2019 St. Vrain Graduation

SALUTE TO SENIORS • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • SECTION Q

Salute to Seniors LONGMONT TIMES-CALL CONGRATULATES THE CLASS OF 2019

FREDERICK HIGH SCHOOL

FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT

Our graduates are advancing America’s future BY D ON HADDAD

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Biomedical seniors Kaiya Lindhardt, left, and Brenna Christen exchange microphones while rehearsing their presentations April 24 in the auditorium at Frederick High School.

First biomedical class to graduate BY AMY BOUNDS STAFF WRITER

Longmont in the fall, then transfer to the University of Colorado BoulFrederick High senior der. Trinity Lyles counts But first, there’s high standing on a table and school graduation to celedropping fake blood to brate. imitate blood spatter dur“We made it,” said ing a mock death investiLyles, one of 14 seniors gation as one of her most in Frederick High’s first memorable academic class graduating from the experiences. Biomedical Science AcadThe experience as a emy. “I’m so, so ready.” freshman in Frederick’s Altogether, about 2,250 Biomedical Science Acad- St. Vrain Valley seniors emy also helped spark are graduating in the her interest in a possible class of 2019, most on career as a medical May 25, and many are examiner. Her plan is to starting college or start at Front Range careers a step ahead. Community College in All of St. Vrain Valley’s

comprehensive high schools offer a slate of honors classes, mainly Advanced Placement, that may qualify for college credit. Then there are a slew of specialty classes and programs, from STEM programs to a leadership academy to vocational classes. The district also is in its third year of offering a P-TECH, or Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools, program at Longmont’s Skyline High, while Frederick will begin offering the P-TECH pro-

gram in the fall. For Frederick High’s biomedical program, teacher Mark Allen started with a freshman class four years ago after the assistant principal decided it would make a good focus program for the school. “The seniors, they’re my babies,” Allen said. “They’ll always be my favorite class because they’re the first. I’m excited for what they’re accomplishing. I want to think this has helped them find their niche.” Freshmen start with an Please see FREDERICK, 2Q

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Biomedical senior Ashley Morgan rehearses her presentation in the auditorium at Frederick High School on April 24.

Thursday, May 23 11:30 a.m.: Universal High School, at Xilinx, at 3100 Logic Drive, Longmont 7 p.m.: Olde Columbine High School , at Altona Middle School, 4600 Clover Basin Drive, Longmont Friday, May 24 2 p.m.: St. Vrain Online Global Academy, at Main Street School, 820 Main St., Longmont Saturday, May 25 Each held at the graduating high school: 9 a.m.: Skyline High School and Mead High School. 10 a.m.: Erie High School, Frederick High School, Longmont High School, Lyons High School, Niwot High School and Silver Creek High School

become highly engaged As we move toward the citizens who remain end of another outstand- focused on strengthening our society and bettering ing school year, it is an our world. honor to recognize the The Class of 2019 unwavering drive, enrolled in a record numstrength of character, ber of Advanced Placeand rigorous academic preparation that has pro- ment exams, International Baccalaureate courses pelled approximately 2,000 students to the day and concurrent enrollof their high school grad- ment college courses, giving them the opportuuation. The thunderous nity to start their postsecapplause that will follow them as they walk across ondary education with the stage to receive their approximately 12,000 coldiploma is not only a tes- lege credits on their trantament to their academic scripts, potentially saving achievements but a sym- their families $3.4 million in tuition costs. Our gradbol of our community’s enduring commitment to uating seniors have also the continued success of received numerous recognitions for their acaour students, teachers, demic achievements, talstaff, parents and coments, and innovative munity. ideas, including: BoettchIf we reflect back 13 er Scholarships; Daniels years ago to when this Scholarships; National year’s seniors were Merit semifinalists and entering kindergarten, we will see an extraordi- finalists; All-State athletes; All-State musicians; nary transformation of our public school system and thousands of college acceptance letters from and our community. For institutions across the more than a decade, St. Vrain Valley Schools has country including many Ivy League schools, milibeen advancing excellence through the devel- tary academies and other opment of programming highly competitive colleges and universities. that is giving our stuWe are incredibly proud dents a strong competitive advantage to excel in of what our students have accomplished in a a complex, globalized time of increasing acaworld. demic rigor, expanding Our 2019 graduates graduation requirements, have advanced their skills through enrollment and the highest expectations of leadership, comin high-quality instructional focus academics in munity and citizenship. As we celebrate the biomedical sciences, many successes of our energy, engineering and students, St. Vrain Valley aerospace, medical and Schools continues to bioscience, leadership, enhance the learning STEM, visual and perexperience by expanding forming arts, and more. They have been connect- opportunities across our ed to the best technology district, including opening a second Pathways in and learning resources through our 1:1 technolo- Technology Early Colgy initiative and national- lege High School (P-TECH) program in ly recognized Learning Biochemistry this fall at Technology Plan. They Frederick High School. have been highly P-TECH is a newer eduengaged in their school communities and extend- cational model that allows students to earn ed learning beyond the an associate’s degree school day through the concurrently with their arts, music, athletics, high school diploma — at advanced career and no cost to the student — technology programs, while receiving mentorand other co-curricular activities. Through all of ship and internship Please see ST. VRAIN, 2Q this, they have also

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2019 SENIORS Crossroads School Riona Duran-Lovato

Chloe Gomez

Brianna Jones

Aaron Schlegel

2019 SENIORS Dawson School

Ethan Abramson

Ashley Beard

Jesus Bejar II

Georgina Bell

James Bohn

Stella Bristol

Maxwell Cahill

Daniel Cerna-Gaytan

Peter Coggan

Henry Crouch

De La Cruz Camayo

Anabella DeFrancia

Fiona Dempsey

Sarah Devereux

Simon Dodge

Asher Edelman

Molly Ellenbogen

Cameron Epstein

Benjamin Gallegos

Katherine Gallop

Julia Garfinkel

Creek Hall

Naomi Hartgens

Jonathan Heroux

Emily Hicks

Carter Holbrook

William Howenstein III

Nami Kaneko

William Kessler

Margaret Klau

Rachel Leidich

Keilly Leon Rico

Caroline Lerner

Jue Li

Peter Mace

Avery McClellan

David McKean

Maxwell Melamed

Winter Mesko-Eby

Olivia Moll

Donovan Muniz

Anne Nicault

Ryan Oliver

Logan Opie

Emily Powers

Scarlett Reavey

Ella Remer

Anna Ridilla

John Ridilla

Keely Ryland

Madeline Saito

Heather Smith

Curtis Teegardin

Samuel Troughton

Ruby Walker

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opportunities with industry partners. This unique program supports the creation of a dynamic workforce through the development of intergenerational talent, and gives every student the framework and resources they need to achieve an outstanding postsecondary education. Public education is one of the most powerful systems for driving positive change in our society. Across the United States, approximately 90 percent of our children attend a public school — and in the St. Vrain Valley, that percentage is even higher. With the future success of our community and nation dependent on the quality of our public schools, we have no greater responsibility than ensuring every child in

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FREDERICK from page 1Q our community receives a rigorous, engaging and high-quality education. To this end, it is an honor to stand alongside our Board of Education, teachers, staff, parents, administrators and other community partners to celebrate the Class of 2019 and recognize our students’ high levels of success. Lastly, I want to share my heartfelt gratitude to all of our seniors and wish you the very best in life. Our schools will forever be strengthened by your time in our community — you are truly a class of compassionate, dedicated, intelligent, and outstanding people who will boldly lead our country into the future. Don Haddad, Ed.D., is superintendent of St. Vrain Valley Schools.

introduction to biomedical foundations using a curriculum from Tufts University, then take a class each year with a different theme. Along with working with Tufts University, Allen works with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Colorado State University’s medical engineering program to provide college-level experiences for students. “One of the biggest goals is for us to give the students a chance to really see all the different careers,” Allen said. “They can explore and try new things.” For their culminating project, the seniors chose a medical topic, researched it and gave TEDEd talks to the community. Topics included the effects of cell phones on the body, antidepressants, physician-assisted suicide and antibiotic resistance.

“I love this class,” said senior Kaiya Lindhardt, whose goal is to become an ER or flight nurse. “It was a fun way to learn the information and having this experience will help a ton in the future.” Classmate Payton Wallace said she appreciated the opportunity to explore more career options while still in high school. “It really did prepare us for college,” said Wallace, who is headed to Northeastern Junior College with plans to earn an associate’s degree and potentially become a dental hygienist Another advantage, the seniors said, was that their biomedical classmates became like family. “As a class, we got so connected,” Wallace said. “It’s going to be exciting to see where everybody goes after high school.”

They said the only downside is the biomedical classes are considered electives and opportunities to earn college credit are limited. Allen said adding opportunities for students to earn college credit or even having the classes weighted similar to honors classes to boost students’ GPAs has been one of his biggest challenges. So far, the only opportunity is for seniors to earn bioengineering college credit from CSU. Still, they said, the program was well worth their time. “We’ve learned so many different things and about so many different jobs,” said Ashley Morgan, who is going into the Navy as a hospital corpsman, then planning to go to college to become a pediatric nurse. “It opens up so many opportunities.”

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2019 SENIORS Erie High School

Satyakam Adhikari

Yusef Akers

Joshua Alejo

Flora Amaya Garcia

Jayleen Archuleta

Jazmond Archuleta

Luke Arvay

Ryan Bajcar

Samuel Ballew

Jordan Bardwell

Kyra Bell

Rae Bellows

Veronica Beltz

Garet Benge

Jonah Berg

Maisie Berger

Daniel Bettencourt

Ethan Bianchi

Teagan Brand

Josie Brewer

Hannah Brink

Braidyn Bristow

Katelyn Broerman

Spencer Brooks

Dylan Brown

Joshua Campbell

Alicia Cardenas Mitrovic

Mikayla Carter

Jamison Cartwright

Megan Casillas

Keith Chapman

Bryce Christensen

Madelyn Christenson

Riley Clark

Joshua Cloar

Grace Cloud

Aiden Clough

Westley Cody

Emily Condon

Hannah Conley

Kennedy Coventry

Charlotte Cowan

Cora Cramer

Sophia Crawford

Jordyn Cremers

Sydney Crites

Nicholas Cuccaro

Max Culver

Patrick Cummings

Julian Custine

Zachary D’Antuono

Kieli Davia

Tanner David

Nicole Davis

Madelyn Deakin

Lindsey Deaver

Lauren Dee

Kayla Desousa

Layla Diaz

Hayden Dickinson

Sydney Erbe

Evelyn Esparza

Royann Estrada

Avery Fabre

Avery Fails

Jacob Faucette

Joshua Faucette

Brianna Faulkner

Emmalee Fischer

Ethan Flood

Abigail Freeburg

Draven Froid

Kaleb Fuhrmann

Seana Fulco Hassel

Danielle Gagne

Aspen Ganison

Tyler Gardner

Megan Gilbert

Melanie Girdner

Robert Girtakovskis

Zachary Glaze

Kelyn Goldenstein

Grace Gorton

Sarah Gotfredson

Mika Green

Alexandria Gruse

Sinjin Gudenkauf

Christian Haakmeester

Nathan Hackney

Haley Hahn

Sneat Haile

Garion Hall

Katelin Hall

Courtney Hancock

Kyleigh Harrell

McKenna Harrington

Evan Hassman

Kaelin Hawkins

Myles Heidmous

Joshua Higgins

Olivia Hill

Ashlyn Himler

Preston Himler

Cooper Hinman

Kaela Hinrichs

Jakob Hobert

Parker Hogan

Tayelor Holdren

Bianca Holmes

Bryce Horton

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2019 SENIORS Erie High School

