The Queen Creek Schools Education Foundation has awarded four scholarships this year totaling $9,000 at Senior Day.
A $1,500 scholarship was awarded to Kylie Johnson. She graduated with a 4.46 GPA was ranked 4th in the class. She plans on attending Barrett, the honors College at Arizona State University.
A $1,500 scholarship was awarded to Lexis Hanson who finished with a 4.15 GPA ranked 13 out of 360 and plans on furthering her education by attending Arizona State University.
The $3,000 QCSEF scholarship was awarded to Megan Traichal. Megan finished first in her class with a GPA of 4.65 and plans on attending University of Arizona in the Honors College as a Linguuistics major.
The 4th annual Nathan Martens scholarship goes to Jacob Goddard. This scholarship was established to honor Nathan Martens, who was a graduate of Queen Creek high school, played sports while in school and was a US Navy Corpsman who gave his life for his country in Iraq in 2005. Jacob was on the wrestling team for four years and was team captain, four years on the football team and served as captain. He also served on student council for four years and was the Student Body President and also volunteered his time as a youth wrestling coach for 5 years. Jacob plans on furthering his education and wrestling career by attending Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Each of the following teachers was awarded $300 for the Spring Semester.
Kathy Olmstead, from Queen Creek Middle School, will help her students by buying books that will allow them to work on their own autobiography. The students will be able to compile information for their autobiography, put the information on the computer and then print out their own autobiography book.
Tom Bidlack: Kathy Olmstead, 8th grade Language-Arts Teacher;
Principal Julie Niven and Tom Lindsey, Director of Curriculum.
Linda Okonowski, from Queen Creek Elementary school will use her grant money for “Book Cooks.” Students will be introduced to different literature. They will do graphing, rhyming, punctuation, songs, and learning to follow directions and work together with the purpose of doing a recipe to cook with a theme that goes with a book and a lesson.
Mrs. Okonowski said; “It will give the students a variety of ways to learn the curriculum. They also will learn different objectives in each lesson. Each lesson will have reading, writing, math, thinking, following directions, social studies, science, and learning to work together, which is an important life skill.”
Kimberly Rutherford, also from Queen Creek Elementary, received her grant money for her students to learn “the life cycle of the chick.” During this project,...
