Hirano, Madelynn Hoard, Darren Hopcroft, Christopher Iremonger, Nathan Jelovich, Jordan Kearns, Jeremiah Keller, Jonathan Keller, Melanie Kerens, Terra Key, Trevor Kilgannon, Andrew Kloess, John Kochendorfer, Ulyana Kosenkova, Michael Kreuch, Tara Kuhnhenn, Shauna Lacey, Brent Landon, James Lang, Matthew Lang, Carrie Larson, Michelle Lavasseur, Nicole Leviton, David Linders, Margaret Louden, Peter Lutovsky, Debbie Luttman, Timothy Mainwaring, Jacqueline Malekirad, Jeffrey Marcoux, Kaleena Martin, Andrew Mattern, Ryan McRobert, Colin Mercer, Darren Meucci, David Miller, Grzegorz Mintus, Kaley Mitchell, Orsolya Nance, Aaron Newhouse, Jessica Ng, Nancy Nguyen, Jessica Norouzi, Gwendolyn Oakland, Jason Overland, David Pearce, Emily Phillips, Anthony Porter, Misty Queen, Melanie Querimit, Brendan Ribera, Haley Rippeteau, Natasha Robinett, Richard Rosenkilde Jr., Allison Ryan, Maggie Ryan, Sterling Sakima, Daisuke Sakuma, Ian Savage, Megan Schade, Robert Schlegel, Patience Shelhorn, Ashley Sherwood, Kathryn Shipe, Kathleen Short, Tejinderpal Singh, Mikhail Smirnov, Angelina Smith, Jason Smith, Jung Son, Kajsa Sorensen, Thomas Starostka, Meesha Stenson, Paul Stewart, Katie Sullivan, Rachel Taber, Jessica Tay, Katherine Taylor, Igor Tikhonov, Joshua Tom, Jennifer Trieu, Angela Vincent, Alexander Vitruk, Lauren Wainhouse, David Ward Jr., Michelle Webster, Andrew Weiss, Sarah Wienckoski, Wilson Wong, Garrett Wu, Whitney Wu, Alexander Yee, Philip Zhang, Yueheng Zheng, Jessica Zvaleuskas.

Brier: Kallie Ferguson, Jennifer Gillis, Matthew Hornecker, Jessa Im Kerston, Arielle Koreyasu, Jennifer Marckx, Ryan Nilsen, Jordan Peters, Catherine Caverly Silva, Angela Staiger, Jacob Swanson, Samuel Van Dalfsen, Laura Young.

Camano Island: Nicole Britain, Suzanna Hare, Lindsay Noel, Molly Sisson, Erika Storbeck.

Coupeville: Sarah Bernhardt, Tabitha Roemish.

Edmonds: Soraya Aalami, Autumn Allen, Nicholas Allen, Alicia Andree, Elana Angle, Elizabeth Askander, Jeffrey Barger, Bjorn Begelman, Jed Bickford, Sally Birt, Michelle Blair, Nicholas Boos, Michael Brinton, Sung Bin Cho, Soo Jin Chun, Kerri Wing-Hun Chung, Morgan Clary, Betul Coban, Katharine Cooperstein, Arcadia Corbett, Erick Cornejo, Ryan Debell, Ivayla Dermendjieva, Marianne Dizard, Andrea Dolacky, Rebecca Drapkin, Alecia Dudgeon, Scott Dudgeon, Shaina Ebel, Devin Ellis, Jeffrey Epler, Jennie Erikson, Kevin Forrest, Craig Franklin, Rachel Gallaher, Wendy Guo, Chelsea Hamby, Kelsey Hamilton, Michael Hardesty, Kelly Harris, Maura Harrison, Stephen Holmes, Scott Jacobson, Patrick Javid, Paul Javid, Philip Johnsey, Isabel Jones, Jessica Kam, Sergey Karayev, Elyse Kingdon, Anna Koch, Chelsea Kopta, Whitney Langendorfer, Jung Lee, Rebecca Lee, Matthew Lofthus, Kyle Mallery, Kelly Manger, Laura Martin, Paul Martin, Sarah McCormick, Jael Santos Mejia, Sierra Michels-Slettvet, Alicia Miller, Deborah Miller, Nima Moghaddam, Jennifer Moon, Byron Nesvog, Lindsey Oftedahl, Matthew Olson, Marissa Olsson, Alexander Paul, Ryan Penrod, Damian Phelps, Philip Pirwitz, Jeffrey Poole, Matthew Purvis, Lorenzo Quartero-Thompson, Preethi Raghu, Shanthi Raghu, Richard Rano Jr., Tiffany Rattray, Lora Reed, Ryan Ricchiuti, Aya Rojnuckarin, Alise Rueckert, Charles Schaefer, Erika Schaefer, Paris Schmidt, Andrea Schrock, Jonathan Schwedhelm, David Schwegler, Larry Shoenberger, Kylee Shreve, Wing Yee Wyney So, Pnina Strasbourger, Tanya Subcleff, Jennifer Swerk, William Teal, John Teske, Matthew Titus, Megan Treadgold, Ingrid Van Swearingen, Kirsten Varg, Daniel Velloth, Lenora Vlasic, Aaron Voros, Holly Watanabe, Neil Welch.