Aidan Hoskinson

Patrick Hoskinson

Dallin Howard

Alyssa Howell

Kailey Hudson

Owen Ingalls

Daniela Jacquez

Shela Jaff

Halle Jellis

Kaleb Jensen

Clayton Johnson

Ethan Johnson

Laura Johnson

Nicholas Johnson

George Jordan

Audrey Joseph

Logan Jundt

Alexis Jurado Portillo

Keomoniroth Kan

Hailey Keller

Morgan Kelley

Isaac Khanna

Joshua Khoudary

Lauren Kia

Nimoy Kimble

Lily King

Kate Knudsen

Kinsey Kohler

Phillip Kotvytskyy

Ryan Kreger

Hannah Kurz

Kayla Lard

Madison Leach

Haley Leighton

Lauren Lindsay

Luis Lopez

Miranda Lorenzo

Alexandrea Macias

Amanda Maggio

Macy Mahan

Shreesha Maharjan

Felix Martinez

Stephani Martinez

Shay Maruna

Maxwell Mauldin

Alice Mazzetti

Kiernan McCarty

Mikayla McMillin

Alison McNeal

Erica McNeal

William Meade

Derek Meadows

Aidan Meeks

Michael Meilinger

Alexander Merth

Kailey Mezzacapo

Madison Michaud

Caleb Mikel

Ava Miley

Nolan Miltersen

Jerome Montoya

Karis Moore

Olivia Mortell

Quinn Musgrave

Jaymeson Nelms

Christian Nguyen

Ethan Nguyen

Alexander Nielsen

Samuel Orona

Hunter Oskarson

Grant Otto

Jessica Parker

Sydney Parrish

Anthony Pastore

Kaitlyn Patterson

Lukas Pelling

Eduardo Pena

Tomas Pham

Kailey Pickering

Cameron Pierce

Justin Pierce

Bailey Pitts

Braxton Powell

Jonathan Powell

Stephanie Pratt

Chase Quade

Marcus Quevedo

Sloane Quijas

Harlee Quintana

Jonathan Rairden

Brooklyn Rakes

Matthew Recksiedler

Brooke Reid

Kevin Rhiner

Jonathan Rice

Erich Riedel

William Riley

Dallas Rinehart

Orion Rizzuto

Brandon Rodriguez

Daniel Rogers

Iago Rohloff

Noah Roper

Hunter Rosebrough

Nathaniel Rost

Bransen Roylance

Morgan Rudd

Hayley Ruhl

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2019 SENIORS Erie High School

Karson Sakalosky

Yisha Shen

Auguson Saless

Jaden Sanders

Charity Sansgard

Leah Drake Ralphail Shepherd Shollenbarger Shtern

Calvin Sawyer

Nikolas Schernecke

Easton Schriner

Ashley Schroller

Nicole Schubert

Hannah Schuman

Peyton Sharp

Riley Siebels

Zoe Simms

Devon Simpson

Skylar Small

Madison Sousa

Eva Spencer

Michael Spetalieri

Delaney Spielman

Zachary Stanesa

Olivia Stecina

Samuel Street

Katherine Sutherland

Helle Terjesen

Abigail Thatcher

Emily Thoren

Jon Thoren

Kathryn Tracy

Jacob Turner

Ethyn Tyson

Caleb Unruh

Sophia Verlinich

Emma Wagnaar

Isabella Walden

Hogan Warlock

Alonzo Warner

William Warner

Rebekah Weigand

Jillian Weitzel

Samantha Wessbecker

Benjamin White

Breonna Wiesner

Colby Wingfield

Benjamin Winkler

Madison WinslowSmith

Austin Wyatt

Shuanah Xiong

Eugene Zak

ERIE HIGH SCHOOL

Students explore robotic surgery This article published originally on Dec. 13, 2018. BY AMY BOUNDS STAFF WRITER A doctor and nurse from Avista Adventist Hospital recently signed up to bring a travelling surgical robot to Erie High School, giving students a look at the latest surgical technology. The da Vinci Xi surgical robot, one of four travelling robots in the country used for demonstrations, is the same model that’s used for surgeries at Avista. At Erie High, groups of students in engineering and anatomy and physiology classes learned more about the machine and how it’s used. “I wanted them to have an idea of how we use what they’re learning in the real world,” said anatomy and physiology teacher Genadine Toves. “These are the things that kids remember.” Dr. Ross Leibovitz, a general surgeon, and Amy Randle, nurse clinical coordinator for robotic surgery, started by talking about laparoscopic surgery technology. Laparoscopic surgery allows doctors to perform surgery through small punctures instead of large incisions. They let a few students try picking up a rubber ring in a “patient’s” stomach using the long laparoscopic “stick” with a camera and tweezers on the end, guiding the tweezers while looking at a monitor. “It’s very difficult to duplicate the dexterity of a human hand with an instrument that only opens and closes,” Leibovitz said. Then they talked about the newer robotic technology, which translates the surgeon’s hand movements into smaller, precise movements to manipulate tiny instruments inside the patient’s body. “The robot doesn’t do the surgery,” Leibovitz said. “It only

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Eva Spencer, a student at Erie High School, inserts a robotic arm into the surgical area during a demonstration of the traveling da Vinci Xi surgical robot by Avista Hospital volunteers Dec. 11.

translates the motions from my fingers to the instrument.” A video monitor in the operating room guides doctors during surgery, allowing them to operate using highly magnified and immersive 3D-HD visualization. They can also zoom in and out. “It gives you better vision and better lighting,” Leibovitz said. “I can move the camera wherever I want. It’s all very precise. I’m in complete control.” For the patients, there’s less pain, faster healing and shorter hospital stays. Leibovitz said patients who

undergo surgery for colon cancer, for example, typically spend a week in the hospital after a regular surgery, but just two to three days after a robotic surgery. “It gives people the best result and least recovery time,” he said. “You have less trauma and very little blood loss.” After learning how it worked, students had an opportunity to try it themselves, using the robot to unwrap a Starburst candy. “I thought it would be super mechanical, but you have so much dexterity,” said sophomore Lauren Davia. “This is so cool.”

Junior Addyson Huber said she was impressed with the robot’s accuracy. “It totally just moves with you,” she said, adding that she liked the idea of performing surgeries with minimal blood. “I could see myself doing this.” The students also asked what kinds of surgeries work best with the help of robotics. Because it takes time to set up and doesn’t work well when there’s a lot of blood, it’s not typically used for trauma surgeries. Instead, Leibovitz said, it’s most used in urological, gynecological,

general and heart surgeries. Students also asked if robotic surgeries take longer. “It does the first time,” Leibovitz said. “Your time becomes faster. I’ve done 180 robotic cases. My times are tremendously faster than when I first started.” Randle added that there aren’t inherently more complications from a robotic surgery because the robotic arm “only does what we tell it to.” “Surgery is an inexact science,” she said. “We have a plan, but it doesn’t always go according to plan.”

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2019 SENIORS Frederick High School

Fidel Alcala

Dillon Alexander

Simon Amos

Brandon Andes

Aileen Arroyo

Ariel Atma

Carson Avery

Cody Ayres

Ryan Bacca

Rylan Bailey

Antonio Bargas

Enrique Barrera

Bailey Baumgardner

Calob Bertram

Mara Blom

Tyler Booker

Mats Boom

Kelli Brady

Zackary Briggs

Riley Buffington

Luis CalderonSanchez

Filiberto Carrillo

Jacqueline Castillo

Lindsey Castro

Alejandra Cervantes

Mercedes Cervantes

Keely Chavez

Martin Chavez

Lindsay Chohon

Brenna Christen

Dante Ciaravola

Leevi Clark

Allen Collins

Kaylee Congdon

Aidan Criswell

Milo Curran

Adelina DeSantis

David Denison

Destiny Dietiker

Aidan Dreitz

Victoria Dufour

Samuel Duran

Ty Duran

Brandon Else

Cienna Engdahl

Noemi Enriquez

Alexis Estrella

Brianna Fleeman

Jocelyn Flores

Walker Fox

Will Frank

Jenna Frenzel

Ezra Friss

Lorena Gallegos

Ani Gamkrelidze

Jonah Gardner

Brandon Gebs

Rene Gonzales

Beyonse Gordillo

Manaela Guimaraes

Mikayla Gutshall

Jonathan Hansen

Trevor Hazlett

Logan Helsley

Danielle Hemelstrand

Edwin Hernandez

Melissa Hernandez

Nathan Hernandez

Michela Hewitt

Cole Hoffman

Ariana Holtman

Kaitlyn Howell

Hailee Hurtado

Nerea Ibarbia Izquierdo

Yulissa Ignacio

Chase Jackson

Justin Jimenez

Crusifixio Jiminez

Jessica Kelley

James Klingensmith

Joanna Kloczkowski

Emalee Knepp

Denys Kolomyychuk

Natalie Kovanda

Elisabeth Kulesus

Avery Lareau

Nicole Lees

Tommy Lenot

Megan Lewis

Kaiya Lindhardt

Dulce Lopez De Anda

Tyler Lords

Matthew Lowry

Katlyn Lucas

Sergio Lujan

Trinity Lyles

Dallin Lyon

Tessa Lyons

Malachi MacCloud

Esperanza Macias

Marisa Manriquez

Israel Mares Arredondo

Chasen Marnioff

Jesus Marquez

Lucas Martinez

Savannah Martinez

Mikyla Massey

Kelsie Mauck

Max Mayfield

Kendall McCarron

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2019 SENIORS Frederick High School

Conor McDaniel

Carolina Mendoza Guigon

Elizabeth Molina

Sabrina Monroe

Ashley Morgan

Tyce Morgan

Emily Mullarkey

Macey Murfitt

Emerald Murillo

Cadence Neu

Angel Nevarez Manuel

Tegan Olsen

Nathaniel Ooms

Justis Ornelas

Moses Orozco

Cassandra Palmer

Hailey Palmer

Isaac Palmer

Lydia Palmer

Jacob Papini

Zach Pastor

Kiely Pent

Trey Petering

Nathan Petersen

Garrett Phillips

Juan Ponce Flores

Trenton Popham

Westlee Powers

Peyton Putallaz

Cobe Quinlan

Ashley Reichert

Brooke Reichert

Josi Revielle

Vanessa Richards

Jennissee Roach

Teighon Robbins

Logan Robinson

Ramon Rodriguez Ledezma

Xitlalik Rodriguez-Rojas

Alysia Romero

Jette Sagapo Lutele

Jalen Salazar

Abraham Salazar Soto

Paige Schaa

Holden Schaat

Amanda Schmidt

Gavin Self

Kelsea Sibold

Morgan Siders

Angel Sigala

Fernando Silva

Lucas Sing

Angel Sitte

Kaitlynn Smith

Tyler Smith

Shelby Smotzer

Juan Solorzano

Kaylee Speer

Megan Stegall

Triana Strange

Alicia Thompson

Michael Tompkins

Juliana Van Winkle

Christopher Vang

Flor Vazquez Segovia

Sloane Velasquez

Roberta Vulcano

Payton Wallace

Jonathan Watts

Julia White

Alexandra Williams

Truker Wuebkes

Baylie Wycoff

Jonathon Yuma

Madison Zamudio

Brian Ziegler

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Students get small taste of space

