Jessica Lee, a 12th grader at St. Henry District High School (Boone County), had the third-place entry in First Lady Glenna Bevin’s Kentucky Derby Poster Contest. She will receive a $200 scholarship.
First-place winner was Ashley McHone, an 11th grader at Shelby County High School. Mallery Marshall, a 9th grader at Pleasure Ridge Park High School (Jefferson County), had the second-place entry.
All Kentucky high school students were invited to participate in the contest.
Project Lead The Way
Larry A. Ryle High School and Gray Middle School in Boone County and Covington Catholic High School have been recognized as a Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Distinguished Schools for providing broad access to transformative learning opportunities for students.
Ryle was recognized through PLTW Biomedical Science and Gray through PLTW GatewayTM. CovCath is the only Catholic high school to have a PLTS Stem program and offers engineering courses.
Ryle and Covington Catholic are two of just 133 high schools across the U.S. to receive this honor. PLTW is a nonprofit organization that serves millions of K-12 students and teachers in over 10,500 schools across the U.S.
Through PLTW programs, students develop STEM knowledge as well as in-demand, transportable skills that they will use both in school and for the rest of their lives, on any career path they take.
PLTW is a nonprofit organization that empowers students to develop in-demand, transportable knowledge and skills through pathways in computer science, engineering, and biomedical science.
NKyian inducted into WKU honor society
The Western Kentucky University of Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society inducted 31 members at its Spring Induction Ceremony.
To be eligible for membership, full-time freshmen must earn a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 in at least one semester and rank in the upper 20 percent of their class.
Christopher Davis of Independence, Brooke Katinic of Independence, and Karah Knotts of Union were among those inducted.