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<strong><span class="subhead">Multiple districts</span></strong></p><p>Several Kansas City area high school students were selected for the Missouri Scholars Academy, a summer program for gifted students at the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. The session concludes this Saturday.</p><p>Those selected:</p><p>Archbishop O&#x2019;Hara High School: Claire Banderas, Hailey Jordan</p><p>Blue Springs High School: Slava Butkovich, Anson Long-Seabra, Thomas Roustio</p><p>Blue Springs South High School: Josiah Baker, Brooke Herrera, Emily Royer</p><p>Center High School: Isabella Cianciolo, Timothy Rinker</p><p>Excelsior Springs High School: Laura Rice</p><p>Fort Osage High School: Grant Watkins-Davis, Glen Winfrey</p><p>Grain Valley High School: Hattie Hayes</p><p>Grandview High School: Jordan Kirk</p><p>Kearney High School: Arianne Kreger, Emily Spreitzer</p><p>Lee&#x2019;s Summit High School: Kayla Burns, Bailey Smith</p><p>Lee&#x2019;s Summit North High School: Claire Hawley, Jensen Tedrow, Martha Weilert</p><p>Lee&#x2019;s Summit West High School: Brittany James, Sydney Loethen</p><p>Liberty High School: Helen Alpern, Erin Bennett, Christopher Vlamis, Yuxuan Xiao</p><p>Liberty North High School: Grace Brown</p><p>Lincoln College Prep: Anthony Clapp, Caitlin Pettman</p><p>North Kansas City High School: Forrest Walker, Callie Warren</p><p>North Platte High School: Olivia Paden</p><p>Notre Dame de Sion High School: Mary Humphrey, Sydney Loethen</p><p>Oak Grove High School: Jacob Fallman</p><p>Oak Park High School: Samantha Behen, Tyler Scott</p><p>Odessa High School: Rachelle Engen</p><p>Park Hill High School; Daniel Chen. Nathaniel Conway, Madeline Hemphill</p><p>Park Hill South High School: Stuart Miller, Thomas Nick Smith</p><p>Plattsburg High School: Blake Stephens</p><p>Raymore-Peculiar High School: Kylie Bain, Erin Bennett</p><p>Raytown South High School: Dylan Howard</p><p>Richmond High School: Justin Persell</p><p>Rockhurst High School: Arjuna Chatrathi, Malcolm Moses</p><p>Ruskin High School: Doraida Perez, Daijah Porchia, Taylor Singleton, Felix Titalangha</p><p>Smithville High School: Anthony Kawecki</p><p>Staley High School: Ryan Link, Haley Loftis, Ayrton Munoz</p><p>St. Teresa&#x2019;s Academy, Hannah McClausland</p><p>Truman High School: Samuel Bumgardner, Alexis Diaz, Katlyn Gladson, Duane Price</p><p>University Academy: Preston Williams</p><p>Warrensburg High School: Sydni Carter, Jason Tian</p><p>William Chrisman High School: David Daniel, Dakota Kiper, Tristan Laughlin</p><p>Winnetonka High School: Jacob Connelly.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Lee&#x2019;s Summit district</span></strong></p><p>Industrial technology students at Lee&#x2019;s Summit High School received awards at the Suburban Kansas City Industrial Education Association Contest.</p><p>Introduction to engineering and design winners were: Matthew Crance, blue ribbon, runner-up; Tyler Braden, blue ribbon, grand award; Andrew Wright, blue ribbon, runner-up; Jake Cooper, blue ribbon, grand award; Luke Orr, blue ribbon; Cole Putthoff, red ribbon; Alec Hanshaw, red ribbon; Jack Barnhart, blue ribbon; Arijit Jana, blue ribbon; Blake Ramsey, red ribbon; Coltin Shields, blue ribbon; Micheal Pietarila, red ribbon; Brad Provance, red ribbon; Aaron York, red ribbon, and David Swed, red ribbon. </p><p>Civil engineering and architecture students: Tim Good, blue ribbon, and Bryan Wolz, blue ribbon and grand award.</p><p>At the state contest, winners were Tyler Braden, mechanical, blue ribbon, grand award; Bryan Wolz, architectural, blue ribbon, and Jake Cooper, mechanical, blue ribbon.</p><p>&#x2022;&#x2022;&#x2022;</p><p>Lee&#x2019;s Summit West students earned second place at the Academic Worldquest, where they competed against high schools from Missouri and Kansas on global current events topics.</p><p>Students who competed were Jessica Foster, Jasraj Majara, Greg Phipps and Ashley Rard. Social studies teachers Steve Smith and Blake Little are the sponsors. </p><p>&#x2022;&#x2022;&#x2022;</p><p>Lee&#x2019;s Summit North High School and Summit Lakes Middle School will have new principals, the district board of education announced.