Auburn Riverside High School’s Corin Malone is one of about 30 science teachers from the state spending part of their vacation at “summer school,” working beside scientists in research laboratories at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and several other partner sites throughout Seattle.

The summer workshop, which runs July 13-29, will host teachers from nearly 20 communities throughout the state.

“Our goal is for teachers to bring back what they learn over the summer to help jump-start their students’ knowledge of bioscience and research and perhaps kindle their interest in jobs or careers in science,” said Nancy Hutchison, Ph.D., director of the Hutchinson Center’s Science Education Partnership, or SEP, program, now in its 19th year.

Elsewhere

Auburn Riverside’s Phil Raschkow and Colby Vaughn recently attended the 31st National Technology Student Association Conference in Denver. They joined more than 4,500 other students from across the country to compete in more than 60 different STEM and leadership related competitions. Raschkow and Vaughn finished a school-best second in Technology Dare, where participants designed, fabricated and demonstrated the application and control of mechanical, fluid and electrical power and energy principles to move balls with a pneumatic flow. The balls were placed on a game board that had opposing goals in each corner. Raschkow and Vaughn constructed their device in the drafting class during the school year before packing it for Denver. Forty-four teams registered for the Tech Dare competition, and the top ten teams were given the chance to compete in a head-to-head competition to see which team designed and built the best machine to move a variety of balls into a goal before their opponent. Raschkow and Vaughn finished first in Tech Dare at the state level in March and were given the chance to compete on the national stage. …

Anthony Tordillos, a senior at Auburn Riverside High School, is a Samsung American Legion Scholarship National finalist. He was selected by the staff of Evergreen Boys State, which was held at Central Washington University on June 21-27. Tordillos was named a finalist on the basis of academics, school and community involvement and financial need. Tordillos will join

99 other students from around the U.S. in competing for one of 12 scholarships, each worth an expected $20,000.