ALL-WASHINGTON ACADEMIC TEAM
Tammy Senior and Qi Wu, students at Clark College, have been chosen for the All-Washington Academic Team. Two students from Clark receive the honor annually. They, and 64 students from across the state, will be honored at a reception in Olympia on Thursday, and receive multiple scholarships. Students are chosen based on academic achievement and service to the community.
Senior, 16, enrolled at Clark at age 14, as she felt she wasn’t challenged sufficiently in high school. She skipped 10th grade in order to be a full-time Clark student through the Running Start program, which is for 11th- and 12th-graders, and has maintained a 4.0 GPA at Clark. She hopes to become a neurologist. She has interviews scheduled with Harvard and Stanford universities.
Wu, 26, emigrated from China as a teenager with her mother, learned English and a new culture, and became a star student at Clark. As paying for college was a hardship, she enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served for four years as an aviation mechanic, and has returned to Clark to pursue a degree in electrical engineering.
INTERNATIONAL PEBBLE REBEL AWARD
Michelle Bart, president and co-founder of the National Women’s Coalition Against Violence & Exploitation, was honored recently with the International Pebble Rebel Award by the International Women’s Festival Pacific Northwest committee. Bart was honored for her ongoing efforts for missing children, her advocacy for ending violence and exploitation, her vision in creating an organization that makes a difference in Washington and beyond, and for being a voice for children as a court-appointed special advocate.
