G. Falls students receive music honors
Several students in the Granite Falls School District were recently selected to perform in the Washington All-State choir and band in February in Yakima.
High school seniors Chelsea Zybach and Caroline Todd and sophomore Catie Schusted were named to the Washington Music Educators Association All-State High School Honor Choir. Zybach and Schusted will perform in the treble choir and Todd in the symphonic choir.
Senior Emilie Barker was selected to the association’s All-State High School Honor Band.
Seventh-grader Breanna McClimans will perform in the All-State Junior Honor Choir. Seventh-grader Chris Cervarich has been selected to the Junior All-State Honor Band.
Sixth-grade student Jessica Kloes and fifth-grade students McKenna Stewart, Drew Benzion, Emma Van Tassell, Melissa Lee, Jessica Bechtholdt and Makenna Carter were chosen to perform in the All-State Youth Honor Choir.
Other students selected for music honors include: fifth-graders McKenna Stewart, Emma Van Tassell and Jessica Bechtholdt; sixth-graders Chloe Downs and Ethan Perriogue; and seventh-graders Kendall Stewart and Breanna McClimans. These students were selected to participate in the Northwest American Choral Director’s Association Choir in March in Seattle.
Eighth-graders Beau Byron, Erin Fitzgerald, Shelby Hawkins, Josh Snel and Alina Younger were selected to perform at the Mount Pilchuck Music Educator’s Association regional Honor Band at the Everett Civic Auditorium in January.
All students were selected based on an audition process. The Washington Music Educators All-State choirs and bands have had well-known Washingtonians participate as students including Granite Falls School District’s 2007 National Teacher of the Year, Andrea Peterson, and jazz saxophonist Kenny G.
Arlington resident a NASA intern
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student Natalie Spencer is currently an intern at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, with the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program. She is working in the Materials and Processing Branch.
“I’m very excited to begin lab work where I can apply knowledge gained from college experiences in solid mechanics, the chemistry lab, the machine shop lab and the ERAU Space Physics Research Lab,” Spencer said.
USRP interns are assigned a NASA research and development project aligned with their NASA mentor’s core research focus area. Spencer’s USRP project involves the testing and justifying of the structural mechanics of NASA’s next generation spacecraft.
She is a junior from Arlington. Spencer expects to graduate in May 2011 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Students honored by Rotary Club
The Rotary Club of Snohomish hosted a breakfast Nov. 12 to honor Snohomish School District students from the middle and high schools as Students of the First Quarter of the 2009-2010 school year.
These students are:
Tessa McIntyre, seventh grade, and Ben Richter, eighth grade, from Centennial Middle School; Victoria Goudreau, seventh grade, and Conor Baer, eighth grade, from Valley View Middle School; Amy-Eloise Neale, ninth grade, Catherine Evangelista, 10th grade, Mary Leahy, 11th grade and Ryan Kautz, 12th grade, from Glacier Peak High School; and Morgan Green, ninth grade, Harley Applin, 10th grade, Michael Watson, 11th grade, and Fidely Navarro, 12th grade, from Snohomish High School.
Kamiak student wins library art contest
For the second year, Kamiak student Jenna Lee is one of the four winners of the Sno-Isle Libraries’ teen art contest. Lee’s work illustrating the Teen Read Month theme of “Read Beyond Reality” will be featured on a poster in every Sno-Isle Library.
She was awarded copies of her poster and an Amazon.com gift certificate on Nov. 17 at the Mukilteo Library, 4675 Harbour Pointe Blvd. in Mukilteo.
Amy Daybert: 425-339-3491, adaybert@heraldnet.com.
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