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School officials said they are proud of the work they do and would like to recognize student success with the community whenever possible.
A student representing Cobb Mountain Elementary recently received a perfect score in the first of three meets in this year’s WordMasters Challenge, a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 125,000 students annually.
Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the WordMasters Challenge, fourth grader Sage Moore earned a perfect score of 20 on the challenge. Nationally, only 52 fourth graders achieved this result.
Other students from Cobb Mountain Elementary who achieved outstanding results in the meet include fifth grader Lily Morita and sixth grader Brooke Watson.
Cobb Mountain Elementary teachers Allison Rodgers and Angela Stevenson coached students in preparation for the WordMasters Challenge.
The WordMasters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking that first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words (considerably harder than grade level), and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships.
Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.
Although most vocabulary enrichment and analogy-solving programs are designed for use by high school students, WordMasters Challenge materials have been specifically created for younger students in grades three through eight.
They are particularly well suited for children who are motivated by the challenge of learning new words and enjoy the logical puzzles posed by analogies.
For more information about the WordMasters Challenge program visit http://www.wordmasterschallenge.com.
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More than 150 awards totaling nearly $500,000 are being made available through PG&E scholarships, which includes the employee resource group, or ERG; engineering network group, or ENG; and Better Together STEM scholarship programs.
PG&E scholarships information, including criteria and applications, is available on PG&E’s website. To be considered for a scholarship, all applications must be submitted by Feb. 7.
“Helping students in our communities attend college and achieve their goals is a big step toward improving lives. These individuals, many of whom are the first in their families to attend college, will be the leaders and innovators of tomorrow. We’re proud to invest in these promising young people,” said Mary King, PG&E vice president of human resources and chief diversity officer.
PG&E scholarships are awarded annually to help offset the cost of higher education.
ERG scholarship winners will receive awards ranging from $1,000 to $7,000 for exemplary scholastic achievement and community leadership.
Better Together STEM Scholarship recipients will receive a one-time scholarship of $1,000 to $10,000 to assist in their pursuit of higher education in engineering, computer science, cybersecurity or environmental sciences.
Since 1989, PG&E’s ERGs and ENGs have awarded more than $4.5 million in scholarships to thousands of recipients.
The funds are raised totally through employee donations, employee fundraising events and Campaign for the Community, the company’s employee giving program.
Since 2012, PG&E’s Better Together STEM scholarship program has given nearly $3.6 million to accomplished students based on a combined demonstration of community leadership, personal triumph, financial need and academic achievement.
Funds for Better Together STEM scholarships come from the PG&E Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting charities that address critical social, educational and environmental challenges in the company’s service area. These scholarships are supported by PG&E shareholders.
More than 5,000 PG&E employees belong to the ERGs and ENGs. Each group helps further the company’s commitment to serving its communities and growing employee engagement.
PG&E’s ERG and ENG scholarships are available through these 12 groups:
– Access Network (individuals with disabilities).
– Asian.
– Black.
– Latino.
– Legacy (tenured employees).
– National Society of Black Engineers (STEM career employees).
– NuEnergy (new employees).
– PrideNetwork (LGBT employees).
– Samahan (Filipino).
– Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (STEM career employees).
– Veterans.
– Women’s Network.
In addition to the PG&E scholarships, the Pacific Service Employees Association, a nonprofit mutual benefit organization serving PG&E employees and retirees, also provides scholarships for dependents of company employees.
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Bonnie Joanne McCallister received her Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural sciences at the university’s fall commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 14.
McNeese State University awarded 628 diplomas to 618 students at the fall commencement ceremony, as commencement exercises returned to an on-campus venue for the first time in 33 years in the new Health and Human Performance Education Complex.
During her time at the university, McCallister was named to the university’s fall 2017 and spring 2018 honor rolls, as Lake County News has reported.
McNeese State University is a member of the University of Louisiana System.
Established in 1939, McNeese State University is nationally ranked as one of the top public universities in the United States, is recognized as one of the finest regional universities in the South and is known as having one of the best returns on investment for tuition and high average starting salaries for its graduates.
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“This is the second Weger Family Perpetual Scholarship to be created by the family” announced Jerry Chaney, scholarship committee chair.
The Mendocino College Foundation has been stewarding the Alfred and Hulda Weger Scholarship for the past 10 years.
George Weger is the son of Alfred and Hulda and he too believes in helping people succeed by having the opportunity to attend college.
Weger was born in Ukiah at the old General Hospital in 1942. He attended Yokayo Elementary School and Pomolita Middle School. He graduated from Ukiah High School in 1960.
Growing up he lived at the family home in Ukiah during the school year and once school was out for the summer, the family moved out to the family’s resort known as Orr Hot Springs Resort. He helped at the resort and at his father’s sheep ranch.
He graduated from Lassen College in 1963 and began his career working for Cal Fire. He later moved on to a 38-year career working in the engineering department of Marin Municipal Water District in Corte Madera. He retired as a construction inspector, but continued to work part-time on a survey team.
When asked why he established the scholarship, Weger said, “I like helping kids succeed, whether it be in sports or in the show arena.”
He coached and managed little league teams and was a 4H leader for many years, raised six children along the way and was influenced tremendously by his school teacher mother, Hulda Weger.
Weger continues in his father’s footsteps as a sheep rancher, but on a much smaller scale these days.
He understands the importance of obtaining a college degree and felt that creating this scholarship was one more contribution that he could make to support student success.
For more information about the scholarship program at Mendocino College, please contact Eliza Fields at 707-467-1018.