Skyline student works to fuse her musical traditions
March 9, 2010
Skyline soprano Prithvi Addepalli has been around music her entire life. Growing up, her parents would sing at home; they taught her the customs and traditions of her Indian heritage and she eventually became involved with choral and instrumental music of all types.
She’s played the piano since age five, and since elementary school Addepalli has trained in Carnatic — classical Indian music — vocals, she said.
Until the ninth grade, she played viola in the orchestra. Read more
Beaver Lake Middle School aims for the second star on the right
March 9, 2010
Beaver Lake Middle School is featuring Peter Pan as its annual play. There are an amazing 70 students in the cast, which makes it the largest ever in the school’s history. Opening night is 7 p.m. April 8.
There will be two more performances at 7 p.m. April 9 and 10. All performances are open to the public. Admission is $7-8. Rehearsals started in January, which gave the cast just three months to get the play ready for the actual performance. Read more
2 Sammamish students advance to national Reflections
March 4, 2010
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6 others earn awards at state judging
When Sunny Hills Elementary fourth-grader Jasmine Cheng sat down to practice piano one day last summer, she didn’t plan to create an award-winning composition. She had recently hiked to Twin Falls near North Bend with her family and was thinking about the beautiful waterfalls there, wondering how she could express it in music. Read more
Class combines technology with community service
March 2, 2010
Pine Lake Middle School eighth-graders Kyle Feuerberg and Henry Jarvis threw a Super Bowl party for 25 homeless men for their multimedia elective class.
It sounds strange, but the pair teamed up, raised money for food and goodies, found a venue and invited homeless people to hang out Feb. 7 at Saint Luke’s Church in Bellevue. They get a grade for producing videos and multimedia content to promote the cause.
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Interest surges at Lake Washington choice schools
March 2, 2010
Ever since starting seventh-grade last fall at the Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning, Sammamish resident Joshua McLaughlin has stepped out of his comfort zone, said his mother, Judi McLaughlin. Joshua, who has Asperger syndrome, came from the 784-student Smith Elementary and had struggled academically.
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Beaver Lake students see the results of bad choices
February 23, 2010
Twisted metal and stained car seats are all that remain of a crash that claimed the lives of two best friends.
Chase Tinsley, 18, and Zackary Oliver, 21, were only going to drive about a mile to sleep at a friend’s house after a party on Lake Tapps that morning. They never made it. Read more
Funny from nothing
February 23, 2010
Eastlake comedy improv troupe is one of the best in the Seattle area
For Eastlake senior Nahani Toda-Peters, the best part of doing improvisational theater is the moment a good joke comes out by accident. The crowd erupts in laughter and she surprises herself with the hilarity of what she just said.
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Discovery students strive to protect killdeer
February 17, 2010
Students flitted around teacher Tasha Kirby’s fourth-grade classroom on a mission Feb. 10. A deadline was looming and they were motivated to complete the final piece of a class portfolio detailing their months-long efforts to protect a local bird habitat.
Shirt sales help central Asians afford a year of school
February 17, 2010
Students at the Pacific Cascade Freshman Campus are changing the lives of their peers with education worldwide, one shirt at a time.
For $12 each, the students are selling shirts that will send a student in Afghanistan or Pakistan to school for a year through the Central Asia Institute.
“We’re learning every day, and sometimes we take that for granted,” student Anais Gentilhomme said. “We want to help others learn.” Read more
Winter Olympic fever hits Carson elementary
February 9, 2010
Teachers could hear the joyful cheers echo down the hall as Rachel Carson Elementary students celebrated posting the fastest time of the morning.
Representing team Norway, they spent their half-hour PE class with teacher Pat Parnell racing around cones on four-wheel carts — on their stomachs — in the skeleton event. They were trying to beat the sixth-grade, Finland team. As Parnell called the students in to leave the gym, Jonathan Chang slid across the finish line.
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