The following students had their Gold Key Scholastics winning
artwork displayed at the Denver Art Museum: Laura Trehal, of Castle
View High School; Conner Cunningham and McManus Hand, of Chaparral
High School; Claire Stasiemicz, of Highlands Ranch High School;
Jonathan Metheny and Adam Adkins, of Mountain Vista High School;
London Nuzman and Connor Hartman, of Ponderosa High School; and
Justin Brown, Nicolette Tiongson and Hailey Rich, of ThunderRidge
High School.
Challenge to Excellence Charter School technology teacher Beth
Mossholder attended Google Teacher Academy in April in Sydney,
Australia. Mossholder is one of two U.S. teachers selected by
Google to attend.
The Google Teacher Academy is an intensive, one-day event where
participants get hands-on experience with Google’s products and
technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, and
receive resources to share with colleagues.
Stefane J. Preston, of Parker, was named to the Northern
Michigan University dean’s list for the fall 2010 semester.
Erin O’Brien Bomholt, Shelby Rose Chadd and Elizabeth Allison
Murray, of Parker, were named to the fall honor roll at Kansas
University.
Kimberly Paul and Ashley Powell, of Parker, graduation from
Kaplan University. Paul was awarded an associate of science in
interdisciplinary studies, and Powell earned a bachelor in health
sciences.
Brooke Smith, of Parker, a student at Cornell College, has been
named to the fall 2010-11 dean’s list, earning highest honors.
Ian Anderson, Taylor Leigh Case, Julie Dembowski, John Dembowski
and Joseph Hirschberg, of Parker, were named to the fall 2010
dean’s list at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Tim Ottmann, longtime coach of the Ponderosa wrestling program,
was recently inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Ottmann received the lifetime service award for his service to the
sport of wrestling, which spanned 25 years and included 10 regional
championships, 14 league championships and eight state
championships. Ottmann was honored May 14 at the annual National
Wrestling Hall of Fame banquet at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in
Colorado Springs.
Michelle Barone, APS principal and author of “The Capitol Ghost
Mystery,” a CCBA-nominated book for 2011, presented to
fourth-graders at Northeast Elementary. Barone shared kid-friendly
revision strategies that will take each student’s writing to the
next level. These practical revision tips are useful for writers of
all ages and levels.
Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Jay Martin recently taught
Y.E.S.S. in the classroom of Heather Teti, to target
seventh-graders at Sagewood Middle School. The Colorado Mammoth’s
Ilija Gajic teamed up with Sagewood Middle School to strengthen the
Y.E.S.S. program’s messages and act as a role model to enhance the
program experience The Y.E.S.S. program focuses on drug prevention,
but also teen relationships, cyber safety, substance abuse, and
crime and punishment.
Brittany Lynn Raab, of Franktown, and Anika Leigh Severin, of
Parker, made the Seattle Pacific University 2010 autumn quarter
dean’s list.
Jess Becker, from Ponderosa High School, and Sarah Wegert, from
Coyote Creek Elementary, were chosen as the 2011 Apple Award
recipients. Special recognition also went to the following
individuals: Jan Shawcroft, from Douglas County High School for
classified employee; Patty Hanrahan from Gold Rush Elementary for
administrative employee; and Stan Lewandowski from Intermountain
Rural Electric Association for community member.
Tyler D. Goerzen, of Parker, made the dean’s list at Azusa
Pacific University for the fall semester 2010.
The Douglas County Educational Foundation and Kroenke Sports
Enterprises have teamed up for a fundraising project called Score
for Schools. The program applies the fundraising approach of the
existing Douglas County School District community nights to
additional Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche games to raise
money for individual school sports and athletics -related projects
and programs.
Score for Schools enables county school district stakeholders
and supporters to purchase tickets for selected Colorado Avalanche
and Denver Nugget events at savings. Not only will Douglas County
School District supporters receive discounted ticket prices for
select games, but they will also be raising money for the school of
their choice each time they purchase a ticket through Score for
Schools. For each ticket sold, Kroenke will donate $5 back to the
school select at the time of online ticket purchase.
To participate in Score for Schools, visit http://
schools.dcsdk12.org/education/dept/dept.php?sectionid=15297.
