Posted: Monday, January 29, 2007 12:00 am
The Greater Corvallis Rotary Club has honored four students during the months of November and December.
Julia Selker was selected as the Linus Pauling Student of the Month for December. Julia was the co-chair of the Potters for Peace Project fund-raiser during the Martin Luther King Jr. Week of Peace and gave presentations at the faculty meeting and for the Corvallis School Board at a service-learning workshop, as well as to the student body.
Wesley Atwood was selected as the Linus Pauling Student of the Month for November. Wes is a 4.0 student and has helped with many Youth Volunteer Corps projects, such as raking leaves for the elderly and the children's Halloween party at the public library. He is a peer mediator at Linus Pauling and was chair of the Make-A-Difference Day Project, which brought in money and food donations for Linn Benton Food Share, clothing to the in-house Share Shop and essential needs items to the McKinney Homeless Project.
Grant Thackray is the Cheldelin Student of the Month for December. Grant volunteers at Stone Soup, in his church youth group and through Boy Scout activities. Grant likes music and sings in the Heart of the Valley Children's Choir. Grant wants to pursue computer programming as a career and design characters and backgrounds for movies and videos.
Hannah Doran is the Cheldelin Student of the Month for November. Hannah has a 4.0 GPA. She is part of the leadership team and chairs the talent show for the middle school. Hannah volunteers at the Osborn Aquatic Center as a swim instructor each summer and is involved in the St. Mary's youth group.
All Northwest Choir chooses CHS senior
Corvallis High School tenor Mickey Godfrey has been selected for the All Northwest Honor Choir. The group received more that 4,600 applications from student musicians throughout the Northwest.
Godrey will participate at the Northwest Music Educators' convention Feb. 15-18. He is a senior at CHS and a member of the CHS Vocal Jazz and Concert Choir ensembles.
Pokemon League picks champions
The Corvallis Pokemon League took part in a city championship Jan. 20. There were 59 players.
The winners from Corvallis in the 10 and under category were: first place, Nathan Smith; second place, Reid Strahl; and fourth place, Davis Nafshun.
The winners from Corvallis in the Gameboy tournament were: first place, Reid Strahl; second place, Sam Gomez; and third place, Vance McIntyre.
Pokemon League is open to all ages and meets from 2:30 to 4:40 p.m. Sunday at Rite-Aid on Northwest Ninth Street.
College honor roll
MISSOULA, Mont. - The University of Montana fall semester dean's list: Katie Banner of Corvallis.
Dragoons honored at Lego tourney
HILLSBORO - A team of Corvallis middle-school students earned a second-place award at the Intel Oregon First Lego League tournament Jan. 13 at Liberty High School. The Corvallis team, the Dragoons from Franklin School, is Eaton Fong, Prachet Bhatt, Kushal Agarwal, Mahon Khoshzaban and Preksha Naik. Romsha Bhatt is the team's coach, and the assistant coaches are Arun Agarwal and Masoud Zavarehi. The team received the award for quality research, innovative solutions and creative presentation.
About 3,200 students, ages 9 to 14, from Oregon, California and Washington participated in 16 regional robotics tournaments leading up to the Hillsboro event. The theme of the 2007 tournament was "Nano Quest."
This is being re-run because of the incorrect spelling of two names in last week's At Our Best. The Gazette-Times regrets the errors.