School Features

Meeting a challenge to celebrate diversity at Mariner High School like never before, students organized the school’s first-ever Culture Week, a five-day celebration with food, music and more.

Teacher Margaret Grimes, along with Joe Mulligan, a custodian at Voyager Middle School, won this semester’s Mukilteo School District Lighthouse Awards. They were honored together on Jan. 23.

It is a season of success for the Mariner High School Chamber Choir, which has been invited to perform at New York City’s Carnegie Hall.

Lauren Luke, a Kamiak High School was recently named one of 12 national finalists for the Inspireum Soccer Awards, which celebrate inspirational young athletes who embody the values of character, courage, contribution, and commitment through the sport of soccer.

Students from the Mukilteo School District swept all three high school awards in the annual Prodigies for Peace essay and art contest, which helps students and adults draw connections between the people and events that shaped the civil rights movement and the social issues that influence our lives today.

Students in Nancy Fee’s 2nd grade class at Challenger Elementary have received Dr. Hope’s Act of Kindness Award in appreciation for the work they have done to spread kindness at their school.

Mariner High School junior Raeann Johns was recently featured in a newsletter sent to coaches, athletes, friends, families and supporters of Special Olympics throughout Washington state.

In honor of Dr. King’s life and dreams, Olympic View Middle School held an MLK assembly on Jan. 13, where students reflected on the teachings of a man who lived two generations before them.

Mariner has hosted an annual MLK assembly for more than 20 years. Coming from diverse backgrounds, many of Mariner’s students were a part of the assembly on Jan. 12 – they delivered speeches, sang songs and performed dances in remembrance of Dr. King.

The Rotary Club of South Everett-Mukilteo recently honored Taylor Cole as their November Student of the Month at Kamiak High School.

Private donations allowed Everett Community College’s Aviation Maintenance Technician School to recently acquire two aircraft to help train future aviation maintenance technicians.

Recently, FrostByte has received over $11,000 in grant money from corporations throughout Snohomish County in order to compete in this year’s FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics competition.

Kiwanis Club of Mukilteo is pleased to honor Mark Anderson as this month’s Kiwanis Student of the Month.

With a remarkable story about the obstacles she has overcome in her life, Lauren Luke is one of 50 semi-finalists in the Inspireum Soccer Award contest for the nation’s most inspirational soccer player.

The Kiwanis Club of Mukilteo recently honored Katie Rogers as the club’s November Student of the Month.

The departure of board members Kevin Laverty and Geoff Short this month means the loss of a combined 24 years of service.

Kamiak High School senior Ryan O'Connor on snare drum, leads the Chamber Winds in an exciting rendition of "Bolero" at the Winter Band Concert on Thursday, Dec. 1, at the Performing Arts Center.

Penguins, seals and ice sheets are just the tip of the iceberg for what local teacher John McGuirk encountered on his recent expedition to Antarctica.

Explorer science teacher Kent Treadgold developed a lesson on the concept of density that has been uploaded to the Internet for the benefit of science teachers throughout the U.S.

The Rotary Club of South Everett-Mukilteo recently honored Isabelle Schilbach as their October Student of the Month.