</p><p>Lisa Jacques, currently principal at Summit Lakes Middle School, was named principal for Lee&#x2019;s Summit North. She replaces David Ulrich, who is resigning in June to accept a position in another school district. </p><p>David Carlson, currently assistant principal at Bernard Campbell Middle School, was named new principal for Summit Lakes to replace Jacques. </p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Kansas City district</span></strong></p><p>Lucas Piercy of Paseo Academy was accepted into the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp, which began June 17 and concludes July 31.</p><p>The intensive program is geared for students who wish to pursue a career in the arts. Students attend daily classes for theater, dance and musical production. The final weeks result in productions showcasing what students have learned.</p><p>Piercy was awarded a $3,500 scholarship.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Higher education</span></strong></p><p>Raymore&#x2019;s Alexa Rooney recently received an award for &#x201C;Most Spirited&#x201D; from the Corporate Development Council.</p><p>Rooney is a senior in architectural engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. </p><p>The award is given to a student who spreads campus and community spirit through actions and words.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">College</span></strong></p><p>University of Kansas students and aluma hailing from the Kansas City area were recently named recipients of the prestigious National Science Foundation fellowship. The award provides a $30,000 stipend each year for three years of graduate study, plus an allowance of $10,500 for research expenses. </p><p>Local students include:</p><p>Johnson County: Aaron M. Olsen, from Leawood, to study anatomy at the University of Chicago, where he is a graduate student; and Katherine J. Harry, from Spring Hill, to study engineering materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</p><p>Jackson County: Lauren Rochelle Prather, from Lee&#x2019;s Summit, to study political science at Stanford University, where she is a graduate student.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Raymore-Peculiar district</span></strong></p><p>Ray-Pec East Middle School recently won first place and a $3,000 grant for a video contest through Heartland Utilities for Energy Efficiency. </p><p>The contest asked schools to submit a public service announcement about how to stop wasting energy.</p><p>Eighth graders Sawyer Henkle and Bradley Slaubaugh, computer teacher Chet Gooding and mascot Hero the Husky wrote, directed and filmed the one-minute video. </p><p>The grant money will go for an energy awareness curriculum.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Grandview district</span></strong></p><p>Gina Hohensee is the new Meadowmere Elementary principal.</p><p>She replaces Lisa Walker, who is now the assistant superintendent, curriculum and instruction, for the district. </p><p>Hohensee served the last eight years as elementary principal for early childhood to fourth grade in the Dallas County R-1 School District.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Hickman Mills district</span></strong></p><p>Junior high students can thank a donor for stepping up to assist in buying heart monitors for their physical education classes.</p><p>Swope Health Services recently agreed to help purchase them.</p><p> &#x201C;It is such a worthwhile cause,&#x201D; said Jimmy Brown on behalf of Swope Health. &#x201C;Part of what we do at Swope Health Services is educating those we service about making better personal health choices, so this was a natural tie-in.&#x201D;</p><p>Teacher Shannon Higgins started an exercise initiative that included trying to raise money for 10 monitors for her eighth grade class.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Raymore-Peculiar School District said it is looking into an incident last week on a school bus involving a couple of students and the bus driver.

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