CU program brings astronomy lessons, portable planetarium to Frederick High School

being scientists,” Ellingson said. CU freshmen astrophysics majors Noah Ferich said it was a little weird to take on the role of a teacher in front of a high school This article published everyone. You open that so soon after being a high world to them.” originally on Oct. 3, 2018. school student. The CU students are BY AMY BOUNDS “I have a new appreciapart of the University of STAFF WRITER tion for teachers,” he said, Colorado Science, TechCU students spent Tuesadding he joined the CU nology and Astronomy day at Frederick High STARS program to share Recruits, or CU STARS, School, teaching astronohis love of astrophysics. program. The program is my lessons and leading “I’m really passionate supported by CU’s outpresentations in an inflatabout it, and I like to teach reach office. able planetarium. Lewis Geyer / Staff Photographer it to other people.” Through the volunteer They covered astrobiolo- program, now in its sevUniversity of Colorado astronomy senior Claire Douglas projects an image of For the lesson on finding gy, black holes and how the universe inside an inflatable planetarium at Frederick High School on planets, the CU students enth year, undergraduate scientists find planets out- students and graduate stu- Oct. 2, 2018. Through CU STARS, undergraduate students at CU visit high used Lego models as a schools around the state to lead students in hands-on activities to explore side the solar system, teaching tool as they dent mentors visit high along with giving students schools around the state to the universe. explained the various a tour of the cosmos in the lead hands-on activities. methods scientists use to planetarium. gram allows undergradureach ambassadors for search for distant planets The program makes “Sometimes science is that could support life outthree to four visits to high ate students to share their CU.” passions and encourage Two of the 10 undersidelined in high school side our solar system. schools a year, including high school students to graduate students who led because math and physics two-day trips so they can Scientists, they said, conconsider science as a the lessons on Tuesday — centrate on planets in the can turn people off,” said visit places that include future career. Washington and her sister, “Goldilocks” zone — that CU senior Brittney WashCarbondale, Trinidad and “They talk about science, Taylor — were Frederick just-right zone where planington. “This is a good way the San Louis Valley. ets just the right distance their experiences in colHigh graduates. Several to show students that not Program director Erica from a medium-size star others are CU freshmen only can astronomy be Ellingson, a CU astrophysi- lege and the path they took to get to college,” she who just graduated in May. could support life. super cool and super fun, cal and planetary science They also talked about professor, said the prosaid. “We try to be out“It’s their first steps to

the challenges. To find a planet like Earth, they said, scientists would need to look at a star for three years to see the planet make a transit, blocking a tiny fraction of the star’s light, for three years. “There’s so much area to look at,” Brittney Washington said. “Not only does it take time for the planet itself to show up, it’s where do we look. They could be anywhere.” Frederick students gave the program good reviews. “It was great,” said senior Ariel Atma, whose physics class participated in the Lego model activity. “They really knew what they were talking about.” Classmate Issac Lujan declared the visit “cool and interesting.” Mara Blom, an exchange student from the Netherlands, added that she appreciated the chance to learn more about CU. “I may want to go study here,” she said.

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2019 SENIORS Longmont High School

Ryan Adler

Cody Aker

Shelby Andrist

Myco Apolinario

Andres Argumedo Sanchez

Brenden Arndt

Nolan Arreola

Colby Austin

Hiram Baez Rios

Cynthia Barrientos Perez

Mark Baum

Josue Bautista Muro

Tommie Beavers

Alycia Bell

Melanie Boyle

Jacob Bradley

Madeline Brodie

Paula Brooks

Dylan Broussard

Mackenzie Brown

Neall Bunker

Lathan Bunkers

Noah Burger

Stephanie Burger

Alexandria Bush

Katie Byrne

Thiffany Canche Cabrera

Julian Cantu

Tanna Carson

Jason Casias

Marina Cellario

Infante Vieira

Samantha Chacon

Matthew Champion

Guadalupe Chaparro Temu

Isaac Chavarria Esquivel

Adrien Chavez

Sandy Chavez Meraz

Tanner Check

Jake Cito

Hadar Cohen

Sophia Collins

Sydney Cook

Halina Cope

Emma Crampsey

Hector Crespo Barron

Shateiya Criger

Sherie Davideit

Hannah Davis

Jozsef De La Torre

Aidan DeBie

Kascen Deeter

Oakley Dehning

Karla Delval

Makayla Dicke

Ashley Dillow

Garrett Dobson

Autumn Drees

Alexandro Elizalde

Ezra Elkins

Jaydon Elkins

Selena Engel

Drake Engelking

Henry Erickson

Brandon Ermatinger

Maritza Escobar Palma

Margarito Esparza

Sarahi Esparza Corchado

Mirella Espino Perez

Aubree Evans

Maya Fazio

Gema Fernandez Macias

Norman Fetrow

Beck Fieth

Kaleb Fike

Isabelle Flattery

Tara Foote

Julianne Forrester

Jaden Forsythe

Tania Francia Franco

Jacob Fry

Jordan Gallegos

Cruz Garcia

Josue Garcia

Zachery Geiger

Madeline Geyer

Cristina GipsonWilliams

Ashley Gissen

Geraldine Gomez Garcia

Samantha Gomez Vazquez

Rosbin GomezRamirez

Jason Gonzalez

Mireya GonzalezMunos

Ellen Goodwin

Shaelee Gray

Trinity Gray

Leila Guerra

Christopher Gumeson

Zoey Gunter

Robert Gutierrez

Hope Guynup

Emma Hall

Colton Hanson

Gracie Harvey

Marlo Harvey

Dylan Hassler

Anika Haugen

Mason Hayes

Keesha Hedderman

Mackenzie Heller

Kiana Hendricks

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SALUTE TO SENIORS • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • PAGE 9Q

2019 SENIORS Longmont High School

Abigail Herbert

Ashley Heredia Hernandez

David Hernandez

Zacarea Hernandez

Monserrat Hernandez Mora

Audie Herrera II

Jack Herrmann

Kamerin Hervey

Marley Higgins

Tara Hitchcock

Joseph Hodges

Tess Horine

Codi Houston

Alex Hovick

Kalynn Hubbard

Samuel Huber

Morgan Hyre

Bergen Ingvaldsen

Ryan James

Jade Jensen

Kelsee Johnson

Elizabeth Jones

Sean Kaliszewski

Nikolai Kassogue

Levi Keeslar

Tadan Keith

Maya Kierstein

Finn Kilcullen

Kandice Kittinger

Naima Kurjak

Gregory Labbe

Lesly LaraMosqueda

Connor Larsen

Jayda Larsen

Katie Larsen

Austin Lawley

Parker Lewis

Ashley Lindley

Zoe Lowe

Brittany Lucero

Miguel Macias Mendoza

Daniel Macias Ortiz

Madison Manning

Jennifer Mares Mosqueda

Jennifer Marotske

Dominique Martinez

Mykayla Martinez

Ashley Mathews

Anna McConahy

Taylor McDaniel

Alexis McGinley

Paul McGinnis

Garrett McGuire

Jeremiah Medina

Isai Medina Lopez

Patricia Melendez

Destiny Nicole Mendez

Alex Mentana

Alexia Merrill

Taylor Merz

Charles Mitchell

Hannah Moist

Kathryn Moist

Alexander Montano

Angelica Montoya Alvarado

Victor Montoya Sanchez

Karla Morales

Nathanael Morales

Daniel Morhous

Grace Morrow

Finnegan Motheral

William Murphy

Maritsa Najera

Isabela Neves

Olivia NicksTurnley

Ashley Nitzel

Leif Nuesken

Thalia Nunez

Alec O’Brien

Valeri Onate

Johan Opperman

Cesar Oros

Jairen Ovalle

Lucas Oxley

Mitchell Page

Kylie Parker

Alexander Patterson

Meagan Payne

Zachary Pefley

Moises Perez

Zeke Person

Rohan Phillips

Samantha Pinley

Damian Ponce

Alexander Powell

Joseph Prendergast

Everett Quince

Leslie Quiroz Ramirez

Cole Ragland

Yessenia Ramirez

Francisco Ramos

Victoria Ramos

Zyanne Reigh

Braden Renck

Christopher Riale

Dakota Richards

Emma Risdon

Jocelynn Rivera

Alexzandrea Rivera Moreno

Laurel Robbins

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2019 SENIORS Longmont High School

Anthony Rodriguez

Daisy RodriguezDelgado

Parker Rosebrock

Daniel Rubalcaba

Grant Rulon

Katrina Sabol

Megan Samide

Wayne Sampson

Riley Schilling

Natalie Schneider

Alyssa Scott

Calvin Seamons

Alexander Sedlak

Marland Serrano

Kevin Sigala Ruiz

Sherena Simmons

Taylor Sloane

Jasmine Solis

Arturo Solis Miramontes

Matthew Sprecher

Flynn Stevens

Alissa Stidham

Andres Suarez

Sienna Sundberg

George Tait

Owen Tardif

Stephanie Taylor

Sophia Terranova

Tucker Thesenvitz

Eliza Tignor

Jose Torres Perez

MiraLee Towns

Telvin Townsend

Maya Trenholm

Mya Urbina

Alejandro Vaca

Danaea Valdez

Jasmin Vazquez

Kairey Vela

Amaya Velarde Rael

Samuel Villalobos

Lizbeth Villalobos Carrillo

Ian Watts

Dylan Weber

Benjamin Whitcomb

Derick Wiggins

Blake Wirth

Jake Woodrum

Sydney Wyatt

McKenna Wybierala

Aidan Young

Luis Zatarain Montes

Bioleta Zavala Alfaro

Kallie Annika Westmoreland Wetterstrom

Gavin SantryEmily Weiland-Black Sanchez

Dylan Sardinia

Isabella Zwickel

Trojans’ team concept admirable to the end Without bona fide star, LHS comes within one game of perfection

Longmont was one of the top scoring teams in Class 4A at 70.3 points per game entering the Final Four and state championship games this weekend. But rather than relying on one or two key scorers to carr y the team, they feature seven differThis article published original- ent players who have scored in double figures during a game ly on March 10, 2019. and that can carr y the offense BY BRANDON BOLES for particular stretches. B OCOPREPS.COM “It’s something we’ve done all DENVER — Longmont boys year,” Longmont’s Brady Renck basketball coach Jeff Kloster said. “We have four or five legithas stressed playing a team imate shooters we trust to game in his long tenure as head shoot the ball, so my job is to coach, and his group over the find them, get them open and past couple of years have see what they can do.” shown that formula can lead to In all but two games this year, success at the highest level. the Trojans had two or more Particularly in 2018-19, that players score 10 points or more played out as a balanced Troin a game. Seven of those jans team came within one games had just two double-digit game of being perfect. scorers, but nine had three

players reach the 10-point mark. There were eight total games that saw four players in double figures, and even two during the regular season with five players in double figures for the team. Beck Page and Calvin Seamons led the 2018-19 team with 22 games in double figures, hence being the leading scorers per game this season. Renck reached 10 or more points 17 times to go with his facilitating on the floor, while Oakley Dehning (eight games) and Dallas Dye (seven games) provided sparks. All five starters have more than 500 points to their high school careers. Longmont also saw Jaydon Elkins and Ryan Schneider reach double figures in a handful of games coming off the bench to help the second unit.

