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Pacific Middle School and Shahala Middle School played a Unified Basketball game in front of a great crowd at Pacific Middle School. Unified Sports joins people with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team. The two teams will play again later this year at Shahala.
Fourth-grade students in Washougal took their science and math lessons beyond the classroom walls through an innovative birdhouse building project. Washougal High School Woods Technology classes created the birdhouse kits, while middle school students from Canyon Creek and Jemtegaard Middle Schools provided direct support to Cape Horn-Skye and Columbia River Gorge Elementary students, mentoring the younger students through the construction process.
At Wind River Middle School in the Stevenson-Carson School District, 7th grade STEM students recently designed and built their own rockets. To ensure safe launches, students drafted detailed flight paths, mapping out nearby trees, powerlines, and buildings to create comprehensive safety plans.
Two student Knowledge Bowl teams faced off against their teachers in a practice round in Washougal School District. The students demonstrated exceptional skill and gamesmanship during the competition. Student teams demonstrated an exceptional ability to do math quickly.
Learning To Ride, Right at School! Not every child knows how to ride a bicycle and even more don’t know how to ride one safely. Now thanks to the grant funded, Let’s Go Bicycle Education Program, some EPS elementary school students are learning how to ride the right way, right at school. The grant funding for this program comes courtesy of the Washington State Department of Transportation through the Climate Commitment Act and a partnership with the Cascade Bicycle Club. EPS plans on reapplying for the grant so that more schools can take part in the future.
Woodland School District has significantly expanded its Career Ready Programs over the past couple of years, offering students diverse hands-on learning opportunities in construction trades, culinary arts, business management, pre-electrical trades through a partnership with Cascadia Tech Academy, early childhood education, and financial literacy in collaboration with IQ Credit Union.
Students from Camas High’s Watershed Alliance Club partnered with the City of Camas to install new signs around Lacamas Lake, educating the community about pollution prevention and water quality.
The revived student-led newspaper, “Your Battle Ground Public Schools” began in early spring 2025 with 6th grader Rye Dilley from Tukes Valley Middle. With the support of many students and staff…