West Newsmagazine 8-15-18
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Highcroft Ridge Elementary librarian Danielle Stilts with some of her students.<br />
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By BONNIE KRUEGER<br />
Parkway librarian competes for<br />
Missouri State Teacher of Year<br />
Highcroft Ridge Elementary librarian<br />
Danielle Stilts was selected as Parkway’s<br />
district teacher of the year and now has<br />
been selected as one of 10 recipients for<br />
the Missouri Regional Teacher of the Year<br />
for the St. Louis area. Stilts was honored<br />
earlier this summer at Education Plus and<br />
will now go on to compete for the Missouri<br />
State Teacher of the Year.<br />
Stilts was chosen by her peers as a<br />
teacher of excellence and selected by an<br />
elite panel of educators for one of the most<br />
prestigious honors that can be bestowed<br />
upon anyone in the profession.<br />
Ballwin teen wins anti-underage<br />
gambling scholarship<br />
Madison Watson of<br />
Ballwin, a senior at Cor<br />
Jesu Academy, is one of<br />
six students in Missouri<br />
to win the 22nd annual<br />
Project 21 Scholarship<br />
competition. The competition<br />
is sponsored by<br />
Watson<br />
the Missouri Gaming Association, the professional<br />
organization representing casino<br />
operators in Missouri. Watson will receive<br />
a $1,000 scholarship toward her tuition at<br />
The University of Kansas.<br />
Watson produced a poster titled “Underage<br />
Gambling: A Curable Disease Being<br />
Treated with Silence,” which addresses the<br />
dangers of underage gambling.<br />
“I didn’t realize how prevalent online<br />
gambling is and how important it is to recognize<br />
the symptoms of underage gambling,”<br />
said Watson. “We shouldn’t think<br />
badly of people for getting into trouble,<br />
but recognize them as a person in need of<br />
help.”<br />
The Project 21 Scholarship was developed<br />
to educate young people about the<br />
issues and dangers of underage gambling.<br />
In Missouri, it’s illegal for persons under<br />
the age of 21 to gamble in a casino. The<br />
students were asked to create an essay/<br />
article, poster or video aimed at educating<br />
their peers about the illegality and dangers<br />
of underage gambling. The competition is<br />
open to all Missouri high school seniors<br />
planning to attend an institution of higher<br />
education in the United States within four<br />
years of graduation.<br />
Miss Missouri Teen winner<br />
hails from Chesterfield<br />
In June, Chesterfield<br />
teen Ashley Whipple took<br />
home the crown in Miss<br />
Missouri’s Outstanding<br />
Teen pageant at Missouri<br />
Military Academy.<br />
As the winner, Whipple<br />
received a $5,000<br />
Whipple<br />
scholarship as well as an official prize<br />
package. Whipple traveled to Orlando in<br />
July to compete for the title of Miss America’s<br />
Outstanding Teen, which is a division<br />
of the Miss America Organization – the<br />
largest provider of college scholarships to<br />
young women in the country.<br />
Local teen’s literacy initiative<br />
helps fellow students<br />
Whitfield School sophomore Agha<br />
Haider founded an organization called the<br />
Literacy Initiative in January 2017 with a<br />
goal of making sure every child had a book.<br />
In July, he held an event at the Berkeley<br />
Civic Center, providing free school supplies<br />
to over <strong>15</strong>0 kids throughout the Ferguson-Florissant<br />
School District.
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