The unselfish play helped the senior class go out with perhaps the best run in program histor y, reaching back-to-back state championship game appearances and winning 52 of their final 54 games. “It’s been a hell of a two years for us,” Renck said. “We put together two of the best seasons in Longmont histor y, and that’s something we’re going to cherish for the rest of our lives.” On Saturday, the offense that carried Longmont to an undefeated season was contained by a Lewis-Palmer team with size and length. Longmont finished with a season-low 52 points on a day where it could not find steady offense. The team shot 10 percent less from the field at 40 percent and 27 percent from Please see LONGMONT, 11Q

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2019 SENIORS

Longmont Christian School Annalisa D’Addario

Trinity Marriott

Whitney Timothy Audrey Christian Jordan Grace Echols James Eldred Daniel Fresquez Marie Gunlikson Perry Hudgins

Shannon R. McCarty

Christina Oswald

Caroline Pennington

Bishop Marriott

Savannah Lee Emily Seong Hun Elizabeth Skaw Vrooman

2019 SENIORS Life Skills ACE

Jose Avina

Naomi Bastow

Mackenzie Black

Zachary Botkin

Jose ChaparroMaho

Aron Chavez

Kasey Christensen

Justin Gould

Izaac Hensley

Samuel Hoffman

Gillian Holbrook

Kaitlin Koslovsky

Christian Macias

Vianney Moreno

Emiliano RoblesMartinez

Trevor Simmons

Dean Sims

Elijah Spielman

Gregory Trippe

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the 3-point line, eight percent less than their season average. “(Lewis-Palmer) is definitely athletic, but it’s not something we haven’t seen before,” Renck said. Seamons kept the Trojans in the game with 11 points on 5-of-5 shooting in the first half while the rest of the team went 4-of-16 from the field. Longmont also missed 5 of 9 free throws in the first half, preventing them from getting the early lead. Page, who did not score in the first half, caught fire from 3-point range in the second half to score 15. The Trojans felt they were getting the looks they wanted from the floor, but shots were not falling for them like they had during the regular season. “We had a couple of good looks that didn’t go for us,” Renck said. “That’s part of the game. Sometimes we shoot lights out, and sometimes we don’t and have to rely on our defense. We were in it the whole way.”

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Coralann Daniels

Curtis Farnsworth

Marianne Russel Ashley Richie Nyhammer Reyes-Juarez

Thomas Forman

Anastasia Roberts

P-TEACH PROGRAM

‘See themselves in their own future’ St. Vrain seeks to grow teacher rolls by sparking students’ interest

This article published originally on Oct. 24, 2018. BY AMY BOUNDS STAFF WRITER

ence now, while they’re in high school, allows them to see themselves in their own future,” Lauer said. St. Vrain initially The St. Vrain Valley School District is tackling a designed a program to statewide teacher shortage encourage high school students to go into early childby creating a grow-yourhood education with a goal own program for high of increasing the candidate school students. pool for its 24 preschools. The district’s goal is to About five months ago, inspire and prepare stuthe district was awarded a dents to go into teaching, $125,000 grant through especially in hard-to-fill Early Milestones Colorado areas of high school math and science, bilingual edu- to help start the new P-TEACH program. cation, early childhood Then last week, St. Vrain education and special eduwas awarded a second cation. $125,000 grant, this one “This is a great way to from the Colorado Departcreate a pipeline of teachment of Higher Education, ers and paraprofessionals from our own district,” said to expand the program to include more teaching Diane Lauer, St. Vrain’s assistant superintendent of areas. St. Vrain is one of 17 priority programs. school districts, boards of For students, the procooperative educational gram is an opportunity to services and educator earn college credit while still in high school and try training programs awarded a total of nearly $2 million out teaching as a career in “Plan Into Action” grants through internships. for projects designed to “Giving students experi-

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Junior Prisilla Enriquez-Soto, center, works with classmates Jazmin Marquez, left, and Allison Gallegos on a social studies assignment Oct. 23 in Chris Barnes' class at Longmont High School. Enriquez-Soto is one of the students interested in enrolling in St. Vrain Valley School District’s new P-TEACH program, a grow-your-own teacher recruitment and preparation program that starts in January.

recruit and retain educators. While St. Vrain Valley doesn’t have a shortage of candidates for most teaching positions, Lauer said, the P-TEACH program is targeting the harder-to-fill areas of STEM, special education and culturally and linguistically diverse education. The early childhood education program is starting in the spring with an esti-

mated 30 juniors and seniors, while classes that cover the other focus areas are expected to start in the fall. The district expects to enroll about 60 students a year and is partnering with Front Range Community College, the University of Colorado at Denver and Google. The program’s coordinator is Wendy Howenstein, a St. Vrain teacher who was a

first-generation college student and is bilingual after growing up in Puerto Rico. For the P-TEACH job, she became an adjunct professor at CU Denver so she can teach the classes, which will be held at the St. Vrain Innovation Center. The program will include 12 concurrent enrollment college credits in education and 12 college credits in academic core classes. One of the classes will provide field experience in a district school. “The goal underneath it all is to get them excited about teaching and see it as this incredibly dynamic career they can pursue,” Howenstein said. Along with paying her salary, the grants will provide money for campus visits and paid internships after school or in the summer. In recruiting, Howenstein said, she’s encouraged both high-achieving students and those who haven’t had the best school experiences to enroll. After completing the Please see P-TEACH, 22Q

PAGE 12Q • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • SALUTE TO SENIORS

2019 SENIORS Lyons High School Lyons High School

Sydney Adams

Isabella Alexander

Finn Basey

Jaiden Batts

Andrew Booth

Brennan Boys

David Brett

Trinity Brubaker

Tristan Chavez

Kylen Christiansen

Maia Corsale

Franklin Dorschel

Rachael Dreiling

Ronald Ernst Freeman

Jasmine Esquivel

Brandon Evans

Logan Farner

Tyler Fortier

Amber Fuhrmann

Samuel Glasgow

Carolyn Hacker

Summer Hall

Laura Hickey

John Hoffmann

Ashley Howdeshell

Devin Isenhart

Colton Jonjak Plahn

Derek Kern

Hope Kincaid

Logan Kuskie

Jack Henry London

Joaquin Marinkovic Anguita

Konner Mauck

Ava McCall

Brenna McCall

Marin Neuhard

Henry Richardson

Brooke Sanders

Lillian Stewart

Jose Sturges Chafty

Jewel Thomas

Kylee Udovich

Thorne Vasquez

Gabrielle Walker

Ethan Wilson

Gavin Worland

LYONS

Governor commemorates 5-year mark for Lyons crowd Bennet attends as residents recall how flood elicited spirit of teamwork

town, putting a new home there out of reach for many who were displaced. The flood recovery continues. Simonsen said last month that eight projects, including the replacement of the Second Avenue Bridge, have yet to be completed, with a targeted completion date of December 2019. This article published The ceremony also dedioriginally on Sept. 11, cated a trail through Bohn 2018. Park, which received BY SAM LOUNSBERRY replacement pedestrian STAFF WRITER bridges for those that Holli Stetson helped were washed out by the St. cement her late father Vrain Creek’s floodwaters Gerry Boland’s memory in 2013. It was officially Monday as she and three named Governor Hickenelected officials, including looper Way, with residents Gov. John Hickenlooper, who suggested the monishoveled the final scoops ker emphasizing the path’s of dirt to secure a newly circular loop route to play planted crab apple tree’s on the state leader’s surroots in the ground in name. Lyons. “I’ve never had anything The ceremonial planting in my life named after me. in Boland’s honor capped I’m not trying to get syma memorial to the 2013 pathy, but I’m just saying flood, hosted by one of the Lewis Geyer / Staff Photographer with a name like Hickenhardest-hit towns. The From left: Lyons High School seniors Lily Stewart and Kylen Christiansen, pose for photos with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, fellow senior Colton Jonjak looper people are going to event both celebrated pro- Plahn, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and fellow senior Jaiden Batts before the start of the five year flood commemoration in Bohn Park on Sept. 10. The event look somewhere else first also included a tree planting and dedication with Governor Hickenlooper and the Gerry Boland family. gresses made and comevery time,” the governor memorated losses sufjoked. fered across Colorado, more than $300 million in said to the crowd. was one of four people mentary and a coach at Federal and state disasincluding Boland’s death. Boulder County — in Hailey Odell, 14, read a killed in Boulder County. the high school. We’re just ter recovery funding alloAbout 100 people, addressing the gathering. poem titled “What if” that “It’s amazing that every so proud of his legacy.” cated to the town is including about a dozen As he recalled flying in a she wrote right after the time the calendar turns Lyons was among the expected to total $61.5 milhigh school students who helicopter over Lyons in flood that labeled the over to mid-September, hardest-hit communities in lion, and much of town were permitted to attend, the wake of the flood with disaster a bonding and another year has the state as 100 homes and officials’ focus has been to gathered in the rehabilitat- Bennet to observe the dev- moment for Lyons’ resipassed, you reflect on how even entire neighborbuild back in a manner ed Bohn Park to reflect on astation’s extent, he comdents at the gathering. It far the community has hoods there were that would prevent damthe disaster and the ensu- plimented the town’s resi- echoed Hickenlooper’s come and how far our fam- destroyed. age in a similar flood ing recovery five years lat- dents for their resolve and memories of the residents’ ily has come in dealing Its current population of event, a goal Bennet higher. resiliency in the face of the actions after the flood. with losing my dad,” said about 1,900 is less than it lighted in his address. Before he and Sen. disaster. “What if this was the Stetson, who is a teacher was before the flood and “I don’t believe the word Michael Bennet and “We landed several greatest opportunity of my and volleyball coach at has undergone a major ‘recovery’ is used properly Lyons Mayor Connie Sulli- times, we picked people life, the opportunity to link Longmont High School. demographic shift, as 27 in this context,” he said. “I van helped plant the tree, up... The one thing that arms with someone else, “And just the stories of percent of those residents don’t think it’s the right Hickenlooper joined sever- struck me that I will someone you never resiliency seem to come did not live in Lyons durword because it suggests al officials from local gov- always remember is we thought of before? What if back to me,” she said. “My ing the disaster, according you just end up where you ernments and state and saw all these broken roads this is more than just a dad invested himself, his to Town Administrator started. It doesn’t capture federal agencies that fund- and broken bridges, but disaster?” Odell recited. career, everything into Victoria Simonsen. Furyour determination to end ed the recovery efforts in we didn’t see a single broBoland, who was killed this community as a teach- ther, a lack of affordable up in a better place should Colorado — including ken spirit,” Hickenlooper in Lyons by the flooding, er and coach at Lyons Ele- housing persists in the the waters rise again.”

SALUTE TO SENIORS • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • PAGE 13Q

2019 SENIORS Mead High School Mead High School

Michael Acker

Madeline Adams

Kylie Anderson

Grace Angus

Alysa Armas

Matthew Armas

Caleb Ayers

Hunter Ballardo

Brandon Bartush

Nathan Betsch

Aidan Bevan

Joshua Blackburn

Savannah Bogan

Baylie Boruff

Cassy Brin

Jessica Bromley

Katelynn Brown

Venessa Bruce

Victoria Buchanan

Ryan Bullock

Mackenzie Burgess

Hannah Burke

Alena Burris

Maria De Los Angeles Bustillos

Karina Camargo Vidales

Taryn Capkovitz

Taylor Caraballo

Casey Carinder

Taylor Carinder

Josiah Carrillo

Gabriel Carter

Caden Castanon

Blake Caylor

Sarah Cloke

Karina Compton

Shelly Connelly

Caylee Coppola

Natalie Cordova Rivas

Sierra Cox

Brenna Cummiskey

Aspynn Davis

Maeve Debuse

Ryan Demarco

Brennen Dibella

Marie Dixon

Liam Doherty

Juan Dominguez Medrano

Samuel Dotzlaf

Rebekah Dowlin

Blake Downey

Isaac Drish

Isaiah Drish

Evan Dugger

Duran-Laconte

Skylar

Ashley Ekdahl

Adriana Escorza

Kaden Estabrook

Dillon Evans

Hannah Fleming

Peyton Fox

Corbyn Fuehrer

Kaylee Fulk

Alexis Gaba Garcia

Danielle Garcia

Grant Gaub

Riley Gilbert

Abigail Glynn

Javier Gonzalez

Kaycee Goodrich

Daylin Granados

Stephanie Gross

Jose Gurrola Zavala

Mitchel Gurule

Brealyn Hager

Preston Hall

Ainsley Hammond

Scott Harton

Jamison Harvey

Teddy Heller

Conner Henman

McKenzie Henson

Brian Hernandez Alvizo

Christian Herriott

Isaiah Holt

Kaylee Hweih

Aric Igel

Houston Irwin

Madison Jackson

Kenneth Jacobs

Michael James

Jenna Jameson

Joseph Jennings

Sophie Jones

Tucker Jones

Douglas Jordan

Taylor Kamigaki

Harmanpreet Kaur

Stone Keener

Julia Keon

Kian Kinney

Beau Klein

Misha Kline

Kellen Kudrna

Jayson Kurschinski

Stephanie Laganosky

Emma Lambrecht

Megan Langridge

Trenton Leber

Gavin Lee

Tanner Leise

CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS

PAGE 14Q • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • SALUTE TO SENIORS