Everett: Brian Allen, Brandon Ballinger, Nicole Barhanovich, Charlotte Barilleaux, Victoria Barq, Steffany Hirte Bell, Amy Boe, Brian Boehm, Jarred Bohn, Craig Bosman, Blythe Brockway, Samantha Seon Ah Bushaw, Taylor Cain, Angeline Candido, Desiree Carlisle, Jennifer Carpenter, Andrew Carson, Kelly Carson, Amber Cawley, Bryan Ching, Andrew Chon, Matthew Clifton, Barbara Cunningham, Katharine Dale, Nicole Danson, Stefan De Luca, Francesco Deleo, Angela Dokken, Lauren Dunnuck, Steven Durst Jr., Krissel Ebro, Erik Einwalter, Danielle Elliott, Diana Eng, Krystal Esquillo, Carl Everett, Nikia Katherine Fenlin, Ryan Feskens, Kelsey Fields, Angela Fuller, Neil Gould, Brittany Grgich, Nicole Harley, Megan Harrington, Samantha Haskell, Loc Hoang, Allison Husby, Niki Karganilla Iglesias, Riana Evalle Ignacio, Carly Ingalls, Irinel Istrate, Kamil Jachec, Adam Jackson, Chad Jerde, Courtney Jones, Leena Joshi, Bryan Kaleiwahea, Ernest Kandilige, Briana Kaniak, Yukimune Kawamatsu, Michelle Kermoade, Melissa Kessell, Clay Kincaid, Shawn Kitchin, Erica Klang, Michelle Krater, Shawna Lamoree, Bradley Larson, Thao Le, Angela Li, Andrea Maxwell, Scot McBride, Thomas McDonald, Toby McKes, Joshua Melum, Desiree’ Miller, Jason Murray, Tharinduni Nanayakkara, Ho Ngai, Minhphat Nguyen, Alec Nielsen, Ruby Palanca, Leslie Paramore, Christina Pederson, Steven Peterson, Paul Poechlauer, Phillip Prasek II, Ross Rachey, Euneka Robinson-McCutchen, Alyssa Santos, Patrick Schaefer, Michael Schmitz, Bryan Schultz, Justin Shaw, Iris Silverman, Andrew Smollin, Casey Snyder, Brennan Stanfield, Robert Stone, Jamie Storm, Alexander Sutherland, Kyle Talley, Adam Taylor, Henning Thiel, Fatih Thompson, Troy Thompson, Rachelle Tody, Minh Tran, Thuy Tran, Loc Trinh, Patty Vatter, Derrick Vi, Andrew Viray, Dayne Wagner, Regina Wandler, Caitlin Warnock, Charles Weiler, Kristofer Weisshaupt, Samantha Wong, Jessica Wright, Sara Zin.

Gold Bar: Rebekah Henriksen.

Lake Stevens: Collin Anderson, Richard Bargreen, Alison Caton, Christopher Evans, Dylan Farmer, Tim Farmer, Peter Greene, Erik Haley, Justin Hammond, Jonathan Hiller, Megan Jones, Daniel Kruse, Dallas Maag, Shantel Martinez, Patrick McCarty, Sara Owens, Juan Pinzon, Chad Rider, Brian Rolczynski, Amy Rose, Shelby Sargent, Kira Schreiber, Justine Marie Sherry, Mikaela Shotwell, Tasha Thomas, Michelle Tri, Karl Typolt, Gregory Varnum, Nikolas Williams.

Langley: Dorothy Arnold, Lucy Burnett, Greta Greve, Kiyoshi Jones, William Schneeman, Karen Schwager, Henley Slepyan.

Lynnwood: Lisa Akiyama, Tomasz Biesiadzinski, Travis Boyd, Zachary Case, Donald Chan, Aaron Cherney, Jean Chua, Tyler Cleveland, Francisco Morales, Rommel Degracia, Diseree Dimabuyo, Cristopher Dwan, Dana Castillo Francisco, Brian Fraser, Alevtina Gall, Kimberly Gard, Corina Graebner, Laura Grupp, Millicent Haase, Taylor Hain, Lisa Hanchinamani, Christopher Higgins, Erin Higgins, Sally Ho, Brian Hodder, Brian Hoffman, Lindsay Holcomb, Shane Horan, Maria Huang, Thomas Hudson, Joseph Ibarra, Janell Ibsen, Katy Jacobson, Alyson Jones, Cassandra Jung, Do Kim, Dorothy Kim, Gina Kim, Grace Kim, Ji Kim, Juha Kim, Rosalind Kitikiatisak, Erin Klein, Robyn Laing, Anita Lam, Timothy Larson, Ngoc Le, Seung Lee, Victoria Lee, Jasmine Lim, Chelsea Logan, Michelle Lomeli, Gracielle Loree, Tom Luangamath, Patrick Mar, Tetsuya McCuddin, Leah Mendoza, Mollie Moore, David Morgan, Andrew Mundt, Alefa Mwenda, Kathleen Nguyen, Thach Nguyen, Whitney Owens, Ann Park, Juil Park, Tracey Peterson, Christine Plourde, Brandon Proctor, Jason Radabaugh, Kathleen Rapanan, Marcus Roque, Jordan Rudd, Philippe Sekine, Kristina Smith, Andrew Southworth, Kali Stanger, Ying Su, Andree Susanto, Joel Tait, Jeffrey Taylor, Clifford Thompson, Minh Tran, Usama Usmani, Amy Williamson, Artem Yaschenko, Rossana Yiu.