John Skoglund, of Parker, earned the dean’s citation for
academic excellence in the Monfort College of Business at the
University of Northern Colorado for the 2010 fall semester.
Taylor Bakemeyer, Rachel Cetuk, Emily Delmonte, Elisabeth Faul,
Alex Garrett, Kylie Guthrie, Brittany Hartman, Nickolas McLean,
Sarah Metcalfe, Jennifer Peterson, Rebecca Roth, Emily Ryan, Scott
Schmaltz, Audrey Summers, Samantha Tracy and Francis Xavier, of
Parker, have been recognized as first-year scholars for the fall
2010 semester at the University of Northern Colorado.
Michael Byars, of Parker, has earned two academic scholarships
from Ohio Wesleyan University and been accepted into the
university’s honors program after participating in Ohio Wesleyan’s
Schubert Honors Scholarships competition. Byars is a senior at
Regis Jesuit High School.
Lindsey Korth, a film and video major from Parker, was named to
the dean’s list for fall semester 2010 at Columbia College
Chicago.
John Modeck II, of Parker, received his master of business
administration information technology management degree from
Western Governors University.
Brooke Nagy and Zachary D. Parker, of Parker, were named to the
dean’s list at Oklahoma City University.
In its second year as a varsity team at Legend High School, the
poms earned a combined team GPA of 3.51 for the 2010-11 season. The
Legend poms is one of six poms teams throughout the state to earn
this award, including Mountain Vista High School. Members of the
team are Megan Clayton, Mallory Tyler, Kinsey Smith, Jori Reed,
Renae Schulte, Meaghan Harris, Sydney Reo, Sydney Steele, Alli
Gillen and Alex Oksamytnyj.
A Legend High School student and a Rangeview High School student
beat out more than 24,000 other participants for top spots in
America’s largest high school essay contest conducted by the Bill
of Rights Institute.
Representing the Mountain Region, Samantha Fletcher, a junior at
Legend High School and Stephanie Sanchez, a junior at Rangeview
High School, earned honorable mentions and $100 in the fifth annual
Being an American Essay Contest. The national competition is
sponsored by the Bill of Rights Institute, an educational nonprofit
based near Washington, D.C.
Fletcher and Sanchez’s sponsoring teachers, Jennifer
Harvey-Utberg and Stephanie Walsh, respectively, received a
matching cash prize.
Trevor C. Anderson, of Parker, was named to the Columbia College
dean’s list for the January to March 2011 award period.
Kayla-Ashley McShane, of Parker, was named to the scholastic
honor roll for the winter term at Oregon State University.
Colorado native Mike Dorsey recently received the Tradition of
Excellence Award from Brownell-Talbot School in Omaha where he
teaches middle and upper school history and social studies. Dorsey
is the son of Mike and Bev Dorsey, of Parker.
Three students were awarded $2,000 scholarships each for college
at a festive luncheon at the Black Bear Golf Club by the Mountain
Pine Woman’s Club, of Parker. The recipients were Paige McLoughlin,
of Chaparral High School; and Tarah Goldsmith and Kayla Heinisch,
of Ponderosa High School. Each student related their future college
plans and then introduced their parents. Everyone enjoyed a special
lunch while they got better acquainted with the recipients and
their parents. Tarah Goldsmith then entertained by beautifully
singing selections from “Shrek,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” and
“Wicked.”
Six-year-old Logan Castleton was born with hypoplastic left
heart syndrome. He has had three open-heart surgeries, a
malrotation surgery, two pacemaker surgeries, heart catheter
procedures, and a kidney surgery. He has a pacemaker and half of a
heart. Despite all of this, Castleton raised almost $1,300 for the
American Heart Association during his school’s recent Jump Rope for
Heart event.
Stephanie Kawamura, Discovery Program teacher at Pine Lane
Elementary, has won a $5,000 grant through United Space Alliance to
supplement her instruction in science/space. In addition, Honeywell
has honored Kawamura with a $10,000 classroom makeover. She won
Honeywell’s writing contest regarding the “Got 2 B Safe” program.
Honeywell is sending Kawamura and her husband, along with Pine Lane
principal Jean Bartlett, to Washington, D.C., next month to be a
part of the Hope Awards.
