Senator Square: Carson High student wins state photo contest

Kendra Krupp won first place for the photography portion of the 2010 Reflections Contest sponsored by the PTSA at Carson High.

At the state level, out of 568 entries submitted, hers was one of 104 chosen to receive an award. She received the Award of Excellence (highest at the state level), only one awarded for each category and age division, and her entry has now been submitted to the national level.

Congratulations Kendra!

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The guidance office will be helping students prepare for the May 1 SAT test. The classes will be held in the library during the week of April 26-30 and will run from 7-7:45 a.m.

Students need to sign up in the guidance office by Friday.

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The students of the health occupations class have been busy. The Life Flight helicopter landed Thursday on the front lawn of the high school to teach the students about emergency medicine.

A special thank you goes out to Jacob Ricks for spending his time to educate the students about the important part that Life Flight plays in medicine.

Also, April is sexual assault awareness month, so the students are running a campaign to bring awareness to sexual assault by hanging posters and fliers around the school.

On Wednesday, Senator Square will be decorated with jeans to campaign for Denim Day, a national recognition campaign against sexual assault

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The honors anatomy classes will be traveling to WNC next week to learn about and dissect cadavers.

This is a great partnership with WNC to be able to utilize their resources for high school learning.

We want to thank Dr. Steve Carman for his work and the support of the administration at WNC to allow this to happen.

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There has been a change for Carson High School 2010 summer school. Any current freshman who has failed an English, math, health or computer class can take a summer school class for $50 each (maximum of two classes).

Upon completion and passing the class or classes with a D or better, the money will be refunded. Any other student who needs to take summer school due to failure, or incoming ninth-graders who want to take health and computer literacy will be charged $100 for each class and there will be no refund.

Applications will be available in May in the guidance office.

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Class of 2014 spring orientation will be 6-8 p.m. Monday in the Carson High gym.

If you have a student who will be in the ninth grade at Carson High next year, it is important to attend.

Students are also encouraged to attend the event.

• Erin Been is a physical-education teacher at Carson High School and a member of Senator Square.