Edmonds students collect gifts for needy
Elementary students collected gifts for needy families this month. Nine families, comprising 31 people, received gifts, including two homeless families.
“The giving has been overwhelming,” said Edmonds Elementary School teacher Karen Heinekein earlier this month in a press release from the school. “I’ve only sent home two announcements of suggested items, and look around! It’s taken us 20 rolls of wrapping paper, and we’re not finished yet.”
She said students were working harder in class to spend their recess time wrapping packages, instead of finishing up their work.
“They’re giving up their recesses for the chance to help,” she said.
Next, principal David Meglathery and Heinekein were to deliver the boxes.
The school took on another charity project in November, when it brought in more than 1,300 items for the Edmonds Food Bank.
District offers talk on carpentry program
Parents and students who are now sophomores and juniors interested in the building trades can learn more about the Edmonds School District carpentry program at in information session in January.
Students will build a new home from the foundation to the roof, and next year’s classes will work on the 33rd home built by carpentry students over the years.
The session is from 6-7 p.m. Jan. 23 at the district service center, 20420 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood.
Student will spend break on service trip
Erin Kress, a student from Lynnwood, is one of 34 students and employees from George Fox University who will spend the first week of January on volunteer service trips in Oregon and Washington.
Kress is part of a 10-member team that will go to Camp Lutherwood in Bellingham, and work on projects around the retreat center.
George Fox University is an evangelical Christian university in Newberg, Ore.
Students win at robotics competition
The Energy Surfers from Edmonds Homeschool Resource Center won third place in robot performance Dec. 8 at the First LEGO League Power Puzzle Robotics State Tournament.
They earned 370 points out of 400. A team from Alderwood Middle School also competed at the state competition. There were 125 teams from across the state participating in the event.
First LEGO League (FLL) is a global robotics program that combines science and technology for students 9 to 14.
EdCC alumna’s paper is published
Edmonds Community College alumna Monica Nelson’s paper, Eating Disorders: A Sign of the Times will be published in Nota Bene, an annual anthology from Phi Theta Kappa, the International Honor Society of the Two-Year Colleges.
Nelson’s paper was one of 21 submissions selected for publication out of more than 1,000 entries. Her paper argues that a cultural disorder, rather than individual psychological disorders, bears responsibility for the high rate of eating disorders among women in the United States.
Nelson, 37, of Lynnwood, is currently studying philosophy and anthropology at the University of Washington, where she is a member of the university’s transfer student honor society. Nelson began her educational pursuit at Edmonds Community College, after the birth of her third son, intent on studying philosophy.
Her long-term goal is to earn her doctorate, study at Oxford and become a philosophy professor.
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