2019 SENIORS Mead High School

Megan Lemmon

Ralph Lopez

Jorge Lopez Avina

Jaden LopezBoens

Marcel Macphail

Adrianna Mancha

Axel Manica

Riley Martin

Analexi Martinez

Jorge Martinez

Randy Martinez

Desiree Mast

Makayla Mazzotta

Kelley McAmis

Sadie McCleskey

Ryan McDaniel

Sophia McElroy

Bryce McGinty

Samantha Meier

Kaleigh Meitner

Jackson Mill

Landin Miyake

Robert Morgan

Cailyn Morgando

Megan Murphy

Cody Nelson

Caleb Nichols

Bailey Nunn

Bailey O’Dell

Maya Ojinaga

Jay Olson

Sitong On

Gage Ormsby

Lilian Orozco

Morgan Orozco

William Oster

Stephanie Pabst

Dustyn Padilla

Destiny Palomares

Taylor Paquette

Hunter Payne

Garrick Pelham

Jacob Pendergast

Noah Peterson

Katie Pineau

Donn Pineda

Lilyann Preston

Nadine Ragnes

Carrie Ricardo Diaz

Shjon Richard

Madison Robertson

Haylee Robinson

Amber Rutherford

Kaitlynn Salazar

Dustin Sawdey

Sara Schaaf

Samuel Schallberg

Victoria Schleeter

Bailey Scott

Wyatt Sears

Ashleigh Seery

Ashton Sellke

Skyler Sheffer

Tray Shehee

Indiana Sjahputera

Devon Slater

Sean Slemp

Anthony Smith

Hunter Smith

Jessica Smith

Nikole Smith

Olivia Smith

Johnathon Solliday

Madeline Steadman

Ryleigh Stephen

Sidney Strizki

Skyler Studholme

Caleb Sugg

Paris Swallow

Heidi Teeslink

Jorge Tena Parra

Hannah Thompson

Benjamin Thorndike

Sofia Tiscareno

Zackary Tribbett

Aleigh Trimble

Kelly Truong

Kevin Truong

Drew Turner

William Ulloa

Brooks Upham

Brett Valdespino

Ashley Valdez

Daelyn Vaughan

Ricardo Vazquez

Nayeli Villanueva

Samantha Vrkljan

Tristan Wahlin

Cameron Wanecek

Hannah Wardlow

Grant Wedan

Korrin Wells

Riley Welsh

Sawyer White

Tanner White

Dylan Whitney

David Wilhelm

Jax Wilke

Braylynn Willis

Easton Willyard

CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS

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2019 SENIORS Mead High School Mead High School

Hannah Wojahn

Trenton Wojciechowski

Trenton Wright

Ryan Yancey

Lily Yegge

Andrew Young

Shae Zajac

Christopher Zavakos

Antonio Zavala

Aaron Zrubek

ST. VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOLS

District to purchase mobile innovation lab Strategy to highlight range of work being done in schools

This article published originally on Oct. 18, 2019. BY AMY BOUNDS STAFF WRITER The St. Vrain Valley School District is taking its STEM programs on the road. The district is contracting with Farber Specialty Vehicles of Ohio to build a mobile innovation lab with the goal of giving the community and other school districts a taste of what’s happening in district schools. The cost of the contract is $809,135, with construction expected to take six to eight months. The custom motor coach will be 45 feet long, with a base price of about $436,000, plus modifications. The modifications include about $28,000 for a full exterior wrap paint job, about $72,000 for three raised floor slide out rooms and about $30,000 for a mobile responder antenna and WiFi package. The price also includes delivery, training and a one-year warranty. Deputy Superintendent Jackie Kapushion said the idea was sparked by Lockheed Martin’s Mars Experience Bus, a virtual reality bus that replicates the Martian landscape for

students. But instead of Mars, she said, the district wants to replicate students’ experiences with technology. “This is one strategy to show all the innovative work going on in schools,” she said. “We can have students man the mobile lab and show our community all the things our students are working on. We’re very excited about it.” She noted local businesses plan to partner with the district on the lab, with businesses covering about 30 percent of the cost so far. Several other school districts around the country also use mobile technology labs, though they tend to be used primarily as mobile classrooms rather than mainly as a way to demonstrate district technology to the community. Farber has built mobile labs for Cincinnati Schools and Florida’s Osceola County School District. In St. Vrain, Kapushion said, students at the district’s Innovation Center could help run the mobile programs, as could students in the focus programs at the high schools. Erie High students, for example, could demonstrate technology they’ve

A rendering of the 2019, 45-foot Farber Body specialty vehicles Mobile Stem Lab for the St. Vrain Valley School District.

used in their aerospace program, while Mead High School students in the energy academy could highlight energy technology. Along with showcasing various focus programs, plans include using the mobile lab to highlight the district’s one-to-one iPad initiative, its robotics programs and its digital

curriculum. Outreach to other school districts is another potential use. Kapushion said St. Vrain could use the lab to show other districts what’s possible. For rural school districts, a mobile technology lab also might make more sense than trying to buy expensive technology for every school, she said.

“We can give people a vision of what equity could look like, even if it could not be brought to every individual school,” she said. She said the district also will use the mobile lab as a classroom for its own students when piloting a new technology, application or curriculum or to give students augmented reality

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or virtual reality learning experiences. Other potential uses include student groups’ special projects or enriching summer learning programs. “It is really important to us that this space is highly flexible so we can utilize it as needs arise and programming evolves,” she said.

EDUCATION

St. Vrain Valley shines District hosts Discovery Education’s fall forum for state educators This article published originally on Nov. 8, 2018. BY AMY BOUNDS STAFF WRITER Patty Quinones doesn’t want to know what kids want to be when they grow up, but instead what problems they want to solve in their lifetimes. “We want kids to be very, very prepared for their futures,” said Quinones, the St. Vrain Valley School District’s assistant superintendent of innovation. She spoke Thursday at Discovery Education’s fall forum, hosted at St. Vrain Valley’s new Innovation Center. St. Vrain first started working with Discovery Education in 2015 on its digital curriculum. About 130 teachers, principals and administrators from 27 Colorado school districts, plus a couple of colleges, registered to attend the oneday event. “Our mission is to

improve student learning outcomes and connect practitioners together to share what they’re doing,” said Jason Barnes, vice president of partnerships at Discovery Education. He said St. Vrain Valley stands out for its commitment to provide the same opportunities to all students. “A challenge is how you do the work and scale it, so it isn’t certain kids or certain ZIP codes,” he said. Participants included Michell Ansley, curriculum and instruction director at Littleton Public Schools. Her district is designing a building similar to St. Vrain’s Innovation Center. “We really want to use St. Vrain as a model,” she said. At the forum, Superintendent Don Haddad gave a keynote speech on the importance of public education, then students led tours through the center. The tours showcased the robotics area, the aeronautics lab, the makerspace, the entrepreneurial zone and a future biotechnology lab. The Innovation Center offers classes, such as aeronautics, that allow

high school students to earn professional certification and college credit. Students also can work at the Innovation Center, getting paid to work on projects for local businesses and governments. The Innovation Center currently employs about 75 high school students. Amanda Giuliani, STEM coordinator at Longmont’s Skyline High School, shared information about St. Vrain’s Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools, or P-TECH, program. Students who successfully complete the program — they have up to six years — graduate with an associate degree and the opportunity to interview for jobs at IBM and other tech companies. The program is in its third year at Skyline, with Frederick High planning to add the program next school year. “Industries love this,” Giuliani said. “Kids are coming out with a fouryear degree from Princeton, but they can’t do anything. Here, they come out with skills.” District officials said they also plan to work more with elementary and

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Terri Brungardt, with Widefield School District 3, photographs drone equipment in the Aeronautics Lab at St. Vrain Valley School District’s Innovation Center on Nov. 7 during the Discovery Education fall forum.

middle school students now that they have the space, offering the makerspace for field trips and providing coaching and professional development for teachers. After the tours, participants listened to a student and business partnership panel that included current and former students. Michelle Tran, a senior in Skyline High School’s STEM Academy, talked about using the Innovation Center’s Tech Lab to become Apple’s youngest certified Mac technician at 14 years old. Her college plans include majoring in pre-

med and business. The main lessons she’s learned working on teams at the Innovation Center are to learn from failures and to take the opportunities that are presented to her. “It’s life lessons,” she said. Liliana Arredondo, a freshman at the University of Colorado’s business school, said her work on real-world projects helped her stand out when applying to the business school and helped her line up internships. Plus, she said, it helped her narrow what she wanted to study in college.

“By the time we go to college, we won’t have to spend thousands of dollars taking classes we don’t like or switching majors freshmen year,” she said. Aidan Sesnic, an aeronautical engineering sophomore at CU, said getting hands-on experience solving real-world problems at the Innovation Center taught him how much he enjoyed engineering — and gave him the motivation to slog through tough classes. “It’s the best motivator you could possible have to why math and physics matters,” he said.

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2019 SENIORS Niwot High School

Andrea Aguayo Martinez

Hannah Alexander

Hunter Allen

Julian Alonzo

Viviana Alvarado Zavala

Shayla Amaya Sidoti

Elizabeth Archibold

Andrew Arnold

Pamela Arredondo Perez

Blanca Arreguin Martinez

Nicholas Atkins

Nicholas Baca

Nallely Baca Diaz

Hali Bassett

Brynn Beaton

Liam Benson

Benjamin Bi

Samuel Bickham

Emily Bisgaard

Riley Black

Noah Boettiger

Stephen Bogdanov

Erica Bortfeldt

Thomas Bounds

Laure Bourgin

Ashley Bradbury

Ellie Brown

Jonathan Carmona

Paz Carmona

Jonatan CarrilloCastro

Erin Carroll

Emma Carruthers

Hannahy ChaconGonzalez

Oceane Chartrey

Campbell Chen

Jui Chen

Marcus Chong

Rudolph Churchill

Jackson Cloud

Taiske Colclasure

Jonathan Colon

Grace Cowan

Ricardo CrespoMosqueda

Jazmin CruzBerumen

Madelyn Dangerfield

Luke Dapuzzo

Byron Davis

Joseph Desenfants

Kolbi Dietmeier

Frankie Dimas

Grace Dimig

Abel Dishon

Aranely Dominguez Rascon

Jensen Douillard

Rachel Drake

Elise Dubois

Ava Dumler

Nicholas Edwards

Penina Eisenberg

Andrew Elliott

Alexander Erikson

Emma Falk

Noah Feldman

Dylan Ferrero

Paulina Figueroa Leon

Zachary Finch

Mallory Finley

Julia Fischer

Julianna Foy

Anel Francia Gonzalez

Jonathan Franco

Alexander Frary

Ericka Garcia

Nevaeh Garrison

Alina Gazdik

Nevin Gilbert

Zoe Gonzales

Jesus GonzalesSaldana

Lizeth Gonzalez

Niketh Gorla

Leslie Grafelman

Alex Greenfield

Laura Guentchev

Fernanda Guillen

Anna Hadjiyiannis

Grace Harrison

Eli Haussy

Chay Hor Hay

Chay Long Hay

Ayesha Hayat

Eric Heising

Jisela Herrera

Lily Herring

Megan Herring

Katie Hirsh

Ariel Hirshfield

Xiaoyu Hu

Gabriel Hultquist

Fernando Ibarra Trujillo

Tenma Ide

Simone Jenkins

Claire Jepson

Christien Jeter

Jonathan Jimenez

Jonathan JimenezFlores

Nolan Johan

Hailie Johnson

Owen Johnson

Sophia Jones

Ollyver Jusseume

CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS

SALUTE TO SENIORS • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • PAGE 17Q

