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Show V . "' it ... -f i ; . ; ...... ) ! x , f - - - -- i-!. ,i i ii mm i- mm,mmid Amie Chris tensen Casey McCullough Nathan McLemore ; j l , ; ; I ' I 1 ; I . I . ,.4 I " " i I I Heidi Woolsev Lindsey Bremne r David Henrie Six Garfield County Seniors Awarded Sterling Scholar Honors At Banquet CEDAR CITY Garfield County High School students represented rep-resented themselves and their varied schools well in a recent scholarship competition held at Southern Utah University. Of nineteen Garfield County high school seniors entering enter-ing the 21st Annual Southwest Sterling Scholar Awards program, all came home validated and honored, hon-ored, but six received some special recognition. Casey McCullough, Panguitch High School's entrant in the Com- puter Technology Division, returned re-turned as category winner garnering a full tuition scholarship to the college or university of his choice in Utah, a $200 cash award, a sterling ster-ling scholar medallion tie tack and an embossed certificate. "I was totally impressed with their professionalism profes-sionalism and the entire process of selecting sterling scholars," McCullough McCul-lough acknowledged. Taking home half-year tuition scholarships, $100 cash awards, pins and certificates were five other runners-up including three from Panguitch High School, Heidi Woolsey (Visual Arts), David Henrie Hen-rie (Agriculture Science), Lindsey Bremner (Social Science) and two from Escalante High School, Nathan Na-than McLemore (Trade and Technical Techni-cal Education) and Amie Christen-sen Christen-sen (Science). Those runners-up who decided to attend Southern Utah University will receive a full-tuition scholarship. scholar-ship. The nineteen students from Garfield Gar-field competed against some 177 of the best education has to offer in 15 southern Utah high schools. Panguitch High School came in at fifth place of those 15 high schools boasting one winner and three runners-up; Hurricane High garnered four winners and three runners-up; Snow Canyon High took two winners and five runners-up; Pine View announced three winners and two runners-up and Dixie High had two winners and three runners-up. runners-up. Garfield County Commissioner Maloy Dodds, a former educator, had been tapped to serve as a judge this year on the General Scholarship Scholar-ship panel. Dodds returned "tremendously impressed" with the entire venture. He stated how grati fied he was for the opportunity but mostly expressed how the experience experi-ence served to strengthen his belief in our young people. He said Garfield Gar-field students faired well and in many cases even surpassed judges expectations. Panguitch High School senior Casey McCullough, 18, gave 77ie News a walk through of the days competition. The day basically began with judges reviewing each individual portfolio, which had been submitted back on Marc. 15. Three judges had been pre-selected for each of the 15 education specialties. One judge was an SUU professor, one a Dixie college professor and the third a community person with a background in the particular specialty. spe-cialty. McCullough stated that all students stu-dents arrived about 8 a.m. at the Southern Utah University campus. Judges had the full morning to study portfolios as the students practiced for the awards ceremony later that evening. The portfolios took into account three areas of the students life, scholarship, leadership and citizenship. citizen-ship. They were based and reported on accomplishments by the student throughout their four years in high school. Following lunch for all, students stu-dents were set up with ten minute interview times ranging from 1 to 4 p.m. McCullough remarked that the interviewers were highly aware of their subject matter and seemed familiar with each student's portfolio. portfo-lio. They expounded on the portfolios portfo-lios asking for more detailed questions ques-tions about the category subject matter, in McCullough's case, computer science. The judges were tough, fair, nice yet knowledgeable. Students (See Scholarships on page 5-A) , Scholarships From Front Paee were allowed to bring props to their interview period to highlight their accomplishments. McCullough brought along his lap top computer to demonstrate web pages he had designed for local businesses, programming pro-gramming he had designed and demonstrated a special program he wrote for the school district to run future track meets. The areas cov ered in interview were primarily networking, programming and computer trouble shooting, all areas thoroughly familiar to McCullough. McCul-lough. McCullough is a son of Robert and Jill McCullough of Panguitch and although born a little unexpectedly unexpect-edly while mom and physicians assistant dad attended a medical conference con-ference in Grand Junction, Col., he has been reared his entire 1 8 years in Panguitch. He has worked numerous nu-merous jobs to save both for an LDS mission and his college education. educa-tion. Beginning at Foster's Steak-house, Steak-house, Buffalo Java and at the local Panguitch Pool, he has been a cook, clerk and lifeguard accordingly. accord-ingly. Toward the end of his high school years the school district created cre-ated a new slot for him as assistant technology coordinator to Phil Singleton, Sin-gleton, his boss and mentor. The two men have saved Garfield County School District thousands of dollars in computer trouble shooting and repair of both IBM's and Mac's. They have also networked net-worked extensively hroughout the district and county. He credits his extensive involvement in-volvement in Future Homemakers of America and Future Business Leaders of America with his confidence confi-dence and poise during sterling scholar interviews. McCullough has competed nationally three years at FHA conventions in New Orleans, Or-leans, St. Louis, San Diego and will compete this year in Boston. He started up and heads up Cyber Cy-ber Corps as it's director, an organization or-ganization to teach students to trouble shoot and repair computers across the county. Five other students stu-dents are currently training to fill the shoes left by this highly qualified quali-fied individual. McCullough, spurred on by his father's insatiable quest for knowledge, knowl-edge, took to computers at the early age of eight. At 12, he and his brothers began with karate classes and training as emergency medical technicians. This summer he will certify as an EMT at the ripe as of 18 as well as a black belt in karate. Turning 19 in September, McCullough first plans to serve an LDS mission, defer his college scholarship and will return to attend SUU training in computer science. McCullough and the other five highly talented youth express their sincere thanks and appreciation first to their parents for patience and endurance during their quest for sterling scholar. They equally thank their teachers, scout and church leaders and local business and community people for helping "hone their skills and personalities" during the past high school years. |