Education

A special assembly was held at Uintah High School on Tuesday morning to announce the 2024 Distinguished Alumni. Dr. Ronee K. Wopsock Pawwinnee, the Ute Tribe Education Director and Superintendent of Uintah River High School, was selected for the honor. Wopsock Pawwinnee graduated from UHS in 1997. She is a proud member of the Ute Indian Tribe from the Uncompahgre band. She has worked for the tribe for almost 19 years in various capacities from oil and gas to social services, and finally settled at the Education Department for the past nine years. “The Distinguished Alumni Committee is excited to recognize Ronee,” shares Uintah High Vice Principal Scott Mansfield, who chairs the committee. “She has demonstrated a true passion for education and believes in the power it has to change lives. She is an outstanding example of someone who gives back to our community and serves others.” Wopsock Pawwinnee expressed her thanks to the selection committee and said it was an honor to be selected as the 2024 Distinguished Alumna.

The West Jordan High School soccer team will have a game with Roy High School on May 14, 2024, 17:00:00 CST. Building the Complete Soccer Athlete: Train Like a Pro!.

High school girls golf: Manila captures first 1A state championship in school history, Abby Schofield claims medalist crown

The Fremont High School volleyball team will have a game with Lehi High School on May 14, 2024, 19:00:00 CST. ALWAYS WANTED TO DUNK LIKE A TOTAL BADASS, OR DEVELOP ROCK-SOLID WORK ETHIC....

High school boys golf: Rich perseveres, captures first 1A state championship since 2014, Wendover’s Trejin Tangaro claims individual title

High school track and field athletes will gather in Provo this weekend for the UHSAA state championships. Some distance races and preliminaries were held Thursday, with the bulk of the finals set for Friday and Saturday on the Clarence Robison Track. Entering this weekend, here are top local marks from...

High school baseball: 6A/5A Regionals Game 2 roundups on Monday

Disaster struck for the Wasatch Wasps in their practice on Wednesday as senior Caleb Smith tore his meniscus just a day before Thursday’s 5A championship match. Despite the loss of Smith, Wasatch found a way to get a 1-0 win over Roy and get its third state championship in four years, while having a perfect 18-0 record this season. “These guys played their hearts out,” said Wasatch head coach Lance Cosper. “Give credit to Roy, they gave us a heck of a game. Yesterday our center back tore his meniscus in practice, so we had to move things around. We moved Cole (Simpson) to the back, and it totally changed our whole game. Not having Caleb Smith in the back was a little scary.” It was a defensive game from the start and neither Wasatch or Roy had a lot of good looks at a goal through the first half.

LOGAN – A Utah State University College of Science valedictorian two years ago was recently named a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Porter Ellis, a native of Farr West, Utah, is currently a doctoral student in biochemistry at Duke University. The fellowship includes a $37,000 yearly stipend in addition to a $16,000 a year cost-of-education allowance for tuition and fees.

Over the weekend, the Special Olympics took center stage at Bonneville High School.

A Uintah High School Junior has set herself up to be highly competitive over the next year of the college admissions and scholarship applications process by accomplishing something incredibly rare. Uintah student Lois Lyman earned a perfect score of 36 on the ACT. The ACT is a standardized test used for college admissions in the United States and covers the four academic skill areas of English, Mathematics, Reading, and Scientific Reasoning. Uintah School District shared with Lois’ exciting news that more than a million high school students take the ACT test each year and unsurprisingly, a 36 is the rarest score of all. It’s estimated that only 0.25% of all test takers earn a perfect score. Congratulations to Uintah High School Junior Lois Lyman on this incredible and rare accomplishment!

Wow, about 2 weeks left of the school year and I’m starting to notice this is one of the craziest times of the year, definitely for the students who have fallen victim to the allure of procrastination. And then, but only then, does the chapter of The Academic Comeback begin.

Sunset Elementary recently took part in the Bellevue SchoolPool's Walk & Roll to SchoolPool campaign, which occurred this week. The campaign, involving 18 schools, aims to encourage sustainable commuting options for students and families.

Charges may be filed against the parents of an 11-year-old student at a Utah elementary school who brought THC-infused gummy worms to class and shared them with other children.

Morgan, Ogden, Grantsville and North Sanpete advanced to the semifinals.

NORTH OGDEN — North Ogden police are investigating the parent of an 11-year-old student who took a bag of THC infused gummy worms to school and gave them out to friends. The incident happened on March 26 at Green Acres Elementary School, 640 E. 1900 North in North Ogden. The police department confirmed the incident Tuesday.

Wasatch, Roy win in extra time to advance to 5A championship

“Mrs. Brown is our daughter’s first-grade teacher. She has been incredible all year long and we have been so lucky to have her as a teacher. Yesterday, 4/9/2024, Mrs. Brown went above and beyond to help our daughter with a bullying issue. All year long our daughter has had a girl in her class who will be her best friend one day and the very next is making fun of her for several different things but the main thing she gets made fun of by this girl is for her clothes. Our daughter loved Unicorns and has several shirts or dresses that have unicorns on them. Her lunch box also has a unicorn on it as well. This girl tells her that she thinks that Unicorns are stupid and that she hates them. When she wears clothing that has unicorns on it she makes fun of her clothes. Yesterday as a family we decided that we were going to have a Unicorn day and everyone in our family was going to wear something with a unicorn on it. My wife sent Mrs. Brown an email telling her about our family unicorn day. Mrs. Brown responded in a big way. She changed the backdrop on her computer that is projected on the whiteboard to a big beautiful unicorn and had it on display all day long. She also sent an email to all of the other teachers in the school letting them know that she had a student being made fun of for her love of unicorns. Other teachers in the school responded to help. The preschool classes painted a big poster that said “Unicorns are Awesome,” and had it delivered to our daughter’s classroom. One of the 4th-grade classes spent a few minutes of their morning finding Unicorn objects that could be 3D printed. Once the printing was done they brought Mrs. Brown a little unicorn figurine and a “Unicorn Parking Only – Violators Will Be Turned Into Rainbows” sign. Mrs. Brown read a book to the class called Uni the Unicorn. She had Unicron stuffed animals all over her room that teachers had brought her. They did Unicorn math, and Uni the stuffed animal passed out stickers and other prizes to kids who she noticed being kind to others throughout the day. Our daughter came home from school floating on a cloud! Mrs. Brown did not need to do anywhere near all of the things that she did to make our daughter feel special and loved. Thank you Mrs. Brown for being such an amazing teacher and changing the world with your love for children!”

“Mr Rynearson is absolutely incredible! He has taught each of the kids in his classroom to believe in themselves this year and they do. He teaches them how to respect each other and uplift one another. The kids are so excited to greet him each day that they always cheer when he walks out the doors to get them. His classroom has improved their scores by leaps and bounds and he is just a wonderful teacher all around!”