Education briefs: Sunday, May 18, 2008
Education briefs: Sunday, May 18, 2008

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Published: May 18, 2008

Kindergartners’ book is published

Kindergarteners in Bartlesville will become published authors soon. Nineteen students in Joyce Nickels’ class at Oak Park Elementary School won a Scholastic Book Fair contest for their work, “Our Class is Going Green.” Oak Park will receive 100 free copies of the environmentally focused book plus $5,000 for Scholastic products. The students even made the book out of recycled products.

Admission is free

Graduating kindergartners statewide can receive free admission to Science Museum Oklahoma in Oklahoma City thanks to the Oklahoma College Savings Plan. The coupon from the Oklahoma College Savings Plan is at www.ok4saving.org and is valid through July 31.

$30K scholarship awarded to grad

A Carl Albert State College graduate has a ticket to nearly any university of his choosing with a scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Anton Martynenko, a Broken Bow High School graduate, has received a $30,000-per-year scholarship. The foundation awards the scholarship to encourage community college students to apply to selective universities. The art major plans to transfer to the University of Central Oklahoma or the University of Dallas.

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FELLOW SELECTED: Girish Agarwal, a physics professor at Oklahoma State University and a leader in quantum optics, recently was recognized for exceptional contributions to society with his election to the Fellowship of The Royal Society, national academy of the United Kingdom.