Gloria Heier Named KingCo 3A Assistant Principal of Year
Congratulations to Gloria Heier, from Juanita High School (JHS), who has been named the KingCo 3A Assistant Principal of the Year. Gloria was specifically acknowledged for her work in promoting sportsmanship and for her commitment to the role of academics within athletics.
AP Studio Art Students Accepted into Northwest Exhibition
The following AP Studio Art students from Lake Washington High School (LWHS) have had their work accepted into the High School Art Northwest exhibition 2009. For most of them, this will be their first gallery exhibition. This is the first time LWHS has had so many students accepted to this show. The competition was open to all high school students enrolled in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The exhibition opens on February 5, 2009 at George Fox University in Newberg, Ore., and is open until February 24, 2009.
- Lyndsey Burke – Flightless Bird, digital
- Portia Hartwick – Fish
- Chelsea Kern – Green Face, oil pastel
- Natalie Kubu – Self portrait leaving, oil pastel
- Anita Logwood – Street Musing, oil pastel
- Zoe Vartanian – The Other Side, oil pastel
Eastside Audubon Environmentalist of the Year Award
The Eastside Audubon Society presented the Environmentalist of the Year award to the five founding members of the Environmental and Adventure School, a junior high in the Lake Washington School District. Located at Finn Hill Junior High, the school serves sixth through ninth grade students. The focus of the school is: a richly integrated curriculum focusing on relevant life themes; projects that focus on environmental science; programs that engage students in community stewardship and outdoor education; projects that involve research, writing, use of technology and oral presentations.
Eileen McMackin, John Hamilton, Brian Healy, Wayne Tannhauser and Marcus Rose founded the school in 1999. The board members of Eastside Audubon chose them for the award based on their dedication to providing their students with a challenging environment in which to grow academically, socially and as active citizens in the community and stewards of the environment.
Wilder Sixth Graders Hold “Breakfast Buddies” Cereal Drive
The sixth graders at Wilder Elementary School are in the middle of a cereal drive they are calling "Breakfast Buddies" for the Redmond branch of Friends of Youth. It is the goal of this project to collect at least 500 boxes of cereal. The whole school is involved and the cereal is piling up. Knowing that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, these sixth graders are pushing hard to exceed their goal and provide breakfast for hundreds of children. The collections will continue through January 28.
Lake Washington High School Student Honored at MLK Event
Habib Behjatnia, a senior at Lake Washington High School was one of four student nominees to receive the Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Peace Award at the Seattle Center Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration. A focal point of the Celebration, the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Award, was presented to several youth or youth organizations in the Puget Sound region that have energized and carried on the dream and ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by promoting peace, community leadership, justice and civil rights for all citizens.
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