Storms force cancellation of Shawnee's Red, White and Blue Celebration

As two McLoud High Schools students, Data Condulle and RayAnn Haslam, spend their summer as interns at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, information regarding what they are learning is available here.

Oklahoma’s CareerTech educators from across the state recently participated in training for the Oklahoma CareerTech Instructors as Mentors program held at the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education in Stillwater.

The Seminole State College Board of Regents convened Thursday for its monthly meeting. At its June meeting, the SSC Board unanimously agreed to hold tuition and mandatory fees at the current rate, heard reports on campus activities, approved the college’s Educational and General Fund Budget for the 2010 fiscal year, accepted the audit, accepted an agreement for exchange of services with the SSC Educational Foundation and discussed purchasing technological equipment for classroom video capture.

Six Gordon Cooper Technology Center students brought home seven national championship awards from the Business Professionals of America national conference in Dallas last week.
“Gordon Cooper Technology Center was certainly well represented at the national competition this year,” GCTC Accounting and Financial Services teacher Kathy Lowry said.

The sixth and seventh grade academic bowl team from Grove placed fourth at the OJABA state academic bowl tournament April 4. The team placed first in both district and regional competitions in order to qualify for the state tournament, which was held at The University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Teachers from across the state are learning about reading instruction strategies in a “No Child Left Behind: Every Child Can Read II” workshop at Gordon Cooper Technology Center this week. The five-day workshop is being conducted by Jiening Ruan and Priscilla Griffith from the University of Oklahoma.

Eight Oklahoma Baptist University seniors from Shawnee were named to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges for the 2008-09 academic year.

SUPERINTENDENT’S HONOR ROLL: 
First grade — Caitlin Corley, Logan Gear, Kaitlynne Heilaman, Kyle Herron, Kensington  Kerbs, Jake McRay, Bria Pelate, Lily Perry, Karsyn Reed, Marley Reed, Kylie Robinson, Kaitlynn Remington, Elaina Sanchez, Victoria Stone.

The Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology held its commencement April 23.
Shawnee resident Bradley Stone graduated with an associate in applied science in Chrysler CAP.

Rogers State University has announced its President’s and Dean’s Honor Rolls for the spring 2009 semester. To qualify for the President’s Honor Roll, students must complete a minimum of 12 semester hours of college-level courses with a 4.0 grade point average.

Newman University celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2009 with commencement exercises on May 16 at Central Community Church in Wichita, Kan. This year, 313 candidates for graduation participated in the commencement ceremony, including some students scheduled to complete their degree requirements in the summer 2009 semester.

Seminole State College Upward Bound Summer Academy students had the ride of their lives Tuesday when Team Thunder came to the SSC campus.
Team Thunder, based in Grove, focuses on helping students make good choices and understand how mathematics, science, technology, language arts and other subjects are applied in the real world.

Oklahoma Baptist University’s School of Nursing recognized outstanding students during a nursing awards banquet April 27. Laura Cooprider received recognition as the Outstanding Senior in the School of Nursing by Dr. Lana Bolhouse, dean of the School of Nursing. A nursing major from Edmond, Cooprider also was recognized during the 2009 Awards Convocation May 13 in Raley Chapel. She graduated magna cum laude during spring commencement May 23.

Seminole State College will hold a certification training program, ServSafe, for restaurant personnel and food industry workers interested in learning more about foodborne illnesses 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., June 23 in the Enoch Kelly Haney Center, room 104, on the SSC campus.
The deadline for enrollment is Friday.

Oklahoma Baptist University students recently competed during the Southwest Regional Model Arab League simulation at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, earning delegation honors at the April event.

Seminole State College is offering a “Read to Achieve” Summer Day Camp for first- through fifth-graders needing to enhance their reading comprehension skills.

Shawnee residents Evan Blackstone and Kenneth Whitmore were listed on the Dean’s List at William Jewell College for their academic performance during the spring 2009 semester.

McLoud High School students Data Condulle and RayAnn Haslam, who will both be seniors in the fall, were accepted to join a handful of high schoolers for a summer Residential Internship program with NASA.

Stroud community leaders Patsy and Richard James congratulate 2009 Academic All-Stater Ryan Heath of Shawnee during the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence Academic Awards Banquet held recently in Norman.

Emily Dyer of Shawnee graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., May 8.
She graduated summa cum laude, with Latin honors, with a degree in mechanical engineering. She also earned a minor in engineering management.