River HomeLink parent informational meeting set Parents of present and prospective students in the River HomeLink program of the Battle Ground School District are invited to an upcoming meeting to learn about programs that will be offered in the 2012-13 school year.
ExCEL Academic League is living up to its name by winning the statewide middle school Science Olympiad for the third year in a row.The team of 14 homeschoolers from the Camas and Washougal "Alpha" team, beat the second-place team by 41 points to secure a spot at nationals in Orlando, Fla., in May. In addition to the winning team, ExCEL had another team, "Beta," compete at the state tournament, placing 11th overall.
Knowledge Bowl. DECA. And now Science Olympiad.Camas High School students continue to bring home the honors. The most recent one was when the Science Olympiad team competed and won the state championship at Eastern Washington University for the second year in a row. The Papermakers sacked the competition with a 40 point lead over second place team Union High School. Bothell High School, near Seattle, came in third. "This was quite a team effort, and a very well-fought tournament by many good teams," advisor Ron Wright said. "Twenty-nine students medaled at this tournament, the most we have ever had bring home individual medals from state."
Cape Horn-Skye names Super Citizens Super Citizens for the month of March at Cape Horn-Skye Elementary School included the following:
After two years of success, the Camas Iron Chef contest is returning for a third time.Hosted by the Camas Educational Foundation, last year it raised $2,200 for local students. Organizers are hoping to exceed that amount this time around. They are also changing the event's location from Camas Meadows to Journey Community Church in downtown Camas.
Spring community ed catalogs available The Washougal Community Education and Camas Community Education catalogs are now available online. The catalogs contain information about spring classes and activities.
Camas High School showed that science is tops with a successful finish at the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair Saturday, March 31. There were 540 projects entered in this year's fair. The Camas School District was represented with one project from Dorothy Fox Elementary and 15 from Camas High School. Nine parents accompanied their students to the fair.
Washougal High School student David Choi won the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award for his essay on American history.
Step-Ahead Preschool hosts parent meeting There will be an open house for all interested parents, particularly for those parents of children in the "birth-to-3" programs moving to "3-to-5" programs in the Camas School District.
After three days full of twists and turns, Team Mean Machine came out on top.