The Douglas County Educational Foundation and Frugal Formalwear
e-boutique announce a spring fundraising opportunity for Douglas
County School District. The fundraiser generates money for the
DCEF’s “Fill the Gap” initiative from profits generated from
donated dresses, tuxedos, jewelry, and other formalwear items. The
fundraiser runs from April 15 through June 30. Donations can be
dropped off at the DCEF offices, garden level of the district
building at 620 Wilcox St. in Castle Rock. DCEF staff will tag
donated items and provide a tax deduction form for all donations.
Frugal Formalwear staff collects the donations, posts the items on
the Web site and directs 60 percent of the profit for each item to
the DCEF’s “Fill the Gap” fund.
Lauren Easton, of Parker, received the College of Liberal
Studies Recognition of Excellence Award from the University of
Wisconsin-La Crosse. Easton, a 2008 graduate of Chaparral High
School, plans to graduate this spring with a major in archaeology
and minor in anthropology. She has been involved with the
Archaeology Club and is employed at the Mississippi Valley
Archaeology Center. She presented her honors thesis in archaeology
at the university’s Undergraduate Research Celebration. Easton
plans to attend the master’s program in anthropology at the
University of Colorado of Denver. She is the daughter of Guy and
Melinda Easton, of Parker.
Morgan McCowan, of Franktown, has been named to the dean’s list
for the 2011 winter quarter at DePaul University.
Students in three schools around the United States — North Star
Academy in Parker, Shippensburg University in central Pennsylvania,
and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign — each recently
presented The Seeing Eye with a check for $5,000, which they raised
to name a Seeing Eye puppy.
North Star Academy students raised their $5,000 by making and
selling dog biscuits, holding raffles and selling hot chocolate. In
conjunction with the fundraiser, the kindergarten through
eighth-grade children’s academy spent the school year learning
about guide dogs and visual impairments. The class that raised the
most money held an essay contest to pick the name of the puppy.
Third-grader Andrew Wood’s essay about a Seeing Eye puppy named
“Eclipse” was selected as the winner, and the name Eclipse will be
assigned to a puppy born later this year.
The Douglas County Conservation District has two $500
scholarships available to qualified applicants.
This scholarship is open to any college freshmen or sophomore
student (fall 2011) majoring in the fields of agriculture,
agronomy, horticulture, environmental science, soil science,
watershed management, Earth resources sciences and other fields
related to the utilization and conservation of soil and water
resources.
Students must have a grade point average of 2.5 or better on a
4.0 point scale.
Application is to be made in the form of a letter to the Douglas
County Conservation District. Applicants should detail their future
educational and future professional plans, and how their course
work relates to the conservation of natural resources.
Applications should be from one to three pages in length and
must include a copy of transcripts of previous course work.
Letters of interest will be evaluated and ranked by the Board of
Supervisors of the Douglas County Conservation District.
Consideration will be given to the student’s educational and
professional goals as expressed in their letter of interest, their
past academic performance, and the degree to which their area of
study is related to the management and conservation of natural
resources.
First consideration will be given to students whose home
residence is Douglas County and who graduated from a Douglas County
high school.
Application deadline is May 23. Applicants will be notified of
the selection shortly thereafter. All letters of interest should be
sent to: Douglas County Conservation District, PO Box 688,
Franktown, CO 80116
If you have questions, call 303-688-3042 ext. 100.
Anika Leigh Severin, of Parker, and Brittany Lynn Raab, of
Franktown, made the Seattle Pacific University 2011 winter quarter
dean’s list.
The American Legion’s Colorado Post 1864 in Parker announces
that Parker’s Jonathan Staheli, who is finishing his junior year at
Ponderosa High School, successfully competed and will attend the
American Legion’s 2011 Colorado State Boys Program from June 5-11
on the campus of Colorado State University, Pueblo.
With a strong recommendation from Ponderosa High School
counselor Christy Kidd, Staheli certainly exemplifies the young men
who will find this program most useful in developing leadership
skills and building pride in American citizenship.
Luke Michael Wertz, of Parker, graduated May 6 with a bachelor’s
degree in business administration from The University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
Mara Steinhaus, of Parker, graduated with degrees in
computational mathematics and anthropology from Arizona State
University. She has immersed herself in research, analyzing the
skyrocketing rabies incidence in Arizona’s wild animal population
and also the impact media attention has on disease research
funding.