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Posted 6:11 PM by Susan Darst Williams

CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE NEW MEMBERS
OF THE GO BIG ED HALL OF FAME

Come to www.GoBigEd.com and click on the "Go Big Ed Hall of Fame" at lower left to see some new additions to a list of distinguished Nebraskans in education:

-- Three South High School students will travel to Las Vegas for the national African-American History Challenge, having won the Omaha contest sponsored by 100 Black Men of Omaha Inc., and the Omaha Public Schools. They are Michaela Jungbluth, Jennifer Monjarez and Mayra Jacobo, coached by Maria Walinski, a South social studies teacher. Bryan Middle School won the junior-high competition. (2/18/07)

-- Andrew Leibel of Superior High School and Spencer Farley of Lincoln Lutheran Middle School have been honored as the state’s top volunteers and awarded the Prudential Spirit of Community by Prudential Financial and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Andrew started and operates a community theater, and Spencer turned an unsightly weedy area near a historic house into a public flower garden. (2/18/07)

-- Lincoln High School and Millard North High School led all others in the number of juniors awarded Nebraska Young Artist awards by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. Sixty-five students from more than 30 high schools gained honors in visual art, dance, music and theater. (2/18/07)

-- Omaha Burke High School won the Nebraska Academic Decathlon for large schools and Omaha Brownell-Talbot won the small schools division. Runners-up included Creighton Preparatory Academy of Omaha, Omaha Central High School, Nebraska City Lourdes Central, and Omaha Duchesne Academy. That’s two public high schools (Burke and Central) and four private high schools honored as the cream of the academic crop. (2/18/07)