Local student makes honor roll at OSU Brittney N. Oljar of Camas has made the fall term honor roll at Oregon State University. To make the honor roll, students must take at least 12 graded credits and earn at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA.
Not every 9-year-old knows how to design, build and program a robot. But the kids on Jeff Hendricks Robo-Titans team are becoming experts in the field. That's because they are part of a FIRST LEGO league team, where children learn to design and build robots using special LEGO kits. The program includes a 10- to 12-week period in which youngsters form teams, build robots that can complete individual tasks as part of an overall challenge, then compete at a local tournament. The robots are programmed using a flow chart rather than traditional programming language, and coaches often have the help of technical mentors to teach team members how to build and program the robot.
Teen game night, 'Read to the Dogs' set There will be a teen game night at the Washougal Community Library, 1661 "C" St., from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28. Call the library at 835-5393 for details. Also coming up will be a "Read to the Dogs" night Tuesday, Jan. 25 from 6 to 7:30 p.m., where readers of all ages can sign up to read aloud to a therapy dog for 24 minutes.
Self-taught Washougal artist Beth Flannigan never titles her paintings. "My abstracts are just that," she said. "I don't title anything because I don't want to influence anyone's opinions." Flannigan describes her painting style as both abstract and organic. In addition to not titling her work, she signs it on the back only.
School board seeking applicants The Washougal School Board is seeking applicants to fill two vacancies that will be left when longtime members Orlan Gessford and Tom Huffman retire Jan. 31. Qualified applicants must be U.S. citizens, registered voters and reside in the appropriate director district. The open positions will be in districts one and four. Employees and immediate family members of district employees are not allowed to serve on the board.
They sleep in cars. In parks. In shelters. On the sofas of generous relatives or friends. They are the more than 1.3 million homeless children nationwide. Of that total, more than 21,000 live in Washington state, according to numbers submitted to the federal government last week. Collected by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, the numbers show that during 2009-10, the state reported 21,826 homeless students, up 5 percent from the previous year and up 56.5 percent from 2005-06.
4.0 GPA Eighth-grade: Anderson, Samantha; Braun, Madeline; Carstens, Alexandra; Kaml, Kaila; Krout, Adam; Miller, Karina; Odenthal, Kayla; Oviatt, Matthew; Scheldorf, Sabine; Steffanson, Jacueline; Zieman, Kaycee.
Hathaway Elementary School Principal Laura Bolt was recently recognized as a "State Principal of Distinction," for the Columbia River region on Oct. 4 at the state principal's conference in Bellevue, Wash.
Schools announce names of students who recently made the Honor Roll.
Local school districts are feeling the pinch after the state Legislature made yet another round of reductions to kindergarten through 12th grade education in an emergency budget cutting session recently. House Bill 3225 includes $39.4 million in cuts to K-12 education. The funding was originally intended to lower class sizes in kindergarten through fourth-grade.
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