For the Reporter

Auburn High’s Lucky Backus and Auburn Mountainview’s Celeste Harms, Rebecca Nielsen and Joey Santos have won scholarships from the See Ya Later Foundation.

Backus will attend Green River College, where she will play soccer and work on becoming a physical therapist.

Harms will attend either the University ofWashington or Pepperdine to study business or communications.

Nielsen will attend BYU and study industrial design, and Santos will attend the UW and major in business.

The foundation’s scholarship committee awarded the four students after reviewing more than 30 applications. It narrowed down the candidates to the top 11 forinterviews.

Applications for 2017 scholarships open Feb. 1.

To learn more, visit www.seeyalater.org.

Elsewhere

Auburn High’s Jeffrey Taylor-Kantz is a National Merit $2500 Scholarship winner. Taylor-Kantz’s probable career field is science and research. … Pacific’s Ravneet Waraich, a 2012 Auburn Riverside High School graduate, recently earned a degree (biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology) from Whitman College in Walla Walla. … Chung Ching Chan, of Auburn recently graduated from Northern State University (Aberdeen, S.D.) with a degree in sports marketing and administration. … Kamron Hamedi, a sophomore premed/predent major of Auburn, was among approximately 470 Bob Jones University (Greenville, S.C.) students named to the president’s list for spring semester. … Auburn’s Serge Makhovitskiy graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, Ill.) with a master of divinity degree. …

The Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program has awarded $1,000 college scholarship to Auburn students Celeste Harms and Juanita Ortiz. Scholarships are awarded to students who strive to achieve their potential, who are catalysts for positive change in their communities, who are involved in their schools and who serve as models for their fellow students. Harms, who attends Auburn Mountainview High School, served as executive president of the student body, where she manages a variety of important tasks.  Ortiz, who attends Muckleshoot Tribal School, worked at the Muckleshoot Finance Department through the tribe’s Youth Work Training Program. Her position with the finance department allowed her to train the office’s new front desk receptionist, enforcing leadership skills and confidence in her professionalism. …

The following students from Auburn receive their degrees from Oregon State University at the school’s commencement ceremonies Sunday: Robert Burdick (bachelor of science, cum laude, natural resources); Phillip Raschkow (master of engineering, civil engineering); and Courtney Schroeder (B.S., human development and family sciences).

Shawn Frazier of Auburn graduated from the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions with a doctorate in physical therapy during Creighton University’s commencement ceremonies on May 14 at Omaha, Neb.  … Auburn’s Mark Li, a biology major at St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minn.), was recently inducted into the national health preprofessional honor society. …

Auburn’s Anna Starr, Chanel Gocha, Matthew Saunders and Celine Woo made the Gonzaga University’s dean’s list for spring semester. Students must earn a 3.5 to 3.69 grade-point average to be listed. … The following students from Auburn made Gonzaga University’s president’s list for spring semester: Taylor Cooke, Jordan Cotton, Dominic Hori, Kevin Kearney, Courtnei Robbins, Lauren Saunders and Taylor Seth. Students must earn a 3.7 to 4.0 grade-point average to qualify. …

The Auburn School District Board of Directors recently recognized Damien Abbott, a fifth-grader at Lea Hill Elementary, for being an outstanding student. … The school board of directors also recognized Deanna Holbrook, English Language Learner specialist at Pioneer Elementary, for her outstanding service. Holbrook has been a teacher in the district for 15 years. …

The following Auburn-area students made the Washington State University’s president’s honor roll for spring semester: Brigitta Nethery; Sara Acker; Josh Adams; Joshua Allen; Nathanael Asbury; Kincade Audette; Carley Bishop; Alexander Breska; Jack Bull; Sara Burton; Shaun Bush; Mason Cerrillo; Ashley Cox; Katherine Crow; Crystal Duenas; Kaitlin Ellsworth; Abigail Fagan; Shelby Garman; Kenna Hall; Jessica Hashemi; Anna-Francesca Hazen; Evan Heaney; Jennifer Jensen; Katherine Keller; Kamilah Kent; Claire Kerbs; Rachelle Kline; Joanne Kunze; Lucas Lavine; Destiny Lemco; Angela Levick; Kyla Moen; Raeli Murray; Daniel Pollastro; Chris Scharer; Kayla Schwoch; Natasha Tall; Makenna Taylor; Ryan Thompson; Jessica Ulmer; Andrew Upchurch; Jake Weathers and Stephanie Witt.