North Albany Middle School will have the only choir from this part of the country at a Carnegie Hall school performance next May.
The school program, directed by LeAnn Wind, was selected based on music skills they demonstrated through and audition recording.
Students will begin fundraising for the trip this summer.
Yesterday, South Albany High School celebrated college acceptances. Students were recognized and received t-shirts if they had acceptance letters or signed letters of intent for college sports.
All students with college acceptance letters could trade in their letters for t-shirts.
During lunch, the following students signed athletic team letters of intent during a National Letter of Intent ceremony.
Congratulations to the following students:
Annie Taylor – Cross Country, Lane CC
Armondo Arreola – Soccer, Oregon Institute of Technology
Austin Mendoza – Soccer, Lane CC
Bishop Burns – Cross Country, Lane CC
Elileigh Wuerst – Track, Lane CC
Gunner Teem – Football, College of the Siskiyous
Bradley Johnson – Track, Oregon Institute of Technology
Chandler Villarreal – Wrestling, Southwestern Oregon CC
Gustavo Salas – Soccer, Walla Walla CC
Jake Costello – Basketball, Walla Walla CC
Jasmine Alejandre – Soccer, Multnomah University
Joey Barrientos – Soccer, Chemeketa CC
Jose Torres– Soccer, Lane CC
Keyanie Guyette – Track, Southern Oregon University
Logan Whittaker – Track, Montana State University
Madeline Trippett – Volleyball, Southwestern Oregon CC
Marco Reyes – Soccer, Corbin University
Preston Mayer – Football, Willamette University
Taylor Marshall – Soccer, Rogue CC
Tyler Miller – Cross Country, Southern Oregon University
Wyatt Marsh – Soccer, Corbin University
Note: Katie Mayhue signed her National Letter of Intent earlier this winter.
The annual Peacekeepers awards ceremony honored students and staff from Albany Options, South Albany and West Albany high schools. The award recognizes schools that promote harmony, peace and justice in the community.
The following students and staff were recognized at a lunch event on May 7.
Albany Options
Hailey Cotton
Laurel Elliott
Stefany Sanchez
Breanna Volkers
Faculty/Staff: Danny Corliss
South Albany High School
Itzel Alvarez
Emily Balck
Katie Beasley
Sage Bodily
Ambri Burton
Ryan Butler
Samantha Chavarria
Daniela Chavez
Angel Escorcia
Samantha Escorcia
Isaiah Exton
Moises Gonzalez
Jaden Guilford
Ramon Hernandez
Rose Howard
Alex King
Grace Lawson
Taylor Lewis
Brenda Lopez-Lopez
Eddie Martinez
Victor Maxfield
Nick McBee
Susie Montes
Ashlee Nunez
Karla Ortega-Montenegro
Savannah Partridge
Matthew Perry
Pippa Richardson
Isaac Soutwick
Terran Swope
Christopher Vega DeLeon
Christian Vosgien
Elizabeth Wood
Evelin Zuniga
Faculty/Staff: Brandon Neal, Chelsea Palmer, Kaylee Roderick, Chris Van Cauteren, Rose Zoellner
West Albany High School
Liliana Bacilio
Colton Byers
Athena Boysen
Esther Bugge
Jacqueline Clark
Josie Davis
Sabrina Davis
Ceanne Elliott
Hailyn Gibson
Karlie Guilliot
Kennedy Guilliot
Jalen Handy
Jack Lamont
Freddy Lopez
Eli Nicholas
Marcella Norris
Yurtzia Peraza
Vada Shelby
Diego Silva
Anna Soot
Hannah Thorp
Cindy Wong
Abby Wooton
Kassandra Worley
Faculty/Staff: Mr. Wadlow
Photos by Don Bacher. See entire album on Flickr.
Memorial Middle School sixth graders are at outdoor school this week. The new program is funded by the Oregon Lottery as part of Measure 99, passed by voters in 2016.
Outdoor school runs from May 14-18. It is at Camp Harlowe in Eugene and was developed in cooperation with the Calapooia Watershed Council. Students are chaperoned by Memorial parents and staff and assisted by 40 high school camp counselors from South Albany and West Albany High School.
It is a busy week for these students. Activities include crafts, team activities, skis and educational programs.
The all-girls Lego Robotics team from Oak Grove Elementary School won international recognition for “improving the lives of women in third world countries one LEGO® brick at a time.”
The Fin-tastic Fish team was chosen as the Avengers of the Week by the Gender Avengers organization for promoting girls in STEM and CORE Values.
This all-girl robotics team did extensive research on “how girls in developing countries might use micro-hydroelectric water power to improve their quality of life.”
Specifically, this award is based on the team’s solution to a lack of light for studying in developing countries:
“The team figured out how to program a robot that, when placed in a small stream, uses the water current to recharge batteries and small LED lights enabling them to have better light sources than candles/open flames.”