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Pleasant Grove art students recognized at National Scholastic Awards
Four Pleasant Grove High School art students were honored as national medalists at this year s virtual National Scholastic Awards Ceremony at Carnegie Hall earlier this month.
by Andrew Bell
Jun. 27 2021 @ 6:39pm
MATTHEW ANGIER
TEXARKANA, Texas Four Pleasant Grove High School art students were honored as national medalists at this year s virtual National Scholastic Awards Ceremony at Carnegie Hall earlier this month.
After presentations that included messages from special guests like Reese Witherspoon, Kelly Clarkson, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Kristen Bell and Oprah Winfrey, images of the students and their artwork were shown to recognize them. Matthew Angier, Camrynn Parrish, Elizabeth Tye and Alexis Snyder were the PG students recognized for receiving gold keys for their works.
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4 The Colorado Army National Guard hosted the 2021 Region VII Best Warrior Competition at the 168th Regional Training Institute, Fort Carson, Colorado, May 17-20, 2021. This regional event included the best NCO and Soldier from Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
The BWC is a time for Soldiers and Noncommissioned officers to show they are the best of the best both physically and mentally.
“To prepare for this competition you need to make yourself a well-rounded soldier because this gives you a better chance at representing yourself, it’s a compilation of a whole bunch of areas,” said U.S. Army Spc. Adam Barlow, Fire Control Specialist, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 65th Field Artillery Brigade, Utah National Guard.
Chugging espressos and overly-caffeinated energy drinks in dorm rooms after pulling all-nighters filled with endless studying, most Penn State students are finishing the spring semester with a traditional stress-filled finals week.Â
While finals week has been a customary part of the college experience for decades, students have differing opinions on whether there should even be a finals week and what changes should be made to improve the stressful academic season.
Many students, including Alexis Snyder, said they acknowledge why finals are necessary, but they said improvements could be made in how exams and projects are administered.Â
âI understand why finals week is needed to evaluate what students have learned throughout the semester,â Snyder (sophomore-biomedical engineering) said via email. âBut this semester has been extremely taxing on studentsâ mental health â in light of the pandemic and in the absence of any real form of a break to recover f
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