Select a School...
Subscribe now to receive upcoming editions of Positively Pasco: Your Online Connection to Pasco Schools. 
New Horizons High School Floriculture students put together this table display for the Tri-Cities Sunrise Rotary Scholarship Breakfast taking place Friday, May 18. For more information about Floriculture projects, please contact Future Farmers of America advisor Carol Travis at 543-6796. 
The Chiawana Speech & Debate Team will hold a car wash at Discount Tire, located at the corner of Road 68 and Burden Blvd., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4p.m. The car wash is by donation and all proceeds will benefit student travel to the National Speech & Debate Tournament which will be held in Indianapolis the week of June 10. Jared Costanzo will compete in Student Congress/House and the team of Andres Garcia and Evan Edrington will compete in Dual Interpretation. The three earned an invitation to the prestigious tournament after qualifying at the National Qualification Tournament in Coeur d’Alene, ID this spring.
Posted May 15, 2012
PSD RECEIVES $100,000 LOWE’S TOOLBOX FOR EDUCATION® GRANT
Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation Donates Funds for Team Pasco Home
Community members are invited to join Pasco School District at 3426 Angelo Lane on May 17 at 1 p.m. for the dedication of Team Pasco Home 2012 where officials from Lowe’s will present a $100,000 Lowe’s Toolbox for Education® grant to the Pasco School District Vocational Building Programs Board.
“We are humbled by the generosity of Lowe’s in providing this grant,” says Pasco Vocational Building Programs Board Vice President Dan Hultgren. “Our local Lowe’s was instrumental in helping secure the grant. They are great members of our community and true friends of Pasco schools.”
Throughout the competition, students mastered six key business decisions: price of product, production levels, marketing expenses, research and development costs, capital investment level, and charitable giving. Advisors were allowed to help the players through each phase of the challenge.
Chiawana High School sent four teams, with Martin Ibanez and Blake Ortiz taking fourth place overall. Ortiz was also awarded CEO of the Year. Other Chiawana teams included Ariel Pingol, Eric Staufeer, and Gabriela Garcia for Team 1, Blas Celay, Lindy Marvin, Jessica Petty, and Benjamin Woodward for Team 2, and Monique Valdovinos for Team 3. CHS Family and Consumer Sciences Chair Crystal DeBuigne served as advisor to all four Chiawana teams.
Posted May 14, 2012
Congratulations to several Chiawana and Pasco high school seniors for receiving Hispanic Academic Achievers Program (HAAP)scholarships on May 4. Ramses Valdovinos from Chiawana High School received the top award of the evening with a scholarship for $12,000, which he plans to put toward his education at Central Washington University. Congratulations also goes to Pasco students in grades 4 –12 who received recognition for maintaining a 3.0 GPA or above through the current academic year.
Pasco High School’s DECA students have partnered with local businesses to produce, a fashion show version of the hit TV show “America’s Next TopModel.”
“DECA’s Next Top Model” fashion show will be held on May 11 at 7 p.m. in Gregson Auditorium at Pasco High School. The event is open to the public and admission is $3 and two cans of food, which will be donated to the Salvation Army.
With the help of Sears, Burlington Coat Factory, Buckle, Simply Divine, PacSun, Ennis Fine Furniture Store, and Sephora eighteen models will create outfits that suit their fashion sense. The outfits will portray what is in style in different categories: formal, casual, summer, and evening wear. Each model will be judged according to the following categories: walk, personality, poses,and top model.
Competing student models have already participated in a photo shoot at Ennis Fine Furniture Store, allowing them to experience of the many facets of a career in modeling.
DECA is an association of marketing students that provides leadership and marketing opportunities for its members. The fashion show gives DECA students many opportunities to use their marketing skills, while also learning how to plan events. In addition, it helps students that want to have a career in the modeling industry get noticed and offers the chance of winning the title of DECA’s Next Top Model. Please click on the image to view a slide show of the students.
On Saturday, May 5, 28 Delta High students participated in National History Day state competition at Bellevue College, after qualifying at regional competition in February. Students entered projects in all categories related to this year’s contest theme, Revolution, Reaction, and Reform in History. Projects addressed a variety of topics, from China’s One Child Policy to the Atomic Bomb.
Student projects included papers, exhibits, documentaries, performances, and websites. Students revised their work after regional competition, completing additional research, building new displays and sets, and editing all written material. Many spent countless hours after school and on the weekends preparing for the event.
Delta brought home the following awards at this year’s state competition:
· 3rd Place, Group Documentary – Annabeth Guzman (Pasco) and Mallory Kester (Kennewick)
· 3rd Place, Group Website– Krystal Reitan (Kennewick) and Stevie-Jean Luke (Pasco)
· 4th Place, Individual Documentary – Spencer Inman (Kennewick)
· 6th Place, Individual Performance – Cecily Bader (Richland)
· Chinese / Chinese-American History Award – Annabeth Guzman (Pasco) and Mallory Kester (Kennewick)
· Washington State Historical Society Award – Cecily Bader (Richland)
· NHD Teacher Mentor Award – Mrs. Jenny Rodriquez (teacher)
National History Day is a project-based program which teaches essential research skills, and involves synthesis of multiple historical sources. There is an emphasis on primary source research and original analysis by the student. Each year half a million students participate in National History Day contests across the country.
Delta High is a cooperative program of the Pasco, Richland, and Kennewick School Districts. For more information or to get involved in next year’s National History Day contest, please contact Jenny Rodriquez at jenny.rodriquez@thedeltahighschool.com.
Both Chiawana and Pasco High School DECA Chapters participated in the 4th Annual Project Goodwill Fashion Show where students showcase their fashion design, presentation and marketing skills using materials from Goodwill Industries. Both programs received honors at last night's event. Chiawana DECA earned "People's Choice" as the audience selected favorite of the show. Pasco DECA received the award for the "Best Marketing Plan" to promote the event.
