Free State High School wins 2nd place, $25K prize in Battle of the Brains
A group of Free State High School students have taken second place and won a $25,000 prize in a contest to envision a new exhibit at Science City.
A group of Free State High School students have taken second place and won a $25,000 prize in a contest to envision a new exhibit at Science City.
Three candidates will give speeches Thursday in front of family, friends and community members, and one will be selected as the 2024 Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence Youth of the Year.
Fiction writer Kimberlee Bethany Bonura and poet Darwin Michener-Rutledge have been named the 2024 Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award recipients.
For the third straight year, Free State High School took home a trophy from the four-speaker debate state championship, adding to their status as one of the best speech and debate schools in the country.
Sophie Racy, Free State High School senior, has earned the National Speech and Debate Association’s highest honor, and she’s the state’s first three-time qualifier for the Tournament of Champions.
Groups of students at Hillcrest Elementary and at Free State High School each have a chance to see their vision for a new exhibit at Science City brought to life as finalists in the ”Battle of the Brains” contest.
An assistant professor of education leadership at K-State and a citizen of the Osage Nation of Oklahoma earned a national human rights education award for work to improve Indigenous education.
KU graduate students Marcela Paiva Veliz and Pere DeRoy have each earned a $5,000 scholarship that recognizes the late President Harry S. Truman’s goal of promoting public service and international peace.
The Lawrence Schools Foundation is looking for nominations for a big annual award given to teachers, staff members and paraeducators who go above and beyond.
Sivani Badrivenkata, a KU senior from Lawrence, has been nominated for a prestigious scholarship that would pay for her to study abroad at the University of Oxford in England.
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