ACHIEVEMENTS.Byline: The Register-Guard 2 named to state Youth Advisory Team Paige Greenley, a senior at South Eugene High School South Eugene High School is a public high school located in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was founded as Eugene High School around 1900, and was located at Willamette Street and West 11th Avenue in a brick building that later served as Eugene's city hall. , and Kirsten Snyder, a senior at Cottage Grove High School Cottage Grove High School is a public high school located in Cottage Grove, Oregon. It has a newer school building, opened in 2003 to replace the old high school building that was built in 1939 and held its first classes in 1940. , were selected to serve on State Schools Superintendent Susan Castillo's Youth Advisory Team, which meets four or five times a year to discuss education issues and offer recommendations. Castillo said she formed the group to give students a voice in decisions that affect them and to provide her with student perspective to aid in her policy discussions and decisions. The group includes students from all over Oregon, and will meet next in Salem on April 4. International High boy wins film prize Noah Temple, a sophomore in the International High School program at South Eugene High School, won the best picture award at the recent IHS film competition for "Legend of the Swordsman," a homage to the genre of Hong Kong martial arts films. Student places first in geography bee Roosevelt Middle School eighth-grader Sam Brandt, a two-time winner of the Oregon Geographic Bee, won first place in the Asian Geography Bee, held last month during the 20th annual Asian Celebration at the Lane County Fairgrounds. The first-, second- and third-place runners-up were all students from Jefferson Middle School Jefferson Middle School is a middle school located in Jefferson City, Tennessee. The middle school is home to the football team the Elks, which has won more conference champs than any other middle school in Tennessee. : Keith Repsher, Erika Peterson and Tony Soto. Kiwanians pick 2 students of the month Saul Lopez and Danielle Goins, both seniors at Cottage Grove High School, were selected Students of the Month for February by the Bohemia Sunrisers Kiwanis Club. Both students are members of the National Honor Society The National Honor Society (NHS), established in 1921, is a recognition program for American high school students who show achievement in scholarship, leadership, service, and character. and are active in their schools and community. 8th-grader going to state geography bee Earvin Narvasa, an eighth-grader at Agnes Stewart Middle School Stewart Middle School' is the name of some schools in the US:
Originally established in 1856 by Oregon pioneers as "Monmouth University", a private college, and later merged with another private institution (Bethel College near Rickreall) to become "Christian College. . Narvasa first won the school-level competition of the National Geographic Bee The National Geographic Bee (previously called the National Geography Bee) is an annual geography contest sponsored by the National Geographic Society. The Bee, held every year since 1989, is open to students in the fourth through eighth grade in participating American in December, and then was among the top 100 scorers in the state on a written test in January. State champions are eligible to attend the national bee, sponsored by National Geographic Society National Geographic Society U.S. scientific society founded in 1888 in Washington, D.C., by a small group of eminent explorers and scientists “for the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge. , in May. Academy names All-American Scholar Karen Grabler of Springfield High School has been named an All-American Scholar by the United States Achievement Academy. Scholars must earn a grade-point average of at least 3.3 and be recommended by an instructor, counselor or other qualified sponsor. |
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