Visitation Academy‘s Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) team (pictured above) took home first place in the large school division at the state competition in Rolla. WYSE is an international program headquartered at the University of Illinois that fosters excellence in science and mathematics.
Sixty-seven students at Lift for Life Academy recently graduated from Lift for Life Academy, an independent charter school that serves students in grades six through 12, many of whom might not excel in the public school system. Nearly 90 percent are pursuing higher education. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the school, founded by executive director Marshall Cohen.
During the past school year, students in kindergarten through fifth grade at Westchester Elementary have transformed the campus into a green learning environment. With help from family and other community volunteers, they identified and cleared an invasive plant species on school grounds, replacing the space with a learning garden of native, self-sufficient plants.
Rossman School sixth-grader Devin Kancherla placed ninth in the sixth-grade and under division of the 2015 Missouri State Scholastic Chess Championship Tournament in Columbia, Missouri. Kancherla has been a member of the school’s chess club for three years and just recently began competing.
There’s no such thing as writer’s block in the Parkway School District. Multiple students have been recognized for their writing skills in various competitions. Parkway Central: Julie Nguyen and Jacqueline Ihnat earned scholarships in the National English Honor Society writing contest, and more than 20 students at the high school won awards in the Missouri Scholastic Writing Competition. Parkway North: Evan Lehmann is a grand prize winner and Layla Kousari earned honorable mention in the national Selma Speech & Essay Contest.
A dozen metro area high school students recently competed for college scholarships and prizes in the finals of the fifth annual St. Louis Teen Talent Competition at The Fox Theatre. The top three winners were: Tiala Taylor of Ft. Zumwalt North (first), Talia Bennet of John Burroughs and Dony’ae Bush of Soldan International Studies High School (second), and The Dancing Six, a group of six students from Central Visual and Performing Arts High School (third).
