April 18, 2018
Woodburn Elementary math paraeducator honored
Julie Ward, a Title I math paraeducator at Woodburn Elementary, was named the 2018 regional classified employee of the year in March.
Julie Ward, a Title I math paraeducator at Woodburn Elementary, was named the 2018 regional classified employee of the year in March.
Nine elementary students from Camas schools have qualified for the 2018 Washington State Elementary Chess Championship to be held on Saturday, April 21, in Pasco, Washington.
The Camas High School choir has teamed up with indie-rock composer Kelly Pratt and Young Audiences of Oregon and Southwest Washington, an arts education nonprofit, to create an hour-long performance that breaks away from the traditional choir concert by including rock band Bright Moments to accompany the voices of the 200 Camas High School students.
Camas High School students from eight school clubs collaborated to create a Unity Week, celebrating diversity and uniting their school community during the final week of March.
The Camas School District Board of Directors appointed two new members to fill the District 1 and District 2 seats during its regular meeting on Monday, March 26.
In the hallways of Washougal’s Jemtegaard Middle School, art students have showcased the way they see their local communities by creating tape art murals of trees, skylines and even the school’s Husky mascot.
Washougal High School senior Bridgette McCarthy rose to the top of 29 Clark County youth to win the Marshall Youth Leadership Award and a $2,500 college scholarship, on March 21.
Hundreds of local students from Camas and Washougal schools joined the youth-led National School Walkout on March 14, to honor the 17 victims of a Feb. 14 mass school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and call for changes inside their own schools as well as on a national level.
In the midst of the chaos called “growing up,” teenagers at Washougal High School could always find solitude and safety inside teacher Jennifer Mahorney’s choir room.
Camas High School junior Monica Chang is only six months into her junior year and has managed to take first place at the Oregon Bioscience Showcase, write a first-place, award-winning essay for The Fort Vancouver Sons of the American Revolution and help organize a school walkout honoring Parkland shooting victims — all on top of a class schedule filled with Advanced Placement (AP) classes and after-school clubs, including “Girls Who Code”, DECA and the Southwest Washington Red Cross Youth Council.
