High School Grad Gets Associate Degree While He’s At It
When East Valley High School graduate Nathan Czech starts college at Eastern Washington University in the fall, he’ll be two years ahead of his classmates.
On Friday, Czech, 18, will receive an associate of arts degree from the Community Colleges of Spokane. For the past two years, he’s been taking classes at Spokane Falls and Spokane community colleges.
As a junior at East Valley High School last year, Czech hooked up with the Running Start program, an outgrowth of 1990 legislation that allows students to attend college classes and simultaneously receive high school and college credit.
Czech is one of 13 Spokane area high school students, and the only one from the Valley, who will receive an associate of arts degree this year.
Seventy-six Valley high schoolers are currently enrolled in Running Start.
His parents are happy, Czech said, because “that’s two years less of college that has to be paid for.”
Classes at the community colleges weren’t much harder, just more condensed, said Czech, who graduated from East Valley last week with a 3.5 grade point average.
Students holding auto sale
Interested in selling your car? Some Spokane Valley high school students want to help.
Central Valley High School’s Future Business Leaders of America club will hold an Autorama on June 24 in the school’s parking lot.
For $10, prospective sellers can rent parking spaces at the school for cars, trucks, recreational vehicles, motorcycles or boats.
Representatives from Washington Trust Bank will be on hand to help with credit applications, Blue Book information and to answer questions.
A car wash will begin at 8 a.m. to get vehicles looking spiffy. Donations will be accepted.
The money raised will help send FBLA students to the National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Fla., in late June and early July. The students need to raise $1,000.
Fifth-graders win second place
Ten Seth Woodard Elementary fifth-graders took second place in a Thinking Cap Quiz Bowl contest recently.
The questions covered a variety of topics, from math to current events, and had to be answered within a minute.
Team members are: Chris Payne, Nick Nichols, Scott Hager, Arin Martinez, Rachel Walker, Chris Ingram, John Wesolowski, Ryan Britton, Erin Winsper and Chris Bemis.
First place went to a team from Vancouver, Wash.
Trentwood Elementary wins grant
At the end of the 1995-96 school year, every first-grader at Trentwood Elementary School will go home with a new book, thanks to a grant from a national nonprofit children’s literacy organization.
The award is part of a package of grants worth $150,000 in books and services, made by Reading is Fundamental to school nationwide that will serve about 28,000 first graders.
This is the first year Trentwood has applied for the grant, said first-grade teacher Mona Marlett. The school hopes to renew the award every year.
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