Javan Chow is the Auburn Rotary Student of the Month.

Chow, the son of Janalyn and Patrick McKeehan and Warren Chow, is a senior at Auburn Riverside High School.

He is an exceptional student, supporting a GPA of 3.95.

Chow is involved with the National Honor Society, Raven Crew and varsity football. He also is a Youth Ambassador representative for the City of Auburn in the Kent-Auburn-Tamba, Japan cultural exchange program.

He also is varsity captain for Lake Tapps lacrosse team.

His goals for the near future include serving a two-year religious mission and attending Brigham Young University.

4 schools earn top awards

Four top-performing Auburn schools – Alpac, Gildo Rey, Hazelwood and Ilalko elementaries – recently were awarded 2011 Washington Achievement Awards at a ceremony in Everett.

Alpac and Hazelwood were recognized for overall excellence, Gildo Rey for overall excellence and math, and Ilalko for closing achievement gaps.

The award, sponsored by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education, is a highly-selective award based on a school’s performance according to the Washington Achievement Index, a comprehensive measurement of how schools in Washington are performing over the previous two years.

The award celebrates elementary, middle, high and comprehensive schools for overall excellence and special recognition in language arts, math, science, graduation rate, improvement and closing achievement gaps.

Elsewhere

Sabrina Gonzales, a 2009 Auburn High graduate, recently was awarded a $100 Harold and Jeanne Rounds Olsen Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Writing at Washington State University. The award is presented to students with the top 10 Junior Writing Portfolios for the year. The recipients represent less than one percent of writers at WSU. Gonzales plans to graduate from WSU in May 2013 with a degree in psychology. …

Daniel James Zumwalt, a senior at Western Washington University and son of Blake and Barbara Zumwalt of Auburn, has accepted the Boeing Technology Scholarship for the 2012-2013 school year. The scholarship is awarded to students majoring in engineering technology who demonstrate financial need and have a 3.3 GPA or higher. Zumwalt is a senior in electronics engineering and computer systems and has a 3.66 GPA. He has been on the president’s list in 2009, 2011 and 2012. He expects to graduate in June 2013 and wants to work with embedded systems. …

Austin Dylan Ryan Reyes, an incoming freshman at Western Washington University, has accepted the Viking Launch Scholarship. Reyes, a senior at Auburn Riverside, has a 3.62 GPA. He plans to major in computer science at Western. He is the son of Jeffrey Reyes and Ramona Yeamons. …

Lindsay Ray Hicks, an Auburn senior who will attend Central Washington in the fall, has made the CWU Cheer Squad. She will be one of five newcomers on the 16-member squad. …

The following Evergreen Heights Elementary students were honored for exemplifying the month’s trait, compassion: Mckensie Chelemedos, Isha Gill, Renee Legaspi, Anuvir Dhaliwal, Elizabeth Kustykov, Toynica Wase, Daniel Senyuk, Mark Ripich, Daniel Mendogralo, Laynee Newkirk, Joey Spray, Ashley Castellanos, Mackenzie Cunningham, Ellissa Shurtz and Kimberly Bucio. …

William Marsh, a mechanical engineering major from Auburn, was a presenter at the recent Saint Martin’s University Student Scholars Day and Honors Convocation. The day honored students’ exceptional academic achievements.