Education notes: Feb. 23
Awards/honors
▪ Lexington Sister Cities has selected 41 students from Fayette County and the surrounding area for the 2016 summer exchange programs to Deauville, France; County Kildare, Ireland; Shinhidaka, Japan; and Newmarket, England. This program gives students the opportunity to travel and experience the everyday culture of another country. Participants also host their corresponding student in Lexington to share a Kentucky and U.S. experience. The students and their schools are:
Bryan Station: Priscilla Portwood
George Rogers Clark: Kristen Ratliff and Dustin Summers
Henry Clay: Shelby Amato, Isabel Bandoroff, Will Blitch, Anne Boggess, Alex Flora, Holden Hall, McKenna Helfenberger, Jack May and Catherine Van Tatenhove
Lafayette: Caroline Ackerman, Caity Frederick, Nicole Gravitt, Lucy Morris, Gabrielle Petersen, Emily Putman and John Toney
Lexington Catholic: Mitchell Annis, Jax Benson, Mary Katherine Harder, Caili Harris, Chandler Hendren, Alexander Noal, Parker Poindexter, Allyson Moore, Ellie Rydz and Lily Iler
Lexington Christian Academy: Dalton Richardson
Montessori School: Marguerite Jouet
Paul Laurence Dunbar: Olivia Geveden, Eleanor Liu, Lauren Prather and Emily Sallengs
STEAM Academy: Nell Adkins and Logan Poindexter
Tates Creek: Eliana Shapere
Trinity Christian Academy: Allington Bowling and Abigail Kern
Woodford County: Eliza Platt
▪ Winburn Middle School outdistanced Tates Creek Middle in Region 15 of the 2016 Governor’s Cup, which concluded Feb. 13.
Team results for Fayette County Public Schools in Region 15
Overall: 1. Winburn; 2. Tates Creek; 3. Beaumont; 4. Morton; 5. Southern.
Future problem-solving: 1. Winburn; 2. Beaumont and Morton.
Quick recall: 1. Beaumont; 2. Winburn; 3. Tates Creek; 4. Morton.
Complete details and students’ scores available at Kaac.com/results.
Miscellaneous
▪ The entry deadline for the 18th annual Nathaniel Patch Piano Competition is March 7. The competition will be April 23 in the President’s Room of the Singletary Center for the Arts at the University of Kentucky. The classical piano competition, sponsored by the Bluegrass Area Music Teachers Association, is open to all students in grades K-12. It is in four levels, grade 3 and under, grades 4 and 5, middle school and high school. Information may be found at Patchpianocompetition.weebly.com or through May Man at 859-276-2845.
▪ Transylvania University’s theater department has received a $204,769 gift to expand student and faculty opportunities and to bolster community engagement.
Over the next four years, the Dixon/White Theater Fund will benefit the university with travel grants, free theater tickets, conference attendance for students, visiting artist residencies and workshops, faculty development and guest speakers.
The donation – made by theater professor Michael Dixon’s family in memory of his mother, Marion – will enable the university to offer free admission to its theater productions, with the goal of making performances accessible to more of the Lexington community. This ties into Transylvania’s broader Project One initiative to promote diversity and inclusion on campus.
The grant also will fund an artistic residency, which will begin in May with the Lexington theater company Project SEE and its production of No Spring Chicken in Little Theater.
▪ Campbellsville University’s Board of Trustees approved a resolution to offer certificate completion programs and degree programs at a new Harrodsburg Education Center. When completed, the center will be off U.S. 127 in Harrodsburg.
This story was originally published February 22, 2016 at 11:28 AM with the headline "Education notes: Feb. 23."