nipher middle school
Nipher students took part in the 2017 Youth Coding Competition at the Hilton Airport Hotel and went home with a first-place trophy! The computer programming event is sponsored by GlobalHack and includes a live coding competition, team event, code review and final project presentation. Nipher’s team consisted of Benjamin Lowry, Kat Crawford, Madison Schlarman, Eli Leonard, Reid Knuckles, Bennett Griggs and Jacob Rodriguez-Damsgaard.
kirkwood school district
KHS students have been making strides in journalism in more than one way. Members of its Advanced Placement English classes submitted essays to the Yes! Magazine National Student Writing Competition, and juniors Logan Crews and Aly Terry (pictured) won two of the top prizes in the Powerful Voices category. Crews’ essay, ‘Bringing a Voice Back to Life,’ was about suicide awareness; Terry’s essay, ‘Highs and Lows,’ was about bipolar disorder. Students Fraye Beyene, Cameron Henry, Annie O’Brien and Seth Wiseheart won Literary Gem awards in the competition.
Student journalists from the school’s newspaper, The Kirkwood Call, and yearbook also earned accolades recently. A group attended the Journalism Education Association’s national convention in Dallas and took home several awards, including Pacemaker and Best of Show prizes for the newspaper. Individual students won awards in online news, feature writing, photography and other categories.
raintree school
Students are concerned about the dangers of car collisions with deer in Town & Country and have been encouraging city officials to use technology to prevent them. They started an after-school club called Save the Deer Pod, which researched headlight-activated deer deterrent systems. They presented their findings to city aldermen and planning officials. The students have received support from local educators and residents, and hope to convince officials to install the technology
