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KHS Sophomore Selected for Cultural Leadership Program
February 07, 2012
Kirkwood High School sophomore Emily Stobbe was selected to take part in a unique yearlong educational leadership program called Cultural Leadership. The goals are to promote interracial harmony, cooperation, understanding and dialogue between Jewish Americans and African Americans, and to build a future generation of young people who will know what it is like to have a relationship based on mutual respect.
Kirkwood High School Senior Earns Girl Scout Gold Award
January 31, 2012
Kirkwood High School (KHS) senior Rachel Kibby has earned her Girl Scout Gold Award, which is the highest achievement within the Girl Scouts of the USA. Only 5.4% of eligible Girl Scouts successfully earn the Gold Award. A Gold Award recipient must plan and implement an individual “Take Action Project” that reaches beyond the Girl Scout organization and provide a sustainable, lasting benefit to the applicants larger community.
Kibby’s Take Action Project involved being the founding member of the Global Friends Club that was launched at KHS in August 2011. The original mission was to provide a welcoming and embracing club for international exchange students at KHS. It has since expanded to include all global students, many whom were involved in the school’s English as a Second Language program. The club meets regularly to socialize and exchange information about different cultures. The club has helped students overcome biases and prejudice by providing a place where American and international students form personal relationships with one another through club activities, sharing conversations, games, dinner outings and sports.
KSD Middle School Students Develop Product Now in Local Schnucks Stores
January 27, 2012
A group of Kirkwood School District (KSD) middle school students have developed a food safety tips bag that can now be found in the produce section at the Schnucks in Des Peres, MO. The group, also known as the Tie Dye Turtles Robotics team, is coached by parent Debbie Pitz and includes North Kirkwood Middle School (NKMS) eighth graders Jenna Heaton, Katie Pitz and Jessie Sanford, NKMS sixth graders Meagan Biesiadecki and Emily Pitz and Nipher Middle School sixth grader Caroline Bartels. The team is sponsored by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri troops 3179 and 1386.
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