Area Students Win School Geography Bees

Fri., April 2, 1999

Local seventh-graders Peter Wroe, Canfield Middle School, and Molly Rosenbusch, Timberlake Junior/Senior High School, recently won their school Geography Bee contests and have qualified as finalists for state competition. Sarah Johnston was the Canfield runner-up.

More than 5,000 students representing schools from all 50 states, several U.S. territories and the District of Columbia will match wits later this month in Sun Valley at the state/territorial competition for a chance to win $100 and an allexpense-paid trip to the national Geography Bee contest in Washington, D.C., in May. The national winner will receive a $25,000 college scholarship.

Dr. Bill Proser, the principal of Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy, North Idaho’s first public charter high school set to open in September, recently traveled to the annual National Charter School Conference in Denver.

Proser, who has been an educator and advanced learning facilitator with the Coeur d’Alene School District for 21 years, was one of 1,400 participants to attend the hands-on education sessions aimed at informing, encouraging and educating the increasing charter school movement.

Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy will be a no-tuition, tax-supported high school with a rigorous academic program for grades 7-10. Grades 11 and 12 will be added in the future.

Charlie Johnson a seventh-grader at Canfield Middle School who recently took part in the “Write on Idaho” eighth-grade direct writing assessment simulation, has had his essay chosen as the Best of Seventh Grade.

Student participants are required to write for two hours on a topic selected by the State Department of Education, with this year’s topic being, “A Memorable Experience in Idaho.”

Other students with essays selected as Best in Class included; Amy Oliveria, Ryan Richard, Amanda Jarstad, Tyler Fredericks, Peter Wroe, Audrey Rhodes, Jessika Roletto, Mallory Nehlick, Sally Kitchen, Elizabeth Myers, Ricky Baldwin, Ashely Duchow-Moore, Amanda Richards and Joshua Gittel.

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