Good News October 10, 2017

Scholars selected for summer internships at Boeing and Microsoft

This summer, Boeing and Microsoft offered internships to select students from local school districts. Opportunities such as these help us meet Goal Five of our strategic plan: Persistence to Graduation — High School Graduation through Successful Transitions.

Elizabeth Min, the Decatur High School scholar who received the competitive Microsoft internship has been selected multiple times before. This internship involved efforts such as:

• Serving as artificial intelligence and research intern on the Bing Maps Geocoding team;
• Integrating systems to create a platform for address query analysis and performance testing; and
• Building and implementing features to support this integration.

We'd also like to recognize the following students selected in 2017 for the Boeing Fabrication High School Internship:

• Milad Heydari — Todd Beamer High School
• Elian Raspa — Federal Way High School
• Marintia Banuelos — Todd Beamer High School

These scholars worked at Boeing during the summer and received hands-on training and factory experience, as well as pay. Students are selected and evaluated primarily on communication, personal discipline, productivity, teamwork, personal ethics, punctuality, interest, and enthusiasm. Once selected, they are assigned mentors in fields such as Chemical Engineering, Business Operations, or Finance. In addition, students that go on to a university are encouraged to apply for college internships at Boeing. Congratulations, scholars. We are so proud of you!

FWPS Scholars excelled in the recent Washington State Fair arts show

Congratulations to our scholars for participating in the arts show and winning awards at the recent Washington State Fair. These scholars demonstrate strengths in academics and the arts, which is in direct support of strategic plan Goal 5: Persistence to Graduation.

For the category of photography:

• First place: Madalyn Rice and Daniel Rodriguez
• Second place: Eveline Pavlyuk and Jazmine Pop

For the category of visual communications:

• Best In Show Digital Art: Hyun Rho
• Patriotic Award: Jamir Jackson
• People’s Choice Digital Art: Harnoop Kaur
• First place Digital Art: Lauren Fernandez, Payton Shilley, Jane Slagle, Alexandra Tangonan, Eden Beyene and Robyn Daniels
• Second Place Illustration: Khady Carvalho
• Second Place Digital Art: Antonio Mattos, Joshua Moreno, and Madilyn Pawlowski
• Third Place Digital Art: Leslie Coronilla, Itzel Hernandez, and Rachel Kimura

For the category of digital photography:

• People's Choice Overall Digital Portrait: Cecilia Parrilla

Congratulations scholars, we are proud of you!

Decatur scholars win awards at the recent Washington State Fair goat show

Congratulations to our scholars for participating in the goat show and winning awards at the recent Washington State Fair. Both of these Decatur High School scholars are part of the Future Farmers of America. These scholars demonstrate strengths in academics and this extracurricular activity, which is in direct support of strategic plan Goal 3: Active Learners: Engaged Empowered, Critical Thinkers.

We would like to recognize Cierra Zak for winning goat exhibitor of the year.

We would also like to recognize Chandra Hurst for receiving the following recognitions:

• Grand Champion fitting and showing for meat goats
• Reserve Grand Champion fitting and showing for dairy goats
• Best of breed for her Toggenburg

Scholars had to clean, groom and prepare the animals for the fair. They had to answer questions about the species they were working with to demonstrate their knowledge, and they had to demonstrate proper handling of their animals. 

Congratulations, we are proud of you!