Sign up for or donate to Back to School event
The Back to School Consortium has planned its annual Back To School Event for Aug. 25 at Ridgecrest Elementary.
The event provides school supplies, haircuts, and clothing assistance for families in the Shoreline School District who are living with a low income and/or experiencing circumstances that make it hard to prepare a child for return to school.
Register for the event by calling the Shoreline Family Support Center at 206-362-7282, ext. 223.
The project needs donations of school supplies for children, including backpacks, glue sticks, colored pencils, blunt scissors, wide tip markers, bottled glue, 24-pack crayons, rulers, pocket folders, composition notebooks, three-ring binders, toothpaste, notebook dividers, permanent markers, red, blue and black pens, shampoo and conditioner, calculators, deodorant, notebook paper, spiral notebooks, new socks and underwear of all sizes, new or gently used books for all ages and more. Money donations also are needed.
All donations are tax deductible and can be dropped off at Center for Human Services, 17018 15th Ave. NE, Shoreline. Make checks out to the Center for Human Services and put “Back to School” in the memo line of the check.
Call 206-362-7282, ext. 271, for information.
Briarcrest students win Math Olympiad Award
A team of nine Briarcrest sixth-graders and one fifth-grader has been named to the International Mathematical Olympiads 2006–07 Honor Roll, earning the Highest Team Achievement Award. Briarcrest was one of three Shoreline elementary school teams to earn the award and was the only group to come from a school with a general education program instead of from a highly capable classroom.
Briarcrest students competed with more than 3,300 teams worldwide in a series of five monthly tests. The sum of the 10 highest individual scores placed the Briarcrest team in the top 10 percentile of all teams.
Briarcrest team members are Brian Fortney, Russel Groves, Alex Chang, Lydia Vanderburg, Francesca Gines, Elissa Sutlief, Kristin Gunderson, Meera Limaye, Lauren Pyper, Daniel Kiga and Sahand Milaninia. Sutlief, Chang, Fortney and Vanderburg also scored in the top 2 percent of all students participating.
Briarcrest teacher Susan Dettinger, who retired this year, revived the long-dormant Math Olympiad program at the school in 2003.
SCC offers SummerCollege
SummerCollege is a week-long educational sampler for adults at Shoreline Community College. The college and University of Washington instructors and retired faculty, an anthropologist and ordained rabbi, and several business people share their expertise on subjects in classes such as International Relations, Introduction to Northwest Coast Native Art, Media Bias, Develop and Use Your Sense of Humor, Meditation and more.
Classes will be from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 20-24 at the college at 16101 Greenwood Avenue North in Shoreline. The cost for three classes is $65; $75 for four.
Call 206-533-6700 to register or see www.shoreline.edu/ce.
Shorewood students win award for film
Will Chan and Tim Tan from Shorewood High School won the senior outstanding state award and finished fourth in the nation in the documentary category at the National History Day Contest finals in College Park, Md.
Their documentary on China’ s one-child policy had earlier been awarded second place in the Washington State History contest.
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