2019 SENIORS Niwot High School

Sreeya Kairamkonda

Aamuro Kanda

Laura Kannegieter

Eva Kareus

Remy Keast

Genesis Kebede

Cayman Kline

Grace Knight

Kaitlin Knowlden

Haven Korte

Cody Kroll

Jongwon Lee

Ramiro Mallard

Brandon Manzo Leyva

Bryan Manzo Leyva

Noe Marquez

Andrew Martell Rubio

Gavin Matthews

Cruz Mayer Cardona

Samantha McAlister

Alexis McAllisterBailey

Kirya Miller

Mai Miller

Elsa Mitchell

Sadie Olson

Crystal Ontiveros

Rachel Priola

Jackson Keener

Allyson Keeth

Sierra Keppler

Connor Kinney

Cecily KirschlingPowell

Abigail Legarda

Dulce Leyva

Darby Light

Hanna Luo

Dominik Luthens

Jake Martin

William Martindale

Daniela MartinezRivera

Juan MartinezVallejo

Dante Massa

Kayla Matney

Clair McGirr

Claire McInerney

Jaryd Meek

Vanessa Meneses

Alexandra Metlay

Karina Meza

Tia Mikle

Isabel Mitchell

Natalia Morales

Rosemary Morrissey

Joselin Mosqueda Quiroz

Riley Mulshine

Mario Munoz

Magdalyn Nieberger

Kayla Nowlin

Rishab Pally

Joshua Palomares Paramo

Savannah Parrot

Darby Patterson

Aidan Peairs

Gladis Perez Hernandez

Alexander PichardoToledo

Jake Prenni

William Priess

Savannah Rafkin

Natasha Ragland

Cory Rathburn

Zachary Ratliff

Ares Reading

Missael Retana

Samuel Reyes

Abigail Rich

Audrey Richard

Caroline Richards

Maxwell Robbins

Evan Roberts

Jesus Rodriguez

Keaton Rodriguez

Aldo RodriguezJimenez

Isaray RodriguezVaquera

Jacob Rona

Sidney Ryan

Princess Sagala

Manas Saini

Angelo Salazar

Maria Salter

Hanna Sandhoff

Stephen Scharff

Lily Schilling

Madison Schoeder

Caitlyn Schreiner

Shreya Sharma

Zachary Shook

Matthew Short

Trevor Showers

Isaiah Shurtleff

Jason Singh

Blake Sipocz

Margaret Smith

Owen Sortwell

Sara Soto

Francesca Souza-Price

Cyrus Sowdaey

Caroline St Clergy

Jacy Stampes

Lucas Steiner

Jillian Stephenson

CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS

PAGE 18Q • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • SALUTE TO SENIORS

2019 SENIORS Niwot High School

Fischer Stuber

Matthew Su

Malia Sullivan

Ryuya Tanabe

Lola Tapia

Manuel Tapia

Daemonte Terry

Daniel Thomas

Jeremy Thomas

Kylie Thomas

Ella Thramann

Erika Timbang

Bjorn Tingstad

McKayla Tsou

Annika Turner

Maria Valadez Romero

Dayanara Valdovinos

Alexandr Vassilyev

Frida Vazquez

Zachary Vigil

John Volf

Kristi Vu

Grace Ward

Nicole Weisberg

Josephine Whitley

Heidi Willis

Makayla Windholz

Corey Winterscheidt

Andrew Wu

Mary Yao

Eric Yi

Alan Yu

Euel Zemenfes

Cante Zephier

Bang Zheng

ST. VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT

Concurrent enrollment numbers are up This article published originally on April 21, 2019. BY AMY BOUNDS STAFF WRITER

More students are taking concurrent enrollment classes in the St. Vrain Valley and Boulder Valley school districts, mirroring a statewide trend. In St. Vrain, 223 more students took the classes last school year than the previous year, for a total of 683, according to the Colorado Department of Education. Boulder Valley saw an increase of 107 students, for a total of 361. “We are graduating hundreds of students who will start college with their first year of classes under their belt,” St. Vrain Valley Deputy Superintendent Jackie Kapushion said. Statewide, concurrent enrollment — where students receive both high school and college credit for the same collegelevel class — is up almost 10 percent. The classes are free or offered at a reduced cost to students. Generally, school districts cover the in-state community college rate for concurrent enrollment classes. If tuition is higher, the student’s family or the college, through financial aid, picks up the rest. In St. Vrain Valley, Kapushion said, the district’s concurrent enrollment has increased in part because of the addition of the Pathways in Technology Early College High

Lewis Geyer / Staff Photographer

Niwot High School junior Caleb Bishop, left, and Erie High School senior Jamison Cartwright use compressed air to clean a drone during an unmanned aerial system class April 18 at the St. Vrain Valley School District Innovation Center in Longmont.

Schools, or P-TECH, program. The program, now in its third year with about 150 students at Longmont’s Skyline High, combines high school with two years of community college classes through a partnership with IBM and Front Range Community College. St. Vrain is starting a second P-TECH program in the fall at Frederick High. “We will continue to see our concurrent numbers trend up,” Kapushion said.

“We are graduating hundreds of students who will start college with their first year of classes under their belt”

College, Aims Community College and Colorado State University Online to provide classes. Frederick High sophoJackie Kapushion more Conner Thomas is taking a class on drones at St. Vrain Valley Deputy Superintendent the district’s Innovation Center through Aims ComFrederick High also has faculty members. munity College. about 185 students in the A third concurrent He said he took a robotCU Succeed program, a enrollment option is techni- ics class freshman year and partnership with the Unical education classes that wanted to try something versity of Colorado Denver. allow students to earn cer- different. The class looked Classes are taught by a tificates and college credit. fun, he said, and allows combination of trained The district works with him to get some college Frederick teachers and CU Front Range Community credit out of the way.

“I know it would be more expensive to take it later,” he said, adding he’s considering majoring in environmental engineering. In Boulder Valley, growing concurrent enrollment is a goal, Boulder Technical Education Center Director Arlie Huffman said. “It’s one of the big efforts we’re undertaking,” he said. “It’s putting students further down the road on college work. The students are ready for this. They want to be challenged. They want to go to the next level.” He said the district wants to streamline the process for students and schools, as well as increase overall awareness of the options. In Boulder Valley, students can enroll in specific college classes if they’ve run out of options at their high school, in advanced math, for example. They also can take community college-level technical education classes offered at their schools or at the district’s Technical Education Center. Most are taught by district teachers who are qualified to teach at the college level. Huffman said concurrent enrollment classes are especially helpful in showing first-generation college students they are capable of college-level work. “That’s super powerful for these kids,” he said. “It opens doors they hadn’t even thought to look at before.”

Congratulations

and Best Wishes to The Class of 2019 from the entire Niwot High School Staff

SALUTE TO SENIORS • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • PAGE 19Q

2019 SENIORS

Olde Columbine High School Alan Jesus Alexis Paige Alya Moon Ortiz Rosenbaum Torello

Amparo Maria Lara

Amy LaraAndrew Angel David Angela Yvette Arianne Montes Michelle Gonzalez Ryan Aguero Peredo Alejandre Mireles Barela

Axel Fernando Reta Ayala

Bryan GonzalezChavez

Catherine Martinez Lara

Benjamin Zamudio

Diamond Angel Elias Romo Cookman Villa Gonzalez

Jacob Isabella Rochelle Montgomery Radewann Atlee

Brandon Abbrey Owens

Elijah Emma Liann Erick Cristian Alexander Robertson Barron Ragsdale

Jasmine Marie Sanchez

Jeffrey Lee Springs

Jennifer Lastiri Ramirez

Katelyn Kyla Marie Breanne Duff Bornstein

Leslie Martinez Rodirguez

Mackenzie Maria Elena Marie Bock Guereca

Priscilla Rachel Jean Crespo Sisk Hernandez

Raul Gonzalez

Rebecca Lynn Clark

Ciera Tag-Huray Renaud

Fatima Medina

Cinthia Ramirez Maldonado

Cody Alan Nitzel

Cristian Adrian Alvidrez

Austin Autumn Aislinn Michael Wampler Esposito

Crystal Rose Rosales

Flor Rubi Garret Gustavo Angel Henry Clay Diaz-Recio James Geist Castaneda- Johnson Luna

Daisha Monique Rangel

Horacio Arreola

Jennipher Michelle Stonebraker

Jimena Manjarrez Mares

John Lloyd Sitarski, Jr

Jon Ray Foss

Jose Jacob Gonzalez Garcia

Juan Francisco Jara Jimenez

Martin Paz

Matthew John Cardenas

Michael James Albohn

Michele Lorraine Pulido

Nayeli Cecilia Duenas

Payton Alicia Maestas

Roman Jude Silas James Sinai Mejia Thea Tove Esparza Sizemore IV Avelar Hagelskaer

Trinity Elizabeth Loukonen

Tyler Venasa Mary Zachariah Lamorie Ervin

The Staff of Olde Columbine High School and Career Development Center Congratulate the 2019 Graduates.

Congratulations Class of 2019!

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PAGE 20Q • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • SALUTE TO SENIORS

2019 SENIORS Silver Creek High School

Aidan Abram

Christian Adams

Priya Adhikari

Anna Adler

Maximus Aleksiev

Athena Allen

Kaytiana Amaya

Maya Amidon

Alexander Anadon

Anna Anghel

Therese Arace

Selena ArmendarizGonzalez

Peter Ash

Brandon Bachofer

Emir Bajric

Samantha Ball

Kira Bantowsky

Katherine Bastunskiy

Rafael Basurto

Shelby Bauer

Bailey Beavers

Sterling Becvar

Joshua Behrens

Charles Belcher

Ryan Benson

Aaron Bentley

Hailey Biancalana

Jordyn Blaha

Caleb Blichfeldt

Ethan Bolster

Katelyn Bond

Kiernan Bopardikar

Trent Brossman

Ivy Brown

Tyson Brown

Avery Burns

Hanna Burns

Hannah Burton

Megan Bush

Spencer Campbell

Emily Canvasser

April Cardenas Borrego

Abbie Carlough

Megan Chaddic

Ryan Chandler

Emily Churchich

Cailin Churchville

Matthew Cielaszyk

Ryan Cooper

Sophia Cousins

William Cremmins

Christian Cronk

Emma Culwell

Madeline Culwell

Dain Cummings

Wesley Cummings

Isabella Curtis

Emma Dameron

Taylor Daugherty

Sydney Davies

Ashley Degen

Cameron Denesha

Mia Denis-Judson

Abigail Denning

Brianna Dezell

Sierra Dimando

Samuel Dirkes

Jeffrey Dolan

Mary Dolan

Piper Doud

Caleb Dupre

Hana Dyer

Madeline Eary

Jackson Eaton

Nicholas Eaton

Kate Eggen

Eli Eisenberg

Gabrielle Eisenberg

Thomas Elston

Zane Emerick

Spencer Enyart

Sienna Eshleman

Kaitlin Farrell

Kayla Ferguson

Lilian Fine

Steven Flaherty

Patrick Flynn

Rachel Foote

Sebastian Fraire

Emiko Fredo

Sarah Freese

Isaiah FresquezThompson

Grace Gara

Mario Garcia

Christian Gardner

Kyle Garland

Christopher Gaskill

Emma Gibbs

Jacob Gibbs

Haley Gilbert

Michael Giles

Corina Goebel

Tobin Gold

Margaret Goldsberry

Wesley Golliher

Sophia Gehorsam

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SALUTE TO SENIORS • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • PAGE 21Q

