Education Notebook: U-Hi presents musical play ‘Evita’

University High School’s production of “Evita” premieres Thursday. The musical features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice.

The story of Eva “Evita” Peron, the first lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952, is told through the eyes of Che Guevara. Caitlin McLennan plays Evita; Evan Figuracion plays Guevara; and Brady Magruder plays Evita’s husband, Argentine President Juan Peron.

Mallory Carbon and Mikala Lindgren helped with the Argentinian-style choreography. The rest of the cast and crew is rounded out by 60 Central Valley School District students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Performances are Thursday through Saturday and May 5-7 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12 online at www.cvsd.org and $14 at the door.

Reunion set Friday for Adams’ staff

Past and present staff from Adams Elementary School in the Central Valley School District are invited to a reunion Friday at Spokane Valley Church of the Nazarene, 15515 E. 20th Ave., Spokane Valley, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Dessert will be available. For more information or to RSVP, email gsarland@comcast.net.

WV team to compete in robotics meet

West Valley High School’s FIRST Robotics team, “Chuck,” is one of three Eastern Washington teams currently competing in the FIRST World Championship, April 27-30 in St. Louis.

The FIRST competitions work to inspire youth by giving them experience in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields.

Pullman’s 4-H Palouse Area Robotics team, “SciBorgs,” and Palouse High School’s “VIKotics” are also competing at the world championship.

Cheney FBLA entries place at state

Cheney High School’s Future Business Leaders of America students recently competed in the 2016 Northeast Regional Winter Conference, which was at Eastpoint Church in Spokane Valley.

Fifty-six of the club’s 67 attending members placed in the top six. These students were then eligible to compete at the State Business Leadership Conference in Spokane, which was April 20-23.

The 56 students are:

Anna Arensmeyer (entrepreneurship, fourth place; FBLA principles and procedures, fourth place; introduction to business presentation, first place), Claire Arensmeyer (sports and entertainment management, first place; word processing, first place), Stephanie Assonken (public speaking 1, fifth place), Clayton Beard (business communications, fifth place; business law, fourth place; client service, first place; economics, sixth place; global business, second place), Abigail Blazon (e-business, first place; FBLA principles and procedures, third place), Hannah Blazon (database design and applications, sixth place; e-business, first place; management decision making, sixth place), Maggie Booth (business ethics, fifth place; hospitality management, third place), Noah Brown (desktop application programming, third place; management information systems, third place), Megumi Call (computer applications, second place; management decision making, third place; public speaking 1, second place), Aviendah Chapman (Securities and investments, sixth place), Jason Chilcoat (database design and applications, fourth place; global business, third place; management information systems, third place; network design, fifth place), Colton Dotson (computer game and simulation programming, second place; database design and applications, second place; management information systems, sixth place; network design, fifth place, networking concepts, fourth place), Matt Dupler (computer problem solving, third place; desktop application programming, first place; management information systems, first place; networking concepts, third place), Reba Eaton (business calculations, fourth place; management decision making, second place), Allissa Empert (business ethics, fifth place; management decision making, third place), Daymon Endsley (computer game and simulation programming, fifth place; network design, second place), Brandon Foster (accounting 1, sixth place; agribusiness, sixth place), Mac Frederick (computer problem solving, fourth place; economics, fourth place; global business, second place; management information systems, second place; mobile application development, first place), Kiersten Gasper (cyber security, fourth place; digital video production, first place; help desk, fifth place; introduction to information technology, fourth place), Ciarra Gay (marketing, second place; sports and entertainment management, first place), Connor Gerstenkorn (computer applications, first place; e-business, first place; management decision making, sixth place), Hope Gill (management decision making, sixth place; sports and entertainment management, first place), Ashley Gundlach (client service, sixth place), Am’mi Hanna (hospitality management, third place; introduction to business, second place; introduction to business procedures, second place), Jennifer Harbick (business communications, first place; business law, second place; computer game and simulation programming, first place, healthcare administration, second place), Tea Joe Hickman (business law, third place; computer game and simulation programming, fifth place; mobile application development, first place), Gabriel Hines (marketing, second place; personal finance, fifth place), Anya Howko-Johnson (entrepreneurship, fourth place; future business leader, second place; introduction to business presentation, first place), Robin Israel (mobile application development, second place), Andrew Jenkins (computer problem solving, sixth place; healthcare administration, third place; management information systems, first place; personal finance, fourth place; public speaking 2, first place), Paige King (help desk, second place; introduction to business communications, third place; introduction to information technology, fifth place), Spencer Kohlman (3-D animation, first place), Mitch Lawrence (computer problem solving, second place; database design and applications, first place; introduction to information technology, first place), Paige Lewis (public service announcement, first place; publication design, third place), John Magill (database design and applications, third place; economics, third place; global business, third place; management information systems, third place; network design, fifth place), Jasmine McCauley (management decision making, second place, management information systems, second place; network design, second place; public service announcement, first place; publication design, fifth place), Jake McGillicuddy (computer game and simulation programming, third place; desktop application programming, second place; help desk, fourth place; management information systems, first place; network design, third place; networking concepts, sixth place; word processing, fourth place), Sarah Nanny (creed, fifth place; impromptu speaking, sixth place; sales presentation, second place), Evarosa Perry (introduction to business presentation, second place), Elizabeth Potter (introduction to business communications, second place), Dirk Ray (business law, first place; healthcare administration, first place; insurance and risk management, second place; securities and investments, third place), Ben Riddle (graphic design, fifth place), Joe Riddle (cyber security, third place; global business, second place; management information systems, second place; mobile application development, first place; networking concepts, second place), Kyle Sewright (management information systems, sixth place; network design, third place; networking concepts, fifth place), Hannah Spakousky (publication design, sixth place), Chantell Spencer (help desk, sixth place), Amanda Stevens (introduction to business procedures, sixth place; introduction to information technology, sixth place; spreadsheet applications, third place), Breanna Stewart (computer game and simulation programming, second place; electronic career portfolio, fourth place; publication design, first place; website design; fourth place), Jack Stewart (introduction to business, first place; introduction to business procedures, fourth place), Daniel Storment (computer game and simulation programming, third place; computer problem solving, fifth place; help desk, third place; network design, sixth place), Ethan Sugimura (accounting 1, fifth place; future business leader, third place), Rachel Suominen (entrepreneurship, fourth place; fbla principles and procedures, first place; introduction to business presentation, second place; management decision making, third place), Jacob Tart (computer game and simulation programming, first place; management information systems, sixth place; network design, sixth place), Arseniy Tepp (computer game and simulation programming, third place), Sydney Zapf (business calculations, second place; business communications, fourth place; computer game and simulation programming, second place; healthcare administration, fifth place; publication design, first place; website design, fourth place) and Jack Zuelke (introduction to information technology, second place).

Northwood names assistant principal

Northwood Middle School has selected Jay Tyus as its new assistant principal. Tyus is replacing administrator Sue Hogue, who is retiring at the end of the school year.

Tyus currently works as the principal of Tonasket Middle School. He will begin working at Northwood on July 1.

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