YOUTH ON THE GO
The Hurley Lions Club’s high school scholarship program to seven recent graduates of Kingston and John A. Coleman Catholic high schools.
The students were Sabrina R. Browning, Maggie DerCola, Alexandria DeCicco and Matthew T. Pisano of Kingston High, and Erin R. Banbury, Natasha M. Haskell and Michelle Z. Moughan of John A. Coleman Catholic. Seven scholarships were awarded instead of the traditional six, because the application evaluations were rated exceptional by the scholarship committee, according to a press release.
The program accepts applications from students attending Kingston High School and Onteora High School. Applicants who reside in the town of Hurley are given first priority before other Ulster County residents. Applicants must be considered a full-time college student by the institution they will be attending.
The Hurley Lions Club sponsors two annual $1,000 scholarships through the Ulster Community College Foundation, Inc. for SUNY Ulster students who reside in the town of Hurley. Hannah Mason received a scholarship in May. The second scholarship will be awarded in this fall.
••• Saugerties High School graduates Rebecca O’Dell and Rebecca Sauer each received awards of $600 each from the Saugerties Schools Retired Employees Association.
The presentation took place during the school’s awards night on June 13.
O’Dell will be attending the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and will major in education. Sauer will attend Russell Sage College in Troy and major in occupational therapy. They were selected from a group of applicants.
The association also made a donation to the Environmental Science Eco Club. The club maintains a handson vegetable garden, among other environmental projects.
One of the association’s purposes is to inspire students who wish to pursue their education. The association also contributes to school programs and provides retirees from the Saugerties Central School District with a unified voice and information on current issues.
••• Students in the Cairo-Durham School District planted 40 white pine trees behind the middle/high school on May 8.
The seedlings were donated by the Saratoga Department of Forestry as part of its effort to build populations of native New York tree species. More than a dozen middle and high school students volunteered to stay after school and participate in the planting.
White pine is a native New York tree and is a crucial part of many ecosystems. These trees provide many benefits, including improving air quality, soil stabilization, and providing essential cover and food for many wildlife species.
••• Students attending the Ulster BOCES Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Advanced Manufacturing Camp from July 8-11 used science, technology, engineering and math to track the energy efficiency of a toy car.
Students applied the laws of physics and modified rough-hewn wooden cars to make them faster and more efficient. The 19 regional students who attended the camp at the Port Ewen-based Career & Technical Center learned about collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and innovation without being aware of what they were learning because they were motivated by the fun they were having.
Kingston city school district student Luca Catalano said he appreciated learning how to make his car as aerodynamic as possible. “I did it by shaving off the sides and some off the top,” Catalano said in a press release.
Camper Finnian Reiter said in the release moderation was key. “I learned how much ‘a little’ makes a difference and not to give up,” said Reiter, a Wallkill Central School District student. “Really small improvements can make big changes in the long run.”
Campers used SolidWorks,
a modeling computer-aided design program, to design their cars and used instruments such as sandpaper, Dremel tools and hand saws to make improvements. They used a 52-foot, 7-inch CO2 race car track as a tool that propelled the cars and then they calculated the speeds and converted them from inches to seconds to miles per hour, which helped them to deduce what additional adjustments could be made to improve their projects.
Students at the camp came from the Kingston, Highland, Wallkill, Saugerties, New Paltz, Rondout Valley and Rhinebeck school districts.