2019 SENIORS Silver Creek High School

Benjamin Gomez

Piper Gould

Coltan Grabau

Jackson Graham

Cooper Grant

Brynn Green

Landon Greive

Emilyne Guillen

Anahi Gutierrez

Mauricio Gutierrez

Braelynn Haefele

Sarah Halperin

Kailey Hansen

Alexander Hardegree

Elizabeth Hardegree

Jayla Harding

Jack Harper

Kayla Harper

Blake Harris

Chasity Harris

Joseph Harrison

Noah Hasan

Jack Heiman

Megan Hellmann

Mohebullah Hessari

Ashton Hicks

Thomas Hight

Kira Hills

Conner Hougen

Miles Innes

Kelly Ireland-Ashley

Kaitlin James

Kenny Jarnagin

Kile Jarnagin

Erin Jensen

Eric Jiang

Hunter Johnson

Severyn Jones

Elizabeth Kadlec

Ryan Kalfas

Noelani Kassenbrock

Richard Keck

Jennifer Kennison

Justin Kerr

Ashlyn Kofford

Micheal Kozlosky

Aaron Kuckuk

Lee-Ann Kuckuk

Benjamin Lane

Alyssia Lanier

Aidan Lantaff

Dylan Larson

Alex Latsko

Juan Lazcano Alderete

Kendall Lee

Paxton Lee

Annicka Lewis

Justin Lightcap

Daniel Long

David Lopez

Devin Lopez

Shannon Love

Jasmine Lovell

Benjamin Lynch

Joshua Magee

Abbigail Martin

Maxwell Martin

Noe Martinez

Amber Massey

Zoe Mast

Grace McCaffrey

Kellen McCormick

Lily McCumber

Samuel McCune

Thomas McMahon

Grace McNulty

Griffen Meuse

Patrick Miller

Miguel Mohedano

Alan Molina Castaneda

Romeo Montano

Jacob Moore

Eric Morales

Brooke Morgenthal

Holden Moritz

John Moroney

Jose Mosqueda

Matthew Murphy

Dalila Murtic

Jetta Nannen

Lucas Napoli

Amanda Nelson

Katherine Nelson

David New

Branden Newman

Julie Ngiateng

Maia Normann

Rex Olinger

Dylan Oliver

Trevor Ordway

Allie Orozco

Mylo Ortega-Rabell

Benjamin Oster

Kye Owens

Miranda Pacheco

Adam Pape

Alakh Patel

Dylan Perry

Paola Montes Cole Macias Montgomery

CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS

PAGE 22Q • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • SALUTE TO SENIORS

2019 SENIORS Silver Creek High School

Isaias Pineda

Adena Pittel

Caitlyn Pomeroy

Savannah Powell

Wyatt Powell

Alex Prieto

Aria Prospero

Casey Prumbach

Lauren Pyle

Jack Ranglos

Anjana Reddy

Tanner Regan

Emily Reitz

Lillian Remijio

Makena Rhines

Theodore Rich

Eric Riddle

Lily Rieder

Pamela Rodgers

Emilio Rodriguez

Yaira Rodriguez

Aidan Rooney

Jet Rostykus

Hennio Rubio

Max Ruiz

Jennifer Russell

Thomas Russo

Samantha Ruth

Kaitlyn Ryan

Rodolfo Salas De La Paz

Ximena Saldana

Carson SanderFerracane

Andrew Sands

Eliana Sawvel

Chloe Schmid

Lucy Scott

Hannah Seigal

Matthew Serafin

Alexandra Serdyukov

Boris Shapoval

Julia Shaw

Sonya Shoup

Thomas Simmons Jr

Alexandra Smith

Ashlyn Smith

Thomas Smith

Tobias Smith

Hannah Sotiroff

Joshua Soto

Abigail Sparks

Grayson Starck

Owen Stephenson

Brayden Stewart

Lane Stewart

Jessica Studebaker

Keldan Stutzman

Albeth Lian Suchisa

Ryan Suess

Brandon Sullivan

Justin Swenson

Lance Tanner

Cameron Taylor

Annalise Teasdale

Andrea Tellez Gutierrez

Matthew Teta

Cassandra Thaler

Amanda Throckmorton

Syenna Tindall

Tammi Torres

Amber Trujillo

Logan Trujillo

Patrick Trusty

Jack Tubman

Calista Tutkowski

Colleen Tyrrell

Michael Van Vuuren

Savannah Vanderveen

Annelise Vandiver

Aaron Vasquez Perez

Brooke Wager

Kevin Wagner

Hailey Waldhoff

Logan Walker

Anna Warden

Benjamin Warn

Vanessa Warner

Lawrence Watson

Hannah Watts

Evan White

Clarissa Wilkes

Madeline Williams

Mason Williams

Abigail Wilson

Nicole Wilson

Kaylee Young

Tyler Young

Madyson Zareck

Alexei Schneeweiss Cole

P-TEACH from page 11Q program and graduating from high school, students will have enough college credit for a paraprofessional, or teacher’s aide, license. They also will be only a few credits shy of a preschool director license, or can start college with several core classes already completed. “Everyone may have a different path,” Howenstein said. She said she’s had a

good response to her recruitment efforts, which include working with high school counselors and teachers. One of her connections was with Longmont High social studies teacher Chris Barnes, who sponsors the school’s Arriba club. About a dozen students from the Hispanic culture and service club recently visited the Innovation

she would earn could transfer to another school, keeping her college options open, while letting her try teaching while still in high school. Prisilla Enriquez-Soto “I want to experience it,” she said. classmate Classmate Prisilla Enriquez-Soto said she’s career because “kids have planning to enroll in the program in January a special place in my because teaching seems heart.” Plus, she said, she likes like it could be a good fit. “My teachers have realthat the college credits

“My teachers have really impacted my life. It’s something I could see myself doing.”

Center to learn more about the program. Junior Yesenia SolisZamora said she’s considering teaching as a future

ly impacted my life,” she said. “It’s something I could see myself doing.” As someone who is bilingual, she said, she could help students who are new to the country and still learning English, as well as helping their parents. “I can change languages if a student is struggling,” she said. “I can be handson with the different ways kids learn.”

SALUTE TO SENIORS • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • PAGE 23Q

2019 SENIORS Skyline High School

Chanell Adama

Salvador Ana Aguilera Daniela Aguirre Pablo Alarcon Barreras Jimenez Aguilar Rubio Gutierrez

Leticia Alvarado

Cristal Alvidrez

Holly Anson

Yulissa Arras

Wendy Arredondo

Amber Atkinson

Donald Avendano Manzo

Skyler Baltierras

Brandon Banuelos

Maddie Barrett

Dylan Bartels

Remin Basha

Daniel Basil

Jose Bejarano

Nicholas Black

Claudia Blackwell

Josh Blatt

Mason Bordeaux

Dayton Bowey

Andrew Brown

Jacob Brown

Charles Browne

Madison Bryant

Courtney Buchtel

Anthony Bugarin

Kamilah Bugarin Rodriguez

Gabriela Bustillo

Bianca Bustillos

Annabelle Butcher

Cecilia Cabrera

Eunice Campos

Jordy Campos

Emily Cantele

Chelsey Carlisle

Jovany Carrillo

David Cervantes

Melony Chao

Juan Chaparro

Clarisa Chavez

Elias Chavez

Nicholas Chavez

Andrea Chavez Gonzalez

Frederick Childers

Brandon Chirinos

Renata Comeau

Carlos Contreras Rodriguez

Justin Cooper

Luis Cortez

Evelin Crespo

Jose Crespo

McKenzie Cuba

Alondra Cuevas

Taylin Curry

Breanna Davis

Jacob Davis

Dallana De Lira

Andrew Dietz

Rachel Dietz

Miles Dixon

Megan Dodge

Cristal Dominguez Quiroz

Ethan Drewes

Jaden Duncanson

Angel Duran

Jazz Duval

David Ealy

Tania Echeverria Alejandre

Alexa Ekern

Mirna Enamorado Cardoza

Idelle Felix

Emanuel Flores

William Flores-Cruz

Kenneth Frederick

Luis Frias

Destini Garcia

Ian Garcia

Marlena Garcia

Gerardo Garcia Martinez

Diana Gonzalez

Nicholas Graeff

Melanie Grande

Anthony Granillo

Cameron Grimmond

Shade Grimsley

Karsten Gulsrud

Giovanni Gurrola

Selma Gurrola

Eduardo Gutierrez

Kevin Gutierrez

Abigail Hallisey

Michael Hanna

Sheldon Harney

Conor Hegy

Erin Heirtzler

Brian Herrera

Isaac Hesse

Kaci Hitt

Jeremy Hollingsworth

Jacob Hoot

Alec Hopp

Jacob Janacek

Reese Janacek

Ckenzie Jenkins

Sidney Jenkins

Maria Jimenez

CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS

PAGE 24Q • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • SALUTE TO SENIORS

2019 SENIORS Skyline High School

Ariana Rogelio Jimenez-Ortega Jimenez Flores

Benjamin Kalisher

Brianna Kallas

Matthew King

Davin Kirkevold

Quinn Klingberg

Jozlyn Klusack

Aleese Knox

Roderick Knudsvig

Alec Kocjancic

Anahi Lara

Jose Lara

Leandro Lara

Nallely Lara

Jacob Larsen

Nicholas Larson

Mitchell Lenz

Allyson Levin

Larissa Linn

Brianda Llamas

Jonathan Lopez

Jorge Lopez

Leslie Lopez

Lizbeth Lopez

Raymond Jr Lopez

Jessica Lucas

Juan Magdaleno

Eduardo Malloy

Luis Mares

Jennifer Marotske

Alondra Martinez

Vanessa Martinez

Joseline Martinez Vasquez

Fernando MartinezOrona

Zoe Mazuriewicz

Savannah McCarrick

Nathan McGregor

Servando Medina

Grace Meeker

Brandon Meier

Christopher Melendez

Josue Mena Guevara

Grace Miller

Juan Darian Moncada Leon Mondragon

Cindy Montalvo Reyes

Karla Montoya

Faolan Moore

Fabiola Morales

Andrea Moreno

Jorge Moreno

Jose Moreno

Carlos Moreno Loachamin

Liam Mitchem

Devin Mosher

Antonio Mosqueda

Realeen Munoz

John Murtagh

Brandon Musser

Brie Musser

Ella Myers

Kyle Nakaji

Makenna Newton

Esteban Nolasco

Desiree Nolting

Lizbeth Nunez

Samantha Ochoa

Andrea Olave

Angelica Olivo

Keenan Olson

Suheily Ordonez

Marco Orona

Jesus Ortega

Petra Osborn

Kimberly Patterson

Cristobal Pena

Bexaira Perez

Juan Perez

Maria Perez

Jessica Portillo

Ryan Primeau

Octavio Querol

Cynthia Quiroz

Orlando Quiroz

Salvador Quiroz

Vanessa Quiroz

Josue Rabun

Colby Rademacher

Estefania Ramirez Bautista

Chandler Ranasinghe

Keyra Rascon

Rebecca Rauschmayer

Emiliano Rea

Natasha Read

Peyton Reid

Maria Renteria

Isaias Rivas

Jaime Rivera

Sadie Roberts

Shelby Roberts

Pablo Robles Moreno

Hugo Rodriguez

Victor Rodriguez

Cody Roeman

Carlos Rosales

Samantha Rosan

Brian Roylance

Lilia Rodriguez

Miguel Rodriguez

CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS

SALUTE TO SENIORS • SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 • PAGE 25Q

