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Also: Northwest Christian Schools wins the WIAA-Washington Army National Guard Scholastic Cup 2B Championship.

Northwest Christian School is inviting boys and girls entering first through eighth grades to its Crusader Sports Camp, Tuesday. The camps, which include boys basketball, football and baseball, and girls softball, basketball and volleyball, will be held in four 90-minute sessions each day. Athletes can sign up for more than one session.

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Also: Art and Soul Festival and Auction at Freeman, LC students place at DECA national competition, EV students off to FBLA nationals, Cheney selects superintendent finalists.

Also: CV jazz band hosts auction, Freeman students qualify for natianal FBLA contest, EWU awards scholarships

U-Hi opens ‘Evita’

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Spokane high school seniors will be honored for their academic achievement Monday at the 24th annual Spokane Scholars Foundation Banquet.

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Three area high school students have received Eastern Washington University’s Presidential Scholarship, worth $3,000, for the 2015-16 school year. Koby Wilburn (Mead High School), Katya Salnikova (Summit Christian Academy) and Jarrett Browning (Mt. Spokane High School) plan to attend Eastern in the fall.

Education news from around the area.

The 2016 Chase Youth Awards recently honored area students who best represent the characteristics of citizenship, community service, courage, creativity, diversity, leadership and personal achievement. Nominees ranged from kindergarten to 12th grade, and one adult was recognized for his impact on youth. The winners, by category, are:

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School news from around Spokane County.

The Lewis and Clark High School Tiger Drama Department’s production of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” premiers tonight. The musical follows J. Pierrepont Finch, a window washer who bluffs his way into a job in the mailroom of the World Wide Wicket Company, and the lives of other Wicket employees.

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Thirty-five Future Business Leaders of America members from Freeman High School recently participated in the 2016 Northeast Region Future Business Leaders of America Winter Conference, which was held at Eastpoint Church in Spokane Valley on Feb. 3.

Students from several Spokane Public Schools high schools competed in the Regional Thespian Festival last month. These students will represent their schools at the Washington State Thespian Festival at Central Washington University in March and the National Thespian Festival, which takes place at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, in June. The following students were recognized as yellow ribbon recipients: Reece Duncan (Shadle Park High School), Alycia Linton (North Central High School), Harley Belisle (Ferris High School), Mason Bower-Wade (Ferris), Dana Colley (Ferris) and Nina Maysonet (Ferris).

Spokane Community College will host a College Goal Washington event Saturday from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. At the event, part of the statewide 12th Year Campaign, which is run by the Washington Student Achievement Council, trained volunteers will help students and parents fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA.

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Last year, the eighth-grade class from Mountainside Middle School entered an International Astronomical Union contest to name an ExoWorld star and the exoplanet orbiting it. Its submissions, “Ran,” for the star, and “Aegir,” for the planet, were recently chosen as the winners.