Marysville: Santiago Abadam II, Allen Almachar, Brian Anderson, Caitlin Andrews, Joseph Benedict, Ryan Buckner, Matthew Conley, Carly Conway, Adam Gwaltney, Jill Houghton, Caitlin Kelley, Sara King, Wesley Klein, John Mansfield, Morgen Nilsson, Brianna Nishikawa, Aimee Racine, David Rousu, William Ruiz, Jordan Taitingfong, Stacey Taplin, Jane Whang.

Mill Creek: Janelle Arenz, Stephanie Atkins, Richard Austin, Daniel Boirum, Jeremy Chan, Charles Coultas, Thu Cung, Robert Deweese, Judy Gribble, Jacquelyn Hansen, Riimu Hoshino, Kali Jensen, Alex Kim, Philip Kim, Ashley Loncon, Cameron Myers, Victor Oleinikov, Christy Park, Edward Park, Teresa Peterson, Courtney Plitt, Cammy Ponn, Justin Ricaurte, Ryan See, Jang Sohn, Mary Sparks, Steven Stein, William Stone, Kaori Tabei, Alfonso Tan, Sarah Thomas, Deanna White, Jessica Witkowski, Yingchang Zhang.

Monroe: Lewis Blackstone, Scott Clifford, Jessica Donahoe, John Erickson, Deanna Godsey, Lara Gragert, Todd Huotari, Gregory Matyas, Conan McLemore, Rachel Petersen, Alina Pimenov, Benjamin Reed, Richard Van De Plasch, Jason Zuehlsdorf.

Mukilteo: Christina Barzare, Eric Berglund, Kristina Bezold, Seth Birnbaum, Emily Borgatta, Adrienne Branca, Matthew Chambers, James Chin, Ashley Engelbert, Kelley Face, Molly Fitzpatrick, Jennette Folta, Matthew Forman, Carina Fung, Matthew Gacek, Sayeh Ghassemieh, Kevin Grimes, Scott Haight, Olivia Kane, Mahsa Jahromi, Sakurako Kato, Sally Kilbourne, Patricia Kim, Stephanie Kim, Erica Lilleness, Rebecca Mark, Tyler Mortensen, Teryl Neil, Phi Nguyen, Daniel Nishimura, Darren Nordlie, Daniel Park, Gina Park, Aldis Raisters, Karis Reimer, Joseph Rieke, Nicholas Romo, Matthew Rutherford, Jenna Shin, Emilia Sidorska, Lindsey Simpson, Krystin Tate.

Oak Harbor: Irene Almacen, Nicole Amezquita, Maria Gonzalez Garcia, Wendi Harmon, Janiece Jenkins, Sarah Krieg, David Manni, Sarah McComb, Regina Ramirez, Andrew Smith, Jude-Teddy Villamarin, Elena Wagner.

Snohomish: Melissa Aar, Elinor Abercrombie, Brenda Anderson, Corinne Anderson, David Baker, Charles Bannick, Mathew Bernardy, Nicole Berntson, Jayson Bowen, Alisse Cassell, Kaitlin Cherf, Stephany Cirillo, Kevin Crossman, Catherine Davis, Joseph Dobish, Emily Dunster, Rachel Freeman, Joseph Gamm, Nicole Groves, Gabriela Guncay, Kate Haagen, Robin Haguewood, Brianne Hair, Jeffry Harrison, Emily Jarchow, Ross Jewett, Aaron Jobe, Tymon Johns, Bradford Johnson, Carly Johnson, Jill Lane, Michael Larson, Shannon Lefley, Sarah Leopold, Ian Loveless, Justin Lundberg, Jolanta MacKiewicz, Jolie Maki, Jessica Manry, Michael McCrea, Adam McPeak, Jameson Mendoza, Kane Merrill, Aimee Meyer, Alyssa Morgan, Heidi Morgan, Sarah Nelson, Jeffrey Oppegard, Thomas Patten Jr., Gary Pennock Jr., Devereaux Peterson, Danielle Pratt, Trevor Pratt, Bethany Schell, Shawn Schweitzer, Kelly Serafini, Timothy Shuck, Elizabeth Somes, Summer Stack, David Tarsi, Siobhan Teahan, Elizabeth Thelen, Joseph Tonge, Sherri Tucker, Victoria Vail, Nathaniel Weddle, Andrew White, Chris White.

Stanwood: Danna Boskovich, Kyle Davis, Xinli Hu, Grace Kidd, Heather Rieck, Amanda Stach.