2019 SENIORS Skyline High School

Hector Rubi

Andres Rubio

Alma Ruiz

Jose Salgado

Wyatt Sampson

Brisa Sanchez

Joanna Sanchez

Kailey Savage

Tiffany Schluckebier

Zaque Schroeder

Conner Scott

Christian Segovia

Ruby Sem

Sara Shannon

Emily Shearer

Lilly Sheetz

Jose Sidas

Johanna Sifuentes

Marco Silva

Claudia Simental

Savanna Simmons

Jackson Snow

Carlyn Solomon

Carley Solton

Nathalie Soto

Michelle Staiano

Jacob Stanich

Parker Steed

Bryce Stewart

Drew Stokes

Emma Swaney

Justin Tabares

Kyle Taylor

Nala Teegarden

Matthew Terifay

Dulcemaria Torres

Emily Tozcano

Michelle Tran

Nguyen Tran

Dylan Tusinski

Rylan Unger

Michael Vanatta

Alex Vargas

Fabian Vasquez

Eduardo Victorio-Zamora

Adan Villa

Garrett Warren

Jackson Wathen

Morgan Welch

Kyle West

Sierra West

Zephra Wilt

Anson Wind

Abigayl Wojniak

Alexandria Wood

Brandon Woodbury

Axel Yanez Soto

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St. Vrain feted for access to AP classes

This article published statistics, psychology and originally on Dec. 18, 2018. human geography. BY AMY BOUNDS All the district’s high STAFF WRITER schools offer AP classes, while five schools offer the St. Vrain Valley recently AP Capstone program to was recognized as one of four school districts in Col- about 250 students. Capstone students take orado — and 373 in North AP seminar and research America — to make the College Board’s Annual AP classes. Students who earn scores of 3 or higher on District Honor Roll. The honor roll “recogniz- the exams for those classes school districts commit- es, as well as scoring 3 or ted to increasing access to higher on four other AP exams of their choosing, AP for underrepresented earn a Capstone diploma. students while simultaneSt. Vrain Assessment ously maintaining or Coordinator Kim Wiggins increasing the percentage said the investment in AP of students earning AP classes is part of the disexam scores of 3 or hightrict’s overall strategy to er.” The exams are scored on provide students with mula scale of 1 to 5, with many tiple pathways that lead to colleges offering credit for career and college success. Research shows students a “passing” score of 3 or who take AP classes are higher. more likely to attend colIn St. Vrain, enrollment in AP classes has increased lege and graduate within four years, she said. by 50 percent since 2014, Administrators at one of according to district officials, while minority enroll- the district schools, Longment increased by about 80 mont’s Skyline High School, with the help of a percent. grant, in 2014 started work“We’ve had a big push ing on diversifying its across the district to increase the number of stu- Advanced Placement classes. In 2013, the school had dents taking AP courses,” 127 students enrolled in AP said St. Vrain Assistant classes. This year, AP class Superintendent Tori enrollment is up to 773. Teague. To support students, the This school year, the disschool offers mock exam trict has AP classes in 26 opportunities and Saturday subject areas, with 3,041 students enrolled in at least study sessions. The school’s education foundaone class. The most popular classes tion also covers the cost of are English language, U.S. about half the AP exams taken by students in core government and politics, biology, English literature, classes.

an AP class is going to prepare you for future success.” While he said the school places less emphasis on taking AP exams than on the experience of taking a rigorous class, he noted that the school’s scores on AP exams have’t decreased as enrollment increased. About 60 percent of the school’s AP class students Lewis Geyer / Staff Photographer receive passing grades. From left, seniors Tiffany Schluckebier, Michelle Tran and Ruby Sem applaud “It’s about believing the a classmate's presentation during Kyle Fujimoto's AP calculus class at Skyline kids can do it, and all kids High School on Dec. 17. can learn at a high level,” “We want every student ate,” said Assistant Princihe said. “They can access to take at least one AP pal Greg Stephens. “Just this material if they’re givclass before they graduthe experience of being in en the right supports.”

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When compared to students who had similar scores on the SAT college entrance exam, students with just one AP qualifying score also were 25 percent more likely to graduate college, she said. Along with adding classes, the district also has an AP coordinator at each high school whose job includes recruiting students. “A large part of our communications is there’s no such thing as an AP kid versus a non AP kid,” Wiggins said. “It’s about every student having access.”

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Graduation rates up in SVVSD, statewide

Numbers are back on an upward trend with the class of 2018 This article published originally on Jan. 17, 2019. BY AMY BOUNDS STAFF WRITER

Graduation rates for Boulder County’s two school districts are back on an upward trend with the class of 2018, according to data released Wednesday. In St. Vrain Valley School District, the 2018 graduation rate jumped to 86.1 percent from the previous year’s rate of 83.6 percent. When only St. Vrain Valley’s eight traditional high schools are included, excluding alternative schools, the rate goes up to 90 percent, Superintendent Don Haddad said. “It’s the first time we’ve broken 90 percent, which we’re really excited about,” he said. St. Vrain Valley’s overall Hispanic graduation rate is 77.7 percent, up from 73.2 percent the year before. For the state, the rate is 71.1 percent. Haddad cautioned that differences in school district graduation requirements make it challenging to compare across districts. St. Vrain’s graduation requirements are stricter than most in the state, he said, with students required to earn 24.5 credits — a credit equals a year of study in a particular subject — and take three years of both math and science. “That really changes the game in a major way,” he said. “What we’re very excited about is that, even though we raised the graduation requirements, our graduation rate continues to climb. It’s a very solid rate.” Boulder Valley School District’s four-year graduation rate of 92.1 percent is an increase from last year’s 91.3 percent, which represented a small dip from the previous year. “We are encouraged to see the

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Family and friends of the Longmont High School graduating class of 2018 wave to the class as Dr. Richard Martyr (not pictured) speaks during commencement ceremonies in Longmont, Colorado on May 26, 2018.

graduation rate up,” said Jonathan Dings, Boulder Valley’s executive director of student assessment. “This is near where our historic high mark had been with the class of 2016.” He said graduation rates improved for Asian, Hispanic and white students, as well as for students with disabilities. The graduation rate for Hispanic students is 86.1 percent, up from 84.4 percent the year before. Both districts also continue to beat the state’s graduation rate. For 2018, the statewide fouryear graduation rate improved to 80.7 percent. The state also released dropout rates on Wednesday. Drop-out rates include stu-

In earlier grades, the district also now intervenes sooner to get students who are struggling back on track and address attendance issues. “We want to get every student to graduation,” he said. Don Haddad St. Vrain Valley’s overall dropsuperintendent out rate is 1.5 percent, up slightly from 1.4 percent the year before. dropout rate is dents who transfer to another When alternative schools are educational setting without pro- 1.5 percent. excluded, the dropout rate is 1.1 viding adequate documentation Boulder Valley’s effort to percent. The dropout rate for or age out of the system at 21 reduce drop-out rates include Hispanic students is without earning a diploma. flagging freshmen and sopho3.2 percent. Boulder Valley’s overall dropmores who are failing one or The state’s overall drop-out out rate held steady for the third rate dropout rate is year at 0.6 percent. When alter- more core classes and offering 2.2 percent, while the statewide native schools are excluded, the them extra support. “We have an early warning rate for Hispanic students is 3.5 district’s dropout rate is 0.4 perpercent. system,” Dings said. cent. The district’s Hispanic

“What we’re very excited about is that, even though we raised the graduation requirements, our graduation rate continues to climb. It’s a very solid rate.”

St. Vrain Valley’s enrollment up 171 students Boulder Valley roles decline by 81 students

The article published originally on Dec. 11, 2018. BY AMY BOUNDS STAFF WRITER St. Vrain Valley’s enrollment is up 171 students, continuing a trend of slower growth for the district that’s due in part to charter school enrollment declines. Total K-12 enrollment for the district is 31,542 students, based on numbers from the statewide October enrollment count. On average over the past 10 years, the district added 627 students a year. St. Vrain is the seventh largest district in the state. This year, enrollment in the district’s neighborhood schools increased by 429 students — well above last year’s increase of 163 neighborhood school students. But the district’s six charter schools posted an overall decline of 215 students, bringing down the district’s overall growth rate. Last school year, the district’s charter enrollment grew by 28 students overall, with most of the growth coming from Aspen Ridge K-8 in Erie, which had added an eighth-grade class. This school year, Aspen Ridge lost 90 students at the elementary level and gained 11 in the middle school. The district opening a new neighborhood school in Erie, Soaring Heights PK-8, might have been a factor in the decline. The charter school with the largest drop was Longmont’s PK-12 Twin Peaks Charter School, which was

dents — 67 fewer than last school year. The decline at kindergarten is consistent with an overall declining birth rate in the district, according to district officials, but still was higher than expected. Like other recent kindergarten classes, the district is expecting students now in private kindergarten programs to enroll in first grade and increase the numbers, but still predicts the class to remain relatively small. Middle schools saw a smaller decline, with 38 fewer students. High schools, however, continued to add students overall, with 118 more than the previous year, including charter schools. But district officials cautioned that the gains were smaller than in previous years and were assisted by a larger incoming ninthgrade class and higher incoming out-of-district open enrollment. Jeremy Papasso / Staff Photographer Open enrollment from Sixth-grader Aiden Yannett talks with his teacher Jamie Nesbitt about a robot design Dec. 10 during a robotics class at Soaring Heights K-8 school in Erie. out-of-district students conThe school, which opened this school year, counted 1,000 students in October. tinues to bolster Boulder Valley’s enrollment. down 138 students for a families to compete for.” K-8 gained 30 students and in the Lyons feeder system Districtwide, 2,443 stuto an 84-student loss in the dents enrolled from outK-12 enrollment of 758 stuThe school this year is St. Vrain Montessori lost Niwot feeder system. dipping into reserves to dents. six students. side the district, a slight In the Boulder Valley Twin Peaks Director Joe make its budget work with For the neighborhood decline of 35 students from School District, K-12 enrollfewer students, and needs schools, the two feeder Mehsling, who started at ment is down slightly over- the previous year. Most the school three years ago, to be in the systems that saw growth come from the Adams 12, all, by 81 students, or .3 said the school initially lost mid-800s, he said. are the Silver Creek High St. Vrain Valley and Jefferpercent, from the previous families because it wasn’t He added that he’s seeSchool system, up son County school disyear. The district’s enrolldelivering on its promise of ing strong interest in the 76 students, and the Erie tricts. ment came in at 30,201 stua classical education. school during the district’s feeder system, up Boulder Valley’s charter dents. More families left over current open enrollment 650 students. The district’s biggest loss schools saw a small the summer once the window as the school Erie’s new Soaring increase of 40 students, priwas at the elementary levschool returned to its high returns to its classical Heights counted 1,000 stu- el, with 160 fewer students marily from a rebound in standards for both academ- roots. dents in October, putting it than the previous year — enrollment at Boulder Preic rigor and student disci“I believe we’re going to slightly over capacity. Erie making this the fourth year paratory High School and pline, he said. Another fac- rebound,” he said. Middle School also is at increases at Justice High, the district has seen eletor, he added, is there are Of the district’s other about 110 percent of capac- mentary enrollment district officials said. fewer young families in the charter schools, Carbon ity with about 800 students. decline. Otherwise, charter area. Valley K-8 saw a small All the rest of the disenrollment stayed level as This school year’s kin“The demographic shift decline of 22 students, trict’s feeder systems saw dergarten class also is the most available spots have is real,” he said. “There are Flagstaff K-8’s enrollment fewer students this school district’s smallest in been consistently filled in recent years. fewer younger stayed the same, Imagine year, from a 19-student loss 14 years with 1,856 stu-

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