Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
School news
SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
Emily C. Adair of Rogers and Esther Keza of Fayetteville were named to the 2016 autumn quarter dean’s list at Seattle Pacific University, with grade-point averages of 3.50 or higher.
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest Regional Campus offers the Medical Applications of Science for Health (MASH) programs, an intensive twoweek program for 11th- and 12th-graders interested in exploring careers in health care. During the MASH program, students will participate in hands-on activities, including dissection, casting and suturing, and earning certification in CPR. The students also will shadow health professionals in family and internal medicine, nursing, pharmacology, laboratory sciences, physical and occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, radiology, radiation therapy, kinesiology and ophthalmology as they work.
The program is hosted by Mercy Northwest on June 12-23 and at the UAMS campus in Fayetteville on June 19-30. There is no cost to the students.
Applicants must have grade-point averages of 3.5 or higher and provide recommendations from high school health or science teachers and counselors.
The school also accepts applications from students who will be entering the eighth through 10th grades and are interested in health care careers for the Community Health Applied in Medical Public Service (CHAMPS) program. Students will participate in hands-on activities, including casting and suturing, pharmacy lab activities and earning certification in CPR. The students also will visit health-care professionals at the UAMS Schmieding Developmental Center and UAMS Northwest Walker Clinical Education Center.
The program runs June 12-16 at the UAMS campus in Fayetteville. There is no cost to students.
Applicants must have grade-point averages of 2.7 or higher and provide a recommendation letter from a school health or science teacher or school counselor.
Applications for both programs are available from school counselors’ offices, UAMS Northwest or online at arkansashealthcareers. com or regionalprograms. uams.edu.
Information: 684-5177, apsanchez@uams.edu.
ARKANSAS AMERICAN LEGION
Sara Gardner, a Fayetteville High School student, won the
Arkansas American Legion oratory contest recently in Little Rock. She won a $2,000 scholarship and will compete against youth from other states in the national oratory contest in April in Indiana.
NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL
Rogers New Technology High School has gathered eight outstanding educational performance awards — including third in the state for overall achievement — from the office for education policy at the University of Arkansas. Awards are based on the OEP-created “school grade-point average,” calculated on the basis of the percentage of students that perform at each level on the 2016 ACT Aspire math, English language arts and science exams.
New Tech received the following statewide awards: overall high achieving, ELA high achieving, math high achieving and science high achieving, as well as the same awards for the region.
The OEP creates an annual report, titled the Outstanding Educational Performance Awards, highlighting the highest-performing schools in Arkansas.
SPEECH COMPETITION
Students from high schools in Benton County competed March 8 for a chance to win $300 in prize money in the eighth-annual Bailey & Oliver Law Firm high school speech competition at the firm’s Rogers office. Sol Halle, a junior at Bentonville High School, won first place. Second place and $200 went to Cristian Martinez, a junior at Rogers High School, and third place with $100 to Serena Puang, also a junior at Rogers High School
Participants were asked during the competition to write and present a persuasive speech covering this year’s topic, “Should the U.S. Constitution be rewritten and modernized? Why or why not?” All speeches were limited to five minutes, and only one note card was allowed during the students’ presentations. Competitors were judged on speech content, organization, knowledge of the subject matter, oral delivery and body language.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Liz Berger of Fayetteville received a bachelor’s degree in community and nonprofit leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the winter commencement ceremony Dec. 18 at the Kohl Center.
COLGATE UNIVERSITY
Mason Jones of Bella Vista has earned the fall 2016 dean’s award with distinction at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., with a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher.
NEW SCHOOL
Alice Cai and Pooja Kalyan, both students of the New School in Fayetteville, were named nominees for the 2017 Broadcom MASTERS national middle school science competition. Students in the national competition place among the top 10 percent of participants at their local science fairs. At the Northwest Arkansas Regional Science and Engineering Fair on March 3 at the University of Arkansas, Cai placed first in the materials engineering category, first overall in the junior division and received a Naval Science High School Award. Kalyan placed first in the animal sciences category, second overall in the junior division and also received a Naval Science High School Award.
The top 300 semifinalists in the national competition will be announced Sept. 6, and the top 30 finalists will be announced later that month. The 30 finalists each win a trip to Washington, D.C., where they will compete in hands-on science activities and explore the area together.
Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering for Rising Stars) is a national competition for sixth- through eighth-grade students designed to inspire and encourage the nation’s young scientists, engineers and innovators.
ROGERS HERITAGE
Tiffany Taylor of Rogers Heritage High School, a graduate of University of Arkansas, was named the local PhysTEC teacher of the year by the Physics Teacher Education Coalition. This new award highlights the impact of recent graduates from physics teacher preparation programs. Taylor and other winners on the local levels were nominated by the institutions from which they graduated or received their teaching credentials. Taylor will receive a certificate of recognition.
LYNCH MIDDLE SCHOOL
Cedric Justus, a seventh-grade student at Randall G. Lynch Middle School in Farmington, was the first-place winner in the school geography bee held in early January. Justus competed against 200 seventh-grade students in a preliminary competition to qualify for the school-sponsored geography bee. Once qualified, he competed against eight other students from the school in the final championship round. During the final competition, Justus did not miss a single question, something that has never been done at the school. Justus passed an online exam to qualify for the Arkansas state geography bee March 31.