Auburn Riverside High School

Arts:

1st place “Jewelry Category” by Kenia Marquez for her necklace “Beauty of Armor”
2nd place “Jewelry Category” by Chris Connacher for his necklace “Angel Descending”
Honorable Mention “Jewelry Category” by Carly Morgan for her necklace “Afloat”

2nd place “Inspired by Music” category by Barbara Vasquez for her music box “Virgen de Guadalupe”
3rd place “Inspired by Music category by Kayla Wicks for her music box “Song Birds”

The SkillsUSA State Championships:

Basic Electronics: Bronze Medal  winner - Darlene Kerns, Silver Medal winner - Michael Lant, and your Gold Medal winner is Alex Fulford.
Cabinetmaking:  Gold medal winner - Austin Fune. This is Austin’s second consecutive year taking first place at State competitions.
Computer Maintenance Technology: Bronze medal winner - Brandon Hall, and Silver medal winner - Bryan Rivera.
Electronics Technology: Bronze medal winner - Braden Mast, Silver medal winner - Alex Labish, and your Gold medal winner is Riley Shulz. Riley is a National qualifier.
Extemporaneous Speaking:  Silver medal winner -  Bryan Rivera.
Job interview: Gold Medal winner, Michael Lant. Michael is a National qualifier and placed 1st out of 110 competitors.

We would like to give an honorable mention to all of the other students who competed and gave it their best.

Quiz bowl team finished fourth out of twenty four teams.
Dustin McAllister took 4th in Advanced Electronics.
Mario Rodriguez took 4th in Computer Maintenance

Other participants include: Tristin Naranjo for Computer Maintenance, Konrad Stand for Computer maintenance, Nomar Cuasemara for Electronics Technology, and Artem Deyneka for Cabinetmaking.

Drew Abts, has won second place in a very prestigious competition for this piece of jewelry, entitled “Kingdom of Heaven”. 

I wanted to thank everyone for your patience and support while the ARHS Bands attended the Green River Music Educators Association Band Contests this month.  Our bands performed very well and received really positive feedback from all 3 judges. Our region adopted a new rating system this year which is very specific and rigorous – basically making it very difficult to score high.  Here are the results for ARHS:

• ARHS Symphonic Band – 3, 3, 4 = Overall Meets Standard
  ARHS Concert Band – 3, 3, 4 = Overall Meets Standard
  ARHS Wind Ensemble – 3, 4, 4, = Overall Exceeds Standard

Congratulations to all of the Technology Student Association members that competed in last weekends TSA State Conference and competition.  The following members placed in their individual and team events.
 
1st Place Kate Wallen Transportation Modeling
2nd Place Marvin Velasquez Transportation Modeling
3rd Place Prab Kaler Transportation Modeling
2nd Place Maylen De Los Angeles Woodworking Design
3rd Place Andrew Ridge Technical Sketching
4th Place Andrew Ridge and Kate Wallen Vex Robotics
4th Place Andrew Ridge and Kate Wallen Engineering Design
4th Place Ruslan Kuzmich Architectural Model
5th Place Ron Warren Architectural Model

The Puget Sound regional SkillsUSA competitions were held this past month. A murder of ravens swooped down and devoured the competitions. Auburn riverside medaled in 8 out of the 8 competitions. Here are your medalists

 
For extemporaneous speech
2nd place: Michael Lant
1st place: Bryan Rivera

For related technical math
3rd place: Austin Fune

For cabinet making
1st place: Austin Fune
2nd  place: Artem Deyneka

For computer maintenance
3rd place: Braden Mast
2nd place: Brandon Hall
1st place: Bryan Rivera

For basic Electronics
3rd place: Mario Rodriguez
2nd place: Darlene Kern
1st place: Michael lant

For advanced electronic
3rd place was shared by Riley schulz and Braden mast
2nd place was shared by Dustin McAlister and Bryan Rivera
1st place was won by Alex Labish

Job skills demo
3rd place: Mario Rodriguez
1st place Bryan Rivera

Quiz bowl
1st place auburn riverside
Braden mast
Riley Schulz
Conrad stang
Bryan rivera
Mario Rodriguez

Job interview was split up into three groups

Group a
1st place: Braden Mast

Group b
2nd place: Bryan Rivera

Group c
3rd place Darlene kern
2nd place Michael lant
1st place Kevin lee

All competitors are state qualifiers.

Kenia Marquez and Drew Abts, are finalists in a prestigious national Jewelry Design competition.http://www.saulbellaward.com/SBDAWinners.aspx?year=SBDA2012

ARHS Forensics-If you know or have Kennedy Campbell and Hannah Woods in class, please give them a big congratulations for qualifying in Duo Interpretation to the National Speech and Debate tournament that will be held between June 10 and 15, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana!  I'm pleased to announce that they were ranked first by nearly every judge at the National Qualifying tournament on Saturday.  Their piece deals with a teenage girl who is struggling with leukemia.  I received positive feedback from many judges and the girls had many of the judges in tears at the end of their piece. 

