Our School District: Good News Stories
Cherry Creek School Graduates – a bright hope for tomorrow.
There are numerous stories that illustrate the contributions our graduates are making — stories that reflect the result of an education in the Cherry Creek School District. The following stories are a small sample of ongoing excellence.
Samantha “Sam” Johnson, a Boettcher Scholarship winner, spent the summer of 2010 researching chemical engineering in the Netherlands. Editor-in-Chief of Colorado Engineering Magazine READ MORE »
Matt Ellwood rode his bike an average of 75 miles a day one summer participating in the Journey for Hope – a bike ride from San Francisco to Washington D.C. READ MORE »
Brittany Barickman hoped to one day give back to students, just as her Cherry Creek High teachers gave to her. One of three Coloradans selected to receive the 2010 Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Fellowship, Brittany is now at Cherry Creek High, proudly student-teaching biology and chemistry. READ MORE »
Kara Sanderlin met someone who would change the course of her life. Courtney, a one-year-old with Down syndrome, convinced Sanderlin that she was destined to become a special education teacher. Kara was selected as the 2009 Monte Moses Inspiring Future Educators Scholarship recipient because of her passion for special needs children READ MORE »
Connie Liu, Cherry Creek High School senior, had not heard of MicroRNAs until she interviewed the principal investigator of a lab at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. READ MORE »
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