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Student achievers

By Times staff writers
Published May 18, 2005

The St. Petersburg Kiwanis Club has selected five students for Al Muter scholarship awards.

Z'Kerra Sims from Boca Ciega High will receive $1,500 per year for her four-year college program. Constance Alexander and Djulerie Zephir from Osceola High and Ashley Wilson from Dixie Hollins High will receive one-time awards of $1,000. Stefania Strohofer from Shorecrest Preparatory School will receive a $500 award.

Children at Mount Vernon Elementary School under the direction of Carol Dinsdale and Lisa Jackson were recognized at an awards ceremony on May 11 for their participation in the 15th annual Radiant Peace Project International Peace Education Awards.

Daquanese Lee, Rayna Battle and Lacey Steele were national place winners, writing on the theme "I am a peacemaker when I . . . " Aqeelah Danao, Dar'Quez Danford, Sarah Rylant and Alyson Taylor were national honorable mention winners.

The Global Art Peace Project at Wellington School , under the direction of Beth Abel, won a national award of excellence for the use of art to promote peace in the 15th annual Radiant Peace Project International Peace Education Awards.

All participants won Radiant Peace patches and stickers, and the school won a $300 cash prize, which will be donated to the art department.

Doylesa Scott, a freshman at Pinellas Park High School, is among 250 students who have been selected to attend the 2005 season of the Junior Statesmen Summer School at Yale University.

The 65th annual session of Junior Statesmen Summer School will be held June 26-July 21. Participants will take college-level courses in American government and speech, and attend nightly student debates on public policy issues in a congressional workshop. Highlighting the session will be frequent meetings with government, business and media leaders.

The St. Petersburg City Council has recognized Jason Conage-Pough as Student Citizen of the Month for May.

Conage-Pough, a graduating senior in the Center for Advanced Technologies at Lakewood High, was chosen for his academics, self-motivation, good work habits and volunteerism. He won a full scholarship to Massachusetts Institute of Technology and will major in biological sciences and biomedical engineering.

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