She started her efforts in community service by selling Thin Mints in Girl Scouts. Now 16, Camryn Clark has earned Eagle Award for creating a flag reclamation box.
Among the first class of female Eagle Scouts in the United States, Clark is also the first female Eagle Scout in the Shunga District. She s a member of Troop 7.
It took two years to climb up the ranks of Boy Scouts. After earning Life Scout in September, she began the flag reclamation box that resides at Washburn Rural High School.
“I did a project that involved JROTC at my school, Clark said. We do a lot of flag retirements. But we kept all of our old flags in a box. And their whole thing was about respect, how this flag needs this amount of respect and how it should be treated.
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Some won t wander too far off, attending and making names for themselves at Kansas excellent state colleges and universities.
Others will move thousands of miles away to introduce others across the nation to the hard-working character and authentic essence of what it means to be a Kansan.
Each of these high school seniors will carry themselves well, though, and they start these next phases in their lives knowing they have the support of proud schools and communities that raised them.
The following students are members of The Topeka Capital-Journal s All-City Academic Team. Denotes student was also selected to the Gannett Kansas 2021 All-State Academic Team.
LAWRENCE Four outstanding University of Kansas undergraduates are representing KU in the Astronaut Scholarship program.
The six surviving members of the Mercury 7 mission founded the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation in 1984 as a means to encourage students to pursue scientific endeavors to keep the U.S. on the leading edge of technology. Astronauts from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs have joined the foundation, which has awarded $4 million in scholarships to more than 400 of the nation’s top scholars.
With the support of the ASF and the Office of the Provost, up to two KU undergraduate students will be selected to receive a $15,000 scholarship during their junior or senior year. Nominations were sought from faculty members in all STEM disciplines science, technology, engineering and mathematics for students with exceptional academic records and considerable research experience. A committee coordinated by the Office of Fellowships and ch