Monday, May 30, 2011
His educational future focuses on architecture.
Tyler Czernicki was among 25 high school seniors, who received scholarships at the annual Racine PTA Council Scholarship and Awards banquet held earlier this month at the Racine Marriott. Ever since he took an introductory architecture class during his freshman year at Horlick High School, Czernicki has been hooked on architecture. He says he’s fascinated by structure, buildings, and construction. Tyler has built himself a reputation as a hard-worker. He’s been employed doing yard work in the summer and snow removal in the winter. Starting in seventh grade, he’s participated each year in a mission trip through his church. Now he even has a part-time job as one of the janitors at his church, cleaning, painting, and making repairs. He’s…
Saturday, May 28, 2011
She is a girl with a goal.
Stephanie Smits was among 25 high school seniors, who received scholarships at the annual Racine PTA Council Scholarship and Awards banquet held earlier this month at the Racine Marriott. One of the groups she lists among her extra-curricular activities is a club called “Girls With Goals.” And that seems to describe her perfectly. Stephanie plans to attend UW–Madison and major in actuarial science in preparation for a career in the insurance industry. While at college, her goals are to be in the top 10 percent of her class academically and take part in two or more extra curricular activities each year. Stephanie has always been involved in lots of sports and organizations, starting at Bull Fine Arts Elementary School and Jerstad-…
This Caledonia girl excelled academically, participated in sports and music.
Anna Zurawski was among 25 high school seniors, who received scholarships at the annual Racine PTA Council Scholarship and Awards banquet held earlier this month at the Racine Marriott. Her friends and family call her an over-achiever—she’s just one of those people who always wants to do more than is required. From the time she started playing flute while a student at Jerstad-Agerholm Middle School, she pushed herself to play the best she possibly can. Now she plays with the band, pep band and in the pit orchestra for Horlick’s madrigal renaissance dinner. In seventh grade, she started to run cross-country, and always tries to improve her times. It works—in her very first meet all those years ago her time was 22 minutes for a 2-1/2 mile …
Friday, May 27, 2011
Music influenced her life.
Stephanie Besaw was among 25 high school seniors, who received scholarships at the annual Racine PTA Council Scholarship and Awards banquet held earlier this month at the Racine Marriott. Music is an integral part of Stephanie Besaw’s life. She has played both piano and violin since she was in elementary school at Jefferson Lighthouse and she loves to share her talents with others, whether it’s playing in church or when she visits nursing homes. A couple of years ago, a newspaper article became a light-bulb moment for Stephanie. The article was about music therapy and how it can help people heal. She was fascinated and researched the topic, then shadowed a music therapist at a hospice. She realized that music therapy was a way she …
