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Doherty
Art Students Bring Home Awards including “Best of Show!”
The
following students participated: Indigo
Miller (2nd
place in Ceramics)—fountain; Brittany
Keas (O/C in
ceramics) --“Jean”; Devyn
Loines (3rd
place in b/w photography)—TAG; Aaron
Hawley (JC in
color drawing)—“Peace”; Roxie
Zagar (1st
place in computer art- graphics)—“What Will You Do When Your Sunburn
Fades?”; Ben
Stanford (O/C in
computer art- digital) – drawn graphic shapes; Zach
Spriggs (HM in
Commercial Art)—Revolutionizing; Ryan
Waneka (Best in
Show) – “Out of
Darkness” (Click
on title to see the “Best in Show” artwork.) Congratulations to our art
students for representing Doherty so well!
ABE Distinguished Arts Teacher Is From Doherty
Congratulations to David Williams, band director at Doherty High School, for winning this year’s Arts Business Education (ABE) Consortium Distinguished Arts Teacher Award. He was honored at the 29th Annual ABE Luncheon at the Antler’s Hotel on April 16.
"David Williams devotes his seemingly boundless energy not only to directing Doherty’s marching band, but to developing his students’ commitment to excellence and their understanding of all the ‘non-musical’ qualities – from physical self-discipline and self-care to giving back to the community – required to achieve excellence." David devotes most of each summer to introductory and preparatory music camps.
Best and Brightest 2008
Each year The Gazette chooses 25 high school seniors from the Pikes Peak region as its Best and Brightest Class. This year, the 25 were selected from 118 applications. The District 11 students listed below were recognized for their academic achievements and contributions to the community and their schools. Doherty's recipient is Arielle Chambers – valedictorian, violinist, pianist, peer tutor, 2007 Mines Medal of Achievement in Math and Sciences from Colorado School of Mines, Latin Club, church organist, Pikes Peak Summer Reading Library Program volunteer, and National Honor Society.
Doherty Mathletes at the Colorado Math Olympiad
Doherty High School math teacher Terese Dills congratulates Minh Ly for fourth place and Joshua Reding and Brian Nakayama for their honorable mention recognition at the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad. Therese is proud of the Doherty Mathletes, who have worked diligently all year long to represent Doherty in competition.
District Discount Available to Students for Microsoft Products!
District
11 staff and students can now purchase various Microsoft software titles for
personal use. This software is available for you to purchase at a greatly
reduced prices and once purchased by you it belongs to you not D11.
Business Students win Awards at FLBA Conference
Janet Juarros,
Business teacher at Doherty, is proud to announce the following students
received awards at FBLA state competition Tuesday in Vail: Lucas
Schmidt -- Desktop Applications
Programming, Josie
Klein -- Public Speaking 2,
Art Students Recognition
The following
students won awards at the Young People’s Art Exhibition that the District
hosts each year. There will be an opening reception at
Journalism Students Win at Competition
Darcy Hall,
Doherty's journalism teacher, wishes to congratulate the following students for
winning top honors at the national convention last weekend in
Doherty Takes Third at Mock Trial Competition
For the 13th consecutive year, Doherty's Mock Trial team qualified for state championships. Doherty’s third place in Fort Collins on March 15 was its best finish since winning the state championship in 2000-2001.
Seniors Katie Adkison, Hillary Gardner and Jenny Rackl capped their participation in Mock Trial with their fourth consecutive appearance at state, and junior Kristyn Brisnehan was selected one of the Top Ten Student Attorneys in the tournament.
The Doherty teams thanks attorney coaches Ms. Stephanie Rikeman from the El Paso County District Attorney's office and Mr. David Foley, a local criminal defense attorney. They volunteered over a hundred hours of their time, helping the students fashion their own opening statements, direct and cross examinations and closing arguments. Thanks to their guidance, Doherty received the highest number of professionalism points awarded to any team in the competition.
Doherty Students Sweep NAWIC Competition
Three
Doherty students finished in the top three of a local architectural design
contest. After winning the competition, Megan Evans plan set was sent
forward to the regional contest. Megan was informed at the beginning of
the week she has also WON this
contest as well. The regional contest is made up of 20-30 local National
Association of Women in Construction Chapters located in the states of Colorado,
New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Her plan set has been sent to the national
contest where they will be judged along with 15 other regional winners.
Doherty Congratulates Keys to Success Winner
Congratulations to Kayla Jahner, junior at Doherty High School, for winning a laptop computer in the Front Range Honda "Keys to Success" competition for juniors and seniors. Kayla had all A’s and B’s on her report card first semester.
School District 11, along with other school districts in the area, is participating in this program by Front Range Honda that gives juniors and seniors who earn all A’s and B’s each semester a chance to win a laptop or a new Honda vehicle by mailing in their report cards to be entered in a drawing.
In the photo above, Kayla meets with Tim Baldridge, general manager of Front Range Honda.
Music Dept. News!
Katie Bainer, Doherty's Vocal Music instructor, announced that the Doherty choir members of Odyssey, Eclectic, and Women’s Ensemble earned straight 1’s (highest rating possible) at Large Group Festival yesterday!! In addition, Odyssey received a 1A rating, which actually means that they are at the top of the Superior Rated Schools.
Congratulations to the Doherty
Percussion Ensemble for their 2nd place finish at the RMPA State
Championships April 10th. These students worked hard, finished their
season strong, and represented Doherty with pride.
Congratulations
to
Band Director David Williams
for winning the Arts Business Education Consortium Distinguished Arts Teacher
Award. He will be honored at the 29th Annual Luncheon at the
Antler’s Hotel on April 16th.
Congratulations to Auto Instructor, Brad Wheaton, for winning the District 11 Crystal Apple Award. Brad is the fourth Doherty teacher in a row to win this "best of the best" teaching award.
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