Monday morning news roundup

Rachel Acuna’s winning holiday card design.

A Meridian fourth-grader’s artwork will grace the state Training Department’s 2013 vacation cards.

Rachel Acuna, a pupil at Meridian’s Eliza Hart Spalding STEM Academy, was the winner of the state’s yearly holiday card contest.

Her depiction of Santa Claus leaving presents of a Christmas tree will appear on the Schooling Department’s card, which is sent to colleges and districts statewide. She will also get a certificate and her personal copies of the holiday card.

Other grade-degree winners are as follows:

• Kindergarten: Scarlett Stone, Pioneer School of the Arts, Meridian College District.


• 1st grade: Kate McDougall, Whitman Elementary School, Lewiston College District.


• Second grade: Jessy Wilson, Fruitland Elementary College, Fruitland School District.


• Third grade: Lila Hess, Hagerman Elementary College, Hagerman College District.


• Fifth grade: Matthew Mallory, Silver Sage Elementary College, Meridian School District.


• Sixth grade: Reid Uptmar, Prairie Elementary College, Cottonwood Joint School District.

Boise college sends ornaments to D.C.

A bluebird ornament designed by Fairmont Junior Large School pupil Ethan Seward.

Students from a Boise junior large college integrated a tiny bit of Idaho — which includes the state horse, the appaloosa, the state bird, the bluebird, and, of course, the potato — into ornaments for the Nationwide Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C.

Boise’s Fairmont Junior High School was chosen to give handmade ornaments for the tree, which was unveiled Friday. The tree will function ornaments from 56 schools, one particular for every U.S. state, territory and the District of Columbia.

“Working on such a task validates the students’ ideas and innovative efforts and gives them a hugely meaningful sense of goal,” said Ritta Nielsen, a visual art educator at Fairmont.

Right here are a lot more specifics from the Boise College District.

Boise College District graduate earns ideal score on AP examination

Maxwell Mulcahy

Boise Large 2013 graduate Maxwell Mulcahy is one of only 33 students in the globe to earn a perfect score on the Sophisticated Placement Microeconomics Exam.  Max took the AP exam last Could and earned each and every point possible on the examination, answering each a number of-choice question properly and earning the greatest scores on every of the essays in the free-response segment of the examination. Virtually 68,0000 students worldwide took the exam.

“I knew I had conquered the test, but it was a shock to hear that I did it to this intense,” Mulcahy stated.

Monday morning news roundup