School notes: Clover DECA winners

Clover DECA members bring home top awards from state

Clover High School DECA Club made it to the stage nine times at the S.C. State DECA Career Development Conference in Charleston.

Bethany Croat was elected DECA State Officer, vice president of Business Partnerships.

Hannah Earle and Jessica Suga won the Gold Award for a Chapter Program of Work.

Noah Nissen and Brett Probert won third place in a Business Law and Ethics team event.

Isabelle Soucy Clark took third in Principles of Marketing.

Allie McConnell, Anna Keistler and Croat earned fourth for their Entrepreneurship Innovation Plan.

Sierra Lindberg won fourth place in Principles of Hospitality/Tourism.

Interact Club gives supplies to Honduran schools

Clover High School history teacher Jimmy Roach traveled to Honduras the first week in March to deliver school supplies on behalf of the Interact Club. He also helped build clean water projects with Rotary District 7750.

A sponsor of the Interact Club, Roach is a member of Clover Rotary Club.

While in Honduras, Roach visited the Mayan Ruins in Copan Ruinas and delivered the school supplies to impoverished rural schools where the water projects have been completed.

York students chosen for state honor choir

Fifth- and sixth-graders from York Intermediate School were chosen for the 2015 South Carolina Elementary Honors Choir.

They are Emily Breezley, Ella Burroughs, Ashley Graham, Anthonella Mendoza, Wyatt Johnston and Bowen Turner.

Emily Breezley and Bowen Turner were chosen for the second time, and Ashley Graham and Anthonella Mendoza earned a perfect score in their auditions.

Students from 103 schools in the state competed for a spot on the choir and only six singers per school were allowed.

Each student had to audition by echo singing melodies, singing in harmony and singing a prepared selection a cappella.

The students met with choir director Cynthia Brown-Stallings after school to rehearse and prepare music that they performed with other students in a concert at the S.C. Music Educators Convention last month.

YCHS students attend art, essay contest

Joseph Robinson and Mackenzie Wells, both students at York Comprehensive High School, attended the fifth annual Atlantic Art and Essay Contest at the Booker T. Washington Auditorium in Columbia Feb. 28.

Students were to write essays or create art on the theme “Kindness Without Borders: Open Eyes, Open Hearts in Our Global Village.”

The event drew 580 submissions from 38 school districts. Robinson took home an honorable mention and $25 for his ninth place in the high school art category, while Wells took home an honorable mention and $50 for her fifth place in the high school art category.

Advisers are Carol Dawkins and Leslie Templeton.

Harold C. Johnson student wins poster contest

Jassmin Torres Pablo, a student at Harold C. Johnson Elementary School, was named school winner for the Palmetto Pride anti-litter poster contest.

His poster has been submitted for the regional and statewide competition.

Hunter Street teacher wins grant for listening project

Brandy Speake, a teacher at York’s Hunter Street Elementary School, received funding for a project called Kinders Love Listening to Stories.

Speake purchased a CD player and headphones for a listening center in her classroom to improve literacy by giving students the opportunity to listen to quality literature.

Students attend Hornets workshop

The Future Business Leaders of America and DECA club members from Clover High School attended a sports management workshop hosted by the Charlotte Hornets. They also went to a Hornets game at Time Warner Cable Arena.

Master gardeners offer scholarship

April 3 is the application deadline for the Lannie Love Educational Scholarship, from the Master Gardeners of York County.

The application for the $500 scholarship is open to any senior graduating from high school in York, Chester or Lancaster counties, who intends to pursue higher education in any of the following or related fields: horticulture, agriculture, landscape design, turf management, botany, greenhouse management or land management.

The application form is available in PDF form only and may be downloaded at york.mg.org/scholarship.

The scholarship is in honor of the late Lannie Love of Clover, a retired educator, avid gardener and former president of MGYC.

Questions regarding the scholarship should be directed to Jed Bryan, chairman of the YCMG Scholarship Committee, at jedbryan64@yahoo.com or 803-327-2281.

Choraliers plan spring show

Members of the Clover High School Choraliers will present their spring show, “The Music Man,” at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 30 and Saturday, May 2 and 3 p.m. Sunday, May 3. Tickets are $7 each.

The box office in the lobby of the Clover School District Auditorium opens for ticket sales from 2 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 23 and 24 and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 25, and will be open two hours before each show time. There is usually a long line at the box office, but tickets can be obtained in advance for those who join the CHS choral Booster Club.

For more information, email the Choraliers at choraliers@gmail.com or visit www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/1604.

This story was originally published March 18, 2015 at 11:04 AM with the headline "School notes: Clover DECA winners."