Roncalli students win theater awards
Roncalli High School thespians earned multiple awards at a state wide theater contest.
The following students earned awards at the State Thespian Contest:
First place team competition for technicians: Nick Armstrong, Gabe Ochoa, David Brinker, and Mackenzie Meyers
Second place prop quick change: Nick Armstrong and David Brinker
First place backdrop folding: Nick Armstrong, Gabe Ochoa, David Brinker, and Mackenzie Meyers
First place lights: Nick Armstrong
Second place lights: MacKenzie Meyers
Fourth place lights: David Brinker
Second place knot-tying: Nick Armstrong
Third place knot-tying: MacKenzie Meyers
Those earning awards in the acting competition include Ally Pena and Emily Wray, who both won excellent ribbons in musical solos.
Sheriff Association offering scholarship
The Indiana Sheriff’s Association will give 40 $500 college scholarships to qualified high school seniors or college students who are pursuing a degree in criminal justice studies.
To qualify for a scholarship, the applicant must be an Indiana resident, be a current member of the association or a dependent child or grandchild of a current member of the association, attend an Indiana college or university, major in a law enforcement field and enroll as a full-time student.
Applications can be downloaded from the Indiana Sheriffs’ Association website at indianasheriffs.org.
Applications must be completed and received no later than April 1.
Indiana credit union offering scholarship
Indiana Members Foundation, the charitable arm of Indiana Members Credit Union along with Indiana Members Credit Union, is taking applications for the Robert E. Martin Collegiate Scholarship Program available to college students that are members of Indiana Members Credit Union. Ten $5,000 collegiate scholarships will be given.
The Robert E. Martin Collegiate Scholarship application and instructions can be found online at imf4kids.org. The deadline is March 31.
Franklin seniors can earn scholarship
Graduating Franklin Community High School seniors can apply for a locally-funded scholarship.
The Gilmore Scholarship Trust will award up to $2,000 per year over a four-year period to graduating seniors going to Indiana colleges and universities full time, with preference given to those attending Franklin College.
Application information is available in the school’s guidance office. Deadline for submission is March 31.
Information: 317-474-4069
Annual fundraising meal planned by FFA
Franklin FFA students will conduct their annual fundraising breakfast to help buy stuffed animals for children at Johnson Memorial Hospital.
The Molly Gibson breakfast will be from 5:30 a.m. to 8 a.m. Feb. 20 at Franklin Community High School’s agriculture shop, 2600 Cumberland Drive.
The breakfast is free, but donations will be accepted. The public is welcome.
Donations collected at the breakfast will go to Pooh Bears for Molly. The program gives stuffed animals to children staying at the hospital.
Host families sought for exchange students
Host families are needed to open their homes to students from other countries who will be studying in the United States.
The PAX Program of Academic Exchange is accepting host family applications for second semester students who arrive in January as well as families who want to host for the 2018-19 academic year.
An application asks for information about the family’s interests, reasons why they want to host, pictures of their home to share with their future student and a family picture. A criminal background check is conducted on all adult family members, and references are consulted before a coordinator meets with the family.
To host, a family must provide a non-convertible bed and three meals each day. Students do not need to have their own bedrooms, but room sharing must be with siblings of the same sex and a similar age group.
Applications can be found at pax.org.
Legislator seeking statehouse pages
State Rep. Woody Burton, R-Whiteland, is encouraging local students to apply for the Statehouse Page Program.
The program gives students ages 13 to 18 the opportunity to interact with lawmakers and see how the government works. Students will get a tour of the Statehouse, including the governor’s office and House, Senate and Supreme Court chambers. Pages also will get a peek at committee meetings and floor sessions. Pages will help Burton with his daily activities. Students interested in serving as a House page should call 800-382-9841.
Pages will have an excused absence from school and are responsible for finding their own transportation to and from the Statehouse.