Please join me in congratulating Justin Kim on being selected into the Music Educators All-National Honor Orchestra. This event will be held June 21st  - 24th, 2012 in Washington D.C. This is a tremendous honor to be selected among the finest musicians in the nation. We are so proud of him and representing ARHS and the Raven community.

Andrew Monsen, Auburn Riverside High School Social Studies department chair and US History and AP US Politics and Government teacher, won 2nd place in the 2012 Washington State VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher Award contest.

Green River Music Region Band Solo & Ensemble

Oboe: Austin Bastrom
Clarinet: Karie Yamamoto; 1st alt: Alex Wu; 2nd alt: Kristina Brokett
Tenor/Bari Sax: Brock Summer; 1st Alt: Sam Gatz; 2nd alt: Tasi Gordon
Small Woodwind Ensemble: Riverside Sax Quartet, 1st alt: AMHS Sax Quartet
Trombone Solo: Steven Summers; 1st alt: Parker Kinder; 2nd alt: Ariana Kupai
Euphonium: Stephen Shin; 1st alt: Doug Berry; 2nd alt: Chris Beinke
Tuba: Jacob Hillard
Small Brass: Riverside Horn Quartet; 1st alt: Riverside Trombone Quartet; Enumclaw Horn Quartet
Large Brass Ensemble: Riverside Brass Quintet; 1st alt: Rainier Brass
Timpani: Tyler Campbell; 1st alt: Tavis Levchak
Large Percussion Ensemble: Riverside Percussion Quintet; 1st alt: ARHS Concert Percussion; 2nd alt: Riverside Large Percussion
Mallets: Aaron Howard; 1st alt: Wyatt Curtis

Educators Receive National Coaching Award Ripon, Wisconsin Januar 17, 2012. The National Forensic League (NFL) is proud to announce its newest diamond coaches, in order of highest accomplishment and date achieved:  Mark Davis!

Over Winter Break, HACK shattered all previous records! HACK, hosted by StudentRND, challenged students to push themselves to the limit by building video games in 24 hours. StudentRND is a community of students dedicated to science and technology, and determined to spread their knowledge and opportunities to as many students as possible through events like HACK. Over 60 high school and college students formed 7 teams to build cool and innovative games over a 24 hour period. From Riverside, one of the only high school teams from Auburn Riverside High School was composed of Jonah Dube, Braden Mast, Bryan Rivera, Jackson Ryan, Scott Patterson, Brandon Rivera, and Michael Lant, participated in a game design competition. Our team, along with seven other teams composed of high school and college students, had twenty-four hours to build a videogame from scratch. It was a tough challenge, and our team created a great product, but it was not quite enough to place.

Congratulations to Mary Shabel and Toni Dudley for being selected as "2011-2012 Auburn School District Classified Employees  of the year!"

The following students were selected for the 2012 Northwest Honor Band at PLU.  We are truly very lucky to have so many students from ARHS selected to this prestigious event!  Students are selected based on talent, work ethic, academics and dedication to music education.

Adam Benabid
Katherine Nash
Jade Swepston
Aaron Howard
Jacob Hillard
Austin Bastrom
Kristina Brockett
Sumner Brock

Blood Drive totals - Dec 6:   we registered 141 donors, 91 new donors; and were able to collect 13 units of blood Dec 7: we registered 140  donors, 114 new donors and collected 86 units. Grand total for both days: 281 , awesome job!!   The units collected will really help out during the upcoming holiday season.

Senior Korey Krotzer finished 4th at State with a time of 15:18.5, just fifteen seconds behind the champion from Wenatchee, senior Jacob Smith.
 
Senior Rachel Atwood also did well at State, completing the course in 18:33.1, good enough for 7th place among girls. Sophomore Jordan McPhee from Mt. Rainier High took first place for the girls.

Last Friday, the Ravens did something on the varsity football field theyd never done in the schools history: defeat the Auburn Trojans. After trailing at halftime 9-3, they pulled out the win, 30-23, throwing the Trojans out of the playoffs. For the first time, Riverside took home the Fugate trophy, an award most Ravens (students and teachers  alike) had never seen before.

AR Symphonic Choir performed at the CWU Fall Choral classic yesterday and received excellent ratings. More importantly, these student ambassadors of our school and community were awarded the Lynn Dupin Award in recognition of their outstanding Choral Citizenship. In other words, out of 18 choirs from across the state, our students were chosen as the most respectful, courteous, supportive and attentive group. If you see one of these students today, please give them a high five for representing the raven community with excellence and pride!  This is a credit to the hard work of all of our staff.

Taylor Wega, a sophomore at ARHS was a freshman when she did this piece in Drawing 2.  Taylor entered her drawing into the Puyallup Fair this year and won a Blue ribbon.  Blue ribbons are only given to a limited amount of entries and represents the highest level of skills. Also, her award won our Art Department $100.00.  Way to go Taylor!